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The prospect of Kansas City switching from the American League to the National League isn’t appealing to some Royals fans.
“I hate the idea of going to the National League,” said Linda Hokenson, a season ticket holder from Raytown, Mo. “Our pitchers are already bad. Now we’re going to ask them to bat, too?”
Tonya, is there a story you haven’t told?
Some tough luck for Tonya Harding - her $28,000 pickup truck with “BLTTUF” license plates was stolen from a mall parking lot.
The former U.S. skating champion now banned from amateur competition lost her 1996 Ford F-250 truck last week. She told police she had locked it and set the alarm at the Vancouver (Wash.) Mall. She reported it stolen 90 minutes later.
The truck has not been found.
Harding was sentenced to probation for participating in the cover-up of her ex-husband’s role in the January 1994 attack on rival skater Nancy Kerrigan at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit.
Last October, Harding said God directed her to stop at a tavern in Oregon to play video poker. At the tavern, she performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to revive an elderly woman who had collapsed.
In February, Harding claimed she was kidnapped in Oregon by a “bushy-haired” man who held her at knife point. There were no arrests.
Maybe the “bushy-haired man returned, deciding he liked the truck better than Tonya.
Send those letters in care of Seattle Seahawks
Chicago Bears middle linebacker Bryan Cox has figured out why his team has an 0-7 record:
“I really think we have a hex on us. We’re jinxed. We need to write some letters of apology to people. We need to say: ‘Hey, we’re sorry we treated you wrong.’ We have to get the hex off us.”
Since when did they give Rick Mirer the nickname “Hex”?
Bernie gives Mirer a compliment
Bernie Lincicome of the Chicago Tribune, invoking the name of an obscure Chicago Bear of the mid-1960s:
“Larry Rakestraw. That’s the name. Worse quarterback than (Rick) Mirer. I knew I could think of one.”
Not the run and shoot?
From The Good Doctor in Inside Sports:
Q: What kind of offensive formation did Dallas Cowboys coach Barry Switzer have his team work on during training camp? The shotgun?
A: No, the handgun.
The last word …
“That’s why I got out of the game. I started liking that.”
- NBC’s Bob Uecker, a former major league catcher, after umpire Eric Gregg was stunned momentarily by a foul tip off his mask
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