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The Best of New West Sports

Colin Miley, Sporty Spice

Best team name, past or present:
New West Salmon Bellies.

Weirdest local sporting experience:
ECW Wrestling at the Carpenter’s Hall on
12th.

Best Place to work out on the cheap:
Douglas College. Great facilities, reasonable
prices.

Best all-around sports facility:
Canada Games Pool.

  

Amanda Aikman, Managing Editor

Best local eatery:

Kirin Sushi.

Best local watering hole:

The Met (patio).

Best place to go instead of going to
class:

Norway.

Best word(s) to describe Douglas
College:

Douglas-riffic!

Best reason to read the Other Press:
Duh... .we, Obviously.

 

BONW 2005, STAFF PICKS

 

Best free pool:

DSU building, just do a little Fonzie-like tap
near where you put coins in and push the sil-
ver coin thingy in. Cha-ching,

Best field to play and get played:
The fields on 8th and 10th.

Best damn sports section, ever:
OP for life, Sucka!

 

Kerry Evans, External Relations

Best local eatery:

La Spaghetteria.

Best local watering hole:

The Met.

Best place to go instead of going to
class:

Scruffy’s.

Best word(s) to describe Douglas
College:

Easier than University!

Best reason to read the Other Press:
Because it’s funny, and entertaining,
and somewhat contains the truth.

 

 

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* Whitecaps Stun
Sunderland

Kevin Welsh

 

he Vancouver Whitecaps raised eyebrows

across the footy globe with a convincing 3-0

exhibition victory over touring English Premier
League-bound Sunderland AFC on July 16.

The Whitecaps took control of the game early and
rarely looked in danger of losing, While Sunderland had
difficulty mounting an effective attack, their defense
was even worse, with players often caught out of posi-
tion or needlessly turning the ball over. With the game
deadlocked at 0 after the half, veteran striker Carlo
Corazzin (who spent ten years playing in England) took
control of the game, scoring once and assisting on goals
by Joey Gjertsen and Jason Jordan. Vancouver also
received stellar performances from veteran centreback
Nick Dasovic and youngster Kevin Harmse, while Mike
Franks, Josh Wicks, and Srdjan Djekanovic shared the
shutout.

The match was the second of four games for
Sunderland on their pre-season, Pacific Northwest tour.
Two nights before, in Victoria, Sunderland had
squeaked by the Pacific Coast Soccer League All-Stars
1-0. Sunderland rounded out their tour by defeating the
Seattle Sounders 1-0 and playing the Portland Timbers
to a 0-0 tie.

It was the Whitecaps’ first match against an English
Premier League side since tying Chelsea 2-2 in 1992
(back when the ’Caps were the 86ers). Interestingly, this
was not Sunderland’s first visit to Vancouver. In 1967,
the United Soccer Association was formed, and
European clubs were imported whole to spend the
summer playing as American and Canadian clubs. The
Vancouver Royal Canadians were actually none other
than Sunderland AFC.

August 10/2005

 

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