Terrence Kiel to Drug Charges.
SAN DIEGO -- Chargers starting strong safety Terrence Kiel will miss Sunday's game at Baltimore following his arrest at team headquarters on felony drug charges.
Drug Enforcement Administration officials said Wednesday that Kiel admitted to shipping at least two parcels of prescription cough syrup to Texas. While Kiel did not tell the DEA his motive, the agency in Texas has found widespread abuse of codeine-based cough syrup mixed with soft drinks or drugs and referred to as "lean," said John S. Fernandes, the special agent in charge of the San Diego office.
A pint bottle of "lean" can cost between $200 and $325 on the street, he said.
Kiel grew up in Lufkin, about 120 miles north of Houston, and played at Texas A&M.
Chargers general manager A.J. Smith said Kiel would be paid even though he will miss Sunday's game at Baltimore.
"He's been informed to stay home and take care of personal business," Smith said, adding that Kiel is due back with the team on Monday.
"I'm really not interested at this point in commenting on anything about the matter," coach Marty Schottenheimer said.
Clinton Hart, who will start in Kiel's spot, said the defensive backs met Wednesday morning.
"We have to regroup and make that fist a little bit tighter. Kiel's still our boy and we're supporting him 100 percent," Hart said. "We're going to go out there and win this game with him on our backs."
Kiel was arrested on two counts of transporting a controlled substance and three counts of possession for sale of a controlled substance. He is scheduled to be arraigned on Tuesday.
The DEA is investigating where Kiel got the cough syrup, who else may be involved and the intent.
Two federal law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation, said quart bottles full of what appears to be prescription cough syrup were found at Kiel's house. Both officials said Kiel admitted to financial difficulties when interviewed by agents.
Kiel is making $500,000 this year, his fourth with the Chargers.
The player was jailed Tuesday and released on bail.
Kiel's agent, Vann McElroy, said he couldn't comment on specifics of the case.
"Terrence is a good kid. We just have to wait and see," McElroy said.
Fernandes said the two shipments Kiel admitted to sending to Texas each contained prescription cough syrup that had been repackaged in pint-sized water bottles.
On Tuesday, Kiel was called off the practice field after authorities arrived at Chargers headquarters. Kiel was taken into the locker room, detained and read his rights, Fernandes said. His locker wasn't searched, but authorities searched his car, then took him to his house to execute a search warrant.
According to an affidavit for a search warrant made public Wednesday, FedEx managers searched a package Kiel mailed with his FedEx account in June and found 15 bottles of Prometh prescription cough syrup in the box. A boarding pass found inside the box led DEA agents to an address Kiel used to register a car. Three bottles of Prometh were seized last week at that address.
Kiel paid cash to send a second package to Texas last Thursday, prompting a FedEx manager to contact the DEA, according to the affidavit.
Fernandes said codeine-based cough syrup can be used to enhance, mitigate or temper other drugs, including cocaine and PCP.
"It goes right to the heart of what really is fueling an already out-of-control, raging fire of abuse of pharmaceutical drugs," Fernandes said.
Kiel was a second-round draft pick in 2003.
Three months after being drafted, Kiel was shot three times during an attempted carjacking in Houston. Kiel returned to play in all 16 games as a rookie, including eight starts.
It was the second run-in with the law by a Chargers player this month.
Outside linebacker Steve Foley was shot three times outside his suburban home on Sept. 3 by an off-duty Coronado police officer who suspected him of drunk driving. Foley will miss the entire season and forfeit at least $775,000 in pay.
"I'm very disappointed and very concerned," Smith said. "I'm not the least bit happy with all these things."
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fishing on The Sea by Cindy Garrison
In the warm shallow waters of an island near the equator, on the bow of a beat up panga, a tall blond angler stands with her fly rod at the ready. She loads the rod with a double-haul and unfurls the yellow line, delivering a baitfish-pattern fly to her target. She strips it in and the fish reacts, charging the fly and inhaling it in a split second.
“Yeah! Yeah! Hah hah!” she screams, whooping and hollering as she brings her quarry boatside. Her name is Cindy Garrison, and she has just successfully hooked and landed a puffer fish.
This from the one-time Alaska guide, who pioneered fly-fishing for tigerfish in Botswana, who once wrestled a crocodile in Panama?
“I don’t care if it’s a150-pound tarpon or a puffer fish,” she says. “When I feel a tug on the end of that line I freak out.” Since she hosts her own TV show, “Get Wild” on ESPN, one would expect her to be a little more jaded. But the prospect of being on an adventure, or on the bow of a boat, brings forth something in Garrison that cannot be contained. It is with this energy that she plows ahead, hoping her attitude will push people to look at the sport beyond the just catching fish.
at the sound of the screaming reel, and takes on the striper with a standup rod in the cockpit. The large pelagic leaps from the water a few hundred yards behind the boat, showing its displeasure, and the fight is on.
Garrison works the marlin until it is subdued. The first mate grabs the leader and brings the fish alongside the boat, and Garrison does something most anglers wouldn’t. She strips. Down to her bathing suit, she grabs a mask and fins and jumps overboard to engage the marlin on its turf.
“It all goes together, the animals, fish, people,” she says of her penchant for getting up close and personal with wild creatures. From her list of maladies and inflictions, she can detail her interactions throughout the world.
here’s the strange fungus she picked up when she jumped onto the back of that 12-foot crocodile in Panama. She has a scar on her arm after being bitten by a monkey in Thailand—and scratches from an over-aggressive tiger cub on the same trip. The boils she acquired kayaking in the Philippines have healed.
In the Galapagos she would contract Dengue Fever from mosquitoes, possibly while crawling in muck to see eye to eye with a giant turtle on the island of Santa Cruz. (“I love mud,” she said to our guide. “Can I go wallow in the mud with him?”)
This, more than catching fish (or hunting big game), is what Garrison is all about. When she goes on an expedition for her television show, she doesn’t just pursue animals, she engages them, as well as the local culture of the area. She’s eaten bugs in Asia, hunted to provide food for tribal villages in Africa, and hunted with Aborigine spears in Australia. And she does it all, well, loudly.
Garrison is the human embodiment of the power chord. Wherever she is and whatever she is doing, bystanders can expect to hear enthusiastic yelling and laughter. “I just get that jump in my heart and the adrenaline,” she says. “Ha! Ha!”
Blazing Trails
Blame it all on her parents. Garrison and her three sisters grew up in Marin County, California, just north of San Francisco. But her time on her family’s cattle ranch in Oregon ingrained the outdoor wanderlust she exudes today.
The entire family would escape to the ranch any chance they could, and take off on outdoor hunting, camping, and fishing adventures. “Whatever we did outdoors we had fly rods in our hands,” says Garrison. “My sisters, my Dad. My Mom was a tremendous fly fisherman, as well. It got us addicted from an early age.”
While her other sisters gravitated toward the corporate world in their adult lives, Cindy took it to the next level. “For me, I could never see myself doing anything but fishing for the rest of my life.”
“I said to myself, ‘I can go quit and go home or I can stay and get a real job.’ I didn’t want to fail,” says Garrison. She hitchhiked around Alaska for two weeks, calling every lodge she could think of to try for a job. She got one, the first woman ever hired at that particular lodge—even as a cook—and guided in the Great Wilderness for six years.
“Then I got bored,” she says. So what did she do? She moved to Botswana and developed a fly fishery for the African tigerfish.
At one point, Garrison held the world record for tigerfish on the fly. Tigerfish are harsh, aggressive predators with vicious sharp teeth protruding from their mouths. In stalking them, she had to endure confrontations with crocodiles and hippos. Hardcore stuff, and a part of who she is.
Yet, there’s that another part, the one that shows itself in the Galapagos. Back on the bow of the panga, Garrison is teaching her friend Kelly Cruickshank how to cast a fly. On her first cast with a fly rod in her life, Cruickshank, a banker, hooks a small grouper. “Oh my god!” she screams, and Garrison echoes her. Garrison helps her strip in the fish, and the two jump up and down on the bow as if Cruickshank has set her own world record. The scene illustrates one of the basic themes of Garrison’s message.
“It’s not true that if you’re not an expert you won’t have fun,” she says of the snobbery that tends to course through the sport. “You just need to be good enough to catch a fish.”
This vibe, as much as anything, is why Costa Del Mar Sunglasses brought her to these islands in the first place. “Cindy has this unbelievable ability to inspire people to plug into their passion and follow their dreams,” say Al Perkinson of Costa. “It’s an important and powerful gift.”
On another day in the Galapagos, again trolling for marlin on a shelf far offshore of Santa Cruz, the boat runs across a huge disturbance on the surface. It is a pod of dolphins—over a hundred in all, and they rush over to the boat in a leaping, boiling mass. The dolphins take position on the bow, rising and falling with the water being pushed aside by the boat’s sharp forefoot. The captain stops the boat to allow his passengers to absorb the moment, and the marlin spread lies limp behind the drifting boat, the fishing prospects gone bleak. As the dolphin leap and flip mirthfully around the boat, Garrison stands on the gunwale in the cockpit and does what you’d expect her to. She screams, and dives right in.
http://www.boatingmag.com/article.asp?section_id=20&article_id=792&page_number=3
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Jamaican Bobsleigh History
Fourteen years ago the first Jamaican Bobsleigh team made history in the Calgary Olympics Winter Games. They warmed the hearts of many worldwide in their first attempt at Olympic glory and was even immortalized in the popular Walt Disney movie "Cool Runnings". Since then the team has been a mainstay in the Winter Olympics and now have their eyes focused on bringing back a medal to Jamaica.
In the first games (1988) the team was seen as a novelty as they had many technically difficulties, injuries and crashes. In the second games (1992) the team had drastically improved. They had practiced hard for 4 years and were confident and focused. The 4-man team came in 14th ahead of the US, French, Russian and Italians teams. This was just the beginning. In the 2-man event the Jamaican team shocked the world by beating the Swedish national champions and coming in 10th place.
The team has continued to improve and took in 2000, and took gold at the World Push Championships in Monte Carlo in three events and posting the fasted start time at the World Cup.
The determination and hard work of the Jamaican team has paid off as they sent a teams to 2002 Winter Olympic games in Salt Lake City, Utah. Theteam placed 28th in the 2 man bobsled race.
The Jamaican team: Mark Hill, Winston Watt, Lascelles Brown, Garnett Jones, Stewart Maxwell, Clive McDonald and women, Porscha Morgan, Winsome Cole, Taniesha LcLean and Dukelyn Barrett,
The team coach: Trond Knaplund from Norway.
http://www.jamaicans.com/bobsled/index.htm
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