THE WRITING ON (AND OFF) THE WALL: OSCAR SHOULD ENDORSE REMATCH : BY TOM HOFFARTH.If Neil Simon Noun 1. Neil Simon - United States playwright noted for light comedies (born in 1927) Marvin Neil Simon, Simon could have scripted a better ending to Saturday's Oscar-Felix Vegas stageshow, there wouldn't be talk of a rerun re·run n. The act or an instance of rebroadcasting a recorded movie or a recorded television performance. tr.v. re·ran , re·run, re·run·ning, re·runs To present a rerun of. today. Which, when you think about it, would benefit undisputed champ Felix Trinidad far more than pretty boy Oscar De La Hoya Oscar de la Hoya (IPA pronunciation: [ˈɑs.kɛɹ dɛ.lɑ.ˈhɔɪ.jɑ][1]) (born February 4, 1973) — nicknamed the Golden Boy . Oscar will continue to make money from endorsements. Felix needs a rematch - with an even more convincing victory - to put himself on the boxing map. In the end, Oscar's got Madison Avenue Madison Avenue, celebrated street of Manhattan, borough of New York City. It runs from Madison Square (23d St.) to the Madison Bridge over the Harlem River (138th St.). In the 1940s and 50s, some of the major U.S. , but Felix's got hunger pains. They couldn't start the fight until Trinidad found his mouthpiece. Yet his real mouthpiece, Don King, was there the whole time. . . . Current spit swappers Andre Agassi Andre Kirk Agassi (born April 29 1970, in Las Vegas, Nevada) is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from the United States who won eight Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Olympic gold medal in singles. and Steffi Graf Noun 1. Steffi Graf - German tennis player who won seven women's singles titles at Wimbledon (born in 1969) Graf, Stephanie Graf were grappling themselves at ringside ring·side n. 1. The area or seats immediately outside an arena or ring, as at a prizefight. 2. A place providing a close view of a spectacle. Saturday night. . . . Brooke Shields Brooke Christa Camille Shields[1] (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress and supermodel. Biography Career Shields' career as a model began in the late 1960s as an infant, and she continued as a successful child model throughout the 1970s. admitted it on ``The Tonight Show'' last week: ``The one thing that I did stipulate in the whole divorce (with Agassi) was that he still had to watch `Suddenly Susan Suddenly Susan is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC from 1996 to 2000. Suddenly Susan's headlining star was Brooke Shields, who got the show after a guest appearance on Friends in the episode "The One After the Superbowl". .' '' That's just plain mean. . . . If you've got the time tonight, go an hour-and-a-half early to the Kings' Forum-farewell exhibition game against the Ducks and pay the specially reduced $10 or $15 ticket price to support the Spine in Sports Foundation's charity hockey game. It'll feature the cast from the upcoming puck flick ``Mystery, Alaska'' (including producer David E. Kelley) against actors such as Cuba Gooding Jr. and Scott Wolf Scott Richard Wolf (born June 4, 1968) is an American actor. Born in Boston, Massachusetts to Steven Wolf and Susan Enowitch, Wolf was raised in West Orange, New Jersey. He graduated in 1986 from West Orange High School. . Also playing is former Kings star and broadcaster Jim Fox Jim Fox may refer to:
The Pac-10 office announced today that it will not declare a conference football champ this season unless someone really wants it bad enough. . . . Brett Favre has every reason to cry now. . . . Though they won the NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= title, the San Antonio Spurs The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio, Texas. They play in the National Basketball Association (NBA), and are the current NBA Champions after defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2007 NBA Finals. lost more than $12 million last season, the local paper reports. Woulda been only $8 mil if they played a full 82-game season. . . . What, no parting Schott from Large Marge?. . . . Fortune magazine's list of the 40 richest Americans under 40 includes potential Angels/Ducks owner Henry Nicholas III at No. 7, with a $2.38 billion billfold. Unemployed MJordan is No. 29 with $357 mil, depending on wagers made that week. . . . NBA wannabe Percy ``Master P'' Miller, who's a notch up on MJ at $361 million, signed a free-agent deal with Toronto, which makes more sense. Who else could put the rap in Raptors?. . . . Starting with three games tonight in Chicago and ending the season with three in St. Louis, Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire have six head-to-head meetings in the last two weeks. Although we're more interested in the six that the N.Y. Mets and Atlanta Braves have left against each other. . . . Fan voting for baseball's All-Century Team ended Sunday with Pete Rose clinging to the ninth and final outfield spot, ahead of Roberto Clemente and Stan Musial. The final team won't be announced until late October, which gives Bud Selig time to get his excuses prepared. . . . Recently, the MasterCard folks who are promoting the All-Century voting asked some Dodgers players which star from the past 100 years they'd want to sit with at a World Series game. Jeff Shaw, Darren Dreifort, Jamie Arnold and Mike Judd picked Nolan Ryan. Devon White picked Willie Mays. Todd Hollandsworth picked Kirk Gibson. Mike Maddox picked Greg Maddox. Yesterday in L.A.: MAURY WILLS HIS WAY TO A STOLEN BASE RECORD As the year 2000 approaches, here's a look at some of the interesting anniversaries that will occur this week in Los Angeles sports history (followed by the ranking of the event from the book ``Unforgettable: The 100 Greatest Moments in Los Angeles Sports History'' in parenthesis parenthesis: see punctuation. The left parenthesis "(" and right parenthesis ")" are used to delineate one expression from another. For example, in the query list for size="34" and (color = "red" or color ="green") , where applicable): Sept. 21, 1952: Wearing 10 pounds of grease, Florence Chadwick takes almost two hours off the record swim from Catalina to Point Vicente _ 13 hours, 47 minutes, 32 seconds. (88) Sept. 23, 1962: In his 156th game of the season, the Dodgers' Maury Wills steals his 96th and 97th bases in a game against St. Louis to tie and break Ty Cobb's record in a season, set in 154 games in 1915. Wills would finish with 104 steals in 165 games, including a three-game playoff against San Francisco). The NL's MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. was caught stealing just 13 times all year. (33) Sept. 24, 1984: Jackie Joyner-Kersee breaks her own Olympic record with 7,291 points to win the gold medal in the heptathlon heptathlon: see under decathlon. heptathlon Women's athletics competition. Contestants take part in seven different track-and-field events: 100-m hurdles, shot put, high jump, long jump, javelin throw, and 200- and 800-m runs. at the Los Angeles Games. Five days earlier, she won the long-jump gold with another Olympic record of 24-3 1/2. (77) Sept. 25, 1979: The Angels clinch their first AL West Division title in 19 seasons with a 4-1 win over Kansas City. (55) Sept. 26, 1981: No. 1 USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. pulls out a 28-24 win over No. 2 Oklahoma before 85,000-plus at the Coliseum. A 7-yard TD pass from John Mazur to tight end Fred Cornwell with two seconds left clinches the victory. Sept. 26, 1997: The Dodgers' Raul Mondesi homers to become the franchise's first 30-30 man (home runs and stolen bases) in one season. Birthdays: Wednesday: Former Dodgers manager and GM Tom Lasorda (72), former Taft High standout and Houston Astros manager Larry Dierker (53) and former USC and Olympic softball star Dot Richardson (38). Cybersport: FROM REEL TO REAL: COSTNER'S LATEST PITCH Compared to ``Stealing Home'' and ``The Slugger's Wife'' _ two of the most pathetic cinematic attempts to tie a love story in with big-league-caliber baseball hittin' and throwin' _ Kevin Costner's performance in ``For Love of the Game'' is real enough to make you think he could be considered a candidate for the Detroit Tigers' rotation. Although maybe that's more a reflection of the Tigers' needs. Nevertheless, the realism of the baseball action scenes in this movie were probably the most impressive ever pulled off since . . . Costner's last baseball flick. Who cares if the love-interest part of the story line has been pooh-poohed by the critics as coming off too corny corn·y adj. corn·i·er, corn·i·est Trite, dated, melodramatic, or mawkishly sentimental. [From corn1. . As long as the baseball is believable, the smooching is secondary. We're not trying to be nitpicky here. Because if you really want to get nitpicky, there's a Web site (http://www.nitpickers.com) where Joe Moviegoer mov·ie·go·er n. One who goes to see movies. mov  ie·go ing adj. can go to vent about the
sloppy way some of today's cinema is presented.
In ``For Love of the Game,'' we couldn't even tell when Tampa Bay Devil Rays The Tampa Bay Devil Rays are a professional baseball team based in St. Petersburg, Florida, Florida. The Devil Rays are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Devil Rays have played in Tropicana Field. pitcher Dave Eiland was used as Costner's double on some of those long-angle shots. From a pure baseball perspective, we found nothing wrong after two viewings. That's pretty rare considering the stuff we've sorted through on the Nitpickers' site. Taking a cue from Costner's other sports-themed movies, we decided to share some of the posted observations: ``Field of Dreams'' Reported mistake: Shoeless Joe Jackson Our take: For accuracy's sake, that's a pretty big blunder. But how many people were going to notice that? That's probably why it went through. Reported mistake: When Ray Kinsella (Costner) and Terence Mann (James Earl Jones) pick up young Archibald ``Moonlight'' Graham along the side of the road, he's supposed to be a young ballplayer from 1922. He tells them he's heading to the Midwest where ``teams will find you day jobs and let you play at night.'' But were there night games in 1922? Our take: Maybe that's why they called him ``Moonlight.'' ``Bull Durham'' Reported mistake: Crash (Costner) tells the batter that Nuke (Tim Robbins) is going to throw a curveball, and the guy homers. Crash calls the player Charlie. But afterward the announcer calls him Jimmy. Our take: Our first thought was that Crash probably told the batter to watch for ``Uncle Charlie'' _ baseball jargon for the curveball. But after further review, Crash's quote is: ``Charlie, here comes the deuce. And when you speak of me, speak well.'' Then Jimmy Bell is announced as swatting the homer. So is that so wrong? ``Tin Cup'' Reported mistake: With 10 minutes left in the movie, toward the end of the first round of the U.S. Open, announcer Jim Nantz says: ``Jacobsen is in the lead and everyone needs to catch him.'' Except Roy (Costner) has the same score going into the final hole and Simms is one stroke back. Our take: One of those mistakes where the script doesn't match the picture. Bogeys all around. CAPTION(S): photo, 2 boxes Photo: no caption (Kevin Costner) BOX: (1) Yesterday in L.A. (see text) (2) Cybersport (see text) |
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