THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, May 19, 1995 TAG: 9505190633
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C1 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BOB MOLINARO
LENGTH: Medium: 58 lines
Fun police: This season, college football officials will be quicker to penalize players for hot-dog celebrations following big plays and touchdowns. Under the circumstances, the Miami Hurricanes should just get out of the sport right now.
Cupcakes: Once again, Virginia Tech aspires to be a big-time football school that competes with the best. What's that? The Hokies' '95 nonconference opponents are Cincinnati, Navy and Akron? Never mind.
Traveling music: Sore leg and all, the Knicks' Patrick Ewing had enough mobility Wednesday night to shuffle his feet before hitting the game-winning shot.
Farewell: In memory of the Boston Garden, the rats have started wearing black arm bands.
Name game: Indy driver Scott Goodyear races on Firestone tires.
Just asking: Now that New Zealand has sailed away with the America's Cup, do we get to keep the saucer?
Futurewatch: Whatever he might be saying now, I don't think even Michael Jordan knows whether he intends to come back to basketball next season. My own guess is that he won't.
Good timing: The Seattle NBAers officially dropped the ``Super'' from their Sonics nickname before somebody did it for them.
Issue du jour: Judging from the brouhaha, you'd have thought golfcaster Ben Wright's alleged comments about lesbianism on the women's golf tour opened the door to a deep, dark secret. In fact, everyone knows that fear and misunderstanding of lesbianism hurts women athletes with corporate sponsors. Ask tennis great Martina Navratilova, who, for all her celebrity, was endorsement-deprived compared with lesser athletes.
Still waiting: More than two months after the controversy broke, the Boston Celtics still haven't followed through on threats to sue the Wall Street Journal for its story on Reggie Lewis' drug use. Don't hold your breath.
That's the spirit: The Gumpification of America was revealed again in a recent Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll in which half of the U.S. citizens surveyed didn't know that the next Olympics will be held in Atlanta.
The living is easy: In case somebody still cares, Jimmy Johnson recently said he didn't think he would coach again. Why should he work when television is willing to subsidize his lifestyle?
Quick hit: Joe Montana out of uniform and in the TV studio could be your basic lose-lose situation.
The bottom line: Says Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of today's NBA: ``Young players have a problem in that they don't have to finish school anymore. Their lack of discipline is obvious to everyone. We've got to start forcing these kids to finish school.''
Tie-breaker: Introducing overtime to college bowls is a way of trying to give the games a significance most of them don't have.
Inside stuff: A recent survey indicates that the world's smartest athletes are bowlers. The dumbest, I think, are javelin catchers. by CNB