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All Sports was looking on the web for something of interest in sports news to write about when I got an MSN message from a friend of mine. The message said that my blog (All sports on the web) had been nominated as the best sports blog, in the sports news category on a new and innovative website called The Blog Net Awards.

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Heres a better explanation on how it works and I quote.

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“No Guts No Glory”

Walt Webb

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While looking for hockey sports news on the web. I came across this video explanation on the rule changes in the NHL. It is quite informative and gives examples on what will be a penalty on the icing issue, where faceoffs will take place on a penalty and where the face off will be if a puck goes into the crowd off the crossbar or post. Stephen Walkom (NHL director of officiating), Narrates the video, and allsports thinks it was pretty well done. I think the new icing rule change will help to protect the player’s more and the other changes are also a step in the right direction. I wrote an article on the icing issue back in May of 2008, which was similar to what the NHL has come up with.

Special thanks to Kuklas Korner for the video feed. Watch the video HERE. Just another example of what you can find on the web for hockey and other sports news.

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I was saddened to hear of the passing of Ron Lancaster last week who died on September 18th after a battle with lung cancer. He was a true icon in the Canadian Football League and will be missed not only for his knowledge of the Canadian game but for his persona and dry wit.

As a rookie in Ottawa

Our American cousins to the south may not know much about the CFL, but the league has been around officially since 1958 and can trace it’s roots as far back as the 1860’s.

Ron Lancasters illustrious CFL career began in 1960 in Ottawa where he won a Grey Cup in his rookie year. After the 1962 season, the Rough Riders dealt him to Saskatchewan where he spent 16 years, leading the Roughriders to their first-ever Grey Cup title in 1966. “Quoted from CTV Article”

Lancaster in Saskatchewan

Lancaster was known as the “Little General” by all of his piers and you can find more sports news on the web for him in the links of this article.

The video’s  to follow are courtesy of CBC and Youtube for sports on the web (Parts 1 through 6).

“No Guts No Glory”

Walt Webb
Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

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This sports news article on the web was written a while back but do to allsports writing about the Mann Cup I had it archived for a bit so it could be written about at a later date.

Cliff Fletcher is a well respected GM around the NHL and most hockey fans in leafdom understand that time and patience will be required to get the franchise back into contention. The core of the Maple Leafs this year will be a very young team that will require some time to gel together and gain experience as a viable NHL team.

Two areas where the Maple Leafs should be fairly sound are defence and goaltending. The big question mark will be with the Leafs forwards. When Nik Andropov is your most accomplished forward, well you can see the issue I am raising here. If the forwards can gel quickly and all prove that they belong at the NHL level then the leafs could surprise a few teams. Based on other sports news articles I have seen on the web I would not count on this happening though. Allsporst feels that the leafs will be bottom dwellers for a couple of years at least until they have a chance at a playoff spot.

Fletcher did the best he could do considering how much Ferguson and to an extent Peddy had tied his hand with ridiculous contracts. He was able to get rid of Bryan McCabe, he did not get much for him but at least they are not paying him to sit at home and they managed to get some of his contract off the books. One thing I did not agree with was the release of Kyle Wellwood, he may have been a bit soft but you can’t teach the natural ability that he had. Mats Sundin on the other hand could help a young team with his leadership on the ice, but at this point in his career would he want that. Know look for Sundin to take part of the year off, much like Scott Niedermayer did for the Ducks last year. Then Sundin could come back with a contender and still be fresh for a playoff run.

I Just don’t want to hear anymore about the Sundin Drama, if he comes back great, if not get over it and move on. The bottom line is that Fletcher has the ship going in the right direction but there will be a couple of years of pain first. Then again leaf fans are pretty patient after all it has been 41 years and counting since the last Stanley Cup parade.

“No Guts No Glory”

Walt Webb

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Well the Mann Cup is over for another year with Brampton beating New Westminster in four straight games to take home the hardware. On this night I was thinking that maybe New Westminster deserved a better fate but in the end Brampton was just to strong, winning the game by a final score of 9-6.

The Face Off

Ready for the Face Off

New Westminster was holding their own against Brampton but then it happened again at about the same point as it did in the previous game.The score was tied 3-3 with about three minutes left in the second period and Brampton was short handed, killing a penalty. Blaine Manning was down in the corner to Matt Roik’s right. He ended up beating the double team (this is inexcusable) and faked Roik far side before squeezing a shot in on the short side. Then with about 35 seconds left in the period Brampton got the ball in their goal crease and called a time out. When play resumed Brampton passed the ball around killing time so they would have the final shot of the period. They worked the ball back and forth until they caught the New Westminster defense out of position, passed into the middle for a point blank chance, making no mistake and scoring with three seconds left in the period.Taking a 6-4 lead into the second intermission.

Brampton would lead the rest of the way to win the best of seven series four games to zero. This Brampton team was built to win the Mann Cup and there were very few weaknesses if any on the team. Anthony Cosmo was rock solid in the whole series and was the teams MVP, a very fitting choice.

So next year the Mann Cup will be hosted by the winner of the western Lacrosse association as it alternates between the two leagues. The way it works is that the teams from the west next year will be bringing more money to the table with the hope of attracting some of the best talent to their team in order to make a good push toward hosting the cup next year. Will Brampton be able to keep this team together? Some how I doubt it, the players will go where the money is and you can’t blame them for doing so because after all lacrosse is a very tough sport and a career can only last so long.

I was going to try a get some different pictures with the Mann Cup with the thought being that I could let the readers give their opinion as to what picture they liked the best, well it does not matter because the cup never surfaced where it was going to be displayed. There is a story behind it but that will have to keep for next time.

I would also like to give a special thanks to Pellerins Photography. They contributed all the great photo’s that I used for the Mann Cup articles. Denis has a special knack for capturing the moment with his action photography and I wanted to put additional photo’s in this post to give a tribute to his work. He has in my mind some of the best sports news photo’s on the web and I just wish he was taking the pictures when I start writing about the sport of hockey on the web in a short while.

There are not many places to find the sport of lacrosse and the Mann Cup on the web but a couple of other news sourses would be lacrosse inside the game, rogers tv and the box rocks. Yes and of course for Excelsior sports on the web we go Home.

The Congratulatory Hand Shake

I hope you enjoy the pictures and for once I wish allsports had been wrong and the New Westminster Salmonbellies had of been able to win a game. The Salmonbellies will not be able to rest on their laurels and compete with the same team next year because for the reasons I gave above the WLA will be a much better caliber next year and if New Westminster sits tight they will not retain their tittle as the WLA champions.

The Presentation

Dan Teat in a moment of reflection

The Coaching Staff

The Champs

“No Guts No Glory”

Walt Webb

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