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The Other Side Of Steve Downie
by Paul on 12/09/07 at 10:23 AM ET
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from Chuck Gormley of the Courier Post,
Latchford didn’t know a whole lot about Downie when she opened her Peterborough, Ontario, home to him two years ago. She had heard about his on-ice fight with junior teammate, Akim Aliu, but other than that, she knew very little.
But as their relationship grew, so did Latchford’s affection and appreciation for Downie.
She was there for him when he lost a 19-year-old friend to leukemia and a 20-year-old friend to meningitis. She has seen a side to Downie very few people in the hockey world has seen.
“He’s been through a lot, but he doesn’t want anybody to feel sorry for him because he lost his father,” Latchford said from her home in Peterborough. “Other kids have been through things, too, but nobody knows about them because they’re not in the limelight.”
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What an unbelievable idiot this guy is. Who are the players who have perpetrated this violence? Was Bertuzzie a Canadian, or really an American CIA spy sent out to destroy Canada’s vast reputation for clean hockey. And he mentions Bob Clark, who hails from Flin Flon, Manitoba, which is obviously a secret American military base specializing in hockey violence.
Obviously, Don Cherry, arguably the biggest proponent of hockey violence in the Canadian media, is an American double agent.
Or, is it that violence sells in Canada, as well, if not better, than America?
Posted by Not amused from USA on 12/10/07 at 01:08 AM ET