Going Out: Vegas Vibe I sat in the front row for the long-awaited heavyweight championship bout between world champion Larry Holmes and Gerry Cooney. Dunst was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and studied theater at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He worked as a waiter before turning to poker and spent time living in Australia, China, and Malaysia before settling in Las Vegas, Nevada. He began playing online poker in 2003 after watching the 2002 WSOP on television. Tony Cooney poker results, stats, photos, videos, news, magazine columns, blogs, Twitter, and more.
May 26, 1957 ~ April 9, 2020 (age 62)
Obituary
Early on April 9th 2020, the very best Sister and friend left us in her own way in her own time. She was at home until the end, with her boy cats Max and Scruff, just the way she wanted it.
She was predeceased by Mom, Elizabeth Cooney, Dad, Melvin Cooney, infant brother Tommy and survived by the rest of the siblings, Mary Ellen Berry, Gayle Flett, Tim Cooney, Ann McManus (Mike), Sean (Mylene) and Dean and all of the nieces and nephews who have been posting purple hearts all over Messenger the past few days. They loved their Auntie Shera.
And that's not all. There are so many people who will be missing her. Sheila loved so many people and they loved her back. You know who you are. Her second Mom, Val. Her work buddies at Albertsons for the past sixteen years and all of her customers (and their dogs).
The Sparkies and the rest of the poker girls (and their dogs). Sue and the Branch 49 Legion ladies. Her pub lunch crew. The 'Crazy Ladies' football party girls, in particular the Saskatchewan or Winnipeg fans (and sometimes Hamilton).
Sheila has always been her authentic self. Everything she did was to the best of her ability and she inspired everyone around her to have the same integrity as she did. She worked hard, could have way too much fun, had a wicked sense of humour and enough ideas to keep everyone busy on projects.
Sheila helped so many of her friends, family and a few strangers using whatever skills and knowledge she had and did it without expectation of return, just did it because she could. About all you could do for her at these times was to bring her a Canadian…in a bottle. In the future, if your drink tips over, it's not you, it's Sheila.
Our new mantra: WWSD – What Would Sheila Do
The family would like to thank our amazing health care system. We feel so very lucky to live here. Thank you to her Nurses, her Doctor, the Home Support workers, her OT, and Oceanside Hospice.
Thank you as well to Yates Memorial Services and Barry Tuck for once again gently and respectfully guiding us through this difficult time.
We will be getting together for a proper celebration of everything Sheila as soon as we can. So, please everyone stay safe at home so that we can put this virus behind us without having anyone's loved ones affected. It's a small price to pay.
If you wish, you could make a contribution to Cops for Cancer, Oceanside Hospice or Branch 49 Ladies Auxiliary.
Condolences through https://www.yatesmemorial.ca/
- Date : 2020-04-09
Controversial calls against Oconomowoc help turn tide in Watertown's favor
Friday night Watertown was outplayed for most of its Wisconsin Little Ten conference clash with the Raccoons, but as good teams do, it found a way to win, 19-16. With the win, the Goslings secured second place in the final conference standings with a 6-1 mark while OHS fell to third place at 5-2.
It was a heart-breaker for Oconomowoc as with 1:01 left on scoreboard, Watertown earned its first lead since early in the game as senior quarterback Tarek Yaeggi, the conference's leading passer, hit senior Aaron Kumbier with a perfectly thrown 31-yard touchdown pass.
Until that play, Cooney coaches, players, and fans all harbored visions of an upset over the favored visitors as the home team's defense throttled and stymied the normally high-flying Watertown attack.
Watertown came to Oconomowoc averaging 40 points a game led by a defense-destroying offense that averaged over 400 yards a game and  a passing attack averaging 285 yards a game.
In games earlier this year Watertown racked up 49 points against West Bend West, 44 against Beaver Dam, 59 points against West Bend East, 42 against Hartford and 59 points against West Allis Central in its season opener.
It also featured the conference's top passer statistically, Tarek Yaeggi, a 2011 first-team all-conference pick. Operating out of a no-huddle, hurry-up, spread offensive scheme that had Yaeggi throwing from a gun formation, Watertown confused and spread opposing defenses on its win to a 6-1 record going into the game Friday night. Only conference leader Wisconsin Lutheran stopped this attack during the year.
Cooney defense throttles Watertown offense
Despite facing an offense scheme it had not faced all year, Cooney defensive coordinator Tom Roman and his staff did a masterful job shutting down Watertown for almost 4o minutes. And while Yaeggi got his 286 yards–he threw the ball 39 times to get them–Watertown's rushing game was completed swallowed up by the Cooney D.
Coming into the game, the Goslings averaged 128 yards per game in a pass-first, run-second offense. Friday night a Cooney defense that has held several of the conference's top runners in check, yielded only 23 rushing yards.
Indian casino near me. Roman's crew limited Jacob Laudersdorf, who has several 100-yards plus games on his resume, to only two carries for a yard. That's a far cry from the 211 yards he gained against West Allis Central in his team's 2012 opening. And it's not close to the 108 yards he gained against Beaver Dam. Laudersdorf came into the game averaging more than 12- yards a carry.
At the same time, the Cooney offense aided the defensive effort by maintaining a sizable edge in time of possession, 29 minutes to 17, an edge of more than 12 minutes. In fact Cooney ran off more plays than the visitors, 59-50, as the Cooney coaches knew that keeping the ball from Yaeggi and friends, thus limiting their scoring opportunities, was required if OHS was to win.
By doing this, Oconomwoc also ended up with more total yards, 322 to 309, than Watertown.
Once again penalties hurt the Raccoons
What negated this superiority was a combination of factors. First, as they have throughout the year, penalties hurt Oconomowoc. One penalty appeared to be a phantom call on Cooney's Tyler Fogarty for a horse-collar tackle that the Conney bench screamed was a clean grab of Yaeggi's jersey. Photographic evidence appears to support the Cooney claim but with no access to video replays, the call stood and instead of Oconomowoc forcing a fourth-down punt deep in Watertown territory, which would have given OHS excellent field position, Watertown had a first down and new life.
Another penalty came during a late fourth-quarter Watertown drive when the Cooney defense appeared to have stopped the visitors on a fourth-down play that would have turned the ball over to the home team and stopped what became the deciding scoring drive for the Goslings.
There was helmet-to-helmet contact between players at the end of the play, but the officials called a personal foul against OHS, which allowed Watertown to retain possession and advance the ball 15 yards into Oconomowoc territory. Cooney coaches argued that the contact was initiated by the sliding Watertown player but to no avail. Watertown used the momentum on the call to score the game winner three plays later.
Two more penalty calls against the home team answered the question of what happened to the officials who worked the controversial Green Bay Packer-Seattle Seahawks NFL game a couple of weeks ago: they surfaced in Oconomowoc. Twice Cooney pass completions were negated by offensive pass interference calls that infuriated the OHS bench.
On the night, OHS racked up 10 penalties for 108 yards. Those penalties pushed the season total to 73 for a significant 666 yards.
OHS counters the first Watertown score
Coach Ryan McMillen's team, after Watertown drove 83 yards for a score on its first possession (Yaeggi was seven for eight on the drive), showed it wasn't in awe of the visitors as it countered with a 14-yard Canton Larson to Tyler Enright touchdown pass with 4:21 showing on the scoreboard. That score culminated an 11-play 60-yard Cooney drive.
Casey Bednarski's PAT kick, however, was blocked, which left Watertown up by one until the very last play of the second quarter when Bednarski, kicking into a strong southeasterly cross wind kicked a 28-yard field to give the home time at 9-7 lead going into the half. A key play in the drive was a 33-yard Larson to senior tight end Zach Poker pass completion. Poker was also a 2011 all-conference pick.
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For Watertown, it was only the second time this year it trailed at the half. In its loss to Wisco on Sept. 7, Watertown trailed, 28-21,before eventually losing, 35-28.
Neither team Friday night was able to mount much of a threat in the third quarter, and in the fourth quarter Oconomowoc added to its lead as Larson hit Poker with a 21-yard strike the back of the north zone corner. On the play Larson was momentarily flushed before stepping up to find Poker for the score. That play capped an eight-play 85-yard scoring drive.
Poker's TD catch was his eighth of the year, the highest total this year in the WLT by a pass receiver. Despite being at less than 100% as a result of an injury he suffered in the Hartford game two weeks ago, Poker hauled in seven passes for 139 yards.
Poker finishes as conference's top receiver
Those yards also earned the senior the WLT 2012 pass receiving title with 38 catches for 629 yards, despite missing one game and playing in an offense that doesn't emphasize the pass.
Poker's score pushed the OHS lead to 16-7, meaning Watertown had to have two scores to win the game with just over 10 minutes left on the clock.
Unfortunately for OHS, Watertown did just that, scoring first on a 16-yard Yaeggi to Jerry Williams connection at the 7:54 mark, and then the clincher, with a 1:01 on the scoreboard, a 33-yard bomb to Aaron Kumbier. The PAT attempt was blocked, but it did not matter; Watertown had the lead and the come-from-behind win.
OHS tried to come back but with Goslings knowing what was coming, a series of Larson pass attempts failed as Watertown double- and tripled-teamed Enright and Poker. One of the plays was a long Cooney completion down to the Watertown 25-yard line that was wiped out by one of the two offensive pass interference calls referenced earlier.
The loss was tough to take for Oconomwoc in a number of ways. First, it denied the team a shot at finishing in second-place in the WLT, which with the win Watertown claimed. A Cooney win would have been the team's highest finish since 2003 when he shared first place in the conference with Hartford.
Last year coach Ryan McMillen's team finished fifth in the conference with a 3-4 record. Last year it also failed to qualify for the WIAA D1 playoffs. So this year's 5-2 (6-2 overall) record and third place, plus its presence in the playoffs, is a significant improvement.
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Second, the loss cost the team a higher seed in the playoffs starting Friday night at Verona (see separate article) and a chance to host a home playoff game.
Third, the bitter defeat left the team with two straight losses to its  arch-rival from down the road. Last year Cooney lost, 20-17, again by just three points, when Watertown rallied in the final quarter for the win at Watertown.
Controversial calls against Oconomowoc were a factor
Finally, it was tough to take because the Cooney coaching staff and players felt they had done enough for the win and they did, at least statistically, only to have it taken away from them by a series of controversial calls by the officiating crew.
When you have a program that is rebuilding, and Oconomowoc is, a loss like this–even if it was only the team's second of the year–is difficult to swallow.
After the game a visually angered McMillen had a hard time putting his feelings about the loss into words.
'Ah, shoot man,' he told reporters.'We completely out-played them, and I don't know what else we could have done because the stripes killed us. They ended drives, not us.'
McMillen, Cooney's fourth-year head coach, was quick to give credit to the Watertown defense–'they played hard'–but it was clear he felt his team desired a win and that it was taken from the team by a series of calls that were one-sided against his team.
But McMillen is also not one to dwell on the past and after telling his players after the game that they proved they can play with anyone.'We believe it and the kids believe it.'
McMillen was referring a local newspaper that predicting a Watertown win, which did not sit well with the Cooney head man. He clearly feels his program has not gotten the respect it deserves, but he also acknowledges that to gain that respect it needs to win more games, which is another reason why the loss to Watertown hurt. It would have done a lot to address the naysayers.
McMillen told his players they had been dealt 'a wicked hand tonight' but he tried to put things into perspective by telling them that in 'the game of life' they will face adversity a lot more serious than what they faced on the football field and that the key then and now was to stick together as family. He said the team's focus going forward had to be on the playoffs and they could not and should not dwell on the loss.
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'I have a lot of confidence in these kids, a lot of love for them,' said McMiillen. 'We'll go back to work, hold our heads up high, and be ready for the playoffs.'
Photos of Zach Poker (#7), top and bottom, and of Tyler Fogarty's tackle of Tarek Yaeggi was that ruled a horse-collar tackle by the officials, by Malcolm McIntyre
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