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Home of the Duffer News. February 8, 2002
There was no game on Friday, February 1, because someone had our
ice. It worked out OK, because they had a power failure.
Rick Feldman (Gilbert) showed up any way.
We are getting excited about the Olympics in Salt Lake City!
Hitman, Klinger and Beak are headed there after the Peoria game. (We play
in Peoria on Saturday morning February 16, 2002.) Beavis and (Vidadontist
the Driller) Formica may join them. Hacksaw
was going to go until his wife, Mira, said
she was going to spend as much money as he did while he was away. He
believes her, you may remember a few years back, Thor and Berserk got rich
while Hacksaw was gone. (That is when Thor got another name of
"Contractor from Hell")
The staff at the Bolingbrook Sun is getting ready to run a cover
story on the Duffer Hockey team in their March issue. Be ready for
interviews and pictures in the next few weeks. Lauren Kraft will be
at Bono's on Friday.
Cammi is in this month's issue of Glamour magazine. The Sun Times
had an article about her. For all of you Tribune readers, I pasted
the article at the bottom of this page.
  
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Duffer Christmas party was held at Berserk's Barn on
February 2, 2002! Thanks to Chris and Wendy
for their hospitality.Johnny Z came up with
the Christmas party in February idea last year because everybody is too busy in
December.
Click on the following thumbnails to see the full sized picture.
| Looks like Joe got into the Jello. |
BY GREG COUCH STAFF REPORTER
Chicago has produced a hero for the Olympics (Cammi Granato), a novelty
act (Timothy Goebel) and, of course, this city's specialty: the bulk of the U.S.
women's curling team.
And don't forget the Greek bobsled team. Yes, both racers on that team are
from Chicago.
The Chicago area will be well-represented, if somewhat oddly, at the 2002
Salt Lake City Olympics, which begin Friday. There are at least 19 Olympians
with a Chicago connection.
Granato of Downers Grove and goalie Sarah Tueting of Winnetka, U.S.
women's hockey players, are the best bets for bringing back gold. Goebel of
Rolling Meadows can jump and twist like no men's figure skater ever has. He will
land several quadruple jumps and might bring home the bronze.
Cammi Granato, women's hockey, Downers Grove. One of the stars of the 1998
Nagano Games, she was the captain of the team that won the gold medal and was
chosen to be the U.S. flag-bearer during the closing ceremony. It was the
inaugural event for women's hockey as a medal sport.
''There was emptiness after losing,'' Canadian coach Shannon Miller said.
''But when they showed Cammi Granato's face on the big screen, I had a feeling
of joy go through my body because I realized an Olympic gold medal was being
hung on a female hockey player.''
The United States and Canada again are far superior to every other team in
the field. They have gone on a pre-Games tour, with the U.S. team winning all
eight times they played each other.
Granato grew up in Downers Grove in a family of hockey fanatics. They
would flood and freeze the backyard so they could play hockey there in the
winter. Her brother, Tony, played in the NHL.
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