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Defensive line on-line
Boston College coach Dan Henning was at the center of a high-tech controversy, claiming to be horrified a BC fan magazine had posted on the Internet explicit details of the Eagles’ practices while preparing for Virginia Tech.
The Hokies went on to rip BC 45-7 on national television, prompting some of Henning’s players to wonder if Tech was were working with inside information.
“I expected Tech’s defense to check out of something, but they didn’t,” Eagles quarterback Matt Hasselbeck said of a failed BC fourth-down attempt in the third quarter.
Henning refused to take the cyberspace argument any further.
“They might have had something else going besides the ‘Net,” said Henning, who is under fire as his team is off to a 1-2 start. “We were shoveling (expletive) against the tide. It was tough.”
Calling all chiropractors
Now that the New England Patriots have won two games in a row, maybe the football mavens will lay off much-beleaguered quarterback Drew Bledsoe.
“I’m in Miami,” says the Patriots quarterback, “and this guy says to me, ‘I know what’s wrong with your passing. I can tell by looking at you something is wrong with your back. Your spine is out of alignment, and this impacts your ability to throw the ball with a proper motion.’ He went through the whole thing and says, ‘See a chiropractor. He can straighten you out.’
That, or a good, physical lashing from Bill Parcells.
Winning is an attitude
What’s this? After 41 years of lousy baseball, Cleveland Indians fans have become particular about where their team wins. After clinching the A.L. Central Division last week in Chicago, 26-year-old-fan Scott Welsh remarked, “I thought last night’s game was great, but I wish they had done it at home.”
Particular, along with cocky.
Said former Cleveland mayor Gov. George Voinovich: “I have every reason to believe we’ll have another Ohio team in the World Series.”
One word for overconfident Clevelanders: SiperBowl.
No touching the zebras
Chicago Bears Bryan Cox might have competition in the cantankerous department from a 14-year-old girl from Edmonton, Alberta.
The girl, an unidentified lineman with the Edmonton Seahawks, shoved her helmet into the chest of a male referee, and now the youth league may have a boycott on its hands.
Game officials are refusing to work because the girl is being allowed to play. She was suspended for the season by the league, but the penalty was overturned by a three-member appeal board that included her coach.
The girl was suspended after she struck the official in a game her team lost 22-0.
She and an opponent were ejected for fighting. When the referee went to the Seahawks’ bench to explain the call, the girl struck him. The official was not injured.
The last word …
“I don’t care if it’s Coke or Pepsi. For what they charge for a soda at the Forum, Shaquille O’Neal should pour it himself.”
- Michael Ventre, Los Angeles Daily News
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