once will help me relate to my players. the people I work with and the people I work for." Continued from page 22 New WLU hockey coach wills focus on team accountability Anyway. although I done put soccer in the same cate- gory as my love for hasket, Way hack in the old days, I also did a couple of sum. mers of covering a K-W learn that played in a South- ern Ontario elite league but for the life of me I can't remember the name. " got lo do with that "killing of brain cells" theory that I won't elaborate on. Sorter. as we cull the mundhall \purt In North America, was very big in my hometown of Niagara Falls and l reported on lots of high schuol games there and in the Waterloo County and District 8 leagues in Waterloo Region. hot tlashes. lhmughnul the run at the l-ll-A spectacular, I had good hot tlashes and I had bad hot tlashes. l don't think that's how it works for the other side but that's the way it was for me. I'm not in the category of the self-r-ed American sports fan who doesn't think outside the box it il isn't Imwhull. hush-lintâ€. auto racing or [1.5. fuuthull -- that's the gumc where you can actually touch the In" with your hands and even throw it. (er ter Ct ()k. ll “mm m much: Ion-r .h " Wits ___ mlll d'llllll gum m the other gender m Shaking (lithe Worid Bun lever (ham 0 to shah the, Worldt up my» tnmlh "l want to see 25-28 guys come out to achieve the stress to my players is accountability - being accountable to each other. Or think about being inside a huge swimming complex and as people dive off the high board. judges hold up cards with numbers on them marking the skill of their efforts. Ladies and gentlemen, the Academy Award for the best performance in a dramatic, falling role goes low. You get mydrih? on stage about to open an envelope, with these words: rhe had tlashes came for the only poor aspen of the spun played ill the highest level on the universe today. Let me sum it up this way. Picture a crowded auditorium and two people 'lhusl- were the good flashes and there wcrv lots, uhhem. hall. hockey and golf. l do appreciate it being played at the skill level displayed in the FIFA ovenL Quite a few years back in same ohjcctives." The men's hockey pro- gram opens their season Oct. 13 at the University of Toronto. It also ended a rather long winning streak I've had with my barber Alan. who as a Brit, has forgotten more about top calibre soccer hearing on many outcomes. Just ask Australia in the quarterfinals. As for the title game itself on Sunday. it was exciting and entertaining. no matter which side you were cheer, ing. I am most certainly nut. dumping solely on the Ital- ians. lots uftvams in the big field seem to think this form of rakery is (in important part of the action and in several of the games I watched, free kicks, red cards and penalty kicks after this form of what I simply call cheating had a direct During the semifinal game last week involving Italy. I saw so many Italian players writhing on the ground during the course of the game I was sure “my Soprano was somewhere in the stadium with a starped rifle evening the score in a mob dispute player by the mum- ul' Bill Barber who was also famous tor his ability In [all down tlailirlg after coming close to a stick, a skate or another player. Well. Bill had nothing on the modern FIFA Cup four ballen who have taken the art of faking a hit, trip or injury to a new level. W RESTAURANT at SPORTS BAR "Watch The Game Here" SST King St. N., Waterloo 519-880-1828 190 Gateway Park Dr., Kitchener 519-650-2733 Raymond [radon-mks than I will ever know. For the past four or five World Cups, we'd have a friendly wager and I managed to pick the team that either mm m finished highest in seventh, but came up short and lost 23- 22. Their semi-final opponent was North London. North London made a come- back attempt in the bottom half of the m The Waterloo Tigers AAA Junior Rookie hall team won the "B" division in London last weekend. The boys have not won a regular season game this year, so this was a tremendous accomplishment. The Tigers began the tournament against the host team, Oakridge. TheTigers ended up winning l0-7. Their second game was against Whitby. The Tigers didnt give up and made a comeback attempt in the seventh, but came un short and Incl ou TEAM filliif,F,ir,i,i-l',fiC'fj'i"/Tjrji;":' Continued on page 24 Imamem against the 'rheligers ended up r second game was Tigers didn't give up 150 no... St. s. - --- “1’:an 6L0. TBS. 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