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WORLD CUP USA ’94 / THE FIRST ROUND : Spotlight : BEAM THEM UP TO DUBLIN

By HELENE ELLIOTT
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The Irish players were astonished to find their Orlando, Fla., hotel overrun by “Star Trek” fans attending a convention--many in costume. As one Irish journalist described it, “The weirdness was put at Warp Factor 10 for a couple of hours as the Trekkies continued to crawl all over the Irish team hotel, in a scene that could have been compared to aliens taking over the ship.”

The Trekkers--that’s the preferred term--left Sunday night. The Irish players stayed on for their game against Mexico on Friday.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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