Second thoughts
Posted on Sunday, July 13, 2008
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This lineup doesn’t lack star quality Talk about a star-studded lineup. The sons of Joe Montana and Wayne Gretzky will be among the quarterback candidates this season at Oaks Christian High School in Westlake Village, Calif. Nicholas Montana and Trevor Gretzky will be throwing to Will Smith’s son Trey. Although Coach Bill Redell doesn’t expect any more wellconnected roster additions, he joked that a few more could be around the corner. “Well, Michael Jordan said his son’s coming, and Babe Ruth’s great-great-grandson is supposed to enroll,” he said. “I’m only kidding.”
The front nine Mark Herrmann of Newsday offers his nine all-time golf celebrity couples (in honor of couple No. 1, who recently got married ). 1. Greg Norman-Chris Evert. 2. Nancy Lopez-Ray Knight. 3. Sergio Garcia-Martina Hingis. 4. Garcia-Morgan Norman (Greg’s daughter ). 5. Babe Didrickson-George Zaharias. 6. Natalie Gulbis-Ben Roethlisberger. 7. Wayne Gretzky (host of a Nationwide Tour event ) -Janet Jones. 8. Colin Montgomerie-Ines Sastre (they briefly dated; she’s a model famous for Lancome ads ). 9. Nick Faldo-Brenna Cepelak (she was a college golfer, and after he ended the relationship she reportedly whacked his Porsche with a 9-iron ).
Fish tale Washington Redskins Pro Bowl offensive tackle Chris Samuels talked to Sports Illustrated about fishing as a kid in Mobile, Ala. “I’m the youngest of four brothers and my father, James, would take us into Mobile Bay,” Samuels said. “I was 4 the first time that I got a tug. ‘I yelled, ‘ Dad, I got a fish, I got a fish !’ When I saw it, I was like, ‘Dad, I got a snake, I got a snake !’ It was an eel, 2 feet long. My dad grabbed it with a rag, and later he cooked it and ate it. My dad will eat anything.”
No trivia buff Presidential candidate John McCain was campaigning in Pittsburgh and did an interview with KDKA-TV in which he recalled how the Pittsburgh Steelers helped him during his time at a POW camp during the Vietnam War. “When I was first interrogated and really had to give some information because of the physical pressures that were on me, I named the starting lineup — defensive line — of the Pittsburgh Steelers as my squadron mates,” McCain said. However, in McCain’s autobiography, he wrote that it was members of the Green Bay Packers that he named. A campaign spokesman called it a memory lapse.
They said it The Philadelphia Phillies’ Jimmy Rollins, to Dan Patrick of Sports Illustrated, on the strangest thing he thought standing at shortstop: “There have been times where I look up in the sky and I’m like, it would be nice to be barbecuing right now. But then I remember, it’s pretty fun to be playing baseball. Somebody has to entertain the people.”
Cincinnati Reds outfielder Ken Griffey Jr., making light of the fact that he didn’t make the All-Star team: “If you can’t hit left-handers, you bunt. If you can’t hit righthanders, you bunt. If you can’t make the All-Star team, you go to the Bahamas.”
Chicago Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood, on the result of the All-Star Game determining homefield advantage in the World Series: “Let’s hope we win [the All-Star Game ]. We [the Cubs ] may have a chance to benefit from that later this year.”
Quote of the day “This stuff hurts a lot of people. I mean, it hurts.” Green Bay Packers GM Ted Thompson on retired quarterback Brett Favre asking for his release