Columbus Came At The Right Time
NEWS ITEM: MONDAY MARKS THE 501st ANNIVERSARY OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ‘ ARRIVAL IN AMERICA.
WHILE SCIENTISTS STILL DEBATE WHETHER COLUMBUS WAS THE FIRST TO ARRIVE ON THESE SHORES, THEY ALL AGREE THAT THE LAND HE FOUND 501 YEARS AGO BEARS LITTLE RESEMBLANCE TO WHAT HE’D SEE WERE HE TO WASH BACK ASHORE TODAY . . .
LET ME KNOW WHEN IT’S JOE’S TURN
* Philadelphia 10, Chicago 7: Sorry, Eagles, but the best part of the team is on crutches.* Washington 19, Giants 10: Rodney Hampton carried the ball 70 times in the last two games. Now he’s injured. Either that, or he’s sleeping.* Raiders 20, Jets 16:...
JORDAN’S NEXT MOVE? THE COMEBACK TRAIL
He will be back. History tells us that. So does the man who guarded him better than anyone in the NBA, who looked into his eyes night after night, feeling the heat of his competitive furnace. Three hundred miles from Chicago, where Michael Jordan was dropping a bomb...
Baseball’S Champ? Phillies Have Horses
Now that the Giants have lost and the Braves have won — and the people at ESPN who were going to televise the single biggest baseball game of the year have buried their heads in a giant fish tank — it is time to get down to picking a winner. We’re talking baseball. The playoffs. They begin tonight.
I have examined the pluses and minuses of the teams. And I’ve come to my conclusion. Advantage: Philadelphia.
A Travesty? Nah, Lions Got What They Deserved
TAMPA, Fla. — Week after week, Wayne Fontes keeps asking why the media can’t say something nice about his football team. OK. Here’s something nice. Nice collapse, fellas.
It’s hard to imagine a better nosedive. Losing to Tampa Bay, a team that not only hadn’t won a game, but hadn’t seen a second-half lead all season? And you lose by 17 points? And you throw the ball just about everywhere but to your receivers?
I am impressed.
But then, I liked “Cliffhanger.”
MAYBE RODMAN CAN FIND HIS WAY
Dennis Rodman was on the phone in a funeral parlor telling his agent it was OK to trade him. This is all you need to know about his confused world.He had been in San Diego earlier, with a girlfriend, but now he was in Sacramento, with Annie, his ex-wife, or estranged...
YEAH, BUT THEY COULD BE THE BUCS
* Lions 24, Tampa Bay 10: Granted, the Lions are not the team we’d like them to be, but the Buccaneers are barely a team.* Chicago 34, Atlanta 20: Bonnie and Clyde had less holes in them than the Falcons’ defense.* Dallas 23, Green Bay 14: I give Brett...
Ernie, Lulu Safe At Home After 46 Years On The Road
She can put the chair away now. The one she jams under the bedroom doorknob whenever her husband is away. She feels safer when that chair is wedged in. She reads. She sews. She watches TV. Now and then she’ll run the vacuum, because the whirring noise gives a buffer against the loneliness. And of course she has the radio. She can turn on the radio and have her husband nearby, or as near as a man can be when his life is broadcasting baseball.
Qbs Are Simmering, And Fontes Keeps Stirring Pot
They don’t resent each other, and they don’t resent the media. They resent the coach. Let’s get that straight. Andre Ware, Rodney Peete and Erik Kramer, the three quarterbacks on this odd little merry-go-round in silver and blue stretch uniforms. Point the finger at one man: Wayne Fontes.
In this way, they are no different from most American workers. They blame the boss.
And, like most workers, they have to bite their tongues and keep it to themselves.
Andre Ware played all day Sunday in the win over Phoenix at the Silverdome. He was not bad, but not great.
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