They Deserve More Than A Right Cross
Last week, as I sat before my TV watching Tonya Harding pummel Paula Jones, I was struck with a sudden thought.
More.
I want Darva Conger next. Linda Tripp after that. Jenny McCarthy should be in the wings, alongside Gennifer Flowers, (Downtown) Julie Brown, Lorena Bobbitt and that witchy woman from “Survivor.”
What’S Really Worse: Jail Or Watching Tv?
If I ever turn to a life of crime, I know just the judge I want.
His name is Alvin Hellerstein, a bald, jowly, 68-year-old federal district court judge in New York City. A few months ago, he sentenced a man named Edward Bello to 10 months.
Not 10 months in jail — 10 months at home, with no TV.
Hey. My parents gave me that, and I was only a minor!
Judge Hellerstein figured that without TV, Bello, who had a record of petty crime convictions and was now pleading guilty to conspiracy to use stolen credit cards, would have time to think about the wrong he had done.
CANADA RULES IN HOCKEYIN UTAH, MOST GOT WHAT THEY DESERVED
SALT LAKE CITY — The flame went out, the night got quiet, and these XIX Winter Olympics, America’s first in 22 years, came to a close. They were 17 days rife with protests and pageantry, new stars, fallen heroes, rock concerts, world leaders and more Star...
We’Ll Leave The Phone On For You
SALT LAKE CITY — I will never win an Olympic gold medal. But I did, last week, make an Olympic-sized mistake.
I caught a flu. In the middle of these Olympics. OK. It happens. I was sneezing and wheezing and blowing my nose all over the Alpine world.
One night I got back to my hotel room early, hoping for a long sleep to knock the bug from my body.
I should correct something. I said “hotel room.” This would suggest that I was staying in a hotel. In truth, it was a motel. In truth, it was the TraveLodge. And not the world’s greatest TraveLodge.
HOCKEY: U.S. TO FACE CANADA, 3 P.M. SUNDAYCAPTAIN VS. AMERICAIT WASN’T 1980 AGAIN, BUT RUSSIA STILL LOST
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah — It was the Olympic hockey semifinals, and standing behind the U.S. bench, wearing a dark suit, was Herb Brooks, the same coach who 22 years ago guided the Miracle on Ice. Standing behind the Russian bench, wearing a light suit, was Slava...
Ode To Bode: Is He Savior Of U.S. Skiing?
SALT LAKE CITY — He’s the one. The golden child. They all know it.
“C’MON BODE! . . .”
It’s the reason you saw a little more grit in their teeth as Bode Miller sliced down the giant slalom Thursday.
“C’MON, BODE! . . .”
You could almost hear their prayer as he neared the finish.
“PLEEEASE, BODE! . . .”
He’s the reason the U.S. ski coaches and managers and poobahs all leapt a little higher when his hungry, wolfish style gave them another minor miracle, a silver medal from the back of the pack.
“YES, BODE, YES!”
RUSSIANS COMPLAIN LIKE BAD OLD DAYS
SALT LAKE CITY — The pebble has become an avalanche.Now the Russians want to go home. They’re threatening to scoop their Olympic marbles and hop an Aeroflot, maybe even today, maybe not come to the Games in 2004 in Athens.The Lithuanians are protesting...
Flowers’ Story: Wonderful, Weird
SALT LAKE CITY — It is raining down in Birmingham, Ala., and the air is a balmy 69 degrees. Yolanda Cooper, a senior sprinter at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, excitedly picks up the phone. She spent the previous night with her teammates watching her track coach, Vonetta Flowers, become the first black gold medalist in the history of the Winter Olympics. Vonetta, the woman who clocks her lap times? Vonetta, who runs alongside her? That Vonetta? Won the Olympic bobsled?
FLOWERS’ AMAZING STORY: FROM TRACK COACH TO GOLD
SALT LAKE CITY — It is raining down in Birmingham, Ala., and the air is a balmy 69 degrees. Yolanda Cooper, a senior sprinter at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, excitedly picks up the phone. She spent the previous night with her teammates watching her...Stay Connected
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