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Bolduc, Sabourin, among CIS players of the week
It’s been a great week for recognition for local content at the CIS level. Here is the press release about the players of the week, abbreviated for relevance. OTTAWA (CIS) – Ottawa receiver Matthew Bolduc, Queen’s linebacker Sam Sabourin and McGill kick returner Jeff Thompson are the Canadian Interuniversity Sport football players of the week [...]
Aug 2nd Single Points
A list of quick updates and notables gathered from a long weekend partially spent ‘net surfing… –The high school season starts on August 28th in Gatineau. Hopefully the NCSSAA posts its own schedule soon as I want to fake a heart attack take a day off work around the all-day “jamboree” that they’ve had the [...]
Tournament All-Stars
The results of the Football Canada Cup and the Wilson Challenge were no doubt a little disappointing for the local talent involved, but both teams managed to land some players onto each respective tournament’s All-Star teams. Team East Ontario (not Ottawa-specific, but including many players from the region) placed Cumberland Panther DB David NSabua (conveniently, [...]
Brief update on former Ottawa Sooner John Delahunt
The following dates back to late March and is a comment from UConn’s head coach, Randy Edsall, about the state of the tight end position for the Huskies. It was included in a Huskies-related blog in a Hartford newspaper. He said TE John Delahunt is coming along very well and could push Ryan Griffin. “We’d [...]
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DB David Nsabua
As we wait for Team Ontario to take the field in the Football Canada Cup on Sunday, let’s have a look at returnee David Nsabua‘s highlights from last year’s tournament. David Nsabua – u17 Football Canada Cup Highlights from David Nsabua on Vimeo.
The Ottawa link to the Waterloo suspension
When news broke of the University of Waterloo’s suspension of their football program, I prepared to post about it here . Then I changed my mind. While it might serve as a warning of sorts to younger players, it didn’t appear specifically relevent to Ottawa football. I also figured that mainstream media was all over [...]
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Halls of Fame
Construction has begun on a page listing Ottawa-based (whether born here, raised here and “accomplished” here) members of three Halls of Fame; the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame, the Canadian Football Hall of Fame (and museum) and the Canada Sports Hall of Fame. The goal is to eventually provide biographical information for each member. Now [...]
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Locals in NCAA
In light of recent news regarding players from the Ottawa region in NCAA programs, including Alex Mateas (Sooners) committing to Penn State and Scott Mitchell being named to a preseason all-conference team, the Ottawa Region Amateurs page has been split in two. When it was first built, there were only about four guys playing in [...]
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Jeff Veinotte on High School Sports Zone
This clip is several months old, but I’ve only now located it while, oddly enough, trying to find more information on Sooners left tackle AlexMateas’ commitment to Penn State. It covers several aspects of Veinotte’s career to this point with several high quality highlights segments.
AIA Bowl, East Team
Every year, I miss the Athletes In Action all-star game. I say that I’ll try to keep my ear to the ground for it the following year, then miss it again. In 2010, it was lather, rinse, repeat. Next year! For real! Here’s the Sun’s recap from April 30th: The East all-stars turned a second-half [...]
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