Creating a new tradition: the seventh-inning stench.
THE RECAP
Rap Sheet Randy Moss stiffs the Bears at a breakfast meeting, while Curtis Enis yes-sirs his way around Halas Hall, and so, the Bears use their No. 5 overall pick on Enis while Moss falls to Minnesota at 21.
And now Moss is not only signed and running drills like a Boy Scout in Vikings camp, but he caught a touchdown pass in an exhibition game, while Enis is holding so far out that you need the Hubble telescope to find him.
So this is great: The problem for New Talent Guy Mark Hatley is that his guys can’t always get in, while the problem for Dave Wannstedt was that his guys did.
NO DEAL
The Bears are thinking about a year-to-year lease extension for Soldier Field, while Mayor Daley told Bob Collins on WGN-AM 720 that the city wants at least a five-year commitment when the Bears’ lease runs out in 1999.
But either way, Daley said, there have been no negotiations, no dialogue, no nothing for months.
“They’re preparing their draft, I guess,” Daley said, “and getting ready for their season.”
Actually, they’re going through no-contract drills.
BLOCKHEAD MILITIA
It was hasty and embarrassing, but it was announced that Evander Holyfield will fight someone named Vaughn Bean in a heavyweight title fight Sept. 19 in the Georgia Dome.
Don King said ticket sales were moving briskly Tuesday, which was a very impressive accomplishment, considering that tickets didn’t go on sale until Wednesday.
OLD NEWS
A guy in Los Angeles named Ben Levinson is 103, but don’t be fooled. He’s an athlete. In fact, he’s competing in the shot put this week at the Nike World Masters Games in Eugene, Ore.
Levinson also competes in rock climbing and archery. And it has paid off.
Said Levinson: “I’m in better shape now than when I was 100.”
GETTING TOUGH
The Obilic Belgrade soccer team will play powerful Bayern Munich in the European Champions Cup on Wednesday, but Obilic’s owner won’t be there.
Because he would be arrested.
Seems that Zeljko Raznatovic-Arkan is a Serbian warlord who commands paramilitary troops and is wanted on an international warrant. No lie.
Betcha that guy would give Greg Feste a new meaning to “voidable years.”
