Football
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They lost their season for this?
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As the 2010 Ontario University Athletics (OUA) football season gets underway it’s difficult not to feel sorry for the young men who would have been taking the field for the University of Waterloo’s (UW) Waterloo Warriors. After nine of the 62 players on the UW roster tested positive for performance enhancing drugs, the school decided…
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Golden Hawks fall to Western 46-1
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A few names may have changed but the result remained the same, as the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks men’s football team was embarrassed once again by the Western Mustangs on Wednesday night. The Hawks fell 46-1, marking their worst defeat in 41 years and their fifth consecutive loss to their rivals from London in a…
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Football Hawks rank sixth in pre-season top 10
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The pre-season Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) football top 10 was released earlier today and the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks find themselves ranked as the sixth-best team in the nation. The number-six ranking is a spot higher than where the Hawks started the season a year ago, but once again they are the second-highest seed coming…
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Laurier looks to defeat Western in season-opener
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In their season opener on Sept. 1, the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks football team will look to do something they haven’t done since 2006 – beat the Western Mustangs. Since their 20-15 win in the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) semi-finals back in November of 2006, the Hawks have lost four straight games to their rivals…
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Thompson glad to be back on the field
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In week three of last season, Luke Thompson had the game he loves ripped away from him. When the Laurier quarterback went down with a torn ACL in the first half of the Hawks’ game against the Waterloo Warriors it meant his 2009 season was over after just two games. “It was tough,” said Thompson.…
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Waterloo Warriors’ transfers settle into Hawks’ Camp
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Even though he’s been already been through three training camps, this year wide-receiver Dustin Zender is a rookie once again. After transferring from the suspended University of Waterloo football team in June, Zender along with seven of his teammates made their way down University Ave. and became Laurier Golden Hawks. So far, the newest Hawks…
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Former UW coach now a Hawk
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As soon as the University of Waterloo announced that it was suspending its entire football program, Carl Zender resigned as the Warriors’ receivers coach to lead an appeal. Now, with that appeal having failed, Zender has joined his son Dustin along with seven other former UW players in becoming a Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawk. “Carl…
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UW releases internal review
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In mid-June, the University of Waterloo made one of the most-debated decisions in Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) history; suspending its entire football program for a year as a result of nine players testing positive for steroid use. The main reason cited for the unprecedented decision was the need to conduct a full internal investigation of…
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CIS continues war on steroids
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Ever since the steroid scandal that robbed the University of Waterloo Warriors of their 2010 football season came to light in March, there has been immense pressure on Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) to take further action to prevent doping amongst its athletes. And today they did just that, announcing -in a press conference along with…
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Changes coming to CIS anti-doping measures
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In what has become a definite theme of the summer, Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) officials are preparing to make yet another steroid-related announcement. This Tuesday, the CIS – in conjunction with the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) and the CFL – will announce their new anti-doping procedures which will be put into place…
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