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  Ottawa Renegades
Ottawa has had FOOTBALL teams since the 1870s, including the Canadian Rugby Union champions in 1898, 1900 and 1902.
The CFL took over operations of the team, and after uncertain terms of ownership under Detroit businessman Bernie Glieberman and Horn Chen the team was disbanded after the 1996 season.
Ottawa was without a franchise in the Canadian Football League from 1997 to 2002 until a revamped team, now called the Renegades, joined the CFL.
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  Ottawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ottawa has a range of temperatures from a record high of 37.8 °C (100 °F) in the summers of 1986 and 2001 to a record low of -36.1 °C (-33 °F) being recorded in the winter of 1943, the second coldest temperature recorded in a capital city (after Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia).
Ottawa is also home to a minor league baseball team, the AAA farm team of the Baltimore Orioles, the Ottawa Lynx of the International League.
Ottawa's two major universities, Carleton University and the University of Ottawa both have athletic associations; the team names are the Carleton Ravens and the Ottawa Gee Gees respectively.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Ottawa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Ottawa shares the area with the Quebec city of Gatineau (formerly comprised of the towns of Gatineau, Hull and Aylmer) across the Ottawa River.
Ottawa is made up of 11 historic townships, 10 of which are from historic Carleton County and one from historic Russell.
Ottawa is home to two major league sports teams, the Ottawa Senators ice hockey team (established 1992) of the National Hockey League and the Ottawa Renegades (established 2002) Canadian football team of the Canadian Football League.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Ottawa   (2887 words)

  
 Ontario - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ottawa, the capital of Canada, is also located in Ontario, close to the border with Quebec.
Outside of Toronto, the O-Train LRT line operates in Ottawa with ongoing expansion of the current line and proposals for additional lines.
Other important airports include Ottawa International Airport and John C. Munro International Airport in Hamilton, which is also an important courier and freight aviation centre.
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 Ottawa Renegades Official Site
After a field goal attempt by Renegade Danny Kight went wide and to the right, the ball was fumbled by Alouette Reggie Durden and recovered by William Loftus for no return and an extra point to Ottawa.
The Renegades, however, answered the Alouettes by scoring a touchdown of their own on a 6 yard pass from Joseph to Pat Woodcock.
With the extra point, Ottawa's lead was cut to four but in the end that wouldn't matter, as the Renegades were able to hold onto the lead for the win.
slam.canoe.ca /RenegadesGames04/0603.html   (656 words)

  
 Ottawa Renegades - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ottawa Renegades returned Canadian Football League action to Canada's capital in 2002.
On November 7, 2005, the Ottawa Renegades announced John Jenkins as head coach and General Manager for 2006, with Forrest Gregg serving as the team's Executive VP for football.
The players of the Ottawa Renegades were dispersed to the remaining 8 CFL teams in a dispersal draft, with QB Kerry Joseph going #1 to the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ottawa_Renegades   (815 words)

  
 CBC Ottawa - Renegades won't play in 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The CFL has mothballed the Ottawa Renegades for a year, announcing Sunday it has suspended operations for the franchise for the 2006 season.
The Renegades were put up for sale on March 22 after the CFL owners rejected a financial proposal tabled by Glieberman that called on the league to give the team a $2-million loan to help fund the season.
Ottawa began the 2005 campaign with a 5-3 record but then lost six in a row and finished third in the East Division at 7-11.
www.cbc.ca /ottawa/story/ot-renegades20060410.html   (791 words)

  
 Sporting Community
Ottawa has steadily become a very strong sporting community, with a variety of professional teams in action, playing at varying times of the year.
The Ottawa Senators, members of the National Hockey League, are currently in their 12th year of operation on the ice.
Ottawa is welcoming back with open arms Canadian Professional Football, with the newly formed Ottawa Renegades.
www.ottawa.ca /visitors/sporting_community/index_en.html   (295 words)

  
 Paciolan in the News
OTTAWA - CapitalTickets.ca and the Ottawa Renegades Football Club announced today a five-year ticketing services agreement between the two organizations.
CapitalTickets.ca, the ticketing agency for the Ottawa Senators, Corel Centre and many other events in the National Capital Region, will serve as the exclusive ticketing agent for the Ottawa Renegades beginning immediately, with their 2005 CFL season ticket renewal campaign.
This partnership is intended to make it easier and more fan-friendly for Ottawa football enthusiasts to purchase their tickets to Renegades home games.
www.paciolan.com /news/11805_renegades.htm   (305 words)

  
 CBC Ottawa - Renegades' season in trouble   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The chances of the Ottawa Renegades playing the 2006 CFL season appear bleak after an interested buyer ended negotiations with the league.
Ottawa hasn't posted a winning record since returning to the CFL in 2002 and season-ticket sales having dwindled to roughly 2,000.
Ottawa was slotted to kick off its pre-season June 3 against Montreal in the league's second annual Touchdown Atlantic exhibition game at Huskies Stadium in Halifax.
www.cbc.ca /ottawa/story/ot-renegades20060407.html   (462 words)

  
 Ottawa Renegades News - Page 2
The CFL wants to return to Ottawa and apparently at least one of the prospective ownership groups is looking to negotiate the return...
One of the groups pursuing Ottawa's next Canadian Football League franchise is fronted by the father of the city's most accomplished quarterback.
After the suspension of the Ottawa Renegades in April, league power brokers are working on a return to the nation's capital premised on more than the...
www.topix.net /cfl/ottawa-renegades/page2   (835 words)

  
 Ottawa Life Magazine
The Ottawa community rose to attention with a lobbying campaign engineered by former Ottawa mayor Jim Durrell and a “Revive the Pride” committee formed by Ottawa Football Union head Mickey Green.
Craig Purcell, the Renegades’ vicepresident of business and community development, has the job of ensuring the team’s marketability.He admits that there were a few “ghosts” to overcome initially.
Another area of the community touched by the Renegades is local sports, for which the new team has become a sort of inspiration.
www.ottawalife.com /article.asp?articleid=94   (2621 words)

  
 Ottawa Renegades News
Ottawa Renegades News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
Football fans in Ottawa are salivating at the prospect of regaining their Canadian Football League team given all the positive news over the past few months.
Getting rid of the Ottawa Renegades hasn't made the CFL any less wacky.
www.topix.net /cfl/ottawa-renegades?scoring=r   (689 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital of Canada, and the country's fifth largest city.
Although it does not constitute a separate administrative district, Ottawa is part of the officially-designated National Capital Region.
Ottawa is home to two major league sports teams, the Ottawa Senators ice hockey team (established 1992) of the National Hockey League and the Ottawa Renegades (established 2002 - suspended operations 2006) football team of the Canadian Football League.
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 Ottawa Renegades Official Site
OTTAWA - With more than 40,000 tickets already sold to the 2004 Grey Cup game, fans scrambling to purchase the remaining end zone bleacher seats now have a major incentive to secure their spot at Frank Clair Stadium for the Canadian Football League's title game.
The Ottawa Renegades are offering a free Renegades ticket to one of the two remaining regular season games (October 9 vs Saskatchewan, October 30 vs Hamilton for 'Pack the Park) with every order of a $199 Grey Cup ticket.
The Renegades are only a point back of a playoff spot in the East division heading into the first weekend of October.
www.canoe.ca /RenegadesNews04/1001.html   (313 words)

  
 ottawasun.com - Editorial - This is a hockey town   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Ottawa, he said, didn't win because it was the city's fourth try.
Loyal Ottawa football fans got one last kick in the pants yesterday from the Ottawa Renegades as the club heads off into the annals of history.
The Renegades announced they'll begin refunding the money paid by season ticket subscribers beginning the week of May 15.
www.ottawasun.com /Comment/Editorial/2006/05/04/1563359.html   (477 words)

  
 Ottawa Renegades Tickets Main Page: Game, Event Ticket and Team Info at Guide to Tickets.com
Welcome to the Ottawa Renegades Tickets and team info page.
The Ottawa Renegades play in the Eastern Conference of the CFL.
Be sure to catch great games against the Ottawa Renegades rivals.
ottawa-renegades.guide-to-tickets.com   (84 words)

  
 Ottawa Renegades Official Site
OTTAWA - The Ottawa Renegades football club were proud recipients of seven EXTRA awards - doled out annually to some of the most creative newspaper advertisements that appear in daily publications.
The 2004 awards saw the Renegades take home two gold, one silver and four bronze awards.
For the 2004 advertising campaign, the Renegades were teamed up with Bensimon Byrne ad agency.
www.nflcflfutures.com /RenegadesNews05/0214.html   (204 words)

  
 CTV.ca | CFL suspends the Ottawa Renegades for 2006
Players currently under contract to the Ottawa club -- most notably quarterback Kerry Joseph and receiver Jason Armstead -- will be made available to other CFL teams in a league dispersal draft, although no date has been set.
The Renegades reportedly lost about $4 million last year and was projected to lose between $5 and $6 million in 2006.
The Renegades were put up for sale on March 22 because the CFL owners rejected a financial proposal put forward by Glieberman that required the league to put up a $2-million loan to help fund the team for the upcoming season.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060409/cfl_renegades_060409?s_name=&no_ads=   (473 words)

  
 Ottawa Renegades Official Site
The Ottawa Renegades took the local route in a big way during the 2004 Canadian College Draft on Wednesday, using the club's pair of first-round choices to select players from the Nation's Capital.
Azzi is the highest pick in the Canadian College Draft from the University of Ottawa since DB Scott Gordon was taken in the second round, 18th overall, by Calgary in 2002.
The final pick of the Renegades in the sixth round, 47th overall, was wide receiver Christian Heffernan from the University of Western Ontario.The native of London, ON is the first player from Western ever chosen in the draft by the Renegades.
www.canoe.ca /RenegadesNews04/0428.html   (605 words)

  
 TSN : CFL - Canada's Sports Leader
Operating the Renegades would've meant the CFL using funds allocated to its member teams to keep Ottawa afloat, and considering the majority of league teams are already losing money, that wasn't much of an option.
Ottawa has had their two kicks at the cat.
This, for Ottawa, has to be strike 2 and you are o...
www.tsn.ca /cfl/news_story.asp?id=161969   (2048 words)

  
 ottawasun.com - Editorial - Fumbling toward disaster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The news that the Ottawa Renegades have lost two of their offensive stars to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats was bad enough.
We have been growing increasingly concerned in recent weeks not only that the Renegades aren't going in the right direction, but that the club has no direction at all.
We had high hopes when the Gliebermans took ownership of the Renegades that it was turnaround time for our team.
www.ottawasun.com /Comment/Editorial/2006/02/18/1450482.html   (567 words)

  
 League puts Renegades on ice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The league said funding the Renegades would not have yielded a competitive team this season, but many fans have said that professional football cannot afford to disappear and that the CFL and its clubs had a responsibility, if not an obligation, to keep the team alive.
The Touchdown Atlantic exhibition game scheduled for June 3 in Halifax between the Renegades and Montreal Alouettes was cancelled, and the league released a new eight-team schedule yesterday.
The 120-year-old Rough Riders were collapsed after the 1995 season, and it took six years before the expansion Renegades were formed by a consortium of Toronto investors.
www.canada.com /ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=8b23e358-71cd-4d56-843d-80e8cf059aeb&k=87537   (574 words)

  
 Ottawa Business Journal - Home Page
The case involved the Ottawa Renegades football team and University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist, one of Canada's leading e-commerce and privacy law experts.
The Renegades sent an unsolicited commercial e-mail to Mr.
Geist filed a complaint with the federal Privacy Commissioner alleging that the Ottawa Renegades had collected his personal information and used it without his consent.
www.ottawabusinessjournal.com /282670852141876.php   (843 words)

  
 CFL | Ottawa Renegades | canada.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The Ottawa Renegades, perhaps down to their final hours as a CFL franchise, fire off a missive to the media.
Ottawa Renegades linebacker Kyries Hebert was freed on bail yesterday after being arrested in Texas earlier this week on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and evading arrest. 
Former Ottawa Renegades head coach Joe Paopao and defensive co-ordinator Greg Marshall are among a half-dozen contenders for the head- coaching vacancy with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. 
www.canada.com /sports/football/cfl/renegades   (4884 words)

  
 Renegades Announce Return to Kemptville for Training Camp :: OttawaFootball.com :: Ottawa's Online Football Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The Renegades announced today Kemptville College, University of Guelph, in Kemptville, Ontario will be the site of the team’s 2004 training camp.
Following camp, the Renegades begin the 2004 season with a pre-season game against the Montreal Alouettes at Frank Clair Stadium on Thursday, June 3 at 7:30 p.m.
The Renegades begin the 2004 regular-season schedule on the road against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Thursday, June 17.
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 Ottawa-CFL
On April 9, 2006 the Canadian Football League voted to suspend the operations of the Ottawa Renegade Football franchise.
The Ottawa Renegades were born in 2002 bringing football back to the Nation's capital after the Ottawa Rough Riders has ceased operations following the 1996 season.
Watters other venture in Ottawa the lacrosse franchise Ottawa Rebel playing in the Civic Centre folded after one season but Ottawa did have a strong season at the gate averaging 23,376 fans per game.
www.geocities.com /cfl_historical/CFL-Ottawa.htm   (1021 words)

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