Thanks For Nothing
Pavel Bure’s father says he’s rooting against his son and the Florida Panthers in their NHL playoff series with the New Jersey Devils.
“I have to be going for New Jersey,” Vladimir Bure said.
“My heart is with the Devils.”
The elder Bure made his comments to the Sun-Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale on the eve of Thursday night’s first game of the series.
Father and son haven’t spoken in nearly three years. Neither will say why.
Maybe Pop doesn’t like losers: the Devils won the opener.
Don’t we all?
“The best story to come out of a pre-draft examination,” says Tim Keown of ESPN The Magazine, “came a few years ago when a prospect taking an intelligence/psychology test from the New York Giants was asked to respond to a true/ false question that read: `I like tall women.’
“The prospect, perhaps not realizing how many stern-faced professors of football would be examining his head as well as his body, responded by crossing out the `t’ in tall.”
Not an easy choice in these parts
Bill Lyon in the Philadelphia Inquirer: “Given the choice, which would you rather be - a dog or a cat? This is an actual question asked of potential draft picks by a psychologist employed by 10 NFL teams.”
A Husky, of course. Er, a Cougar? A Bulldog? Help!!!
I didn’t, I didn’t
In noting Pete Rose’s 59th birthday Friday, Steve Davis of the Dallas Morning News suggested that it should be celebrated “by giving yourself a ridiculous haircut.
“Then despite overwhelming evidence, try to convince everyone that it never happened.”
Signing frenzy
Headline in the New York Daily News announcing the Keyshawn Johnson trade to Tampa Bay: “Just Give Me the Damn Pen.”
The last word …
“All that money the Dodgers have, and the best they can come up with at shortstop is a statue of Kevin Elster?”
- Steve Simmons in the Toronto Sun