Monthly Archives: November 2008
The Family Business
Good story in the Citizen today about both Pilon brothers having Grey Cup rings to shine now. Credit goes to George Johnson. If Jeff Pilon had a screwdriver or a pocket knife handy, he might’ve, against all protocol, started inscribing right then and there. “Finally, I get my name on this thing,” the 32-year-old Ottawa [...]
Alumni push for Ravens revival
From The Charlatan: Now, ten years after Ravens football died and eight years since the school abandoned plans to resurrect it, Carleton seems to have dug up the pigskin debate once more. But whether a reincarnated football team would take away from students or other athletic programs is not up for discussion, according to an [...]
Ottawa Citizen article on St. Peter FB/LB Nick Lecour
Here’s a trimmed down version of Martin Cleary’s article about St. Peter Knight Nick Lecour. St. Peter will be in action at 1PM today at the Nepean Sportsplex. …the two Ottawa high school playoff games the Knights have played and won have proven to be an interesting situation for Lecour, a first-year senior at age [...]
The business side of NCAFA
Trevor Stewart of the Sun has an article today about the financial challenges met by NCAFA and how they are overcome. From making a 10-year-old football player feel like a pro with a shiny new helmet to simply getting a boy from the inner city suited up, the biggest challenge National Capital Amateur Football Association [...]
Grey Cup 2014
Minor detail to “overlook”. From the Ottawa Sun. The 2014 Grey Cup game will be played in Ottawa, Sun Media has learned. But first, of course, the national’s capital has to have a team in the CFL. “When we got our conditional franchise, we were awarded a Grey Cup,” confirmed Jeff Hunt, frontman of the [...]
Offseason Plans
With the local season all but over (St. Peter remains active on the high school level), I’m going to be turning my attention to expanding certain parts of this site again. I attended NCAFA Midget games for the first time this year and enjoyed them a great deal. I was never happy with that part [...]
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St Peter weathers the Storm
For this one, I’m going to include both Sun and Citizen articles because I find that one gives details that the other doesn’t. They also contradict one another in terms of who scored the rushing TD’s mind you, but that’s what you get for relying on media for your information Citizen first (from Darren Desaulniers): [...]
Doucet goes back in his hole; six more weeks of Lansdowne Live!
I’m not sure if most people realise how close we came to losing the Lansdowne Live bid today. The Hunt Group had said they’d walk away if the design competition was restarted and councillor Clive Doucet had suggested that very thing. Council was expected to vote on it today. Maybe people were more confident than [...]
Jr Riders “Three-peat”
Thank you to Trevor Stewart for the quality story on yesterday’s Manson Cup game. Ottawa Junior Riders running back Danny Cama was determined to leave a mark in the Quebec Junior Football League championship game, regardless of what uniform his opponents wore. Cama was a workhorse, scoring two touchdowns and playing one of the best [...]
Sooners officially out of Manson Cup game
All right. I’m going to post a portion of Tim Baines’ article about this matter then put it to bed. …In a vote of 2-1 (with Football Quebec president Rene Robillard the dissenting member of the appeals committee), it was ruled that the Sooners used an ineligible player, Steve Hughes, in a 34-14 semi-final win [...]