Will finish college career with the rarest of triple doubles: points, rebounds and years of eligibility.
PREPARE FOR TAKEOFF
Everybody who had Michigan State penciled in as a Final Four team should please take this time to locate the emergency exit windows.
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NCAA tournament bracket pools are popping up everywhere on the Internet, creating an almost-unprecedented frenzy of activity on the Web.
According to some Web watchers, the only thing bigger was the Feb. 3 Victoria’s Secret fashion show, called the single most popular online event on record.
“Basketball is appealing,” one media analyst said, “but we’re not talking supermodels in lingerie.”
Unless, of course, we’re talking Dennis Rodman.
GOOD WOOD
The Cubs gave Kerry Wood a one-year contract worth $690,000–no long-term, seven-digit deal like the one the Rockies gave their rookie stud, Todd Helton.
But don’t second-guess the Cubs just yet. They know good pitching when they see it–or at least when they see it in Atlanta.
ROAD TRIPPING
The Baltimore Orioles are still trying to negotiate a deal to play an exhibition game in Cuba, despite protests from Cuban exile groups in the United States.
“If this exhibition game takes place,” said a member of the group Agenda Cuba, “it will forever taint American baseball history.”
Good luck appealing to the sensibilities of the same team that thought signing Albert Belle was a good idea.
BABBLING BROOKS
Garth Brooks is serious about baseball and he isn’t trying out with the San Diego Padres just to advance his platinum-plus music career.
“If you’re not out here to face the best, what are you going to tell your kids when you go home?” Brooks said. “One day I’ll face Randy Johnson in front of a crowd. I might be embarrassed and walk away. But that’s not what I’m going to tell my kids . . . I’ll be talking about how I hit him for a grand slam.”
And here we thought that all that stuff about musicians and hallucinogens was just another bad stereotype.
