• * The Ottawa Citizen, Wednesday, April 20, 1994 CS SPORTS As little as 3159 a month can FOOTBALL CFL 'road show' in town make Pat B

Citizen staff Pulling out all the stops in an ef- fort to promote the Canadian Foot- CFL caravan ball League, officials have organ- Today: Meet the players, ized a touring road show that Danny Barrett, Tracy Ham, 0.J.' makes its first Canadian stop here Brigance, Tucsons West, 1541 today through Friday. Merivale, Rd., 6:30-7:30 p.m. Headlining the local caravan Thursday: CHEO visit 10 will be Ottawa Danny a.m.; open fan luncheon Barrett, former Edmonton and To- Schadillac Ranch, 105 Murray ronto pivot Tracy Ham, now with St. (meal costs) 11:30 a.m.; the expansion Baltimore Colts, and exhibition basketball game vs. PAT BURNS, NHL COACH, former B.C. Lions linebacker 02. Mazda Truck Driver Brigance, also with the Colts. Immaculata high school, 211 The three-day visit concludes Bronson, $1 per student, with a meet-the-commissioner school fundraiser, 2 p.m.; per month/ luncheon at the National Arts Cen- stay-in-school barbecue and Get a $1000 minimum discount or 48 months tre on Friday. Commissioner Larry suitcase party, Lansdowne lease from only $159 Smith and Rough Riders chairman Park, $1 per student, 6:30 82300 4x2 BASE FEATURES: • 2.3 litre 4-cylinder SOHC engine • 5-speed manual transmission with overdrive and governor Bruce Firestone will p.m. • Independent, Twin I-beam suspension • Tinted glass • Power-assisted front disc/rear drum brakes with rear ABS • Full-size spare tire be speak at the luncheon, and the Friday: Autograph session, will be on display. Seesons Sports Store, Rideau The caravan, largely a tool to ed- Centre, 10:30-11:30 a.m.; ucate U.S. fans about the CFL, al- Meet the commissioner ready has made stops in Sacramen- luncheon, Fountain Room, to, Las Vegas and Baltimore. It will National Ms Centre, noon. •Based on a 48 month lease for vehicle equipped as described. Shorter lease terms available. A minimum down make stops in each CFL city as payment of 51.700 and a security deposit of $200 is required. 100,000 km mileage conditions apply. N exceeded, 9 cents per kilometre applies. Freight. P0.1.. license, insurance and taxes not included. Minimum discounts are from M.S.R.P and apply to vehicles purchased and cannot be combined with lease offer. Minimum discount offer applies to 1993 and 1994 models: lease rates apply to 1994 models. Dealer well as Montreal, Brandon, Man., participation is 50% of minimum discount offer. Participating dealers may leaselsell for less. Offers apply to qualified retail customers only and may not be combined with other offers. See participating dealers for details. Program starts April 6, 1994 for a limited time. and Saskatoon.

BRIEFLY `Unfair' Lions Gloucester falls have Austin to 1-1 record Curtis Bois and Jim Logan ready to retire each scored twice in the third period as the Thunder Bay Fly- TORONTO (CP) - , ers (2-0) downed the Gloucester one of the CFL's most prolific pass- Rangers 5-2 on Tuesday at the ers, has decided to retire because Central Canada Cup Junior A of what he considers "unfair and ... WalkE, s hockey playdowns in Timmins. insulting treatment" by the B.C. Mark Warner and Simon Lions. Ferrand scored for Gloucester. The Lions obtained the seven- Gloucester (1-1) will play the 2-0 year veteran last month as part of Chaeauguay, Que., Elite tonight. a blockbuster three-way deal that • \a~ay sent Danny Barrett CFL Pirates J.» from B.C. to Ottawa and Tom Bur- A ,a w„~; ~ sign Duper gess from Ottawa to Saskatchewan, 6 0 replacing Austin. .,:~, Ps} Receiver Mark Duper, who ... t spent 12 seasons with the Miami "As of now I am retired," Austin, l Dolphhs before being released 29, told the Toronto Globe and Mail last year, signed with the CFL's via telephone from his home in Shreveport Pirates on Tuesday. Nashville, Tennessee. "I don't mean Contract terms not disclosed. it as a ploy or as a threat. "It's simply a case of me not Fab Five now needing to play football any more. ,. I have family and business interests a just Fab Two that come first and I don't want to i~ The Fab Five was reduced to deal with the B.C. Lions any more. two Tuesday as Jalen Rose, fol- I don't feel like they've been fair lowing in the footsteps of Chris with me. I've reached my limits Webber and Juwan Howard, an- with them." nounced he would leave the Uni- Austin has been adamant since versity of Michigan early to the trade that he would not report enter the NBA draft. That to the Lions unless they made him leaves only Jimmy King and Ray one of the league's highest-paid Jackson from the talented fresh- quarterbacks. man class recruited three years While Calgary's ago. Webber is a rookie with earned $1 million Cdn last season, the Golden State Warriors, and Sacramento's David Archer made Howard announced Monday he was turning pro. The Fab Five $650,000 US and Winnipeg's Matt and carry went to the U.S. college men's Dunigan was paid $500,000 Cdn, basketball championship in 1992 Austin received less than $300,000 and 1993, but lost both times. Cdn with Saskatchewan. After last season, Austin told Lacrosse game Saskatchewan general manager Al Ford he wouldn't return to the CFL celebrating local history in 1994 unless he was traded to an Institut Canadien-français East Division team. That would n ti d'Otta'Wa, 45 York St., will be place him closer to his family in a sYck. rolling back the clock Friday, Nashville, which is also where his when it holds a lacrosse night telecommunications business is lo- starting at 7 p.m. Many of the cated. big names on the local lacrosse Ford granted Austin's wish, trad- All FREE scene from the late '40s and ing him to Ottawa. But the Rough 2 DOZ. TOP FLITE MAGNA early '50s have been invited, in- Riders, realizing they couldn't pay CLOTHING cluding Lally Lalonde, Ticker Austin what he wanted, dealt him und with purchase of Dagenais, Roger (Fats) Despard, to the Lions. "New" Spalding Paradox Moe (Shifty) Sincennes. New 1994 models Instead of offering Austin a con- GOLF BAG oversize Woods and Irons. l i pieces. crete raise, the Lions have provid- Astaphan 'set up,' ed him with a chance to make more with STEEL SHAFT lawyer claims through incentive clauses. now in stock from: Of course, Austin could decide to 99 The doctor who admitted giv- play again. that is if the Lions trade 429 ing performance-enhancing drugs • Cobra oversize woods/irons 15°'° ' to disgraced sprinter Ben John- him to an Eastern team, such as To- son believed he was working un- ronto. with GRAPHITE SHAFT "Toronto would make all the dif- • dercover when he was arrested Yonex A.D.X. 300 oversize . in the United States for traffick- ference in the world to me," Austin 599 99 ing cocaine and steroids, his law- said. "Toronto's proximity to my OFF yer says. Jamie Astaphan was re- home would be important and I'd woods cruited by an "old acquaint- be happy playing in Toronto. ance" who was working as an in- "But I'm not going to play in • Spalding Top Flite tour irons Ina formant for American drug au- Vancouver. Like I say, as of now SHOES 1994YBAGS thorities, David Addelman said I'm retired from football." /11u7t Tuesday. American law officials That's news to Lions general • Taylor Made burner irons New 1994 WILSON -RAMPION, dismissed Astaphan's story. "We manager . Complete Line in from: have issued a denial of those "When you go through a tough TAYLOR MADE claims," said Joseph Guerra, a negotiation process, things get • Power Bilt grand slam FOOT-JOY • ETONIC SPALDING prosecutor with the U.S. Attor- said," Tillman said. "But I don't ney's office in Buffalo. DEXTER • NIKE MIZUNO • FILA know anything about Kent retir- • Maxfli V.H.L. steel shaft and much mare! Citizen staff and news services ing." 1994 • T.N.T. 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