Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 21, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Nesbitt Burns of Thi it Felt at a Saufl it Campini 6 a car strip guaranteed resp and Trif eligible in Ihan 9432384 Winnipeg free press sports Section Julian Rachey 6977285 c1 May 1995 Scott Taylor when do we get the Good news Minneapolis Richard Burke believes he has purchased a hockey Barry Shenkarow will Tell anyone Wholl listen that Hes sold National hockey league Vic president Arthur Pincus believes Minneapolis will have a franchise for the 199596 Back in the son of potential jets purchaser Israel Asper just wants everyone to take a rest and wait for the Good this is a very complicated commercial said David Asper in a Telephone interview everyone just has to Cool let the principals negotiate and i believe things will work out for the As jets co owner Harvey Secter met with members of the Winnipeg group attempting to Purchase the folks Here in Minneapolis continued to Send their i Hope you people dont lose that said Randy co owner of Canterbury Park your City worked so hard to keep that team and youve proved to everyone you really want in not sure we want a team Down Sampson was full of apologies As he watched another splendid crowd file into his reopened thoroughbred track in he wanted to let Winnipeg racing fans know that he also Felt Lousy about the number of stables Hes lured to Ive heard youve had problems getting Sampson i know we have a number of horses Here that would otherwise have run at Assiniboia and i feel badly about perhaps not As badly As the Manitoba jockey but in sure they appreciate the after Treyve Only lost a few their City is about to lose its International sporting know what its like to lose a hockey said David who was Mascot Norty the North Star when he was a College it was hard for us to lose that but i used to run around the met Centre and give Money to people who actually showed old Normie owner Green had to pay people to watch his that Why most minnesotans Are having trouble with this Many of them actually worry about our cites sporting to the twin cities already has a basketball team that loses 60 games a a baseball team that gives up a dozen runs a game and a football team that cant sell Why do they need a hockey team were proceeding As if the team is already said that has always been the intent to bring the jets to but if minnesotans want Burke and his partner Stephen Gluckstern to bring the team to the target Burke makes it Clear he needs almost million in government As of last there we rent enough votes to pass the funding package by the end of the Spring session at Midnight weve heard that the Deal is apparently going to go that its getting ready to proceed in said if people want a hockey team in now is the time for them to get up and say for a the people of Winnipeg got up and said they wanted a hockey they said it with their hearts and their As of this it didst do the Ftp a helluva lot of in i 1111 i Brandon Hopes dashed wings Harvest wheaties 2221 Canadian press Detroit Milan Kostolny 44 ties up Brandon Captain Marty Murray in yesterdays the de troit red wings have chosen a More oppor tune time to resurrect their Mori bund Power Detroit 2 Brandon 1 Matt Ball was Given credit for what was just the teams second Man advantage goal in 19 lift ing Detroit to a 21 comeback win yesterday Over the Brandon wheat Kings and into today memorial cup finajk4 Detroit will try to wrest the cup from the Hometown heroes de fending memorial cup Champion Kamloops we showed some nerves in the first two said Detroit coach Paul whose team won the Ontario hockey league to but when it got Down to the time it needed to be it got done As it has All it want Clear if Ball got his stick on a pass in front of Brandon goaltender Byron Penstock or if the puck deflected into the net off a wheat Kings Brandon Forward Mike Dubinsky had been sent off for Cross checking at of the third period and the goal came at Justin Kurtz scored for the wheat while Milan Kostolny had the other Detroit Penstock and Detroit goalie Jason Saal were outstanding in the tightly played game before a divided sell out crowd of its disappointing for us because right from the Start of the year the memorial cup was our said who has now completed his major Junior its disappointing for me because my career came and went and i didst get what i truly wanted in this league and that a memorial who faced 32 shots from expects even More from the blazers but the Cool 20 year old have it any other w Ere going to have to come out of the Gate a lot stronger than we did against he Kam loops has a great team up front and if we play like we did in the first be put the puck in the Detroit May be without Star de Fence Man Bryan Berard for the cup he Vyas knocked from the game Early in the first period after taking a knee to his left thigh from his status for today Likely wont be determined until just be fore the Kamloops coach Don Hay said de troit is a dangerous team with or without the blazers a team with a Blu Collar work ethic Defeated the Slick red wings 64 in the round Robin sir Charles Calls it Phoenix Charles Barkley announced his retirement after the Phoe Nix suns were ousted from the Aba playoffs but once again he ref used to be ill Tell you the same thing i told the team after the a dejected Barkley More than i have played my last theres no its not even a big in not saying its 100 per but in pretty sure about things right its just i had my mind made up most of the and Ive been feeling this Way for the last six who led the Phoenix suns through three of their most memorable sea made his announcement minutes after the Houston rockets Defeated the suns 115 114 in game 7 of the Western conference denying Barkley what May have been his final quest to win a championship he declined to answer questions about his left which bothered him throughout the although he finished with 18 Points and 23 were not even going to talk about my he it just didst but that the Way it team president Jerry Colangelo said he haunt talked to Barkley about the but try to coax the nine time Allstar Back for a 12th if he wants to in not going to Dis courage Colangelo i want him to do whatever he and in looking for Ward to sitting Down with him to see what he wants to this May not be the appropriate time to make decisions about your it was a comment reminiscent of last when Barkley moped around for a month after the rockets eliminated the suns 43 in an other second round teammate Danny Ainge eventually talked Barkley into coming Back for at least one More Barkley had collapsed in training Camp in october and doctors diagnosed a Bulg ing disk in his he played in pain most of the 199394 getting into a career Low 65 games and averaging Points per the lowest since his second this Barkley appeared to Benefit from a conditioning and strengthening pro finishing seventh in scoring after playing in 68 his average of rebounds would have ranked him but he didst have the league minimums of 70 games or 700 s by Randy Turner spoils reporter youd think Tom Hosteller would have been on the verge of Fla Loul after an impeccable Spring in the Oakland As replace ment the Journeyman Pitcher had been offered a spot with Oakland triple a club in Wilh the the 30yearold High Lander continued to mow Down batters in in 11 Relief Hosteller was 10 Wilh a minuscule Here was a replacement player affectionately known to major leagues Asa Scab manhandling the Best prospects the big leagues had to bul if youre looking for now a Winnipeg to gush Aboul fond Donl hold your ii was probably the worst month of my life playing for those people in triple he Tola they didst care about you were the we were there for the Lime to get the Guys on the 40man roster Hosteller we were just filling for ii was pretty in for who came Oul of retire men to play re placement the trappers Camp Only served to remind him Aboul the harsh realities of life in the majors minor people think that you get a contract out of Here and go some where he that not How it 1 dont have a lol to say for major league baseball you get a contract out of Here and you go play in the minor and thales exactly whal in is the minor and they make sure thai youre Well aware of if i sound in not really because i know its a but for Young kids thai think thai Biajo league base Hue in big Pond Ball is such a Greal dream and All its More of a business than anything of who was originally drafted by the san Francisco giants in the eighth round in knows of whal he the Chicago native spent four productive years in the giants a Ball and double a Ball compiling an impressive 4522 but Hosteller blew Oul his throwing shoulder in 1991 and by the Lime he fully recovered in he began to second guess his occupation and applied for a Job with the Chicago police department y that Lime i figured i was done he i was gelling too i was 29 years and had two Arm the Only thing i had going for me was Hal i had done i had Good numbers Loback me Bui nobody really wants to hear he they want to see what you can Gold eyes Pitcher Jeff who was also Wilh the trappers this did see whal Hosteller could in the goldeyes1 pitching expects his re cruel to be a key cog in the Northern league clubs Sterling to Hes a Guy that going to be capable of coming in and Ulrik ing Oul one Guy an inning and possibly Bittiger of so who will be offered a Job by the Chicago police department As soon As theres an decided Winnipeg was As Good a place As any to i Why not Ive never been to Canada he the Independent club might not be a part of baseballs i no league bul Hals just Fine with thank via i Ken Liq Liotti Winnipeg free press Hosteller says life with trappers was All i ;