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Sports D8 CALGARY HERALD Tue; CURLING Kleibrink foursome cashes in Lewis England's richest athlete LONDON The wealthiest sports star in Britain happens to be former Canadian Olympic boxer Lennox Lewis. Lewis, who grew up in Kitchener, Ont, heads a rich list of British sports starts compiled by Business Age magazine. Lewis is first at a whopping 60 million pounds ($132 million Cdn), 20 million pounds ahead of pro golfer Nick Faldo, who stands second at $88 million Cdn. Lewis earned 18.5 million pounds ($40.7 million Cdn) for his rematch with Evander Holyfield last November. The rest of the top 5: 3.

Naseem Hamed, boxer, $55 million Cdn; 4. Ian Woosnam, golfer, $40.7 million Cdn; 5. Alan Shearer, soccer player, $39.6 million Cdn. Brazilian coach quits RIO DE JANEIRO The interim coach of Brazil's national soccer team stepped down Monday, leaving the team without a manager ahead of a World Cup quali- fier against Colombia next month. Assistant coach Candinho, who led the team when Brazil defeated Venezuela 6-0 earlier this month, had been expected to continue the interim job.

But after the Brazilian Soccer Confederation named Atletico Paranaense coach Antonio Lopes as the team's new coordinator Sunday, Candinho announced he was stepping down. The team has been without a full- time coach since Wanderley Luxem- burgo was fired earlier this month after Brazil's embarrassing 2-1 loss to Cameroon at the Sydney Olympics. Former NHLer passes away CHICAGO Winnipeg native Art Coulter, a Hall of Fame defenceman who played for the Chicago Blackhawks and New York Rangers, has died. He was 92. Coulter died Saturday at a retirement home in Mobile, Ala.

Coulter was with Chicago from 1931 to '36. He played the last five years of his career with the Rangers, retiring in 1942 after enlisting in the U.S. Coast Guard for the Second World War. He was named a second-team all-star while leading the Blackhawks to the Stanley Cup championship in 1934. He succeeded Bill Cook as captain of the Rangers in 1936-37 and led New York to a Stanley Cup in 1940.

Coulter had 30 goals, 82 assists and 543 penalty minutes in 465 regular-season games. Coulter was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1974. AFL heading to Toronto TORONTO It seems the Arena Football League is finally coming to Canada. The AFL has scheduled a news conference for Tuesday at the Air Canada Centre. Sources requesting anonymity say commissioner C.

David Baker will announce the league's plans to transfer the New England Sea Wolves to Toronto in time for next season. The club will play its games at the Air Canada Centre, the home of the NBA Raptors and NHL Maple Leafs. But the sources also said the franchise's owner is expected to be media mogul Ted Rogers, who earlier this summer purchased major-league baseball's Toronto Blue Jays. The AFL season runs from April to August AFL players earn an average salary of $30,000 US but the top stars can make as much as $80,000 US. ALLEN CAMERON Calgary Herald It doesn't matter which team she's skipping; Calgary's Shannon Kleibrink is a money machine.

A week after guiding Sandra Schmir-ler's former teammates to a second-place finish in the Husky Autumn Gold at the Calgary Curling Club, Kleibrink skipped her Alberta playdown team to victory at the Labatt Crown of Curling Monday in Kamloops. Kleibrink, third Judy Pendergast, second Debby 1 1 HITMEN (0 Itj s. yTR I --1'enaergast ana lead Cheryl Meek i hammered Sherry 1 Heath of Vernon Sutter happy to be healthy 9-4 in Monday's championship final to earn $4,500 atthei6-teamJVC Women's Tour event. Her winnings in Shannon Kleibrink Defenceman backinWHL for season Ik 1 if Kamloops won't count towards the season total she accumulates with her cash circuit team of third Jan Betker, second Joan McCusker and lead Mar-cia Gudereit because Tour regulations state three out of the four players must be playing for the money to qualify. Kleibrink qualified for the final by defeating Calgary's Sheila Heath 8-5.

Calgary's Donna Phillips failed to qualify for the playoff round. Kleibrink, Betker, McCusker and Gudereit head to Winnipeg this weekend for the JVC women's classic, the world's richest women's bonspieL Meanwhile, in London, Ont, Calgary's Heather Fowlie enjoyed another lucrative weekend by reaching the semi-finals of the Southwestern Ontario Women's CashspieL Fowlie, third Carolyn Darbyshire, second Shannon Nimmo and lead Denise Martin posted a 5-3 record in the 24-team event to pick up a cheque for $3,000. A week earlier, the team won $4,000 by reaching the semi-finals of the Husky Autumn Gold at the Calgary Curling Club. Fowlie qualified for the eight-team playoff round out the 'C event, then beat Barb McKinty of Dundas, Ont, n-2 in the quarter-final before bowing 6-4 to four-time world champion Elisabet Gustafson of Sweden in the semi-finaL Gustafson settled for the $6,000 runner-up prize after losing 6-2 to Anne Merklinger of Metcalfe, Ont, in the finaL Merklinger pocketed $8,000 for the win. Fowlie is also competing this weekend in Winnipeg, while also on tap this weekend in the women's tour is the Hat Super 8 Motel Charity Classic in Medicine Hat.

Dennis Graber of Beaverlodge won the men's title in the Labatt Crown, shading home-town favourite Barry McPhee of Kamloops 5-4 in Monday's finaL The win was worth $10,000 to Graber, while McPhee settled for $6,000. None of the four Calgary-area teams skipped by Michael Goertzen, Brian Haydamack, Allan Dixon and Terry Meek managed to make the playoffs. Most of the teams at the Crown not Graber, though head south to open the Kelowna Triple Cashspiel Wednesday. The men's champ in Kelowna qualifies for the Olympic trials. Also this weekend on the WCT circuit.

Medicine Hat hosts the Hat Super 8 Motel Charity Classic, while the Guild Insurance Brokers Classic takes place in Brandon, Man. TT Overseas, 1999 world champion Hammy McMillan of Stranraer, Scotland, cashed his first WCT-Europe cheque Sunday, winning the Lockerbie Superspiel in Lockerbie, Scotland. McMillan took the top prize of $2,300 Cdn by defeating Lockerbie's David Murdoch 6-2 in the championship game McMillan already had $5400 in winnings this season by reaching the semi-finals of the ScotiaMcLeodSco-tiaTrust Montreal Open. The WCT-Europe moves to Berne, Switzerland this weekend. MURRAY RAUW Calgary Herald The season that was best forgotten has been swept well under Shaun Sutter's carpet.

Last year was a disaster, but exciting things have happened to his hockey career so far in the 2000-01 season. He reported back to the Calgary Hitmen of the Western Hockey League on Monday with a positive outlook although this is his fourth team this fall, counting the Hitmen twice. He skated briefly with the Hitmen for conditioning purposes before attending the Calgary Flames training camp. Then he was sent to the Saint John Flames of the American Hockey League for a brief stint before he was reassigned back to the Hitmen. None of the moves have been a surprise.

"Everything has sort of gone according to plan," said the 20-year-old. "The main lUOTABLE thisng that I get to play a lot this year. The Flames wanted me to go to Saint WOUld John and get haveplayed Jj all last year, fore I came back thprf is here" UIC1C1S Sutter played a 3 gOOd couple of games rhinrpT for Saint John uiaucLi receiving only WOUldn't sporadic ice 1 time. But now be Sitting his focus is on here. Calgary.

He will play his first WHL game on Shaun Sutter Wednesday when the Hitmen are in Moose Jaw for the first of four road games against Eastern Division cities. "I'm happy I'm going to get my chance to play," said Sutter, who lived through an injury-plagued season last year that limited him to 35 games. First, he had to contend with an abdominal muscle pull, then during a January game in Spokane, he fell and crashed into the boards. The diagnosis was a broken vertebra, ending his season. "I wasn't allowed to do anything for three months," said Sutter, who estimated he played in only six games for the Hitmen while healthy last year.

The statistics reflected his troubles. He had only one goal and eight assists. That effectively ended any hope of making the pros this year. "If I would have played all last year, there is a good chance I wouldn't be sitting here," said Sutter Monday. "I don't want to set any goals, I have Dean Bicknell.

Calgary Herald Shaun Sutter was limited to 35 games with the Hitmen last season because of injuries. NOTES: With the return of Sutter, the Hitmen are inching closer to being the team they envisioa Head coach Dean Clark hasn't given up on having centre Kris Beech returned by the Washington Capitals. And Sean McAslan who has been sidelined with a knee injury has resumed skating and could be ready within three weeks. edged Shaun Sutter about walking back into the Saddledome in the era following his dad's rule. "It would be awkward for anybody in the same position.

But I'm with the Hitmen now and the people that they have in place are good people. My dad knows that. "Last year, at times it was awkward when he was here numbers in my mind. But it goes without saying that last year's record is going to easily be broken." After last season, when Sutter was regaining his health, the Calgary Flames, the team that owns the Hitmen and Sutter's NHL rights, fired his father, Brian Sutter, as the team's head coach. "It was awkward at first," acknowl GOLF 7 Presented by: Global' Four Calgarians try for PGA Tour cards UNIVERSITY Of CALGARY KINESIOLOGY 3VI1JM- The Canadian Press Calgary's Wes Heffernan, David Kureluk.

Jamie Welder and Wes Mar Thursday, October 1 9 5.00pm Women FetKue Match Owersty of Cdgay vs. Omenfy of Atera 7.00pm Uhrrsity of Calgary UCLA Friday, October 20 UCLA Uftverscy of Pacific 1.00pm VrfyerciCiipfyYVnyeriiCfciAJbera 5.00pm Unrversicy crVfc vs. Urwersicy of Abera 7.00pm LHversityofCaviLHrsityof Pacific Saturday, October 2 1 1130am UOA vs. Universirf Manitoba 230pm Bronze Medal Match 630pm Gold Medal Maoch (Live on Global Tetevcacn) stage qualifiers and the final four begin Sunday. Welder and Martin will play next week.

Also entered is Derek Gillespie, a 22-year-old rookie from Oshawa, Ont. who like Heffernan turned professional at the end of the summer, shot an impressive 5-under 288 at the 2000 Bell Canadian Open, his first professional event, beating Mike Weir of Blight's Grove, Ont, by two strokes. Those who advance will play another four rounds at one of six sites between Nov. 7 and Nov. 17.

The six-round final stage will be contested at PGA West in La Quinta, Calif, from Nov. 29 to Dec 4. The top 35 and ties after the final stage will earn PGA Tour cards for 2001. tin are among the 23 Canadians who will attempt to join the PGA Tour as the annual three-stage qualifying tournament begins in eight different locations today. Kureluk will tee off at the La Purisima Coun- Wes Martin (October 19-21) tn Club in Lompoc, Calif.

Heffernan plays at Martin Downs Country Club in Stuart, Fla. A total of 12 sites are hosting first-.