Player’s ploy fails to fool sportswriter After the USA men’s basketball team beat Spain in the preliminary rounds of the Olympics, the majority of the Spaniards wanted nothing to do with the American media.
Few went so far as Spain guard Juan Carlos Navarro, formerly of the Memphis Grizzlies. After he was done with the Spanish media, Boston Globe columnist Marc J. Spears asked him a question. Navarro responded by saying, “My English not very good.” “I told him, ‘Well, it was really good when you were playing for the Grizzlies,’” Spears said. “‘I interviewed you once by your locker.’ “ Navarro was stunned when I called him out and I could see that he understood every word. If they beat the Americans, I’m sure his English would have been better than mine.” Doing swimmingly “Katie Hoff, with her three swimming medals, and Michael Phelps, with his eight golds, call the same Baltimore suburb home,” pointed out Bob Molinaro of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. “If Towson, Md., were a country, it would rank among the top 20 medal winners.” On his own, Phelps would have finished tied for 9 th in gold medals with Italy, which had 8 golds, 10 silver and 10 bronze.
Ticket prices drop Here’s something you don’t hear about often — lower ticket prices. That’s what is going on at the University of Missouri for its men’s basketball tickets, according to the Kansas City Star. Last year, the Tigers were 16-16 and their season ticket prices were the second-highest in the Big 12 (from $ 289 to $ 684 ) behind Kansas. “At least the Jayhawks, who won the national championship, were worth it,” wrote Thomas Bonk of the Los Angeles Times.
Favre update After seeing NBC’s success with Michael Phelps, CBS is conting on its own gold-medal attraction — Brett Favre. The New York Jets’ last six games, and a total of 12, are scheduled to be televised by CBS, according to Newsday.
Said CBS broadcaster Jim Nantz: “We should be paying part of his salary.” Paging Errol Flynn The New York Post’s Michael Vaccaro is no fan of the modern pentathlon. “What is so modern about swordfighting and target practice ?” he wrote. “Granted, if Vince McMahon gets his hands on the sport, and has the participants turn the swords and guns on each other, it would be a pay-per-view bonanza.” Mother of all divots Cameron Trett, 19, a computersystems major at Arizona State, has been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage for hitting golf balls off “A” Mountain behind Sun Devil Stadium, causing more than $ 30, 000 in damage to condos below, the Arizona Republic reported. Not to mention giving the term “computer hacker” a whole new meaning.
Trump this Donald Trump against anybody is always a fun matchup, and Tuesday night on HBO’s Real Sports he’s going up against some locals who don’t want to see him develop a swath of Scottish coastline to build an exclusive golf resort.
One such Scot, Mickey Foote, said there are those who live in the area who are being foolish: “They dream they’re going to be in the Jacuzzi with Tiger Woods. They’re going to be bumping into Johnny Depp.” Quote of the day “We’ve got a lot of guys on this team that are individually great. But individually great doesn’t mean anything.” U. S. basketball player Dwyane Wade after the U. S. defeated Spain to win the gold medal.
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