Tonight, January 30th, 2007 Canadian funny man Rick Mercer will be visiting the Toronto Rock and featuring our national sport, Lacrosse. Apparently he gets right into the thick of things and don’s a full set of Lacrosse gear while he attends one of the Rock practices.
Rick’s show, The Rick Mercer Report, airs at 8pm tonight on CBC.
It could have been so sweet… Captain Kelusky opened up the 2007 season scoring for the Roughnecks with his goal about 2 minutes into the first quarter. Finishing the game with 3 goals and 4 assists Tracey had a stellar performance as usual. Lewis Ratcliff proved again why he is quickly becoming my favourite Roughneck by topping the scoring with 4 goals and 4 assists. Kaleb Toth rounded out the top scorers with 2 goals and 3 assists. Kaleb’s slow start to last season was disappointing but it seems that he is planning against a repeat this season which is fine by me! The newbies even had strong starts. Susheski, whom we all hated last season, shone with his first hat-trick as a Roughneck. (more…)
A short while ago, I met Kent Ridley on an online forum. We exchanged a few messages and he mentioned he was writing a history of the Calgary Roughnecks. The website he was going to post these articles on unfortunately ended up shutting down. Rids, as he’s more commonly known, asked if I would like to publish them on GoNecksGo.com and I was more than happy to oblige. Now, on with “A brief history of the Calgary Roughnecks”.
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