Christmas-season item by Mike Bell, the Echo's sports editor (undated on the clipping; the holiday theme and the Cougars' 8-7 record place it in December 1992). Killarney coach Ted Cusick had spent a month dealing with injuries to three of his most valuable players: forwards Brian Seebaran and Jason Zoney had each missed three games with ankle injuries, while Steve Wong had missed five games nursing a sore foot — and the Christmas break, Bell wrote, was coming just in time. The full article text appears in the photograph above.
Transcription (as printed):
Headline: “Sore paws — Killarney Cougars saddled with hoof problems” — By Mike Bell, Echo sports editor:
Santa should count his lucky stars that his reindeer don’t have the hoof problems Ted Cusick has been dealing with the past month.
Facing a holiday break in the (Saint?) Nick of time, the Killarney Cougars senior boys head coach has seen three of his most valuable basketball players miss games with injuries that would put the Jolly Old Elf out of business during his peak season.
But for Killarney, Christmas — and the accompanying break — is coming just in time.
Forwards Brian Seebaran and Jason Zoney have both managed to miss three games each with ankle injuries while Steve Wong has missed his regular spot on the perimeter for five games nursing a sore foot.
The result is an 8-7 overall record and although they are 3-1 against their weaker league opponents, Cusick expressed his disappointment with their sub-par performances in a few recent —
The clipping ends mid-sentence at that point; the rest of the article was not captured in the photograph available. Transcribed from the cleaned scan, 2026-10-20.
Source: The Vancouver Echo, December 1992.