THE WRITING ON (AND OFF) THE WALL : NO TIME FOR ELWAY TO AUDIBILIZE.Byline: TOM HOFFARTH Not many athletes have the chance to get out of the saddle while they're at the top of their profession. John Elway John Albert Elway, Jr. (born June 28, 1960) played American football quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Denver Broncos from 1983 through 1998. Elway holds many college and professional records and was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame and is the only does. And if he listened to anything that Marcus Allen said between sniffles snif·fle intr.v. snif·fled, snif·fling, snif·fles 1. To breathe audibly through a runny or congested nose. 2. To weep or whimper lightly with spasmodic congestion of the nose. n. 1. and sobs during his retirement speech Thursday, Elway will swagger into the sunset as well this week. In one piece. Elway says he keeps going back and forth on what he wants to do, but the Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos have asked the soon-to-be 38-year-old quarterback to - please, if it's OK with him - make up his mind before Saturday's NFL draft The NFL Draft (officially the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting[1]) is an annual sports draft in which National Football League (NFL) teams take turns, through seven rounds[2] . ``The bottom line is I'm going to talk to my wife and my mom and dad and my kids,'' the former Granada Hills High star said last week. ``My wife is the one who has to live with me. My dad has been a close confidante con·fi·dante n. 1. A woman to whom secrets or private matters are disclosed. 2. A woman character in a drama or fiction, such as a trusted friend or servant, who serves as a device for revealing the inner thoughts or intentions forever.'' And if Jack Elway has his son's best interests in mind, he'll pat him on the back, tell him he's had one helluva hell·uv·a adj. Slang Used as an intensive: He's a helluva great guy. [Alteration of hell of a.] career, and they'll both cry a little bit. Then they'll make plans for Canton, Ohio. . . . By the way, Allen's retirement announcement was carried live on every Kansas City local TV station except one - KCTV, an affiliate of CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. , which is the network Allen joins as a studio host this fall. The KCTV management didn't want to interrupt its daytime lineup of ``The Guiding Light'' and ``Martha Stewart Living Martha Stewart Living is a magazine and a television show featuring entertaining and home decorating guru Martha Stewart. Both the magazine and the television program focus on the domestic arts. .'' . . . Take it as a sign: Of the six numbers that came up to be worth more than $100 million in last week's California Lottery draw, none were Mike Piazza's No. 31. . . . Just prior to their sale, the Dodgers came in at No. 58 on the Fortune 500's latest survey of the country's most successful businesses . . . Dodgers VP of communications Tommy Hawkins says his next project will be to create a Dodgers Hall of Fame on permanent display at the stadium. . . . Did you know: Rupert Murdoch and Michael Eisner are actually partners in a media venture. NewsCorp and ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network each own half of ESPN STAR Brazil television. . . . Coming soon: North and South Brazil. . . . Thankfully, Eisner has stopped pushing this idea for an NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there rule change that would give a team a two-goal shot (you know, like a three-point basket). Must've gotten that idea from watching the Ducks play this season. Showing again there's a fine line between genius and genuine stupidity. . . . The only lewd act we've ever seen from George Michael is when he puts calf roping highlights on his ``Sports Machine.'' . . . Where have you gone Morganna? . . . Two reasons why the last 15 minutes of the KCAL kcal kilocalorie. kcal abbr. kilocalorie kcal kilocalorie. Channel 9 newscast has the highest rating period of the 10 p.m. hours: 1) It's when Tom Murray and John Ireland do the sports report, 2) It's the time when viewers for The Jerry Springer Show at 11 p.m. get all frothed up. . . . Future Dodgers left-hander Randy Johnson didn't need the magnifying glass to know what the small type said in Friday's Seattle-Boston boxscore, the one in which the Red Sox scored seven runs in the bottom of the ninth to win 9-7: ``Slocumb pitched to 3 batters in the 9th, Fossas pitched to 1 batter in the 9th, Timlin pitched to 2 batters in the 9th, Spoljaric pitched to 1 batter in the 9th.'' . . . In closing: Eight members of the Illinois State football team face charges of battery, mob action and felony home invasion in a recent attack of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. fraternity. They came with clubs, bats and broken beer bottles on a mission of vengeance, sending six fraternity brothers to the hospital with cuts and bruises. The night before, a fight erupted after fraternity members caught a football player urinating in their shower and tried to get him to leave. . . . The whole thing sounds outrageous. Until you realize it took place just off the school's campus in Normal, Ill. |
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