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Okay, so, in case you’re a Yankees fan and
have been chastising yourself in your
basement for not performing the correct
rituals before games four, five, six, and
seven of their series with the Red Sox for
the exact seven days between my submis-
sion deadlines (Oct. 21-28), here’s what
you missed.

Two weeks ago no one would have
believed it, but the Boston Red Sox are
finally world champions. And after the
way they blew out the Cardinals—who led
the league in regular season wins with
105—in the World Series, it’s not surpris-
ing. What is surprising is the stats that the
BoSox set along the way. Here’s what ’m
talking about. First the records: Derek
Lowe is now the only pitcher in MLB his-

tory to win all three series-deciding games
in one postseason. The BoSox are the
only team to ever come back from a 3-0
series deficit and win that series. They also
set the record for consecutive postseason
wins with eight. Their sweep of the finals
leaves the Cardinals as the second-best
team to be swept in the World Series, next
to the 1954 Cleveland Indians, who had
111 regular season wins. And also, they
are only the 4th team in league history to
never trail in the World Series. Finally,
Senator and Presidential Candidate John
Kerry even went as far as to call this year’s
Red Sox “America’s team.” Of course,
this all came as quite the news to
Californians, New Yorkers, and St.
Louisians.

Next up, auto racing, where Michael
Schumacher has won again. That’s right,
racing’s greatest driver ever has cruised
once again to his fifth-straight and sev-
enth-overall Formula One title by winning
13 of 18 races this season. Schumacher
has won more that 30 races more than any
one else in Formula One history and,
despite organizers constantly trying to
change the rules to stop him, he’ll likely
continue to win next season too.

In football, the Lions beat Calgary in a
mean-nothing game by a score of 19-17.
Calgary protested this result, after an offi-
cial botched a call on a last-minute
touchdown play that should have won
them the game, but—although they

Women Lose, Men Hailed Out

Dave Pearcey, OP Contributor

admitted the mistake—the protest was
denied by the league.

In tennis, Canadian player Daniel
Nestor and his doubles partner Mark
Knowles have regained their No. 1 rank-
ing along with a $3 million US purse after
winning the final of the Madrid Masters
tournament. They now have two wins in
their last three tournaments and Nestor
continues to do his country proud.

In soccer, the Canadian roster for the
world under-19 soccer championship has
been finalized. The tournament plays in
Thailand from Nov. 10-17, and Canada
will be led by Veterans Kara Lang and
Brittany Timko. Another name to note is
Sydney Leroux, a 14-year-old rookie who

ment centres. The plan here is to develop
Canadian talent in hopes of getting them
in a Whitecaps jersey one day.

And finally, the weird notes. In inter-
national Brazilian
international star, Socrates, is coming out
of retirement at the age of 50 to play
along with 33-year-old Lee Sharpe on a
non-league team in Garforth Town, near
Leeds. And George W. Bush and John
Kerry dropped the ceremonial pucks at
last Tuesday’s hockey game between the
Cleveland Barons and Hamilton Bulldogs.
Bush, a quality engineer from Ohio

soccer, former

recently gave his top-10 reasons “Why it is
good to be named George W. Bush” on
The Late Show With David Letterman. And

 

apparently has strength and great finish.
And also, Vancouver Whitecaps’ coach
Tony Fonseca is leaving his job as head
coach in order to take a full-time position
as director of a series of new develop-

Kerry, an electrical designer, also from
Ohio, apparently loves Heinz ketchup.
Baron’s president Michael T. Lehr was
heard to remark, “We'll do anything to get
fans in the seats! I'll even eat a bug!”

 

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The Douglas Women’s Premier rugby
team lost 28-12 to the Nanaimo
Hurricanes. Despite the absence of
both starting wingers, Douglas played
well, but Nanaimo took advantage of
their few opportunities to spoil the
effort by the home side.

Centre Melissa Klein broke into
the clear early, but a nagging ham-
string injury prevented her from
out-distancing her pursuers
and the advantage was lost.
However, the hard run-
ning of Corinne Jacobsen
and the strategic kicking
of Candace Barry
kept Nanaimo
penned up in
their own ter-
ritory for
most of the
half. The

3/2000

Douglas backs put severe pressure on
the disrupting their
attempts to make ground.

Hurricanes,

Nanaimo finally managed to get
the ball into the hands of their
National team winger, Carolyn
Spidell, and with one move she found

space to run 80

metres for the

first try of the
match
against
the run
of play.
The con-
version
was good.

Yet Douglas

continued to
battle, and
were finally
rewarded
when Vickie

Dhillon — set
up Barry for a
try in the cor-

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    

ner. However, the convert was short,
and the half ended 5-7.

In the second half, Douglas again
dominated the field-position battle,
but some poor defensive coverage
allowed Nanaimo to run in three
straight tries from well out, including
another 80-metre effort from Spidell.

Douglas kept fighting, though,
and closed the gap with a try from
Tanya Leigh, converted by Barry. The
scote could have been even closer,
but a sloppily taken penalty at the
Hurricanes 5-metre line resulted in a
turnover and Nanaimo cleared the
ball upfield.

In men’s rugby, after consecutive
wins over Surrey and Langley, the
Douglas 1st Division was forced to
abandon their match against SFU due
to a lightning and hail storm. Also in
action, the 2nd Division team played
SFU to a 10-10 draw.

SPORTS!

 

 

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