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3» 3 Se i Se 22 - PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, February 1, 2000 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice' the top line for your truck caps and lids Van & Truck World. "Canada's Premier Accessory Centres" LISYAVRST[) plete lc SI NY 579-6868 www.vanandtruckworid.com 1051 Brock Rd., S. 426-5509 NREL es ¥ x ¢ die LT ha CHRIS HALL / PORT PERRY STAR SWEEPING UP: The Business Womens' Open Bonspiel, sponsored by Port Perry Auto Glass, Ball, Callery and Associates, and Snell, Balka, Saad and Associates, was played out at the Port Perry Curling Club last Saturday (Jan. 29). Taking part in the competition were Cheryl Quantrill (hat) and Cheryl Szlopiak, members of Team Cheryl. MoJacks making a run for it Wins over Uxbridge this weekend could give Port Perry second place, home ice advantage By John B. McClelland Port Perry Star The stage is set for the most impor- tant weekend of hockey so far this year for the Port Perry MoJacks. The MoJacks will meet their long- time arch-rivals, the Uxbridge Bruins, in a home-and-home series starting Friday that could very well determine second place in the Central Jr. C final standings and who gets home ice advantage should the two clubs meet in the first playoff round. The weekend affair opens this Friday night in Uxbridge and moves to the Scugog Arena on Sunday night. Both teams currently have 39 points and are locked in a tie for second-place in the Central League - VOLUNTEERS NEEDED - two up on the Georgina Ice. The Bruins could take over second with a victory or tie in Lakefield tonight. And both teams appear to be at peak performance now as the MoJacks pinned a solid 6-3 loss on the Georgina Ice Sunday night and the Bruins whitewashed the Little Britain Merchants 7-0 last Friday. It was the third straight win for the MoJacks -- all by convincing mar- gins -- as they downed Bobcaygeon 6-2 Jan. 24 and Napanee 7-1 two days earlier. In the game against the Ice at the Scugog Arena on Super Bowl Sunday, a contingent of solid MoJack sup- porters watched the home team spot the visitors a 2-1 lead in the first period with both goals coming on an Ice power play. But it was all green and white after that as they roared back in the middle stanza with five unanswered goals and then put the match on cruise control in the final 20 minutes. Forward Ryan McQuade led the MoJacks through their strong second period with a natural hat trick, and the Port Perry native chipped in with an assist as well. Adam Jones, teamed on a line with McQuade, fired the opening goal for the MoJacks and helped set up two others. Jay Simmonds also scored from his favourite spot on the power play -- right in front of the Turn to Page 23 0 Mike Tyson. Why do we bother? So on Saturday night in Manchester, England, Mike Tyson fought and destroyed, in less than two rounds, a tomato can named Julius Francis, whose previous biggest achievement is that he went three consecutive days without lighting the filtered end of his cigarette. Big deal. Was it the largest rout in the history of spectator sports? Hardly. (The smart money here has to go on the storied battles held in the Roman coliseums, with the lions coming out on top of the Christians, 31,282 to nothing). But a big deal all the same. The fight generated in excess of $40 million in pay- per-view revenue and ringside seats went for $2,000 a pop. Interest in a mugging? You bet. Society as a whole continues to prove its bloodlust, its thirst for violence by coming out in throngs and watching en masse what amounts to sanctioned torture. Since the Tyson matches against has-beens and never-will-bes continue to sell out, obviously it is bloodshed, or the threat of bloodshed that provides the drama, since the conclusion is inevitable. It's like the matador and the bull. The bull never wins, so what the thousands who pay to watch are hoping for is that, before the bull dies, he is able to gore the matador. (Remember that video clip a few years ago showing a bull giving a matador what amounted to a bull-horn enema? They are still getting a ton of mileage off it because you still see it now and again and when the clip comes on you can almost hear the collective audi- ence in living rooms everywhere, "Hey Honey, come quick, ya gotta see this ... oooooooooh. Did you see that?) The same principle holds true for motorsports. The comer seats sell out first at the speedway because it is at these locations where the likelihood of an accident is greatest. It is our twisted human nature that compels us to watch twisted human wreckage. We can't even drive by a fender bender without scanning the scene for grisly evidence of macabre injury. And, so to satisfy our hunger, Tyson is brought out from the glare of public scrutiny again and again, like the classic Frankenstein, snarling and swinging all while the cash registers chime to the tune of "Don't be cruel." Pitted against foes who can't possibly overcome Tyson's brute force, we watch not in anticipation of an upset, but because of the violence, and the rage, and the potential for lethal consequences when these characteristics are vented on a hapless victim. And when an opponent loses too quickly, (like the infamous Pete McNeeley, who went down after only two glancing blows and an insult to his mother's Turn to Page 23 Jackson Water Conditioning Ltd. 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