Carlos Verde

Photos by Carlos Verde Ottawa Fury FC put in a strong effort on and off the soccer pitch on Tuesday, as the club earned a 1-0 victory against visiting Orlando City B in a rare 11 a.m. school-day start in front of a 7,551-person crowd composed largely of students and their teachers. “It [...]

Photo by Carlos Verde The red-clad figure of Ryan Williams steps to the TD Place penalty spot in the 57th minute for Ottawa Fury FC. The home side are trailing Major League Soccer-superpower Toronto FC one-nil on home turf in the Canadian cup semi-final. As Williams, Fury’s 26-year-old [...]

Photos by Carlos Verde A collective buzz rises from the crowd of 4,682 at TD Place Arena; rock music blares out of floor-to-ceilling speakers, while the smoke from the sophisticated rider introductions pools above the dirt ring. The rush of excitement is one unique to the realization that, in a [...]

Photos by Carlos Verde The hardy souls remaining in the bleachers at RCGT Park find their voice in the bottom of the ninth and final inning. “Come on, Sanchez. Strike this bum out,” rings one well-lubricated voice high down the first-base side. It’s June 2nd, but the temperature [...]

The difference a single weekend makes at this stage of the Ontario Hockey League season is incredible. Just last Thursday, the Ottawa 67’s were a team scratching and clawing for their playoff lives. Then, following an ugly 4-0 loss in Kingston on Friday night, Jeff Brown’s team appeared [...]

The Ottawa 67’s are the Ontario Hockey League’s worst hockey team right now. On a seven-game losing skid (0-6-1), the youthful 67’s are 2-7-1 in their last 10 and find themselves in a dead heat with North Bay for the 8th and final playoff spot in the league’s Eastern Conference. [...]

Image courtesy of Ottawa Redblacks. The detractors will inevitably give excuses of varying degrees of legitimacy — Ottawa’s losing regular-season record, Calgary slotback Marquay McDaniel’s first-quarter injury, etc. — but it matters not. The Ottawa REDBLACKS triumphed on Sunday night in front [...]

Images courtesy of Redblacks.com. Plenty has been written this week on what the Ottawa REDBLACKS will have to do to overcome the heavily-favoured Calgary Stampeders in Sunday’s Grey Cup at BMO Field in Toronto. You can analyze the specific position group matchups, or compare and contrast the two teams’ [...]

Images courtesy of @Redblacks. The Ottawa REDBLACKS are headed to their second-straight Grey Cup following 35-23 win over the visiting Edmonton Eskimos in the East Division final. The REDBLACKS raced out to a  17-3 halftime lead, and led by as much as 22 before Edmonton made an ill-fated comeback attempt. [...]

Images from Daviscup.com. The world’s largest international tennis tournament is coming to Ottawa in February of next year. It was announced Wednesday that Tennis Canada has awarded Ottawa the hosting rights to a first-round Davis Cup match between Canada and Great Britain in the 2017 edition of the [...]