FIVE YEARS AGO: June 12, 1994

A sad story from Los Angeles -- Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are brutally murdered outside Simpson's home in Los Angeles. As Simpson is the ex-wife of former Hertz pitchman and Buffalo Bills star running back Orenthal James Simpson, much media attention is deflected away from the Stanley Cup Finals. Police, officially anyway, say they do not yet have suspects in the slayings; O.J. Simpson is rumored to have the alibi of having been on the way to Chicago at the time of the murders.

Meanwhile north in Vancouver, pugilistic Rangers winger-filmmaker Nick Kypreos home-videos roommate Esa Tikkanen as they pack for the trip home to New York. In a profanity-laced tirade (we think) later shown on MSG, Tikkanen says (we think) that the Rangers would beat the Canucks in Game 7 (we think) in "Niw Yaorck, Niw Yaorck" (we think). It's not quite a Messier guarantee, but since we love Esa, we'll happily accept it. We think.

Mike (And the only Kato I'm concerned with is Kevin McCarthy) Fornabaio -- mef17@oocities.com

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