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Condom Nation

You might say it’s becoming tres Sheik to advertise condoms at football games. Just such an ad, towed by a plane, was flown over four college games this weekend - including Washington’s date with UCLA in the Rose Bowl.

The banners, 60 feet long and 20 feet high, show the outline of an unrolled condom with the Sheik brand name. The slogan underneath reads, “Get some.”

The same banner was turned away from Giants Stadium on Oct. 15 after the pilot told the FAA controller at Teterboro Airport what he was towing.

Later, the FAA apologized: “We are not in the business of screening the appropriateness of advertising, airborne or otherwise.”

The New York Giants said they received “a large number” of complaints about the condom banner.

Large? We thought they only came in one size.

Clothesing the deal

Gonzaga University president Bernard Coughlin and associate basketball coach Dan Monson both have new jobs lined up. Coughlin will become the school’s first chancellor once a replacement president is found, and Monson will succeed Dan Fitzgerald as head basketball coach in 1997 - an announcement Coughlin made last week. Monson betrayed some nervousness at his first press conference, but not so much that he couldn’t tease the guy wearing the collar.

“When I wake up before the alarm goes off, I know it’s a big day,” Monson said. “Then it seemed like it took me forever to decide what to wear. For a second, I wished I was Fr. Coughlin because I didn’t think he was going through his closet trying to figure out what to wear.

“He’s laughing - that’s good. I don’t know what chancellor means, but I know it’s got enough pop to get rid of me.”

Uh, Juice, that golf glove doesn’t fit

In a survey of 367 Golf Digest readers, 60 percent said the person they most wanted to play a round of golf with was Greg Norman. Three percent preferred O.J. Simpson.

To watch him cut the dogleg?

L.A. Story

The Los Angeles Sports Council released its “100 greatest moments in Los Angeles sports history” this weekend. So columnist Michael Ventre of the Daily News released some moments that didn’t make the list: Carroll Rosenbloom falls for a woman named Georgia.

USC loses to Notre Dame. Pick a year.

Gene Autry falls for a woman named Jackie.

Tom Niedenfuer is allowed to pitch to Jack Clark.

The Angels decide that Nolan Ryan is not worth keeping anymore.

Tom Lasorda offers his opinion of Dave Kingman’s performance.

Mark Landsberger autographs a basketball for a kid. The kid asks him to put his number on it, too. Landsberger does. He puts his phone number on it.

The last word …

“The result of the Rolling Stones tour bus crashing into a Dairy Queen.”

- Ottawa Sun writer Chris Stevenson, on the logo of the NHL’s Colorado Avalanche

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