Archive 1997-2016
This season, Ottawa’s women hockey players are at a whole new level.
Ottawa’s first AAA women’s team, the National Capital Raiders, have begun their season. The drop of a puck has marked a new era in hockey in the region.
There are a number of women’s AAA teams in Canada, but before the Raiders, Ottawa-area women had to move elsewhere to play at this high of a level.
The fall sports season is finally here. The NFL is entering its sixth week, baseball playoffs are in full swing, the NHL season is under way, and if there wasn’t a lockout, basketball would be in here too.
What better way to celebrate this joyous time than with the launch of another television sports network. CTV Sportsnet was launched Oct.9, to the delight of sports fans who just can’t get enough sports. It promises 24-hour regional sports coverage and an alternative to Canada’s only other major sports network, TSN.
By Bonnie Van Toen
Football could be coming back to Ottawa…again.
Since the Rough Riders left in 1996, several attempts have been made to try and bring them back.
Now, the Ottawa Football Union (OFU) has begun another campaign to resurrect the team by the year 2000.
According to legend, the game of darts was created by medieval soldiers. Bored between battles, lonely for their distant families, these men of the Middle Ages entertained themselves by aiming throwing spears at the bottoms of barrels. By 1530, the game had become so popular that King Henry VIII was presented with a jewel-encrusted set by his wife Anne Boleyn.