Some things you suspect, some you guess and some you just know.
Mike Tyson`s greatest problem is not that he is a celebrity but that he is a cliche.
Since mercenaries came into the America`s Cup, it smells less like the sea and more like the barnyard.
Obviously there is still enough fire in Michael Jordan to warm basketball`s long winter.
Time for the White Sox to pay up after low-balling Jack McDowell for as long as they could.
Somebody ought to tell the Atlanta Falcons that Herschel Walker is not a Georgia freshman anymore.
Any player who objects to Magic Johnson being in the All-Star Game immediately should have to restructure his salary to 1978.
We`ll know whether Mike Ditka no longer cares if it`s another passive draft for the Bears.
It`s only right Pete Rozelle give the Hall of Fame induction speech for Al Davis, like Bob Arum would for Don King.
Mark Grace should have taken the $2 million and avoided arbitration.
Breaking back into an insane asylum is no more weird than Yankee fans yearning for the return of George Steinbrenner.
Greg Maddux`s new one-year contract is still twice as long as his season. Maybe it would help him get the Seattle Mariners if Nintendo President Hiroshi Yamauchi changed his name to Casey.
When coaches are fired for lack of communication, that means the players have stopped listening.
For honesty`s sake, it ought to call itself the No Longer So Big East.
Worries that Johnson will turn the NBA All-Star Game into a ”media circus” is exactly the point; not even Hawaii could do that for the Pro Bowl. William Perry doesn`t need a weight clause, he needs a gurney.
All the new Blackhawks may not have enough time to grow so tired of Mike Keenan they will quit on him in the playoffs.
NBA coach of the year is Pat Riley.
News that the Giants will move to San Jose will not overwhelm the San Francisco post office with letters of sympathy from New Yorkers.
Will Perdue has peaked.
The good news is Rick Mirer is staying at Notre Dame for another year;
the bad news is Rick Mirer is staying at Notre Dame for another year.
The news that Howard Cosell has retired comes hard on the bulletin that the USFL has folded.
Bill Walsh going back to Stanford is like an old Teamster playing with a toy truck.
However understanding Mike Singletary is about being put on Plan B, an insult is still an insult.
Ray Mercer is all the reality Larry Holmes can use.
It`s too late for Wayne Gretzky to worry about being known as someone who is overpaid.
Memo to old roommate Andre Agassi: Image isn`t everything. Drab and reasonable Jim Courier is about to become the No. 1 tennis player in the world.
Any athlete who can figure out the new NCAA requirements for college admission is smart enough to be admitted.
Steve Sax is already the best White Sox second baseman since Nellie Fox.
I won`t believe basketball is 100 years old until Willard Scott says so.
