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Some old things should just go away
Nick Canepa of the San Diego Union-Tribune, writing on people or things he wouldn’t mind seeing joining Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky and John Elway in the “retirement bin:”
“Juan Antonio Samaranch: Today would be good. Yesterday would have been better.
“John Stockton and Karl Malone. They’re confusing younger NBA players by actually running plays.
“40-yard dash times. They should never be printed or talked about … because they are lies.”
What, he doesn’t believe that every member of our sports staff runs a 5.8?
Exactly
San Antonio Spurs guard Mario Elie says Houston will have the edge on the Lakers in their first-round NBA playoff series.
“They (Lakers) don’t have any guys who will do the little things for them,” he said.
“Eddie Jones would do the little things. He would play defense, make a big steal. I know Glen Rice is a great player, but I think Jones does more. I don’t remember Rice being all-defense.”
Ming dynasty coming to NBA?
Yao Ming, a 7-foot-6, 270-pound player for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association, has signed Evergreen Sports of Cleveland to represent him.
The 18-year-old player with the Chinese national team apparently is considering the NBA draft next month.
Are we the first to call him `The Great Wall?’
That’s 865 in case you were wondering
The new area code for Knox and eight surrounding counties in Tennessee should be easy to remember. Just dial V-O-L.
That’s short for Volunteers, as in University of Tennessee Volunteers.
Well, he wore number cinco
Los Angeles Times staff writer Thomas Bonk reports that his daughter, Jordan, 8, said she was busy at school learning about the holiday, “Cinco DiMaggio.”
Some things are better left unattempted
A sampling of David Letterman’s “Top 10 Other Death-Defying Stunts Robbie Knievel Won’t Perform:” “Trying to cut in line for `Star Wars’ tickets.
“Going swimming less than an hour after eating.”
At least he doesn’t have to watch
Tony Kornheiser in the Washington Post: “A few days ago, Rod Strickland called the current edition of the Washington Wizards `torture.’ “Hey, Rod, you signed a $40-million contract. If this is torture for you, whaddya think it is for us?”
The last word …
“It replaced the Kentucky Derby as the most exciting 2 minutes in sports.”
- Dave Baker of Atlanta’s WSB-AM, on the first triple of Greg Maddux’s career