European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday november 22, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary Chicksands never had a fighting Chance As football speeches go it sounded More Lik Ebud Grant than Knuth Rockne. There stood Jim Ousley coach of the upper hey Ford sky Kings addressing the pc game banquet for last weekend s Safe semifinal you Wear red and while said Ousley. Staring at the enemy Torr Jon raiders. Those arc the colors of two teams we love to beat Alconbury and  from that Torr Jon table came this response where is Chicksands Good question. Ousley did t want to answer that. Neither did a couple of Fellows at the head table . Sports conference chief Tom Colacchio and Safe sports chief Dick Mullins. They did t want to respond because the answer was too painful Chicksands was uninvited. Stay Home fighting Chicks. You re not Welcome to the playoffs. And that s after Chicksands turned an 0-8 skid into a 7-3 Winner. Shook the air Force football Loop by winning the . S National division title earned a playoff spot for the first time since 1978. Earned. But did t get. The knife Job on Chicksands makes these Safe playoffs the most tainted in history. It does t matter if upper Scyford represents the . In Fine fashion by beating Ramstein in sunday s final. This question will forever loom what could Chicksands have done in the 1985 playoffs the fighting Chicks never got their Chance be cause of inept planning on the part of Colacchio. The . Sports Leader never made provisions in Case of a tic in the standings. When that deadlock occurred Scyford and Alconbury tying for the american Divi Sion title Colacchio asked Safe to push Back its Semi and final. Safe showed a harsh Lack of empathy and said no. That gave the . One week to Settle both its american division tic and its championship. Colacchio passed the Buck to the top Star in the ., maj. Gen. Thomas Mclnerney. Taking Colac Chio s options Mclnerney ruled that Scyford and Alconbury. Both at 8-2. Would play for the . Title. Chicksands could sit on its 7-3 Mark throughout the of season. That ruling reeks. It undermined the integrity of the divisional setup. Scyford and Alconbury should have settled their lie by Point spread. Belter yet Alconbury should have been ousted for choking a two game Lead with three games to go. Either Way Chicksands should have been in that . Title game. Colacchio tried to appease Chicksands by designating the Chicks co champions with Scyford. Chicksands coach Al Carter called the co championship a Good just  those Are the last words of Praise you la hear from Carter. This Security policeman is ticked off. The Best thing to do if the Powers that be could do it would be to fire Colacchio Carter said from his office tuesday. I blame him for the whole thing. I Don t know what his responsibilities arc because he Dodges everything that comes his Way. He does t take responsibility for officials or what happen. In games. I asked him Al mid season what would happen if there were a lie. So did Dick Madden Greenham common s coach. "1 thought intr division records would break tics. All this should pc been spelled out before the season. We thought he Colacchio had this All Down. Then we found out there was t  Carter admitted he sounded severe on Colacchio. But he added we had 45 Pla ers who went through so Many obstacles to win the division. Then they were Given the Royal Shaft. Someone has to pay for it pay for it with his  like most civilians who hang on in government service Colacchio won t be fired. He will be pressured into making changes for next season. Colacchio said last week that he s considering these plans for 1986 i. Erasing the mid season break a wasted weekend thai would have Given the . Time to Settle its lie 2. Continuing his policy of breaking tics on the Field not on paper 3. Realigning the divisions perhaps trading upper Scyford for Mildenhall. That would provide a geographical balance. It would also end the Basc-si7c imbalance Between divisions. Colacchio can regroup from this Slop. He can expand communication Between his office and inc coaches. He can pressure coaches Inlo finding compe tent statisticians thus boosting publicity for the . The disaster of 1985 accented misdirection Wilhen the . Sports conference but the league had drifted for years. Colacchio belter grab the steering wheel before he lets another football team crash. Tim Start and Sarlim nil from Page 21 the year. Yaremchuk scored the other goal. A 30-Fooler at 6 23. Entering the game the canucks had scored on 30 percent of their Power play opportunities but wednesday they were shut out five limes their Penally killing Hurt. That was one of their Strong Points said Vancouver coach Tom Watt. In other nil games capitals 3, penguins i Pittsburgh Craig Laughlin cored two goals to run Washington s unbeaten Streak to five games. The loss was the third in a Row for Pittsburgh 5-11-3. Washington improved u 11-6-3. Ringers 7, mile Leah 3 new York Bob Brooke scored three goals and Tomas Sands rom scored twice to Lead the rangers. Maple Leaf  Bob Mcgill went to the Hospital after a first period fight with Brooke. He suffered a Lacera Tion of the Skull and right Eye when he flipped and landed on his head. Jets 3, blues 1 Winnipeg Manitoba Brian Hay Ward stopped 35 shots and Dale Hawer Chuk was credited with the game winning goal when St. Louis Joe Mullen put the puck in his own net while attempting to Clear Hawer Chuk s rebound. Oilers 5, canadians 4 of Montreal Mark Messier scored 42 seconds into overtime to give Edmonton a Triumph in its 550lh nil game since joining the league in 1979. Chiefs defensive end arrested at stadium on narcotics charge Kansas City to. A defensive end Mike Bell of the Kansas City chiefs was arrested on a Federal narcotics charge and escorted from Arrowhead stadium by . Marshals wednesday. . Attorney Benjamin Burgess said that Bell 28, and his twin brother Mark a former National football league player were among 31 people indicted thursday by a Federal grand jury in Wichita kan., in connection with a yearlong cocaine Traffick ing investigation. Burgess said the Bel Brothers were charged with the use of a communication facility in cocaine distribution and with at tempting to possess cocaine. Burgess said the Kansas narcotics task Force investigation was conducted by inc Wichita police department and the Sedgwick county sheriffs department in con Junction with the Fri . Drug enforce ment administration Kansas Bureau of investigation and the Federal Bureau of Al Cohol tobacco and firearms. Police chief Richard Lamunyon of Wichita held a news conference to discuss the results of the task Force investigation. Wichita is Mike Bell s Hometown. At the conference. Burgess said 31 peo ple were named in 24 Federal drug indict ments. The investigation also resulted in 16 state warrants live cocaine cases and 11 file Pilot o Kansas City s Mike by. This is unbelievable gambling cases but neither Bell was named in the slate warrants. He said the Bells were involved in the Case when their Calls to wiretapped Tele phones were intercepted. Among the others indicted by the Federal grand jury was Coltman locket the brother of Kansas supreme court Justice Tyler Lockett of Wichita. Coltman  Cut who lives in the Wichita area was charged  conspiracy to distribute co Caine and with the Sale of cocaine. Mike Bell was arrested while attending a team meeting said a statement by Robert Davenport the head of the Fri in Kansas City and George Csc Montc the head of inc Kansas City Dea office. Bob Spring or the team s director of pub Lic relations said Bell was escorted from the stadium by Federal marshals. Mike Bell who played College football at Colorado state with his twin brother was the second player chosen in the 1979 draft. Bell is regarded As one of the leading pass rushers in the National football league bul has been hampered by injuries through out his career. The Kansas City Star reported thai it contacted Bell at his Home tuesday and he said he knew nothing about a grand jury or cocaine. This is unbelievable. I think in s just got to be a mix up. I Haven t done any thing wrong he told the Star. The arrest marked the third time in just Over two years that professional athletes in Kansas City have been linked to cocaine. Winnipeg Fracnes Babych of Hartford Tor Neuweld Winnipeg Manitoba up the Winnipeg jets traded defens Eman Dave Babych to the Hartford whalers in Exchange for right Winger Ray Neufeld the jets announced wednesday night. Neufeld 26, is a Winnipeg native. He a Hartford s highest scoring right Wing for the past two seasons in addition to being the whalers most experienced player. He was the Only player left on Hart Ford s roster from either of the whalers first two nil drafts. At 6-foot-3 and 210 pounds Neufeld was Hartford s biggest Forward. He had fiver is and 10 assists in 16 games this season. 331 nil career games. Neufeld has scored 95 goals and 131 assists for 226 Points. His most productive season was 1983-84, when he scored 27 goals and collected 42 assists. Babych the jets first Choice and no. 2 Overall in the 1980 Amateur draft had four goals and 12 assists through wednesday night s 3-1 Victory Over St. Louis. Entering the season the 6-2, 210-Pound Blu Eliner had 69 goals and 236 assists for 305 Points and 378 penalty minutes in 371 career games. He was named to the Camp Bell conference All Star team in the 1983 84 season. Babych s most productive scoring season was 1982-83 when he collected 13 goals and 61 assists. But he never has fulfilled the expectations the jets had when they made him the highest paid defens Eman chosen in 1980