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Tuesday, October 29, 1996 Editor: Dave Senick 380-5344 Pages edited by Bill Leighton Times Colonist SCOREBOARD B2 GOLF B3 TECH B4 BUSINESS B5 SPORTS Lion admits to steroid use In Play A quick look at the spoils world Harding plays hero in bar drama Lions president Mike McCarthy gave short shrift to Flutie's reference to steroids. "I didn't know he had a doctor's degree in biochemistry," said McCarthy. "He's shooting his mouth off. "Who cares what he says?" The game statistics show Toronto was penalized more for rough play than the Lions. The Argos took eight penalties for either unnecessary roughness, illegal blocks or illegal contact, while the Lions took five.

Chaytors drew two personal fouls. "They were piling on us the whole game." said Lions player Johnny Scott. "They were high-lowing Chaytors: "That's why we got cheap. If they intend to play cheap, we're the wrong team to do it against because we can play just as cheap or cheaper. They started it.

We just finished it." Argos offensive lineman Chris Gioskos suggested the Lions went too far. "Where they are trying to injure Flutie, that's where I've got a problem," he said. Said B.C. coach Joe Paopao: "Football is a barroom brawl. Sometimes the guys on the other side don't want to 2et hit." Dan Ferrone.

president of the CFL Players' Association, said rough play can be encouraged by a number of factors and that blaming use of steroids is simplistic. "Are steroids being used? I'm not naive," said Ferrone. "I think there probably might be somebody using them. "Is it widespread in the CFL? Absolutely not." The collective agreement between the CFL and the CFLPA does not include a program for testing players for steroid use. Ferrone said on-field officials have many penalties they can assess for rough play, and teams can tine or release constant offenders.

"If (Flutie) is associating that kind of behavior with steroids, he might be mistaken there. Just because they have that kind of behavior doesn't mean they're using steroids." Ferrone said he'd love to see testing programs to identify steroids users, if they are there, but "the league can't afford that." Flutie. during the post-game scrum in Toronto's dressing room with print reporters, spoke of players trying "to gouge your eyes or twist your ankle under a pile." "They're a team out there with nothing for their future and nothing to lose or nothing to gain so they're just doing whatever they feel like doing out on the field and Dave Chaytors leads the group." Flutie said. "People are going to get hurt out there and. until this league starts testing for steroids, it's going to be that way." Oake then suggested steroid use was a serious allegation.

"It's legitimized, anyway," Flutie remarked without elaboration. Prior to Chaytors' admission, the CFL said it has no evidence of players using steroids and doubted the accuracy of Flutie's steroid-roughness link. "I don't see the connection between rough play and steroids," said Ed Chalup-ka, the former all-star lineman who is the league's vice-president of football operations. "1 view it in the light that it is an irrelevant comment unless there is something he's aware of that we're not aware of at the league office. "We have no evidence of steroid use.

If we had, we'd probably act." Chalupka could not be reached for comment following Chaytors' admission. Flutie's remarks on national TV open up a can of worms for the league The Canadian Press TORONTO Dave Chaytors, the B.C. Lions nose-guard accused on national TV by Doug Flutie of using steroids, admitted Monday he had used the performance-enhancing substance in the past but "not right now." In a radio interview in Vancouver, Chaytors refused to say when he did use performance enhancing drugs but he did back up Flutie's assertion that CFLers use steroids. Chaytors said he hasn't used steroids "for a long time. I know there are guys in this league who do it.

It's out there. They're going to use it." Flutie. in an interview with the CBC's Scott Oake following the Argos' 25-21 victory over the B.C. Lions, complained about the risk of injury as a result of rough play by a B.C. club that had previously been eliminated from playoff contention.

Tonya Harding couldn't have invented a better story to help change her image. a lifesaver. The deposed figure skating champion says she believes God was behind her last-second decision Sunday to stop at a suburban bar near her home in Portland. Oregon, for a few minutes to play video poker. Shortly after Harding and her godmother Linda Lewis arrived.

Alice Olson. 81 collapsed and stopped breathing. Harding called 9 1 1 with her cellular phone and administered mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. "It was very, very scary." Harding said. "I kept my calm and cool and knew what I was doing.

I had to do this. I thank God that I was there. Nobody else in the bar knew what to do. This lady was literally dead for probably two minutes. Linda and I brought her back to life." Kim Ip, owner of the Lost and Found Saloon where the incident occurred, confirmed Harding's version of events.

"The lady came to in a couple of minutes." Ip said. "I'm grateful that Tonya was here." Sanders cashes in The Pat Sanders travel fund got a boost Monday in Kamloops when the curling team of Sanders. Michelle Harding. Cindy Tucker and Cheryl Noble won the women's side of the Labatt Crown of Curling cashspiel. Sanders earned the $5,000 first prize by blanking Kelowna's Kelly MacKen-zie 7-0 in the final, after advancing with an 8-6 win over Cheryl Kullman of Calgary in the first round of the playoffs and a 10-6 semifinal victory over Delta's Kerri Miller.

Travel is particularly expensive this season for teams flying across the country chasing one of the elusive qualifying spots for next year's Olympic trials. Gay ruggers ready Britain's first all-gay rugby club has received official recognition. The King's Cross Steelers have been accepted as a full member of the Surrey Rugby Football Union. The club was formed a year ago in the Central Station pub in King's Cross. London.

The team has played three matches and lost them all. "We are pleased to be formally affiliated to one of the county rugby unions." said club chairman Rob Hayward. a former Conservative Party MP from Kingswood in Bristol. Beats the wave Ronny Johnson of the Manchester United soccer team, on playing for a team in Turkey: "They have a lot of rituals and superstitions. I was shocked when I was introduced to the fans, because they brought out a sheep, cut its head off and then smeared blood over my forehead." A new life Pat Burns, fired last year as coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs, on being a born-again civilian: "People perceive you differently.

They look at you like you're done for life. You go to a grocery store and people wonder: 'Is he going to be able to pay for his Faces in the crowd Ip pP jHr LBH ir mm pttiv Iff Phoenix goal-tender Darcy Wakaluk watches the puck dribble into the corner of the net on a goal by Montreal Canadiens Pierre Turgeon as Coyotes Dave Mason and Canadiens Benoit Brunet look on during first period NHL action Monday in Mon-real. PAUL CHIASSONCP Coyotes run down Habs in OT won since Roenick, a former Chicago Blackhawk. signed a five-year, $20- million US contract with the team two weeks ago. Roenick has no goals, but has five assists in the six games.

"When your team is struggling, it's important to get a win like this one on the road," Roenick said. "We had to battle hard and overcome adversity, and that's important on the road." Montreal starts a six-game. 1 1-day road trip against the Red Wings in Detroit on Wednesday. "We keep making the same mistakes," Recchi said. "We can make this trip a good thing or a nightmare.

It's in our hands now." Montreal, sent the game to overtime with a goal with 24 seconds left in the third and the Montreal net empty. "Montreal had us under pressure a lot." Coyotes coach Don Hay said. "We bent, but we didn't cave in." Montreal lost at home for the first time this season before an announced crowd of 20.828. Benoit Brunet and Stephane Quintal added singles for Montreal. Canadiens' captain Pierre Turgeon.

who has been the subject of trade rumors this week, assisted on Montreal's four goals. Keith Tkachuk, Kris King and Craig Janney also scored for Phoenix, which hadn't Phoenix not only came up with the win, but it produced its best effort in the third period and overtime. Gartner tied the game 2-2 at 3:56 in the second, pushing Jeremy Roenick's pass by Pat Jablonski. Gartner's winner was a shot from the right wing, and Phoenix's 40th shot on Jablonski. The Coyotes entered the third down 3- 2 but took a 4-3 lead on goals from Kris King and Craig Janney.

King beat Jablonski to tie the game 3- 3 at 1 1 1 6 and Janney found himself alone in the slot and scored his third goal of the season with less than 2:30 to play. Mark Recchi, who scored twice for The Canadian Press MONTREAL A new city, new uniforms and the same old Mike Gartner is what led the Phoenix Coyotes to a 5-4 overtime win over the Montreal Canadiens on Monday night. Gartner's second goal of the game at 1 :45 of overtime led the Coyotes (4-5-1 to their first victory in Montreal since 1 985, when they were the Winnipeg Jets, and broke Phoenix's five-game winless streak. "We were rewarded tonight," said Gartner, who has the league lead with 10 goals. "We worked through a lot of tough situations.

Sometimes you play better than this and you don't come up with a thing." jUEF'Wm si Linden suffers through power outage Mighty Ducks. Renney was quick to defend his captain when questioned about the obvious lack of scoring from name players. "He's been an outstanding leader and responded well to what we're trying to do as a team," Renney said. "He certainly reinforces and endorses everything we're doing and he works hard. "With all those things in place, and the work habits being a priority, it's only a matter of time for him." Linden scored 33 goals last season and has averaged nearly 29 goals a year since breaking into the NHL in 1988 as a first-round draft from the junior Medicine Hat Tigers.

play has malfunctioned so often. Vancouver has scored 24 goals in nine games, leading to a 4-5 record. The Canucks stopped a two-game skid last weekend with a 2-1 win over Pittsburgh. Linden. 26, remains optimistic he'll start scoring and the Canucks will put back-to-back wins together for the first time since early March.

"We have to work harder on the power play." said Tikkanen. "We need some goals on the power play so we can put some wins together." Canuck coach Tom Renney wants his team to create more traffic in front of the net on the power play. Linden may be designated as the forward to screen the opposing goaltender when the Canucks play on the road Wednesday against the Anaheim goals with three each. He refuses to blame the World Cup of Hockey last month for his slow start. Linden played mostly on a line with Wayne Gretzky of the New York Rangers and Vincent Damphousse of the Montreal Canadiens in the pre-season tournament.

"1 feel good, I feel fresh. I don't feel like I'm tired," said Linden. "I can't explain it. "You feel your chance coming and you tighten up a bit. It's one of the things you battle when you go a few games without scoring." Linden has played centre with several different wingers early in the season.

His linemates now are Esa Tikkanen and Pavel Bure. Tikkanen has one goal and Bure three, perhaps explaining why the power The Canadian Press VANCOUVER The Vancouver Canucks are suffering from a power outage on the power play. Their captain is just plain suffering. Trevor Linden is without a goal in nine games, his slowest start in nine seasons in the NHL. "It's one of the most frustrating times I've gone through." Linden said Monday.

"I'm usually a quick starter. "It's uncharacteristic. But you just have to work hard and try to contribute in any other areas you can." Linden is a regular on the Vancouver power play that has produced only four goals in 34 advantages. Just two teams. Dallas and Detroit, have fewer power- play Former National Football League star Dexter Manley peers out of his cell window at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Boyd Unit prison in Teague, Texas.

Manley, who is serving prison time for a cocaine possession, is scheduled to be released Friday on parole after serving more that 1 4 months behind bars..