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Coming soon … or maybe not
The word out of San Francisco is that 49ers quarterback Steve Young will film an episode of “Beverly Hills 90210” this week. Young will play himself in an episode that has one of the students giving Young to another student as a birthday present.
Young’s acting debut comes on the anniversary of Troy Aikman’s memorable screen debut in an episode of “Coach,” in which Hayden Fox wanted Aikman to impregnate his wife.
Three TV debuts you WON’T see anytime soon: Peter McNeeley on “60 minutes” (89 seconds?); Eastern Washington curfew-breakers Brian Sherick and Scott Bond on “USA’s Up All Night;” and Montana basketball coach Blaine Taylor, of recent DWI infamy, guest-hosting “Real Stories of the Highway Patrol.”
Deion’s suite deal
While playing for the San Francisco Giants, Deion Sanders lived in a hotel, where he made a deal to get a suite, plus an adjoining room for his considerable wardrobe.
He also got the rent reduced and, according to Ira Miller of the San Francisco Chronicle, part of the deal was that Sanders would do at least two commercials for the hotel.
“He did one, but refused to do the second,” Miller wrote. “Then, when the Giants were eliminated from playoff contention and Sanders left the hotel a few days before the season ended, he demanded about a $400 reduction in his bill, saying it should be pro-rated.”
Guess that multimillion-dollar contract with the Cowboys - complete with $13 million signing bonus - just wasn’t enough.
More noise for Holtz to deal with
Chicago Tribune columnist Bernie Lincicome summed up last weekend’s Ohio State-Notre Dame football game, as well as his opinion of Buckeyes coach John Cooper and Irish coach Lou Holtz.
“Expectations exceeded reward,” Lincicome began. “Ohio State was what it was supposed to be. Notre Dame was not. What was not expected was for Notre Dame, leading deep into the third quarter, to muff a punt, throw an interception, fumble a center snap and fail to gain a first down on a fake punt.
“Not even the indecisive Cooper - to whom a third down is as mysterious a challenge as a ski boot is to a walrus - could botch such generosity.”
And when Holtz had the audacity to blame some of his team’s troubles on crowd noise, Lincicome was ready: “Even in a neck brace, Holtz is not likely to get any sympathy. Hearing Notre Dame complain is like listening to someone whine that the air conditioning in the stretch limo is too cool.”
Lines like those are colder than any stretch limo.
The last word …
“He swings. And he is hit by a pitch. And it is hit over the wall and out of here for a home run.”
- Mets announcer Ralph Kiner, calling June 11 home run by Andujar Cedeno
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