No positive tests for Laurier football team

After the steroid scandal that caused the University of Waterloo to suspend their football program for the 2010 season, the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) has been testing Laurier football players throughout the summer.

To this point, five Hawks have taken unannounced tests at their summer residences with none of them testing positive for any banned substances.

The Hawks were originally supposed to be tested on March 31 along with...

On June 14, the football players of the University of Waterloo seemed to have their 2010 season ripped away from them. After nine players on the team had tested positive for steroid use, the school made the unprecedented decision to suspend the football program for an entire year, and the over 50 innocent players were left to guess whether or not they would be able to transfer to another school before the opening of training camp on Aug. 19.

Two...

Three members of the suspended University of Waterloo football team will be continuing their football careers as Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks this fall. It was announced earlier this week that receiver Nathan Zender and defensive backs Mitch Nicholson and Patrick McGarry have become the first Warriors to make their way down University Ave. and join the purple and gold.

"Once the decision was firm that those kids could move, it was just a matter of wait and see," said Laurier's...

In the wake of a steroid scandal that has been referred to as the largest in Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) history, the University of Waterloo announced earlier this month that it would be suspending its football program for the 2010 season.

The action comes as a result of nine players on the Warriors’ roster testing positive for performance enhancing drugs in a team-wide test conducted by the CIS and the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) on March 31.

Play intramurals

Whether it’s indoor soccer, flag football or dodgeball, playing intramural sports is not only a way to stay in shape, but it can also be a way to get your mind off of essays and mid-terms (for an hour a week, at least).

Go to the homecoming football game

Get drunk the night before. Get drunk the night of. Hell, get drunk the morning of. Just make sure you make it to University Stadium for Laurier’s homecoming football...

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Football

Last season, Laurier’s men’s football team finished the regular season 6-2, with their star-studded defence leading the way. With at least eight starters returning on that defence and receivers Dillon Heap and Alex Anthony looking primed to build on breakout 2009 seasons and lead...

Laurier’s men’s hockey team has a new man at the helm for the 2010-11 season. Greg Puhalski was named head coach at a press conference on June 17.

Puhalski is a Laurier alumnus who once wore the Golden Hawk crest himself, helping the team win back-to-back Ontario University Athletics (OUA) championships in both 1989 and 1990.

Puhalski was a scoring threat during his days in the OUA and still holds top spot on Laurier’s all time scoring list with 222...

After the pair of blatant missed calls in Sunday’s World Cup round of 16 games, the question must be raised: How many times will FIFA allow themselves to be embarrassed before they get themselves out of the stone age?

Both Frank Lampard’s non-goal in the England-Germany match and the goal that was clearly offside in the Argentina-Mexico game could have been very simply corrected through the use of video replay.

Every single other sport in the world uses video review...

As a result of the University of Waterloo suspending it's football program for a full year following a steroids scandal which saw nine Warriors' players test positive for using performance enhancing drugs, Ontario University Athletics (OUA) officials were forced to make changes to the schedule for the upcoming season.

It was announced today that the eight-week season has been expanded to nine, and each team will receive a bye week when they were scheduled to play UW.

The big news...

The University of Waterloo has announced that it will not reverse its controversial decision to suspend the upcoming men’s football season.

Yesterday, the Warriors gave university administration 24 hours to make progress on reversing the suspension, or a majority of players would transfer to different schools.

The team was given an eight-game suspension earlier this week, after nine of the team’s 62 players tested positive for steroid use.

Roughly half of the Warrior’s current roster intends to transfer to different...

Let them play, or they won’t stay.

Such is the ultimatum laid down by the University of Waterloo Warriors: if progress to reverse the suspension of the men’s football program is not made by 1 p.m. tomorrow (June 18th), players will begin procedures to transfer to different universities.

A mass transfer of players would almost certainly end UW’s prospects of fielding a football team for the upcoming season, and could have long-term implications for the future of the school’s football...

After finding out that their season had been cancelled on Monday, the Waterloo Warriors' football team received a bit of good news today as they learned that they might just be able to play football this fall. It just won't be in a Warriors uniform.

In a ruling announced earlier today, the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) Eligibility Committee and decreed that under Policy 40.10.5.2, the suspension of the program enables students who have completed at least one year at UW...

The University of Waterloo Warriors will not be playing football in the fall of 2010.

It was announced this morning that school will be suspending its football team's activities as a result of nine UW players testing positive for steroid use in a test conducted by Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) and the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES).

Only two of the nine players who tested positive had their names announced – linebackers Joe Surgenor and Jordan Meredith –...