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CIS Rising To Higher Level: Sports Executive
This is an email from a Quebec university sports executive concerning my column, Carleton Ravens Should Review Their Basketball Future. To read the column, click here. By the way, I’m still waiting...
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Let Carleton B-Ballers Play Into March Madness
This is an email from a Bulldog reader concerning my column, Carleton Ravens Should Review Their Basketball Future. To read the column, click here: Hi Ken: I enjoyed your article in today’s Ottawa...
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Where Was CBC On University B-Ball Championship?
A Carleton Ravens’ fan from out of town bemoans the lack of national television for the Canadian university men’s basketball championship. To read my recent column on the topic, Carleton Ravens Should...
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Canadian B-Ballers Should Play In Canada
This is a reader comment on my recent column, Carleton Ravens Should Review Their Basketball Future. To read the column, click here: Hello Mr. Gray, I read your article about Carleton perhaps being...
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Academics Shy Of University Sports
Yet more comment on the Ravens basketball issue. To read my recent column on it, click here: Mr. Gray: You hit the nail on the head!! The only flaw in theory is asking any Canadian academic...
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No Justice For Ravens Basketball
Here’s another view on last week’s column about Carleton Ravens basketball. To read the column, click here: Dear Ken: Great column on the Ravens at the national tournament. It is a travesty of...
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Ravens In NCAA Is Pure Fantasy
The response to my column on the lack of coverage of the CIS basketball championships Final 8 has been significant. I’ll try to wrap up the emails today the topic. To read the column, click here: Just...
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New outdoor nest for Ravens
The revived Carleton Ravens football program and other teams such as men’s and women’s soccer are to get new digs in the not too distant future. Carleton athletic director Jennifer Brenning said Sunday...
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Catching up on campus
Disclaimer: I have degrees from both Carleton University (back in the electric typewriter era) and the University of Ottawa (email had been invented, but was still new). Please keep that in mind when...
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Season To Start Early For Basketball Ravens, Gee-Gees
Ready for some summer basketball? No, really. The practically annual border-crossing of U.S. college basketball teams to Canada’s capital will continue in August 2013, with the Syracuse Orange,...
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Soccer Gold Still Thunder’s Goal
The roster changes from year to year, but the expectations don’t. As the Algonquin Thunder men’s soccer team prepares to kick off its 2013 regular season on Sept. 8, head coach Jimmy Zito says the...
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Schmidt Shines At Canoe/Kayak Sprint Nationals
Photo by Bruno Schlumberger, The Ottawa CitizenMadeline Schmidt of the Rideau Canoe Club racked up five gold medals, one silver and one bronze during the canoe/kayak sprint nationals at Montreal. It...
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Gee-Gees Rugby Team Learns A Lesson
Jennifer Boyd says Ottawa Gee-Gees rugby team members certainly got an eyeful on Friday. What they saw wasn’t pretty, but it was instructive, or at instructive as a 62-17 loss to the Concordia Stingers...
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Soccer Ravens Flying High
Alex McNutt says members of the Carleton Ravens women’s soccer team are believers. They believed they could have qualified for the Ontario University Athletics Final Four championship tournament a year...
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Canada’s New Game Too Often One-Sided
Lots of people like to laud the new basketball environment in Canada. Top NBA draft picks here, highly sought college prospects there, that kind of thing. This brings me around to the Carleton Ravens...
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Ravens, Gee-Gees Make Splash In Water Polo
Except for two games that shall be described later, the Carleton Ravens, Ottawa Gee-Gees, Algonquin Thunder and La Cite Coyotes have wrapped up the fall season of varsity sports. There was a big...
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Football Ravens, Gee-Gees Already Counting Down
The 2014 Ontario University Athletics football schedule was released on Dec. 4, more than 8 1/2 months before kickoff. It contains some good news for the Carleton Ravens and Ottawa Gee-Gees in that...
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Ravens dynasty soars to 10th title
If the Carleton Ravens could copyright their formula for winning Canadian Interuniversity Sports men’s basketball titles, they’d make an utter fortune off the rights. The Ravens captured their record...
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U of O’s Sekou Kaba beats 1984 hurdles record of Mark McKoy
Seven things you probably didn’t know about Sekou Kaba and reasons why you should get to know him. 1) Until a few years ago, the 23-year-old University of Ottawa student and track and field club...
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Olympiques’ dynamic duo fuels rout in playoff opener
Olympiques 7, Screaming Eagles 2 (Gatineau leads best-of-seven 1-0) Who needs Claude Giroux and Paul Byron when you’ve got Simon Tardif-Richard and Martin Reway. When the Gatineau Olympiques won the...
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