Morning Briefing : Sutton Called the Shot 3 Months Ago

Sean Sutton, one of Eddie Sutton’s sons, was a top high school player in Arkansas last season as a sophomore and already is getting a look from recruiters.

Said Eddie: “He asked me once if I was going to recruit him. I said I didn’t know. He said, ‘Well, then, I’m going to Texas and I’ll come back to Arkansas and beat your fanny.’

“Then he told his mother three months ago that if Kentucky called, he’d go. I told him, ‘If they call, I’m going, too.’ ”

Add Sutton: Asked about future schedules at Kentucky, he said: “I don’t know if I want to play Arkansas. If they want to play in Kansas City, all right, but I don’t want to go back to Fayetteville.”

In the last 11 years, Arkansas has lost nine times in Fayetteville.

Last Add Sutton: Writes Skip Bayless of the Dallas Times Herald: “Sutton’s Wildcats soon will make Joe B. Hall’s look like they were playing tag. Sutton isn’t exactly following a legend. Joe B. was something like a bad preacher. His heart was in the right place, but not his head.”

It was Lefty Driesell who once said, “I may be dumb, but I ain’t stupid.”

To prove he’s still thinking, the Maryland coach enlisted the help of Maryland Gov. Harry Hughes in trying to land 6-10 Danny Ferry of DeMatha High School in Washington, D.C.

Ferry, son of Washington Bullets General Manager Bob Ferry, averaged 19.5 points and 12 rebounds last season for perennial power DeMatha.

He said he was a bit stunned when the governor called Monday night.

“He asked me if there was anything he could tell me about the University of Maryland,” Ferry said, “and I said, ‘No. I had all the information I needed to make my decision.’ He told me he hoped I would go to Maryland.”

The next day, Ferry signed with Duke.

Add Forgettable Quotes: Said Milwaukee catcher Ted Simmons after Japanese reliever Yutaka Enatsu turned in three straight scoreless stints: “He’s a big league pitcher, it’s as simple as that. He can pitch. He can get people out.”

In his next outing, Enatsu gave up a homer, triple and single in the seventh to the Oakland A’s, who scored three runs. Four days later, he was released.

Doug Moe has been fighting a losing battle with his waistline, and Tuesday night’s loss to the Lakers didn’t help.

The Denver coach made a bet with his players that he could lose weight from 260 pounds to 227 this season.

“Every time we lose, I pig out,” Moe said. “The bet was a disaster. We had two losing streaks that killed me. In order for me to have a chance, we would have had to go on a 30-game winning streak.”

Pete Rose, who turns 44 in 10 days, tells Mordecai Richler in the New York Times Magazine what keeps him going: “Medical people tell me I have the body of a 30-year-old. I know I’ve got the brain of a 15-year-old. You got both, you can play baseball.”

Quotebook

Villanova reserve R.C. Massimino, son of the coach, on the 78.6% shooting Monday night against Georgetown: “We don’t even shoot that well in practice with no one guarding us.”