THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, August 25, 1995 TAG: 9508250859
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C1 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Column
SOURCE: Bob Molinaro
LENGTH: Medium: 64 lines
Oops: On the cover of the Washington Redskins 1995 press guide, current linebacker Ken Harvey is surrounded by illustrious Redskin alumni, including Len Hauss and Sonny Jurgensen ... whose names are misspelled on page 2.
In passing: Heath Shuler needs a thicker skin.
Weather vain: For helping chase away Hurricane Felix, the least Pat Robertson deserves is his own show on the Weather Channel.
Punch line: Heavyweight Evander Holyfield says he was going to invite Mike Tyson and Peter McNeeley to the same party, ``but the last time they were together they almost got into a fight.''
Air ball: Even taking into account the poverty of sports programming on pay-per-view, the Shaq vs. Hakeem greedfest is just too lame.
A better idea: I keep waiting for some enterprising promoter to bring together McNeeley and Benedicte Tarango, the slap-happy, French wife of tennis player Jeff Tarango, for a pay-per-view production. Stage their encounter in France and call it ``Last Tarango in Paris.''
Uh oh: Red Sox fans who always need something to worry about can now begin losing sleep over Tim Wakefield, who has lost control of his knuckleball and was hammered his last two outings.
History lesson: Virginia has a good chance of improving on its last game in Ann Arbor in 1971, when the Cavaliers lost to Michigan, 56-0.
Football fatalism: You can forget about Southern Cal winning the national championship; Sports Illustrated made the Trojans its No. 1.
Close call: Heisman winner turned New York Knicks sitter Charlie Ward is getting married this weekend to Tonya Harding. Same name, different woman. In that case, we presume their wedding night won't be available on video.
Sweet, indeed: Our Own Sweetpea Whitaker, who fights on HBO Saturday, has won 143 of 172 professional rounds.
No mas: Just when you thought boxing couldn't get any dumber 39-year-old Sugar Ray Leonard says he is serious about returning to the ring to fight Hector ``Macho'' Camacho.
The fine print: In pitching a football stadium for Prince George's County, Md., flacks for Jack Kent Cooke issued a release claiming that a new Redskins home ``won't cost the taxpayers a dime.'' Unless you count the $72 million (a conservative estimate) it will take for the county and state to build freeway ramps, roads, sewers, etc., in support of the facility.
An inside look: ``North Dallas Forty,'' which ran on a movie channel last week, more closely portrays the real NFL than any of the overblown, sanitized, league-approved highlight tapes and pre-game puff so popular with a generation brought up on football by John Madden.
One for the thumb: While college football coaches complain about the unfair expectations of having to win eight or nine games, Bruce Arena's University of Virginia soccer team is the pre-season favorite to win its fifth consecutive NCAA title.
Feet of clay: French Open champion Thomas Muster has a funny way of preparing for the hardcourts at Flushing Meadow. The Moo Man is playing on red dirt in Umag, Croatia in order to pile up more computer points. It makes his No. 3 seeding at the U.S. Open almost a joke.
Counting Cal-ories: Says Oakland A's manager Tony La Russa: ``Physical errors happen to everyone. Mental errors happen to everyone but Cal Ripken.'' by CNB