12__CastégarNews _ worn. ve SPORTS Dewalt to shop around VANCOUVER (CP) — Roy fice. “I can't say which teams what they feel is an excellent offer and can go no further. The club hinted that some of the money which had been on the table would now be used clubrecord 4,237 passing strength, accuracy and quick yards and 27 touchdown ness of release. A compre- passes last season — are hensive physical exam is also énough to catch the eye of a routine part of such in- most NFL clubs. However, inspections. Ch Browns, who drafted Dewalt if 1980, con- tinue to hold the right of first refusal on his services. Other NFL teams are free to try to sign the Houston native — MISL _H BANS OZZIE Il MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Tino Lettieri may not have his toy parrot Ozzie II on the field anymore, but the Minnesota Strikers goalkeeper says he isn't alone in the nets. “I have parrots embroidered on my shirt and on my pants,” Lettieri said. “I still have my parrots with me.” The foot-high stuffed animal had accompanied the 28-year-old Canadian in goal for five years before being banned from the field just prior to the season by issi Francis (Toronto Argonauts) and Jeff Boyd (Winnipeg Blue Bom- bers) have been the most ac- b tive. “We're at a stalemate with NFL teams will work outa the Lions right now,” added quarterback to check his arm Morriss. Ski changes touted By GARY KINGSTON WHISTLER (CP) — The embattled godfather of World Cup alpine skiing held court here Friday, alternately praising and questioning the circuit he helped to create 20 years ago. Sitting on the edge of a stage at the new Whistler convention centre, Serge Lang rejected suggestions that spectator interest is waning and that the World Cup's CASTLEGAR & AREA RECREATION DEPARTMENT MARCH 16 — Public Skating, 1:45 - 3:30. Adults, $1.25, Students, $1.00. Children 75 . Pioneer closes ‘till next MARCH 17 — Lunch Hour Hockey, 12 - 1 p.m. Parent & Tot ‘Skating. 1 - 2 p.m. Field users meeting, Complex 7 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Porent & Tot — Lunch Hour Hockey 12 - 1 p.m. Dog Obedience MARCH 19 — Costlegor Sovings Credit Union. Annvol hall. . 1 - 12 pim. Public |. 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Skating, MARCH 21 — Lunch Hour Hockey, 12 -1 p.m. Public Skoting, 2 Night, 4 - 7 p.m. Local MARCH 29 — Eos! hunt for ail wal olds —Eester 3-7 : pan Gan 1 om, te cares. 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He may say he doesn't see how the changes can be made, but earlier this year he proposed a whole series of changes. There have been many complaints this year from racers and coaches that the schedule — over 70 races at more than 45 sites — is too long and the regulations are too complicated. Lang proposed that the schedule be cut by nearly a third, that a single arbiter replace the current system of five-person race juries, and that a two-tier formula relegate lower-ranked competitors to regional circuits, reducing the often unmanageable numbers at some World Cup events. Part of the problem in reducing the number of races is the growing number of countries that want in on the World Cup, and the reluctance of European countries to give up any races, particularly those steeped in tradition in places like Wengen, Switzerland, and Kitzbuehel, Austria. Lang, whose duties include the selection of race venues, said he believes he has a commitment from the French ski federation to give up its downhill and super giant slalom race at Val d'Isere in February. But 100 other resorts are courting Lang, and he said it is their “pressure” that is to blame for the large number of Faces. Earlier this week, Lang threw cold water on hopes for World Cup,races next spring on Mount Allan, site of the skiing events for the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics. Dale of the Major Indoor Soccer League As custom with many European goalkeepers who place an extra pair of gloves, towel or a mascot of some kind in the back of the net, Lettieri toted a teddy bear with him when he played goal until he joined Vancouver Whitecaps of the North American Soccer League in 1961. “One night I started to have a fetish for birds,” said the Italian-born Lettieri, who learned the game growing up in Montreal with the under-21 Quebec team. “I have had several parrots — at the time I had seven and I came across a stuffed toy parrot that looked like one I had. I thought it would be neat to take it into the nets instead of the teddy bear.” He named the parrot after his real bird, Ozzie. But a thief stole the toy Ozzie and Lettieri was forced to find an Ozzie Il, which has become the goalkeeper'’s trademark since he joined Canada’s national team in 1980. BIRD WALK? It is paired with Lettieri's bird walk, a strange, quasi-dancelike routine that includes the flapping of arms that is performed before and sometimes during breaks in a game. It’s Ozzie, and the bird walk, that got Lettieri into trouble last season. During a playoff game in Wichita in April, Lettieri r performed his bird walk and mimmicked Wichita general manager Bill Kentling — described by Wingy/publicist Kevin Ray as having “a very wide girth” — Ozzie under his jersey. ‘The game was physical from the start and tempers flared when the Wings’ Terry Rowe and the Strikers Steve Litt were ejected for fighting. In the closing seconds, with the Wings leading 8-3, Lettieri came out of his goal to stop Terry Nicholl on a breakaway and took the Wichita forward out with what Ray calls a “vicious” tackle. Both benches emptied, fans climbed onto the field, and a slew of Wings players chased Lettieri around the rink. Wichita won the game, Minnesota later won the series (two games to one), and Lettieri eseaped the pursing Wings. ‘The incident caused Dale to prohibit any foreign object — specifically Ozzie — on the field this year. Dale said the incident with Wichita wouldn't have oceurred if Ozzie hadn't been in the net to begin with. BENCHES OZZIE It’s a sound decision and one I'm going to stick with,” Dale said. “He can bring his parrot, but he has to leave it on the bench.” Lettieri tried to sneak Ozzie into the all-star game, where he started the second half for the Eastern Division. The staged event ended when referee Bill Maxwell found Ozzie in the net before the second half kickoff, red carded the toy and ejected it. Lettieri wasn't happy with the rule, and some others agree with him. “People want to come out and boo the parrot,” Ray said. “We'd rather have more people come out and boo the parrot, it gets more people into the stands.” COMMUNITY NEWS “It was all in fun, and the players know that,” said Lettieri, who is the only MISL goaltender with a mascot. “I was upset; it hurt the kids, People around the league have told me they'd rather have Ozzie in the net.” Lettieri, who is also the goalkeeper for the Canadian national team that will compete in this summer's World Cup, will have Ozzie in the nets in Mexico City. AAMT FELT THE PRESSURE a8 aE RECARO Graham newest hero By JOHN KOROBANIK The Canadian Press month. sure she had faced the last ... Tean't relax.” this winter the pressure will What Graham went likely increase right through PAINTING & DECORATING 2649 FOURTH AVENUE Calgary organizers have already announced the races, but Lang said he has been told the untested downhill course is not suitable. Peter Andrews, race chairman at Whistler and a member of Canada’s World Cup committee, said Canadian officials have not made any recommendations yet on a site for a Canadian World Cup stop next season. Lang’s proposal of a two-tier racer formula could of Canadian skiers in the lly reduce the partici World Cup. Laurie Graham skied her last World Cup downhill race of the season Saturday in Aspen, Colo., and then begin a well-deserved summer rest after her most successful and satisfying winter that was also her most stressful and pressure-packed. The 25-year-old from Ingle- wood, Ont., will finish either second or third in the down- ill standings, the best finish by a Canadian woman since Nancy Greene won her sec- ond combined championship in 1968. Everyone knows Graham fell last weekend at the Husky World downhill at Banff, ending her chase for the championship. Not every- one knew, however, of the tremendous amount of pres- Sportswriter to pursue harassment charge HARTFORD, CONN. (AP) — A veteran sportswriter, alleged to have been attacked by Hartford Whalers coach Jack Evans, says he plans to return to Buffalo on Monday to pursue charges he filed following a recent NHL game. “We do regret the incident occurred and feel that what happened was unfortufiate and we are sorry for it,” Howard Baldwin, the Wha lers i and i But the apology was not directed to Randy Smith, sports editor and columnist for the Manchester Journal Inquirer. “We were hoping the apol- ogy would be stronger, quick- er and more sincere,” Smith said. Baldwin said he viewed the statement as an apology dir- ected at everybody, not just Smith and the newspaper. “We're not pleased with general partner, said Friday in a statement. what® hi d and what happened wasn't right, but one individual jp having field day with it,” Baldwin said. Evans, 57, is alleged to have grabbed Smith and banged him against a con- crete wall in the dressing room in Buffalo following the Whalers 6-2 victory over the Sabres on March 7. Smith, who said he suffered a bump and a headache, later filed a complaint, charging Evans with harassment. Buffalo police say the max- imum penalty for conviction on a charge of harassment is 15 days in jail and a $250 fine. Graham downplayed the pressure angle in the week leading up to the race. Once it was over, however, she ad mitted the pressure had been there and now that it was lifted she hoped to ski well in Aspen. She refused, natur ally, to admit pressure had any influence on her fall. But it did. Not so much that, as at least one news- paper blared in typical Can adian fashion, SHE BLEW IT, but, as coach Currie Chapman said later, enough to bother her. “She faced terrible, ter rible pressure,” Chapman admitted. “Enough that actually did get to her. It was triple the amount of last year. WANTED AUTOGRAPH “It seemed every time she left her hotel room people were stopping her asking for autographs, wanting to shake her hand, wishing her luck.” Graham. who won two downhills and until her fall had finished out of the top five only once in eight races this season, was warned she would have to learn to cope with the attention. What neither she nor the Canadian team knew however, was just how much attention would be focused on her. “The pressure she faced here was far worse for Laurie than what, say Maria Walli- ser faces at home,” Chapman said. “In Europe, Laurie got almost as much attention as Maria.” Graham herself confessed that during the week she felt she was “being closed in on through the last few weeks was her first real exposure to stardom. She is Canada’s newest sports hero and, as such, everyone wants to know her personality. Now, there is little about Laurie Graham that Canadians don't know and, as Chapman sug gests, “maybe everyone will pull back a bit.” Assuming Graham contin ues to ski as well as she did the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. Graham's team mates probably have the best solution to relieving pressure on Canada’s No. 1 Alpine skier. If Liisa Savajarvi, Karen Percy and the rest of the women's team continue to improve like they did this winter, they will attract a lot of attention and divert some of the pressure from Graham. Weekend Wrap-Up ‘BASKETBALL — =-chinched playolt berth 7 chnched deviaron tithe Fridey Reutty Quebec 6 Calgary 2 Edmonton 12 Detrost 3 MHL SCORING LEADERS Nononal Hockey League scoring leaders otver gomes ployed Friday Gretaky, Eden PUBLISH A M ZINE Five new magazines made their appearances earlier this month at Selkirk College. However, in spite of the frantic efforts of their anxious publication departments all were foredoomed and none will join the ranks of the 72 Canadian magazines with a circulation of 100,000 or even the much greater number of magazines with a much smaller readership. icular magazines were the still-born offspring of the Selkirk College Graphic Arts class ine workshop. C din idation about Feb. 24, they gestated for one short week and were then delivered, like medieval royal babies, before a large audience, including myself as an invited guest, on March 1 at the college. The delivery was assisted by the two staff literary obstetritians, Ron Woodward, coordinator of the Graphic Communications Department, and Fred Wah and was aided by a number of talented people from the magazine publishing field. In this well planned operation, the staff divided the Graphic Arts students into five magazine publishing “companies,” each with its own publisher/production fanager, managing editor, substantive and copy/editor/ writer (in the small magazine, as in Shakespeare's plays “one man plays many parts”), art director, designer/lay- out, typographer, assistant to the publisher and photographer/offset darkroom technician. Each group was given an outlined job description, a day-by-day work schedule, a number of articles which could be used in the magazine and a variety of color and black and white ads. They were also given the job of preparing a costing sheet, interior grid layout sheets, copy for spot color ads and a handout for the use of the judges at the presentation. Ads, which pay for the magazine, were to be fitted to best ge in a 60-page ine flat plan. Each morning we attended lectures by working experts in the field of publication. Each afternoon the students were allowed to go to their classrooms to work on the preparation of their project until 10 p.m. in the evening, after which they could continue in the computer lab until lectures started again at 9 a.m. the next morning. Not having to suffer through all this labor, I was able to ici the d Pp i with pleasure rather than apprehension. The day of judgment arrives, bright and sunny. The presenters sit at a long table at the front of the room with their written material in front of them, and their covers, flat plan artwork and layouts on the chalkrail of the blackboard behind them. Facing them are the three evaluators: the husband and wife publishing team of Jack and Liz Bryan from Vancouver, and the well known artist and creative director from the Kootenays, Les Weisbrich. Woodward and Wah observed and made 1 from John Charters . . . Reflections & recollections MAGAZINE WORKSHOP . . . Andreat " author and translator, and Liz Bryan, editor from magazine is called Silent Seven Publications. It is they say, a medium-level, technological magazine which will be sold by subscription and on the newsstand. The first article, “Technostress, Casualties of the Revolution,” gives the “window” or editorial direction of their “magazine.” They are understandably nervous and a little reticent. The second team, Lawrence Nichvalodoff, Ria Tromp, Darcy Suehn, Alex Ball, Mickey Tarasoff and Shelly Ackerman — have received a little instruction. “You've worked hard, and done a good job so don't apologize. Sell your work proudly, speak up and address the judges directly, bring your work close to them so they can see it and touch it if they wish. “Indicate the features you' wish to make, more slowly forward and slowly back, you're in charge.” They present “Blackboard Productions,” a popular magazine on the technologies and techniques of publishing, with laudable conviction. Magazine number three is called “Graphic Communi- cations” and is described as a “national, special interest, socially conscious, issue-oriented” magazine. The front cover is strikingly dramatic and reminds me of Bloch's painting, “The Scream.” It is presented competently by Barb Little, Mike McKinney, Kevin Preevich, Keith Phillips, Lorne Hadikin and Susan Lewis. The editor of magazine number four confesses, “At the onset of this project, I was unclear exactly whom this magazine was for.” Happily, the team of Athlyn Horswill, Fran Wallis, Elaine Langois, Lynn Cormier, Jeff Shecter and Rob Popoff finally came to grips with the reality of all publications, the deadline, and “Media Ventures” is the side. For the previous five days all had been collaborating closely with the students on the preparation of their work. Now they sit as critics. The audience and presentors-to-be sit at the back of the room This first group of would-be magazine makers includes Tim Isaac, Mary Ann Watson, Gale Woolf, Joan Mansbridge, Mike Barlic and Judy Groepler. Their — in a manner of speaking. The fifth and final presentation was by the “666666” (6's Company Publishers). The production manager/ publisher's report begins with a long recitation of woes and stalemates, but concludes with, “By Friday we really knew what we were doing.” This was the only magazine which chose to be one of the numerous “controlled circulation” (sent free to , offer and sugg during recent Selkirk College Graphic Arts . Connews Photo by John Charters specially targeted groups of readers) publications which make up 28 per cent of magazine publications in Canada. The staff of Kathy Armstrong, Barbara Tandory, Alexa West, Elizabeth Bidinoff, Lynn Gilderdale and John Snelgrove hoped to mail copies of the to 2,000 to 3,000 people in the printing/publishing and graphic communications industry. Space does not permit any detailed account of the Graphic Ci i i ih It was a well-organized experience, in a very tough but rewarding occupation for which there are practically no schools in Canada. Student Lawrence Niehvalodoff summed it up when he said: “It was a valuable experience. 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