Monthly Archives: April 2008
2008 CFL Draft Results
This past weekend, the NFL held its annual college draft. Throughout the two days, much was made of the fact that they reduced the time between choices and when it was all said and done, the 2008 edition was shorter by some three hours and 40 minutes. Apparently, those three-plus hours were forwarded to Canada. [...]
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Opening kickoff, April 27th, ’08
Surfing through links this morning, I spotted a partial 2008 schedule on the Jr Riders website. At least, I hope it’s partial because it only includes six games, which would be a decrease from eight last season. It also only includes one game each against the Sooners and Panthers which makes little sense to me. [...]
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1968 Rough Riders are Still Winners
How about that? MUCH better idea than my strategy of using Renegades numbers. :-/ WINNIPEG, April 25 /CNW/ – Wayne Wilson’s memories of his boyhood hometown heroes resulted in a $1 million-dollar win on WESTERN 649! Wayne and his wife Sherri have lived in Winnipeg for most of their adult lives, but Wayne grew up [...]
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Opening Kick-Off, April 21st, ’08
If the 2007 Ontario Varsity Football League schedule is any indication, we’re a little over a month removed from getting some live football in 2008 (at least on the levels covered here). The OVFL will apparently only have one local team in it this year. The Myers Riders have quietly decided to not enter a [...]
Gee-Gees Trio Enters Grid Hall
The Gee-Gees Hall of Fame is something I want to learn, and write, more about down the road. While I can obtain the names of most, if not all, of the people enshrined, I’d like to have a detailed page about it at some point. Here is an article from the Citizen’s Don Campbell in [...]
Opening Kickoff, April 4th, ’08
Naturally, the announcement that Ottawa was (conditionally) being awarded a franchise created some excitement at CRF Head Office. That, and a quiet period (at least from a fan’s perspective) in amateur ball, has led me to concentrate on adding and expanding the Rough Riders section. The list of Won-Lost Records gets its own page because [...]
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More to Sacobie than Football
I initially debated whether to include this article because it includes a lot of territory that has been covered before. It does go into greater detail, however, and I figured that since stories of steroid use, contract holdouts and criminal activity are so prominent, one about an amateur player going out of his way to [...]