THE WRITING ON (AND OFF) THE WALL NOTHING SLICK ABOUT THIS MOVE.Byline: TOM HOFFARTH Somehow, it musta slipped Steve Lavin's mind the other day when he was rattling off the ``short list we're operating with'' as successors to his UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX basketball coaching throne. We all heard Ben Howland, Mark Few, Bob Williams, Pat Douglass and Roy Williams. Then supposedly Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Quin Snyder, Brad Holland and Rick Majeris have found someone's radar out there. Don't take that to mean Pat Riley ain't a first-class candidate. Would he really be willing to take a huge pay cut and leave the comforts of the Miami Heat, where he serves as coach, team president and part owner? Realistically, getting out of South Florida right now before he shows up as a corpse on ``CSI CSI Crime Scene Investigator CSI CompuServe, Inc. CSI Commodity Systems, Inc. CSI Commodity Systems Inc. (Boca Raton, FL) CSI Crime Scene Investigation (CBS TV show) CSI Christian Schools International : Miami'' would be the best move he's made since leaving the Lakers and hiding out at NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. for a while. (Please note that the Heat wilted at home Saturday night against Western Conference basement-dweller Denver, which ended a losing streak A Losing Streak is the third episode of series 2 of the BBC sit-com, Only Fools and Horses. It was first broadcast on 4 November 1982. Synopsis Del Boy, Rodney, and Grandad are making some sort of cheap perfume just to earn money after Del has been losing most of at 14 games despite scoring nine points in the first quarter.) What would Riley have to prove in Westwood? Only that he can win championships at the pro and college level - and doing it on the Hollywood stage where it all started. His last title was 15 years ago. The next one won't be coming any time soon in Miami. Is there a precedent? Even better, he'd be setting it. Rick Pitino escaped the Boston Celtics shackles and revived Louisville, but he'll never have Riley's NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= credentials. Would he have to search for a new house here? Word is Riley still owns his mansion in nearby Bel Air. Could he recruit? You haven't heard one of his motivational speeches. Corporations happily pay him $50,000 and beyond just to make an appearance at their functions. Would he have to change his image? Lav has enough hair gel stocked in the coach's office to get anyone through 2010. Think about it, Riles, then have your agent drop a call on Dan Guerrero so we can get this ironed out before 'Zo threatens another comeback. ... --Heard one radio sports-talker lament how poor ol' Alvin Gentry was stuck in a no-win situation with the Clippers. Friend, in any situation, no wins always will bring a swift end to a coach's career. ... --Misguided David Wells claiming he was misquoted in his own book is woefully woe·ful also wo·ful adj. 1. Affected by or full of woe; mournful. 2. Causing or involving woe. 3. Deplorably bad or wretched: mistaken. ... --In honor of Switzerland's victory in the America's Cup, Disneyland should consider going with yachts instead of bobsleds on its Matterhorn. ... --The exchange program between Major League Baseball "MLB" and "Major Leagues" redirect here. For other uses, see MLB (disambiguation) and Major Leagues (disambiguation). Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. and the Japanese leagues has been going well. We're taking their best players, and now their umpires are threatening to go on strike before the season starts later this month. ... --Pete Rose again has been left off the ballot sent out to voters for the Baseball Reliquary's 2003 election of the Shrine of the Eternals, based in Pasadena. No wonder. Among the 50 eligible candidates more worthy than Rose: Ted Giannoulas, creator of the San Diego Chicken; Van Lingle Mungo --In addition to Martha Burk's National Council of Women's Organizations, the American White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan The White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan was considered the most militant as well as violent Ku Klux Klan in history. They originated in Mississippi in the early 1960s under the leadership of Samuel Bowers, its first Imperial Wizard. and Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition, those hoping to stage a protest at next month's Masters tournament include an L.A.-based group called Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (described as anti-Jackson and pro-Augusta) and the New Black Panther Party Black Panther Party (for Self-Defense) U.S. African American revolutionary party founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale (b. 1936) in Oakland, Calif. Its original purpose was to protect African Americans from acts of police brutality. . Which only seems to leave the Girl Scouts and their cookie sales out of the picture. |
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