Moss serves up a little good will

Randy Moss walked behind the counter in a pinstripe suit with a red striped tie, traded his jacket for an apron, took off his sunglasses and went to work – as the owner of a new fruit-juice store.

Making smoothies gave Moss another chance to smooth out a rift with his home state.

Hundreds of people turned out at the recent grand opening of the Inta Juice store in Charleston, W. Va., to get an autograph from the Oakland Raiders receiver and try the product he first tasted while he was with the Minnesota Vikings.

“Am I getting paid for doing this today?” Moss asked, flashing a smile.

The first smoothie Moss made was bought by Joe Burgess of South Charleston.

“He’s putting his roots back down in West Virginia. Right now, Randy is trying to come back and pay back the community,” Burgess said.

There are some who thought he needed to do that. Although he was a Heisman Trophy finalist at Marshall in 1997, he hasn’t exactly been a hero in his home state. He spent a few days in jail for a parole violation in 1996. By his rookie season with the Vikings in 1998, several articles were written in which Moss criticized West Virginia.

But over the years, Moss has held less publicized annual autograph sessions for children in Charleston and has taken several busloads of kids to an Ohio amusement park.

Ringmaster

On Shaquille O’Neal and the Miami Heat’s winning the NBA Finals, David Letterman said, “Kobe Bryant was so upset, he bought himself a diamond ring.”

They’ll put anything on TV

“I finally got accustomed to watching folks playing cards on television,” L.A. sportscaster Alan Massengale said. “Then I look up and they’re televising the dominoes championship. What next? Rock, paper, scissors?”