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What, a tatoo wouldn’t be dramatic enough?

Jack Cameron, a lifelong Red Wings fan, had the Detriot Red Wings logo artfully painted onto a prosthetic eye.

The bright red wheel-wing logo stands in sharp contrast against a field of white. Higher up, as a subtle signature hidden by the eyelid, is a Stanley Cup with this year’s date.

“You can buy the hats. You can buy the jerseys. You can buy the flags,” said Cameron, a fire safety equipment supplier and Wings season-ticket holder for more than a decade.

Cameron, 50, said he has been considering the eye for several years.

“But it wasn’t until the Red Wings defeated the Avalanche that I was convinced that they’d win the Cup. I could feel it in my gut,” he said.

Cameron lost his eye in a BB-gun accident at age 10.

Decisions, decisions

Ken Griffey Jr., has been given the responsibility of choosing which uniform combination the Mariners wear during each game. He writes his decision in a small square on the clubhouse blackboard, and his teammates dress accordingly.

“We’ve got so many combinations I never know for sure if I’m right till I take the field, and sometimes I’m wearing the wrong cap,” manager Lou Piniella said. “I wish picking the uniform and winning games was that easy.”

Griffey apparently is so into the fashion thing that he is considering spending $5,000 out of his pocket for a set of new dark blue jerseys that are jersey-style instead of mesh.

This Bud’s not for vous

There was one major omission when organizers of the 1998 World Cup soccer finals shined the names of the 12 sponsors on a big screen at a news conference.

There were only 11 names. Anheuser-Busch, brewers of Budweiser, was deliberately missing.

That’s because French law forbids the promotion of alcohol on any kind of TV screen. The 1993 Evin law, ignoring strong objections from French wine growers and sports promoters, greatly restricts advertising for tobacco and alcohol.

“Legislation is legislation,” Jacques Lambert, director general of the organizing committee, said at a news conference a year before the World Cup starts.

” We cannot make an exception, not even for the World Cup.”

To commiserate, the committee cracked open a rack and fired up a box of Cuban contrabands.

Does this make Sprint sense?

Ryan Tolhurst, a senior at North Allegheny High School in Western Pennsylvania, had his priorities in order.

A prominent 400- and 200-meter sprinter, Tolhurst dropped out of the 200 in the state championship meet because the race would have made him late for the senior prom.

Marcelo Marceau

Every year at the French Open, the French media award the Lemon Prize to the most uncooperative player.

Said this year’s winner, Marcelo Rios of Chile, who was selected for the second straight year: “I have no comment.”

The last word …

“I rode my bike to a game. But it was a bicycle, not a motorcycle.”

- NBC’s Bill Walton on Karl Malone and his Harley

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