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GOOD SPORTS
Rickey Henderson broke Babe Ruth's 70-year-old record for career walks, which is no surpise given his rep as one of the game's laziest players.
Golfer Notah Begay, Tiger Woods's roommate at Stanford, applied to legally change his name to Notah Comeout.
Trailblazers small forward Scottie Pippen accused Lakers phenom Kobe Bryant, who is named after a Japanese steak, of feigning an injury in order to make his dominant playing through pain seem more Jordanesque. If he were trying to emulate Scottie, of course, Kobe would have stayed on the bench.
When Ken Griffey, Jr. played in Seattle, the WTO riots broke out. Now he's in Cincinnati, where riots broke out in the streets earlier this month. Memo to angry residents of the Jewel of the Midwest: the best way to settle this is to go to Griffey's house and pelt him with juiced-up baseballs. This is also how the U.S. should deal with Castro.
Albert Belle is tragically hip.
The Sacramento Kings made the NBA playoffs for the first time in...well, since last year, but this year, they're even better. Sacramento, by the way, is a Spanish name meaning Holy Breath Mint.
Feminists complain about the unbalanced coverage between male and female professional sports. Men's sports -- football, baseball, basketball, hockey -- command most of the attention. If women are discussed in the sports pages, it's usually Anna Kournikova, because she's so attractive. I don't have the stats to prove it, but I'm sure those same feminists watch golf only to drool over Mark O'Meara.
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