Like Father, Like Daughter

First there was Laila Ali. Then Jacqui Frazier-Lyde made her debut. Now Freeda Foreman wants a piece of the action.

What’s next, a female Rumble in the Jungle?

“Oh yeah, that was the fight with Ali and Frazier, wasn’t it?” Freeda Foreman said Thursday.

Actually, it was Ali and George Foreman, Freeda’s father, in the 1974 fight in Zaire that became one of the most famous heavyweight fights of the era.

But you might forgive Freeda Foreman she didn’t know the nickname of her father’s most devastating loss. She wasn’t born until three years later, when Big George was doing more preaching than fighting.

Freeda does know what sells, though, and that’s why the 23-year-old is following in the footsteps of her father and the daughters of Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali.

“My goal is to change history and knock Laila out,” she said. “It’s not revenge, but the opportunity is there for me.”

Word from the wise

Talking about the Rams winning the Super Bowl, Bill Parcells said:

“Once you win, it creates a whole new set of problems for you.

“There’s a lot of byproducts to this thing that are positive, but there are a lot of negatives too, like every player’s agent thinks his player is the reason the team won.”

And only linebacker Mike Jones’ agent is correct.

Devout Worm

Tim Cowlishaw of the Dallas Morning News had a conversation with Jenny J., reportedly a Los Angeles model/recording artist who once dated Dennis Rodman.

“He’s a totally different person from what people think,” she said. “He’s not that wild and crazy. But he does say the strangest things.

“On our first date, he wanted to go to one of those religious shows and get healed.”

Apparently those aren’t tattoos, they’re skin rashes.

It might work

John McGrath of the Tacoma News-Tribune on how to inject some intensity into the Pro Bowl in Honolulu:

“Losers swim home.”

The last word …

“Tiger Woods has become the instant oatmeal of sports. Heat. Pour. Serve. You’re out the door. The most-feared athlete in all of sports isn’t some slobbering middle linebacker or brutalizing heavyweight, or a power forward with jackhammer elbows and no compassion. It’s Tiger Woods, pitching wedge in hand, stalking the lead.”

- Bill Lyon in the Philadelphia Inquirer