No Mercy In The Post

After New York Yankees second baseman Chuck Knoblauch had committed three errors in a game, the banner headline in the New York Post the next day read: “CHUCK-E-E-E.”

Now he knows

When Tiger Woods played in the Los Angeles Open as a 16-year-old amateur in 1992, former Masters champion Sandy Lyle was asked what he thought of Tiger Woods.

“I don’t know, I’ve never played there,” he said.

You do the math

Did anyone ever think the day would come when one Los Angeles Dodgers ballplayer would be worth more than Dodger Stadium?

Kevin Brown has a five-year, $105 million contract to pitch for the Dodgers. Tracy Ringolsby of Fox Sports notes that that makes Brown more valuable than Dodger Stadium and its surrounding 273 acres, which was valued at $99.921 million by the Los Angeles County tax assessor.

Women butting heads

Another sign that women are slowly taking over the sports world:

Women’s professional football.

That’s right. The Women’s Professional Football League has 15 teams and is scheduled to open its season Oct. 14. A 10-week schedule is to be followed by playoffs and a championship game Feb. 3, 2001.

One of the teams is the Colorado Valkyries. What’s a Valkyrie? According to Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, it’s from Old Norse, and means chooser of the slain; any of the maidens of Odin who choose the heroes to be slain in battle …

Valkyries’ acting general manager Mike Monetti plans to have a coaching staff on board in two weeks. If your name is Odin you probably have a pretty good shot at being named the head coach.

The WPFL is marketing its game as “full-contact, knock-down, drag-out, bleeding football,” says Monetti. “Our league is exactly the same as the NFL, the same rules. The only difference is the ball is a little smaller.”

Anyone else see a perfect marriage with the XFL in the future?

Get your story straight

Steve Rosenbloom in the Chicago Tribune:

“Sammy Sosa says his relationship with Don Baylor is beyond hope. Sosa’s agent says Sosa’s relationship with Baylor has nothing to do with this. Must be hard to keep your self-martyring stories straight when you’re snaking your way to the front of the money store.”

The last word …

“Mike Tyson is a pariah, a cancer, a threat to society and an insult to our intelligence. Other than that, I can’t give you one reason why people like to watch him fight. It’s Jerry Springer’s world, folks. We just live in it.”

- Jim Armstrong of the Denver Post.