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E4 Till- YANOH'VI Sl'N. SAiTRHAY. IY I')')') SPORTS Expanded CFL rosters in doubt Goldie and Kurt are hockey parents, too 0 Unless CFLPA agrees with owners on length of new deal and post-season pay, players could be cut. JOANNE IRELAND EDMONTON JOURNAL EDMONTON Take it or leave it. That was pretty much the bottom line in the latest negotiating session between the CFL and its players' association.

Dan Ferrone, president of the CFLPA, will meet via conference with his player representatives Sunday and conduct a vote on the owners latest proposal. "Initially, no one was crazy about the offer they've made," said Ferrone. "We'll see what happens when they've had time to read it." The owners' last pitch was delivered the day before the final cuts. They added two players to the rosters for the first two games of the season then said that if the union accepted the terms of their deal, the rosters would remain at 39. The salary cap would also increase from $2,128 million to $2.18 million and the contract would run for three years.

If the players' association rejects the deal, two players from each team will be cut by Tuesday. "That's what we're currently discussing," said Al Ford, general manager of the Saskatchewan Roughriders and a member of the player relations committee. "We don't want to cut them. "We send them home we're not bringing them back." The CFLPA wants the rosters to increase but there are now two key issues to be addressed. The first is the length of the contract.

The players don't want to be locked into a long-term deal unless they have assurances that the salary cap will increase if revenues go up. They countered with a two-year deal plus an option. The other issue is post-season remuneration. Three years ago, when the last deal was brokered, the players agreed to do their part to assist the financially strapped league. One of the concessions was a reduction in the Grey Cup bonuses, which dropped from $12,000 to $10,000 for the BAD DAY: Hamilton Tiger-Cats quarterback Danny McManus suffers through six-interception night Friday in a 22-16 CFL loss to the Montreal Alouettes, now 2-0, at Ivor Wynne Stadium in Hamilton.

Greg Douglas Actor pairing impresses in 8-Rinks debut; Paterson brothers win a Bure stick and raffle it for charity. SCENE HEARD: Three stories, not related, that indicate society may not yet have gone to hell in a handbasket. Story number one: Word rocketed through 8-Rinks in Burnaby the other night that Goldie Hawn and husband Kurt Russell were in the house watching one of their sons playing for an Anaheim team at an invitational hockey tournament. Neither movie star tried to hide from the crowd. In fact, both were happily signing autographs and chatting up a storm.

It was almost as if they enjoyed mingling as much as the starry-eyed fans enjoyed getting up close and personal. Story number two: The Paterson brothers Doug and Ron won a Pavel Bure autographed stick as part of their prize package at the Kathy Taylor Charity Golf Classic at Golden Eagles in Pitt Meadows. They immediately turned it back for an impromptu raffle that raised an unexpected $500 from the Canadian Airlines workers and friends of Kathy, who died much too young of cancer. Story number three: A member of Capilano Golf Club was an eyewitness to a little boy approaching John Daly for an autograph at the Skins Game in Montreal. When the youngster told Daly he was 12 years old that very day, Daly asked if his parents gave him golf clubs for his birthday.

When the boy said no, Daly took him by the hand to the pro shop and bought him a full set of Calloways. HERE THERE: Mondays and Tuesdays are usually dark at Hastings Park Racecourse, but not this past week. Flastings Park was transformed into Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, and several scenes from the movie Beautiful Joe were shot starring Sharon Stone and Billy Connolly. Ms. Stone plays a single mom and a bit of a drifter with an appetite for fast horses, lethal bets and fast living.

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Stone and I did make eye contact. Her ever-present bodyguard, Cliff Kosterman, kept us at arm length 72-year-old Charlie Ulrich enjoyed more than 40 years at the track as a groom, jockey, trainer, patrol judge, steward and clerk of the scales. The Vancouver Back-stretch Workers' Society honoured Ulrich at its first annual benefit dinner Tuesday for his contribution to the improvement of racing through a lifelong commitment to the sport. SHORT HOPS: You think Pat Quinn isn't on a roll? He and his wife Sandra returned from a cruise on the French Riviera as guests of Emily Griffiths while Toronto Maple Leafs president Ken Dryden waited impatiently to officially add the title of general manager to Quinn's head coaching portfolio. Following the Leafs' dynamic run to the Eastern Conference Stanley Cup final last season, Quinn was named runner-up to Ottawa's Jacques Martin as NHL coach-of-the-year.

Quinn has the Toronto media munching out of the palm of his hand, and nobody is more aware of it than Dry-den. The Leafs prez is extremely unpopular with most of the pencil-pushers from print, radio and television. Naming Quinn as GM gets Dryden off the hook on a day-to-day basis Another coach from a different era, Ernie (Punch) McLean, will be the target of a roast at the Burnaby Winter club next Saturday night. Proceeds go towards buying ice time for minor hockey kids. Call 299-7788 for tickets.

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"Where's their confidence?" said Ferrone. "We as players are saying, 'Can't do anything this year? OK, keep things the same. But three years out, give us "And what I want is an indicator. I don't want to share their profits. I want something that indicates that if the gross revenue goes up, the salary cap would go up." The Montreal Alouettes killed a late-game rally by the host Hamilton Tiger-Cats with a key interception in a 22-16 victory at Ivor Wynne Stadium.

Hamilton quarterback Danny McManus was intercepted six times in the game. Lion QB Allen says ne snouia be smiling KDIIKI OVANCi: VANCOUVER SUN Damon Allen is unique among CFL quarterbacks, a fact underlined in Thursday's wild 37-27 victory over the Calgary Stampeders at B.C. Place Stadium. lust look at the guy's stats. No passing touchdowns.

No interceptions. A modest U-for-27 passing for 153 yards. And liree rushing touchdowns. "Sometimes, the best thing to do is take a sack," said Allen, the CFL's all-time rushing leader among quarterbacks. "Sometimes throwing the ball away, or throwing the ball on the ground is the best play." Oft -criticized as a player lacking fire, Allen kepi cool even as the Slampeders fought back from a 10-0 deficit and took the lead.

I lis reaction lo scoring the tying "I'D on third and one late in the fourth quarter, however, was as joyous as you'll see from the 35-year-old veteran. "It's a misunderstanding thai because I don't smile a lot and he playful ttt.it I'm unhappy," he said. "Bui with llie personnel and the learn we have this year, I should smile." CANADIAN lAUIAll TUM OliAvyA irPi ini an tm(v km itw fanaAan tMtrh rr a( (r Pa" AH apmi'iM In pjtaiif4itaiiH lM trrt. p.w.1, hwf i if la Trm ri )viat Mi. A (jrxbilAAl, iiMa.B(J ttaimi, (, t-- A (MOvw A 11 A Mall rw Muflrnroim lilt flftrm Im.

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"Why would we offer to do that?" said Ferrone. "Because they're saying they don't have the money. "It's important we have this to get the players to accept a deal. We thought we had the cure. But they're saying they'll be stuck with it in the third year." That was pretty much what Ford said Thursday, the day after the league and union last met.

"You have to be careful so that two years down the road, we don't have to go back and Cup lead Mark Woudforde and Sandon Stolle, then Martin is supposed to play Ralter on Sunday betore a Courier-Hewitt finale. Only an injury to Martin or Courier would allow Sampras to play singles. Martin said he didn't feel he was under extra pressure because of Sampras' decision. "It Pete weren't comfortable with his position on the team, it would put pressure on me," Martin said. "We're all comfortable with our positions.

If we're not good enough, then better luck next year." Former President George Bush sat for a while beside Aus-tralian Prime Minister John Howard, and Howard usually had more reason to applaud. In other World Croup results, Russia leads Slovakia 2-0, France and Hrail are tied I I and Belgium leads Switzerland 20. At Moscow, Yevgeny Kafelnikov defeated Dominik Hrbaiy 2 6, 6-2. ft 7 (3-7) ft 1.7-5 in a match delayed because of fighting rival fans. Marat Safin, injured most of the spring, lopped Kami Kucera in four sets.

At I'au, France, Gustavo Kuerten out lasted Sebaslien Crosje in ft 2. ft 7 5 7), 7ft (7 5), ft 7 (57), 7 in four hours -12 minutes. Ccdiie I'ioline beat Fernando Meligetil In straight sets. rp Mil ten pmwl'ill yn 77 I 1141 fV- i I 2 I' Ml li tntj-W ai M-tVM rIXF4MM! 1 1 tt vtiin champions and from $6,000 to $5,000 for the runners-up a savings of about $250,000 annually. The players want to see that extra money back in the new deal.

The plan then is to disperse the cash to all six of the playoff teams. The Grey Cup winners would still get $10,000 but the first-round playoff cheque would jump from $1,900 to $2,900. The players also offered to help pick up some of the cost. "The players can't really understand why they would turn that down," said Ferrone. "We're paying for our own playoff benefits." The teams pay the medical plan premiums, a total of about $650,000 a season, but three years ago, the association took turning service, so he never let Merkiein get into the match," said Cayer.

"It was a high-quality performance by our No. 1 guy here." The loser of the American Zone Croup 1 second-round tic ill play Venezuela in September to avoid relegation to the Croup II. The winner remains in the American Zone Croup I. 15 ROOK I. Mass.

Australia's Patrick Rafter and Lleyton Hewitt swept the singles Friday to lake a 2-0 lead over the United States in their best -of five Davis Cup quarterfinal. Chances of a U.S. comeback are mighty slim, even with American ace Pete Sampras playing doubles today. The United Slates is I 28 when it has lost the first two matches of a Davis Cup series, the lone win coming against Australia in RM. Hewitt.

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