Monthly Archives: November 2007
New Lansdowne, New Hope – Bring Back the CFL
Our City has many things to be proud of: safe communities, low unemployment; the canal; Parliament Hill; foliage in the Fall; Winterlude in the Winter; wonderful beaches in the Summer; and plenty of festivals; to name but a few. However, our city and history is also enriched by our love of sports. Last year, our [...]
Bobby Simpson Passes Away at 77
The Citizen’s Don Cambpell deserves a great deal for praise for this article on recently-deceased former Rough Rider Bobby Simpson. I sometimes remove parts of articles I copy (I believe I’m not technically “allowed” to reprint full articles anyway) for the sake of brevity and/or relevance, but it would have seemed wrong to do it [...]
General CRF Rambling, November 28th, ’07
My little trip, posted about November 18th, through the archives by way of the Ottawa Public Library was only partially successful. I quickly easily found a bunch of articles about the 1976 Grey Cup from the Citizen, and enjoyed reading them tremendously. My struggles came in the area of duplication. I had the option to [...]
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More About Cassius Henry
I wrote in the previous post that Cassius Henry’s name came up a lot when reviewing St. Mark’s season. Little did I know; The Citizen’s Martin Cleary named him the High School Athlete of the week. Mr Cleary’s article is below. Â Martin Cleary, The Ottawa Citizen Published: Thursday, November 22, 2007 Cassius Henry is [...]
St Mark Upset in Kingston
Cassius Henry’s name comes up an awful lot when you review this team’s results. I suspect we’ll be hearing that name for a number of years at other levels. And based on Coach Brown’s comments about returning starters, this sounds like a young team that will only need to reload, not rebuild. Congratulations to them [...]
Sacobie Looking to the Future
When the Gee-Gees got bounced from the OUA playoffs, one aspect giving hope for next year was that quarterback (and Conference MVP) Josh Sacobie still has a year of eligibility. Apparently though, according to this article from The Fulcrum, it’s not a slam dunk that he will return. After completing his degree in social sciences [...]
CIS All-Stars, Ottawa Edition
When Josh Sacobie was named the OUA MVP, it was believed he’d therefore be a favourite for the Hec Creighton award as well. The last eight (IIRC) OUA MVP’s had gone on to win that award, and the first in that streak was former Gee-Gees QB Phil Côté. It was not to be. Second year [...]
CFL Expansion to Ottawa at a “Standstill”.
No surprises here at all. The whole notion that an anouncement might be forthcoming this week didn’t make any sense to me. So much for Bob McCown’s “little bird” in the league office and his parrot Marty York. Don Campbell, The Ottawa Citizen Published: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 As late September turned to early October, [...]
Your All-Renegades Grey Cup Team!
While I didn’t watch either divisional final, I did find out the results last night. I may not be a Roughriders or Blue Bombers fan (far from it) but I was happy for a handful of guys that used to play here. I was also reminded that there were a lot of folks who were [...]
General CRF Rambling, November 18th, ’07
“My” season (Ottawa football specifically and exclusively) ended only a week ago…and I’m already bored. I only find the NFL mildly entertaining, and I could care less about the CFL without Ottawa in it. With the Gee-gees out of the CIS playoffs (something which still baffles me), I’m pretty well done with the exception of [...]
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