THE WRITING ON (AND OFF) THE WALL OLYMPIC FEVER: CATCH IT, BUD.Byline: TOM HOFFARTH The U.S. baseball team can't compete in the 2004 Athens Olympics Athens Olympics
Olympic Games • , yet Bud Selig Allan Huber "Bud" Selig, Jr. (born July 30, 1934 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is the Commissioner of Major League Baseball (MLB). He was previously the team owner and administrator of the Milwaukee Brewers. won't adjust his ``us first'' policy that prevents current big-leaguers from competing in future Games because of the conflict in schedules. Overhaul it. The U.S. baseball team can't compete in the 2004 Athens Olympics, yet Tony Gwynn
Fix it. The U.S. baseball team can't compete in the 2004 Athens Olympics, yet there'll probably be some hydrophobic hydrophobic /hy·dro·pho·bic/ (-fo´bik) 1. pertaining to hydrophobia (rabies). 2. not readily absorbing water, or being adversely affected by water. 3. kid from East Afghanistan who's entered in the 200-meter freestyle, finishes dead last by five minutes and then gets an ``up close and personal'' feature done on him because of his great Olympic spirit. Grin and bear it Grin and Bear It is a daily panel comic strip created by George Lichtenstein under the penname George Lichty. It has been syndicated from 1932 through 1940, and from 1942 through to today. ? That's just asking too much. ... --The real surprise is, after all the grandstanding that Kellen Winslow Jr. did in the locker room after Miami's loss Saturday, he forgot to break out a Heisman pose. ... --TNT studio yackster Brian Bosworth on Winslow's tirade: ``The thing that makes me mad right now is the media wants to come inside the athlete's world and then we let them in, (the media) burns us. They don't like what they see or what they hear. If you don't like it, then stay out until the emotions cool off after a loss. ... Let us get our composure.'' Sorry for the confusion, but was Boz speaking as a current athlete or broadcaster? ... --With a 3-5-6 record, the San Jose Sharks The San Jose Sharks are a professional ice hockey team based in San Jose, California, United States. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). have qualified for the MLS See multilevel security. playoffs. ... --Let us know about the next LeBron-Carmelo matchup - in 2008. ... --One of the ways Pete Rose apparently will demonstrate to 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. that he's done with gambling and should have his lifetime ban rescinded is by showing everyone the race horse he just bought. Thoroughbred Times.com reports that Rose was out at Santa Anita the Friday before the Breeders' Cup to watch his 4-year-old gelding gelding castrated male horse. , Fort Point, work out. ``Pete's a real nice guy and he loves sports,'' Bob Hess Jr., who trains Fort Point, told the publication. ``He told me that once he's a manager in baseball again, he'll own lots of horses and try to get his players into it, too.'' ... --Outside magazine decided to include in its current issue Allyson Felix, the former L.A. Baptist High of North Hills sprinter known as ``Chicken Legs'' by her high school teammates, among its collection of 25 ``sports and adventure goddesses who rule,'' one of today's female athletes who ``embraces wild places and epic endeavors.'' ... --Any buzz about seeing Roy Jones Jr. against Mike Tyson? Didn't think so. ... --The Hawaii Board of Education is considering whether to end surfing as a sanctioned high school sport. Just because someone got attacked by a stupid shark. ... --Would like to have seen where Dodgers shortstop Cesar Izturis and second baseman Alex Cora actually finished in the National League Gold Glove balloting. ... --It was far too much to ask that Jake Delhomme, Doug Flutie, Kurt Kittner, Patrick Ramsey and Rick Mirer walk off as winning quarterbacks on the same Sunday afternoon. As usual, Mirer ruined it. ... --``Whether you like it or not, I'm going to be around next year,'' Penn State coach Joe Paterno has promised. The other 10 teams in the Big Ten Conference like it. ... --If the Notre Dame fans go that crazy about a three-point victory over Navy, they've got no prayer. |
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