He’s stuck in a midlife cycle
Charlie Hamilton, 40, a software engineer from Provincetown, Mass., arrived last Sunday at Boston’s Fenway Park on his bicycle, completing an 11,741-mile journey. Hamilton, beginning April 2, biked to all 30 major league ballparks, and raised $13,000 for cancer research and treatment.
“It’s totally out of character,” Hamilton said of his adventure. “I have always gone to work every day and all that kind of stuff. This is my midlife crisis.”
So why did he do it?
“It was a cockamamie scheme,” Hamilton said.
Oh, those clever TV quippers
When “Fox NFL Sunday” host James Brown asked Terry Bradshaw whether he wished he had Howie Long’s good looks, Bradshaw said, “No. Look at him. You can land a helicopter on top of that big head.”
•Early in the second quarter last Sunday, when Indianapolis held a 28-14 lead over Green Bay, Fox’s Cris Collinsworth said, “I think it is safe to assume that every defensive player missed the team bus.”
•Kansas City Chiefs coach Dick Vermeil said last week that it was time for running back Larry Johnson, the Chiefs’ first draft pick in 2002, “to take your diapers off and get to work.”
Said ESPN’s Michael Irvin: “He should be telling his whole defense to get out of their diapers. They’re the ones playing like babies.”
A loss that doesn’t show in the stats
The University of Washington announced Tuesday that Anthony Washington has left the team and intends to transfer.
In two seasons he had one double-figures scoring game, so the impact of his departure is somewhat muted.
But there is this tidbit UW felt important enough to include in its press release: “Anthony was the only player in the 103-year history of Husky basketball with the last name ‘Washington.’ “
Dumb and dumber
Matt Kenseth, who hit the tire barrier entering the pits during last Sunday’s NASCAR race, told TNT, “If there was a list of the dumbest things ever done in a race car, I definitely topped that.”
Hail a cab
Of Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Eric Warfield being charged with driving under the influence for a third time in three years, Jim Armstong of AOL.com wrote:
“Three DUIs in three years? For a guy making millions? One word, dude: limo.”
Getting lathered up over suds
The Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette reported that workers at Iowa’s Kinnick Stadium removed beer they had found in a refrigerator in a box leased by Bill Krause, who happens to be the university’s leading donor.
He recently gave $5 million to the athletic department.
School policy allows no alcohol on campus, but beer is fine at the stadium.
No one is sure who removed the beer, but it’s speculated that overzealous stadium workers may have been the culprits.
Said Krause: “They have to raise money and make it a better university … then when you have people doing something like this, it’s a little trite.”