Bo Levi and his agent will analyze what else is there and other sports news

What’s next for Bo Levi?

Now that Bo Levi Mitchell and his wife, Madison, have wrapped up their first reconnaissance mission in Hamiltonwhat happens next for the pending free agent quarterback the Ticats are pressing all over the field to sign here?

“I’m going to go back and talk to my agent (Dan Vertlieb),” Mitchell told The Spec over the weekend. “The next step is to consider what else might be there, but obviously I can’t speak to the other teams yet. The most important thing was to show the layout of the field in Madison. And I didn’t have haven’t seen much of Hamilton either, outside of hotels. So it was all about seeing the real estate, what’s there for my family. And I need to be somewhere where I think we can win. Hamilton is just up there, for winning, the last few years and that’s a big part of that.

Stay tuned.

Rock of the Steel City

The Rock will return to the FirstOntario Center on Saturday (7 p.m.) and wear their alternate black and gold Steel City jerseys for their last game before the Christmas break. The game against the arch-rival Buffalo Bandits is also the “Holiday Bash”, with a teddy bear toss to benefit the United Way and McMaster Children’s Hospital.

After their 19-8 home win against Vancouver in front of nearly 8,000 fans two weeks ago, the Rock fell to 1-1 with an 11-7 loss to the Knighthawks in Rochester last weekend. The Hamilton-based professional lacrosse team fell behind 5-1 after just 10 minutes and could never close the gap. Stephen Keough scored a hat-trick for the Rock, giving him five goals, four on the NLL lead. Teammate TD Ierlan leads the league with 27 stray ball recoveries and Mitch De Snoo is second with 24. Tom Schreiber is tied for the league lead with 28 shots on goal.

RIP John Gregory

John Gregory, who died Monday at the age of 84, was the winning head coach when the Saskatchewan Roughriders won the 1989 Gray Cup over Hamilton 43-40 thanks to Dave Ridgeway’s final basket in what this corner considers as the greatest Gray Cup game ever played. Less than two years later, Gregory had been fired but quickly took control of the Ticats when David Beckman was sent off in August 1991 after an 0-8 start. Gregory’s Ticats reached the Eastern Finals in 1992 and 1993 losing each time to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. They were wiped out 59-11 in 1992, but despite their 6-12 regular season record and the Bombers’ 14-4 mark, the Bombers only won the East Final 20-19. This time, Gregory was on the wrong side of the last-minute winning basket, by Troy Westwood. He was replaced the following year as Ticat head coach by Don Sutherin after a 1-6 start

Four years ago, Gregory wrote a book about his football career titled “So you want to be a football coach.”

Kilty Kids

The Hamilton Kilty B’s will play a game on Thursday, December 22 at 10 a.m. against the Fort Erie Meteors and all local schools can get tickets for their students for free. Approximately 1,000 children are expected at the Dave Andreychuk Arena.

The Kiltys, 22-4-3, edge the St. Catharines Falcons by one point for the GOJHL Responsible for the Golden Horseshoe Conference. Nathan Phillips, the 17-year-old Burlington forward, leads the team with 37 points in 29 games, good for 15th overall in the 25-team GOJHL.

The other junior letters (A and C)

In Burlington, the Cougars sit second in the OJHL North/West Conference, just one point behind mighty Collingwood after Tuesday night’s critical 2-1 win at Central Arena against Collingwood, who has four games in hand. . The Cougars are as good on the road (11-4-0-1) as they are at home (12-4-1-0) and are paced by Stoney Creek’s Jack Richard who leads the entire Junior A circuit with 29 goals in his 30 games. The Cougars host Oakville on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Binbrook’s Sean Golebiowski has 25 goals and 44 points in 21 games as his Glanbrook Rangers built a solid 10-point lead over Grimsby in the South Bloomfield division of the Provincial Junior C Hockey League. Golebiowski, the team captain, is third in PJHL scoring.

Also note: Belated congratulations to Greg Gillis, president of the Hamilton Lacrosse Association, who received the HLA Lifetime Member Award earlier this fall. Well-deserved. … that of Hamilton Arber Xhekajwho returned home to lead the Bulldogs the OHL title last spring, continues to surprise with the Montreal Canadiens. He’s a Bell Center fan favorite with his aggression, four goals and a surprising average of 15 minutes of playing time per game… Caledonia Cam Talbot earned his first shutout as an Ottawa senator on Monday, shutting out Anaheim 3-0 … Hamilton Ben Chiarot averages 20:15 minutes per game, third among Detroit Red Wings… former Bulldogs star Arthur Kaliev hasn’t scored in their last five games and only once in their last eight as their Los Angeles Kings brawl. He scored eight goals in his first 23 games… last year’s bulldog superstar Mason McTavish didn’t score in Anaheim’s tough eight games in December, but his ice time has increased this month.

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