His new coffee-table book–dramatic pictures, compelling autobiographical items, special paper and a $50 price tag–doesn’t require an author as much as a curator.
DONE DEAL
NFL owners met in Kansas City to consider presentations from Houston and Los Angeles for an expansion franchise.
A 44-year-old Steve DeBerg quarterbacks a team to victory, and I’m thinking, yeah, another expansion team is EXACTLY what this league needs.
SHARK BAIT
Dean Lombardi, the San Jose Sharks’ general manager who also happens to be Bob Pulford’s son-in-law, sent a tape of the elbow Blackhawks center Doug Gilmour threw at Owen Nolan last week and demanded the league review it.
This from a guy who employs Bryan Marchment, who is pretty much Saddam Hussein with artificial upper bridgework.
THE NICE ITEM
Wyoming football players wore special decals on their helmets to honor the memory of Matthew Sheppard, the gay Wyoming student who died after being pistol-whipped, burned and tied to a fence.
Class move, classmates.
SHOE BIZ
The government awarded its 400,000th design patent. It went to an athletic shoe modeled after Michael Jordan’s sports car.
Costs about the same too.
EN FUEGO
The city honored the Major League Soccer champion Fire with a rally at Daley Plaza, and as I understand it, team officials claim they will do everything they can to retain coach Bob Bradley, but that’s just a charade before they give the job to Tim Floyd.
FOR SALE?
A group considering a bid for the Oakland A’s includes Hall of Famer Joe Morgan, who never saw a team better than his, and George Zimmer, who sicced himself on us on behalf of the Men’s Wearhouse.
Don’t know if they would make good owners, but they would certainly be the most annoying.
I guarantee it.
PASS IT ON
Florida GM Bryan Murray, on being one of 11 teams scouting a Toronto-Pittsburgh game: “I’m just here to start some rumors.”
