Sleepy Obviously Is on the Right Team

Eric (Sleepy) Floyd and the rest of the Golden State Warriors were allowed to sleep late Monday morning as a reward for winning the longest game in the team’s history.

“They have to be tired,” said Coach George Karl, who called off practice after the Warriors had beaten the New Jersey Nets in four overtimes Sunday, 150-147.

“Besides,” Karl added, “my head hurts.”

Magic Johnson, comparing the National Basketball Assn. All-Star game to the playground classics of Lansing, Mich., told the New York Times: “It’ll be like when a whole carload of bad boys from Flint came down and wanted to take over. Not only did they want to brag, but they wanted to take our girls, too. It’ll be like when us guys from the West Side played Jay Vincent and his East Side team for the championship every summer.

“We had a hundred people watching, and all the girls. It was like the Super Bowl of basketball.”

Trivia Time: Who won the richest prize in tournament golf history? That’s a single payoff, not a bonus package. (Answer below.)

Add Forgettable Quotes: Said Kookaburra III skipper Iain Murray before the start of the America’s Cup: “We’ll go for the jugular. We’ll use the most aggressive starting tactics we can and still stay within the rules. It’s a cold, hard world out there, and we’ll see what happens.”

It’s getting colder.

Said AFC quarterback Boomer Esiason of a late hit by NFC defensive end Dexter Manley in the Pro Bowl: “How flagrant can it get? I mean, this is an all-star game. I had breakfast with the guy twice this last week, too. I must’ve done something to tick him off.”

Wait a Minute: After Canada’s Ben Johnson had failed to approach his world record in the 60 meters Sunday in an indoor meet at Sherbrooke, Quebec, United Press International said: “He blamed his slow time on fatigue.”

Johnson had competed the previous night in Ottawa. His event? The grueling 50-meter dash.

Would-you-believe-it dept.: Since the start of the conflict in Afghanistan, according to the New York Times, there has been an unofficial truce between government and rebel forces that calls for both sides to lay down their arms every Friday in Kabul.

Reason: To allow the members of the Khargah Golf Club to get in a weekly round of golf.

Lute Olson and George Raveling both left Iowa because they didn’t like living in a fishbowl, but new Hawkeye basketball Coach Tom Davis seems to be adjusting well to life in the basketball-crazy state.

“He blends into the scenery a little better. He’s kind of unflappable,” Iowa sports information director George Wine said. “Olson had a big ego, and I really think he liked all the attention at first. Then he started complaining he couldn’t take his wife to dinner. Raveling was the same way. I think he liked all the attention until it started to get out of hand.”

Said Paul Daugherty of Newsday: “Olson became so saturated with celebrity (that) he bought a house near a lake, 15 miles out of town, and spent his spare time fishing.

“Soon, Hawkeye fans were seen in their boats, speeding to Lute’s watery backyard, blowing horns and beseeching the coach to recognize their presence.”

Trivia Answer: Johnny Miller won $500,000 in the 1982 Sun City Million Dollar Challenge in South Africa. He beat Seve Ballesteros in a playoff. Ballesteros won $160,000.

Quotebook

Kathi Hahn, wife of Ohio University basketball Coach Billy Hahn, asked what she thinks of while watching her husband’s antics on the bench during a game: “The dry-cleaning bill.”