Perhaps the explanation came while I was re-reading 'The LuClinton Story,' but it has dawned on me that I have no remote ideawhat Plan A is.
And I'd be afraid to inquire about Plan C.
Two timeouts a half, maximum, is what I'd give basketballteams.
If Dave Cowens lives to be 100, not only will he be saluted byWillard Scott 3d, but he'll also be in the news at least once everyyear.
Told Ya So Dept.: Like to have a buck for every person I toldduring the last three years that Doug Brown was the best-keptbroadcast secret in Boston.
The baseball players ask for it, because it's there, andeverybody knows it. And they are the game.
Unless you're trying to escape a life in a coal mine, there isno rational reason for any late 20th century American boy to playfootball.
This has gone far enough. I want to meet those 10 people whohave tuned in faithfully to every candlepin bowling telecast eachweek for the past 20 years, and who are responsible for its TVratings.
Somebody had better get up during the Baseball Hall of Fameinductions next August and say that they're embarrassed to be herewhen Ferguson Jenkins isn't.
Ever notice how basketball color men old enough to rememberIke as president refer to the orange ring as 'the goal'? I likethat.
Well, they rigged the election to get the US soccer team inthe World Cup, and now it looks as if it's gonna be humiliated oncethe shooting starts.
I'm sure Wes Walz was real happy about going back to juniorhockey. The rules in that sport must have been drawn up byProfessor Irwin Corey during a lunch break.
People who think Jerry Tarkanian is the bad guy probably thinkthere's something intrinsically pure about the business of collegebasketball.
I've spent a lot of days and nights inside gyms watchingbasketball games, and the three opposing guards who struck the mostfear in the heart of me, The Fan, have been Jimmy Walker, MichaelJordan and Andrew Toney.
Losing last Sunday to the Lakers told this Celtics team thattheir absolute best just wasn't good enough. What a terrifyingthought for a bunch of proud veterans.
If Bill Curley pans out, I'll be shocked if Boston Collegedoesn't throw together a nice intersectional holiday basketballtournament by the time the kid is a junior.
When You're Wrong, You're Wrong Dept.: I thought Tim Hardawaywas a fraud.
When You're Wrong, You're Wrong Dept., Part II: I thoughttaking Dana Barros would have been a reach for the Celtics. (By theway, Jackie MacMullan stumped noisily for Dana.)
If I were the Hendricks Brothers, the only way I'd let RogerClemens speak to the press is through a decoder.
Somebody's got to say it: If CBS had allowed Tom Heinsohn totransport his SportsChannel self to its mike without diluting theproduct for a generic audience, he'd have been a smash.
There should be an FCC ban on the reading of basketball statsprior to the halftime of any broadcast. 'Tech's gettingoutrebounded, Joe, 5-3.'
Regular-season high school football and basketball gamesshould not be on national television. Anyone with any values knowsthat.
Uwe Blab for Christian Welp was an NBA first: a trade of BTSes(Big Teutonic Stiffs).
There isn't one Division 1 basketball school whose fans have aright to say, 'We should win it. But there are 30 or 40 whose fansshould be thinking, 'You know, we could win it.'
Buster Douglas over Mike Tyson is the biggest sporting upsetof my lifetime. If Princeton had beaten Georgetown, that would havebeen No. 1, easy. Chaminade beating Virginia at the time is rightup there.
Any time I read a quote from Mel Kiper on the subject of theNFL draft, all I can think of is that a mind is indeed a terriblething to waste.
I mean, geez, Mel, have you ever thought of doing somevolunteer work?
The most unappreciated awesome force in the NBA today is TomChambers. Forget his history. Right now, the guy is unstoppable.
There isn't an NHL rookie having a better year than MikeMilbury.
Tell me a possible reason John Stephens had such adisappointing season is domestic travail, and that's as much as Ineed to know. Anything else I learn comes under the heading ofvoyeurism. The Stephenses aren't the Trumps, who have alwaysreveled in public scrutiny.
Bet you didn't know the government has a quota on the numberof Latins who are allowed to play baseball in the States.
GQ magazine lists going to Fenway as one of the 99 bestreasons in the world to leave home. Not if you're sitting inSection 6, it isn't. Fenway's good, but it's neither a TigerStadium nor a Wrigley Field, nor even a Comiskey Park, for thatmatter.
I will never understand how hockey announcers memorize allthose names. roryan;02/24 NIGRO ;02/26,12:46 RYAN25
