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WR Ken-Yon Rambo (Grey Cup Champion - CFL)

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ESKIMOS 37, STAMPS 16 - SEPT. 1

Monday, September 1, 2008 - 6:55 PM


The Calgary Stampeders disappointed a sold-out Labour Day crowd Monday afternoon at McMahon Stadium, losing 37-16 to the Edmonton Eskimos.
The defeat dropped their Canadian Football League record to 5-4 and gave Edmonton (6-3) the season series between the clubs. Edmonton also won 34-31 on July 3 and they meet again on Sept. 5.
Ricky Ray led the Esks with three touchdown passes, including a pair to Fred Stamps, before 35.650 witnesses.

Rambo had 5 catches for 54 yards.

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RAMBO: Just arrived at Commonwealth

September 4, 2008
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So it?s Thursday and we?ve just arrived at Commonwealth Stadium. We?re going over the field as we usually do and they?ve turned on the sprinklers as they always do. I don?t know why and I?ll probably never figure it out, but they do it every time. From what I saw, the field is all right. It?s in the best condition it can be....

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Preview - Stamps at Esks, Sept. 5

The Calgary Stampeders and Edmonton Eskimos lock horns for the second time in five days in the annual Labour Day Rematch this Friday in Edmonton. Calgary and Edmonton traditionally play each other on Labour Day in Calgary on the Monday and since 1989, the two teams meet again the following Friday in Edmonton (except in 1992 when they played in Edmonton the week before Labour Day).....
The Stampeder receivers? totals suffered due to the season-low passing total of 176 yards, but WR Ken-Yon Rambo still led the team with five catches for 54 yards and maintained his top spot in the league?s receiving derby. Rambo now leads the CFL with 52 catches and 776 yards and is 93 yards ahead of second place Romby Bryant of Winnipeg. Rambo is attempting to be the first Stampeder to finish atop the CFL in receiving since Allen Pitts in 1999 when Pitts had 97 receptions for 1,449 yards to lead all CFL receivers. Rambo also has 13 catches for 178 yards and two touchdowns in the three Labour Day Rematch games he has played in.
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'I shake my head when I see people die for nothing'

UPDATED: 2008-09-10 02:51:23 MST

Ken-Yon Rambo reads the local papers like everybody else these days and shakes his head.
With the proliferation of gang warfare in Calgary stealing headlines daily, the 29-year-old Stamps receiver is reminded constantly of an upbringing that saw him packing heat and cheating death as a member of the Long Beach Ca. Insane Crips gang.
And while a football scholarship to Ohio State allowed him to escape the senseless territorial battles that cost several of his friends and family members their lives, Rambo still bares the scars of a bullet that lodged inches from his spine.
It serves as a reminder -- for him and any kids who will listen -- of how purposeless life can be fighting for a cause you don't even understand.
"I shake my head, man, because I've been through it and I know what it's all about being in a gang territory," said Rambo, who has emerged not only as the Stamps go-to receiver and leader but a role model.


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From the streets to the end zone
Herb Zurkowsky, Canwest News Service
Published: Friday, September 12, 2008

CALGARY -- It was a sound, Ken-Yon Rambo admits all these years later, he would grow accustomed to, thinking nothing of it. It happened on a nightly basis, just as the calm and serenity had fallen over the city.

Pop, pop, pop. Like firecrackers going off, he remembered. Except in Long Beach, Calif., where he was born, and the suburb of Cerritos, where Rambo was raised, it was the sound of gunshots; another gang member falling victim to the senseless territorial battles being waged on a daily basis in those areas.

Rambo, a receiver with the Calgary Stampeders, grew up in a place where crime was so rampant, the daily newspaper ran a list of shootings in each edition, at the back. Incredible. Check out the weather, see the sports scores and find out who bought it the night before. Great reading over the bowl of Cheerios.

"I've seen shootings, robberies, drug deals . . ." Rambo said during an interview this week. "Nobody died in my face, but I've seen people get shot, usually at house parties. Sometimes in the day, sometimes at night."
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9-5-2008
VS EDMONTON




GAME RECAP
For the seventh time in 10 games, the Calgary Stampeders played a football game decided by a touchdown or less....


The final quarter featured 30 points and Jeremiane Copeland started the fireworks with an eight-yard touchdown pass from Henry Burris. Ray then replied with a nine-yard touchdown run, but the Stamps answered right back when Ken-Yon Rambo made a fantastic 27-yard touchdown catch to give Calgary a 38-26 lead with less than two minutes remaining.

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9-12-2008 vs. Montreal GAME RECAP

Stamps 41, Als 30

Henry Burris led the Stampeders to a 41-30 win over the Montreal Alouettes on Friday night and continued his assault on the franchise record book.
Burris threw touchdown passes to Brett Ralph, Joffrey Reynolds, Teyo Johnson, Ken-Yon Rambo and Jeremaine Copeland as the Stamps improved to 7-4 and won for the fourth time in their last five games. In doing so, they ended Montreal?s five-game winning streak and dropped the Als to 7-4....

Calgary then blew it open in the third quarter on DeAngelis? second field goal and Rambo?s 43-yard scoring reception.

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Stamps 34, Argos 4 - Sept. 20

Spectacular defence and special teams led the Calgary Stampeders to a key win at McMahon Stadium on Saturday night.
The Stamps allowed their lowest point total since 2001 in a 34-4 triumph of the Toronto Argonauts. The last time Calgary?s defence was so stingy came on Aug. 11, 2001 ? a 35-4 road win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Stamps receiver Ken-Yon Rambo had seven catches for 77 yards and went over the 1,000-yard receiving mark for the first time in his career. His season total sits at 1,020 yards.
?It means a lot to go over 1,000 yards for the first time,? said Rambo. ?I was over last year for a second but it was brought back by penalty, so that was disappointing. To come back this season and get the 1,000 is big.?

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Rambo new hero among receivers

Stamp takes yardage title from Lions' Superman


Vicki Hall, Calgary Herald

Published: Sunday, November 02, 2008
With plastic cups of Champagne in hand, the Calgary Stampeders receiving corps toasted Ken-Yon Rambo as the CFL's top receiver in 2008.
In a head-to-head battle, Rambo knocked Geroy Simon off his perch Saturday in a 41-30 Calgary victory over the B.C. Lions.
Simon is known around the league as Superman for his patented touchdown celebrations.

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Ken-Yon Rambo's 81 yards Saturday were enough to break Lions' Geroy Simon's grip on the receiving title.




"What does that make me?" Rambo asked amid the hootin' and hollerin' in the clubhouse of the first-place Stampeders. "Iron Man?"
Rambo entered Saturday's game against the Lions with 1,392 receiving yards. Simon, the reigning champion for the past two seasons, sat one yard back at 1,391 yards.
By the end of the afternoon, Rambo had caught three passes for 81 yards. Simon nabbed three passes for 21 yards.

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Stamps receiver Ken-Yon Rambo in his own words

UPDATED: 2008-11-16 01:31:22 MST


He's the CFL's leading receiver with the cool name. Get to know Grey Cup-bound Ken-Yon Rambo:
1) It's Sunday morning, what are you having for breakfast?
If I gotta go to work, I'm not having nothin'. But if I have nothing to do, I'm gonna wake up and eat me some Frosted Flakes.
2) If you didn't do what you do for a living, what would you be? I'd be a real estate agent. I'd be doing what I'm doing now -- I do a little flipping of the houses, rent them out or sell 'em, so I'd be doing what I'm doing now.

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Questions for Stamps' Ken-Yon Rambo




Nov 21, 2008 04:30 AM


The Star's Chris Zelkovich went head-to-head with Calgary receiver Ken-Yon Rambo, who led the CFL in receptions this season:

What is your first Grey Cup memory?
I think I was in high school in Long Beach, California and I was watching the Toronto Argonauts when the Rocket (Ismail) was there. That's when I first heard of the Grey Cup. The thing I remember most was how cold everybody looked.
If you win Sunday, who's the first person you'll think about?
I'm going to think about my mom and dad, man. I'm going to call and tell them we finally made it. I never won a championship in all my football career, so this is really big for me.
I wouldn't be caught dead without ...
My cellphone.

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