THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, June 2, 1995 TAG: 9506020684
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C1 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Column
SOURCE: Bob Molinaro
LENGTH: Medium: 61 lines
House party: Fans of the Golden State Warriors echo the sentiments of NBA talent scouts by insisting that their team use its No. 1 draft pick on North Carolina's Jerry Stackhouse.
At the movies: If life imitates art, Pete Sampras' brief French Open should be called ``Forget Paris,'' while Andre Agassi's could be titled ``French Kiss.''
Giving it away: Desperate times call for desperate measures. This season, kids 14 and under get in free for San Francisco Giants games.
Name game: Who said there aren't any good team nicknames anymore? The new Class A Midwest League baseball club scheduled to begin play next season in Michigan is called the Lansing Lugnuts.
Just asking: I wonder if fight fan Madonna could look Jimmy Garcia's family in the eye and still say, ``I love boxing's brutality.''
Read all about it: Chicago Bulls coach Phil Jackson, when asked what he'd say to parents who complained about buying their kids Michael Jordan's No. 45 jersey, only to have Jordan switch back to No. 23: ``Buy them books.''
Swish: The shorter 3-point shot has contributed to the exciting finishes in the NBA playoffs.
Mile high: Cubs first baseman Mark Grace predicts that ``someone is going to break Roger Maris' record and hit 70 homers'' in the thin air of Denver's Coors Field. And Rockies manager Don Baylor wants the league to use different balls, figuring: ``They use different tennis balls in high-altitude locations.''
Quick hit: The length of baseball games should not lead to rules changes, but to a larger strike zone.
Double fault: NBC has pushed Bud Collins out of the booth for the French Open and Wimbledon, leaving more opportunity for John McEnroe and Chris Evert to pepper viewers with cliches and non sequiturs.
Passing shot: Still in the field at the French Open is the woman with the best name in tennis - Israel's Anna Smashnova.
On the run: The Chicago Bulls' premature dismissal from the NBA playoffs has allowed Toni Kukoc to join the Croatian national team for the European championship tournament, which runs through the beginning of July. So much for the off season.
Icing the puck: The Denver Nordiques? I don't think so.
Factoid: The fastest growing college sport is women's soccer.
Won't go away: Running has-been Mary Decker Slaney, 36, says she wants to make her fourth Olympic team in Atlanta. Only one small problem - she hasn't run a race in three years.
Future attraction: The ``Bull Durham'' team of Ron Shelton and Kevin Costner are getting together to make a movie about a pro golf journeyman.
Idle thought: If the Florida Marlins are back from the strike, it is not by CNB