Monthly Archives: December 2009
Ottawa Area Coaches
While I have very little interest in the CFL if it does not include a team from Ottawa, I can admit to having the proverbial “soft spot” for Hamilton of late. Not only because they had a run of craptitude that looked as though it may rival Ottawa’s for a while there, causing some natural [...]
Robbie Aitken to York
A site I absolutely love, the CIS Football Recruiting Database, has added Myers Riders (junior varsity level) safety Robbie Aitken to its list of York recruits. I don’t know much about Aitken, being that I don’t follow the junior OVFL level, but since a highlight video is included on that blog, I shall include it [...]
“Ottawa football community mourns beloved coach”
This is hardly the type of article I wanted to be posting the day before Christmas. For what it’s worth, I offer my sympathies to Mr Frangione’s family. The article is from the Ottawa Sun but not credited to anyone in particular. A popular Ottawa businessman and amateur football coach who died earlier this week [...]
Post-Research Ramblings
I spent some time at the downtown location of the public library yesterday, thinking that it might be the quietest place in town. I wasn’t in any mood to shallenge crowds in any mall, sports bar or restaurant. I had a pretty lucky day there yesterday. Some of the articles will end up in the [...]
“Semi-pro football back in Ottawa”
Because Martin Cleary’s mid-week article about the Invaders was posted on the team’s website, I neglected to add it here too. Here it is. Going forward, much like there was a page for the Deacon Demons on CRF (still is, in fact, but it’s a sub page to the Bootleggers), there will be one for [...]
The best Ottawa-based high school team of all time
Something that is difficult to get used to when directing one’s attention to the local scene almost exclusively is that there is no true, final, season “closer”. There’s no Grey Cup or superbowl to end things on a bang. St. Peter dragged things out for as long as they could this past season in reaching, [...]
“Sam Sabourin makes an impact”
Yourstittsville.com profiles linebacker Sam Sabourin. Dude is only 17? Seems I’ve been hearing about him for ages. All Canada Gridiron has been (accurately, apparently) refering to him as a highly sought-after recruit for some time now. Sam Sabourin of Stittsville made an impact playing for the Ottawa Junior Riders this fall. A rookie who was [...]
Renaud Labrecque your newest Gee-Gee
GeeGeesfan tipped us off to the U. of Ottawa landing prized recruit Renaud Labrecque from the Cegep Lévis-Lauzon. I’m going to attempt to translate the key parts of this Journal de Quebec article on that very subject. Bear with me. The final decision came down to the Gee-Gees and the University of Montreal. The Gee-Gees [...]