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B4 The Province Tuesday, March 31, 1992 qdiG GGd rooD German skip Roger Schmidt Expatriates on top Canadian Press GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany Canadian expatriate Hugh Millikin could be a sports hero in Australia if he was anything but a curler. Down Under, curling takes a back seat to horse racing, surfing, cricket and footie. While Scottish rinks knocked Canadian teams from the ranks of the unbeaten Monday at the Safeway world curling championships Jackie Lockhart's foursome defeated Winnipeg's Connie Laliberte 8-3 and Hammy McMillan counted three in the eighth for a 7-5 win over Vic Peters of Winnipeg Millikin was making his presence felt in Australia's world debut. Millikin scored three in the 10th for a 9-6 win over Sweden to move By Howard Tsumura Sports Reporter The rumblings that began in the Lower Mainland boxing community following last November's B.C. Tough Man Challenge haven't exactly reached Richter Scale proportions in the months that have followed.

But Monday's Rumble II pro fight card staged at the Royal Towers Hotel in New Westminster is, according to local fight promoter Trevor Wallden, the beginning of Autographs forbidden Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS Mike Tyson has refused to eat in prison, and he faces disciplinary action for giving inmates his autograph, Indiana correctional officials said Monday. The former heavyweight champion also declined Monday to take part in an assessment of his educational background, officials said. The assessment is used to help determine where Tyson should be sent to complete his six-year prison sentence. Kevin Moore, a Department of Correction spokesman, said Tyson has taken fluids but declined to eat solid food. "He's told the staff he wants to lose weight," Moore said.

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463-8857 yet another renaissance within the Vancouver-area market. "It (Tough Man) certainly stimulated boxing," says Wallden, whose Thunder Boxing Inc. promoted that event and Monday's show for Vancouver's Bam Bam Boxing stable. "The Tough Man show generated some serious interst for both fans and fighters alike." Held last Nov. 14 at the PNE Agrodome, the Tough Man Challenge was the finale to a series of elimination bouts held throughout the province.

A crowd of 4,000 attended the championship card, and although Wallden's group admits it lost big money, there has been spinoff. "There seem to be a lot of guys now that want to fight pro," says Wallden. "They can see that the pro game is alive in Vancouver again." A number of the Tough Man series competitors used that card to launch their pro careers, including former Olympian and Canadian amateur champion Manny Sobral. Sobral, who took home a cheque for $10,000 after winning the heavyweight division of the Tough Man card, won his pro debut in Rumble I Feb. 20, also at the Royal Towers.

The Vancouverite headlined Monday's six-fight card in a super-welterweight bout against North Dakota's Joe Sears. Richmond light-heavyweight Paulo D'Adamo and Delta super-middleweight Joe Caktas are two other Tough Man products who fought on Monday's pro card. Wallden, who says he'd like to stage a live fight card in the Lower Mainland at least every two months, says his commitment to make the pro game a regular part of the local sport fans' diet has been reason enough to bring two other fighters back into the ring. Ron Curran, a veteran amateur from New Westminster, made his pro debut Monday at the age of 30 against Portland's Darren Brennan. And East Vancouver's Nelson Ali resurrected his three-fight pro career at age 27 against D'Adamo.

Sobral, Victoria's Kit Munro and Nanaimo's Willy Curry, the three Tough Man Challenge weight class winners, are all expected to be a part of Wallden's next card. Proceeding under the working title Vancouver Open Air Super Fights, Wallden's Thunder Boxing is hoping to stage an outdoor fight card June 29th at the Plaza of Nations. "We've got hopes of having (former World light-heavyweight champ) Donny Lalonde there as the main event," adds Wallden. Corazzin no CP photo 5 to Canada Monday. kin said.

"If we can come up with a (win today against the U.S.) I'll be happier." A good showing at the world championships could help alleviate a $40,000 debt, incurred because of high travel costs to the world qualification event in Japan, a trip to the Albertville Olympics and bi-weekly trips from Sydney, where ice is $200 an hour, to practice in Melbourne, where ice costs $100 an hour. "If through our doing well we get more players, that means the association gets bigger," Millikin said. "Then that means the association can afford to fund a team to go overseas." In women's action, Sarnia, native Janet Hurlimann led Switzerland to first place at 3-0. Canada and three other countries are tied for second at 2-1. quitter self to the team's training camp in January, agreeing to pay his way from Italy.

"What he's shown is a great desire and determination to make it," said Waiters Monday. "He's made a lot of personal sacrifices to make himself a member of the team." Waiters is also impressed with Corazzin's talent, saying he's "very mobile and challenges well in the air. He's acquired a lot of skills in the last two years." With Peschisolido still not fully recovered from a groin injury, Corazzin saw considerable duty on the forward line with Munson and Needham on a recent tour of Europe, scoring in Canada's 1-1 tie with the Welsh team March 18. Corazzin realizes it wasn't easy to make the team in an Olympic year. "This team had been successful without me," he says referring to Canada's first place finish in the second round of qualifying play.

"So for me to crack the team at this point is a great accomplishment. To play in the Olympics is a once in a lifetime chance." huffed and puffed, but lost 6 into a tie for top spot at 3-1 with Canada, Scotland, England and Switzerland. Millikin, a native of North Vancouver who played second on Dave Van Dine's 1986 Canadian mixed championship rink from Ottawa, figured to be competitive. "A look at the first four games, the toughest one was going to be Scotland," he said. "We really thought we could get them." Scotland won the match 8-5 Sunday, but Millikin's rink which includes former Richmond curler Tom Kidd (third) and Winnipeg native Dan Joyce (second) has impressed.

The lone Aussie, Stephen Hewitt, first curled in 1988. "Right now we're happy," Milli teams beat out Guido Titotto of the Vancouver 86ers, Eddy Berdusco of the North York Rockets and Jorge Rodriguez of the Hamilton Steelers for one of the four forward positions, with Scott Munson, Grant Neednam and Paul Peschisolido. The Coquitlam native, who was an all-star in Italy last season, will make his home debut tonight at 7:30 when Canada plays South Korea's Olympic team at Swangard in its final tuneup game before facing Mexico. "1 look back to where I was two years ago," said Corazzin. "I've improved immensely.

"When you're around better people you become a better person. In Italy, soccer is their life. It's like what hockey is to Canada. "We practised every day and twice on Wednesday. I would never be practising that much here.

Soccer teams don't do that here." Corazzin even went so far as to send Canadian team officials a video of his play in three Italian games and essentially invited him By Jack Keating Sports Reporter The newest member of Canada's Olympic soccer team refused to accept the fact that he had been cut from the team two years ago. No, Carlo Corazzin didn't sulk. He went out to prove coach Tony Waiters wrong by fine-tuning his soccer skills in Europe and by keeping team officials aware of his progress. Playing the last three years in Italy, including the last two with Pievigina of CORAZZIN the Italian third division, the 20-year-old Corazzin brought his play to a higher level. So high that Waiters recently selected the Coquitlam native over three holdovers for the final 18-man roster on the under-23 team that begins the final round of Olympic qualifying play Sunday against Mexico at Swangard Stadium at 1:30 p.m.

The former star with Centennial high school and Metro Ford youth.