Exhibit to leave you cold
Ted Williams, decapitated and frozen in Arizona. And sculptor Daniel Edwards, protesting the state of the late baseball great with what he calls “a little shrine to his head” – an exhibit at First Street Gallery in New York.
“The fact is, he was decapitated and stored in the middle of Arizona – it’s an atrocious thing,” Edwards said about the cryogenic process that resulted in the Hall of Famer’s head being surgically removed and frozen at Scottsdale’s Alcor Life Extension Foundation. The rest of Williams’ body is stored in a separate tank there.
Alcor is preserving Williams and more than 60 other “patients” in hopes that medical science one day will be so advanced that they can be revived.
“They should free his remains,” said Edwards as he put finishing touches to his show, which opened last week and runs through Oct. 1. “I’m a huge fan of Ted Williams.”
Edwards set up his show as a kind of sports collectibles exhibit, with a sculpture of Williams’ frozen head as the centerpiece. The sculptor said he never saw Williams’ actual head or a photograph of it; he worked off photographs of the living man to form a “faithful portrait” of him in his later years.
The bust of the Boston Red Sox great rests alone in a glass case, his head leaning back, eyes partly closed.
Edwards is offering the Williams busts for $10,000 to $15,000 each.
Has Leaf changed his colors?
The Ottawa Renegades have added former NFL and Washington State quarterback Ryan Leaf to their negotiation list according to the Ottawa Sun. Leaf last played in the NFL in 2001 after a disappointing pro career.
“We’re looking for any valid player we can find,” Forrest Gregg, the club’s VP of football operations, said to the paper. “I don’t have any idea whether Ryan Leaf wants to play ball anymore and I don’t know if he’d be interested in playing here. But it doesn’t take much to find out.”
Clever way to get tickets
When Eric Gagne took his car in to be serviced at a Pasadena, Calif., car dealership, service adviser Steve Huss, not recognizing Gagne, asked him to spell his last name. Gagne told Huss he was a pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
“I’m sorry, I’m into motorsports,” Huss said.
When Gagne returned to pick up his car, he left a note telling Huss to call him for tickets if he ever wanted to check out a Dodgers game.
Almost ducked that one
Oregon quarterback Kellen Clemens may have set himself up to be a sitting duck Saturday when USC visits Eugene, Ore.
After the Ducks’ tough, 37-34 victory over Fresno State on Saturday, Clemens, interviewed by TBS’ Craig Sager, said: “We’re excited to be 3-0 and have another home game against a ranked opponent.”
There’s a difference, however. Fresno State was ranked No. 23, USC is ranked No. 1.
Of the Trojans, Clemens said, “Bring ‘em on. Let’s keep this going.”
Sager asked, “You can beat ‘em?”
Clemens: “I think we – yes, sir.”