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Before the PGA Tour launched its website on the Internet, it decided it had better acquire the rights to PGA as the address.
But PGA already was taken by the Potato Growers of Alberta. The tour forked over $35,000 for the rights.
Straight to the bulletin board
USC and UCLA square off tonight with first place in the Pacific-10 men’s basketball race at stake. Thanks to some choice words from Bruins forward J.R. Henderson, that’s only part of the story.
Following UCLA’s 92-81 victory at Arizona State on Saturday Henderson fired a few verbal bombs at the Trojans.
“I just can’t see SC as this top-notch team,” he said. “When I think about SC, it’s just SC, we’re going to beat them like we should. That’s the way we’re approaching it, it’s just SC.”
When asked how he would feel if the Trojans got upset about his remarks, Henderson replied, “They can read this, I don’t care. Let them read whatever they want to.”
USC coach Henry Bibby posted Henderson’s remarks on the locker room bulletin board.
With sarcasm in his voice, Bibby said, “UCLA has five NBA players in their lineup. Maybe we shouldn’t even be on the floor with them. Maybe they can say what they want to say.”
If you love it, set it free
A bald eagle that has served as athletic mascot for the University of North Texas has graduated.
The school recently released the eagle back into the wild near Lake Buchanan, about 50 miles northwest of Austin. It had been found bruised and swollen in a creek a year ago.
“This gives the whole university a sense of being involved,” UNT alum Lindsay Keffer said. “If we had a live mascot, only the students who are in charge of the mascot would be involved. But everyone on campus can rejoice about a successful release of an eagle into the wild.”
Wait, this isn’t about John Johnson taking that job at Weber State, is it?
Next time, send him this way
After Montana and Florida State lost their respective national championship games this past football season, UM athletic director Wayne Hogan the former interim AD at Florida State wrote Seminoles coach Bobby Bowden a letter.
“If you hadn’t kicked Randy Moss off your roster, we’d both be national champions,” Hogan wrote.
Following off-field transgressions, Moss left FSU for Marshall - and caught nine passes for 220 yards and four TDs in a title-game victory over Montana.
The next Popeye Jones
As part of a personality profile for the University of Louisville, basketball players were asked to name their favorite midnight snack. Said Alvin Sims: “Spinach.”
Dumb questions of our time
Duffy Daugherty, former Michigan State football coach, once was asked by a reporter: “Whom are you happiest to see returning next year?”
Replied Daugherty, “Me.”
The last word …
“Albert Belle is just as warm and fuzzy as a used sucker.”
- Bernie Lincicome, Chicago Tribune
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