> >Unfortunately, TSN's yearbook also has a feature (FEATURE) article on GOONS. >Not only do they do things like rating the pro goons in different categories, >but they stoop so low as to give hints to young players, in a separate but >related article, on how to become a goon! Let me quote the first paragraph >from that: "Do you have an aspiring goon playing midget hockey? Here are >a few tips - some of which are even acceptable in today's society - on the >martial arts, compiled from current and future pros..." > >It's attitudes like this that threaten to send hockey back to the dark >ages. Don't they realize many of the readers of the yearbook are going to >be kids? Everyone knows the game is physical and sometimes even in college >where there is supposedly no fighting, altercations do occur - but why >glorify it? > >Too bad they have to try to cater to fans of this trash and not real fans, >as if they needed this to sell magazines. Still, their college section >is much better than expected. > I'm a bit surprise about this, because Larry Wigge, the hockey editor of the Sporting News, has been taking a stand against fighting in the NHL in recent months. Because of that, I didn't think he would allow something like this to be published. -- Willie Hsiung [log in to unmask] Electrical Engr. & Appl. Phys. Case Western Reserve University