Notes on a Scorecard - Jan. 11, 1990

Anybody else sick and tired of watching the Denver Broncos being blown out of Super Bowls? I hereby become an honorary member of the Southern California Browns Backers Assn. Let’s allow a breath of fresh air into the bowl on Jan. 28. . . .

What the Browns must do Sunday against John Elway, though, is tighten up a pass defense that has allowed career-high yardage totals to Buffalo’s Jim Kelly and Houston’s Warren Moon the past two weeks. . . .

Ram Coach John Robinson looks at football the way the late manager Cus D’Amato did boxing: “The biggest thing in the game is imposing your will on somebody else.” . . .

The Rams won the first regular-season game, 13-12, and the San Francisco 49ers the second, 30-27. The hunch here is that the lower the score the better for the Rams, who must limit Joe Montana’s quick strikes. . . .

Dramatic victories are nothing new for Robinson. The USC media guide lists nine of them during his seven-year Trojan coaching career. . . .

Robinson believes the Rams have a half-dozen other youngsters who can follow the lead of Flipper Anderson and soon become important players. That’s what the Eric Dickerson deal helped do for the franchise. . . .

Jack Pardee has moved into an uncommonly good spot for a new coach at Houston, where the talent is young and plentiful and the team is coming off three consecutive playoff appearances. . . .

Coach Tom Webster of the Kings may be too nice a guy, a problem his predecessor Robbie Ftorek never had. . . .

Don’t expect many ballplayers in the future to spend an entire 19-year career with the same team, as Hall of Famer Jim Palmer did with the Baltimore Orioles. . . .

Jim Bibby and Jerry Remy each got a Hall of Fame vote. . . .

Jo Lasorda, wife of Tommy, recently underwent arthroscopic surgery on her knee but says she will be ready for the opening of Dodger spring training in Vero Beach, Fla. . . .

All 12,740 tickets for the UCLA-Arizona game Saturday at Pauley Pavilion were gone two weeks ago, making it one of the earliest sellouts in Westwood since the glory days. . . .

Arizona has a rare two-game winning streak at Pauley, having won, 89-86, last year and in overtime, 78-76, two years ago. . . .

Volleyball fans will stick around for the second game of the “doubleheader” Saturday to watch the alumni, led by Sinjin Smith, play the UCLA varsity at 7:30 p.m. . . .

I guess Oklahoma beat Arkansas Little Rock by only 53 points because Billy Tubbs is such good friends with Mike Newell. . . .

Loyola Marymount’s Bo Kimble can do more than shoot. He also leads the West Coast Conference in steals. . . .

The nation’s most highly touted freshman basketball player, guard Kenny Anderson, is living up to his notices and is a reason Georgia Tech is unbeaten coming into tonight’s game against Duke. . . .

If any professional athletes are underpaid, it’s the bowlers who open their tour this week at Gable House Bowl in Torrance. . . .

Michael Nunn should be more appreciative of the Goossen brothers, who have done a terrific job handling his career. . . .

The Sugar Ray Leonard-Roberto Duran seniors’ dance has hurt the box office for George Foreman-Gerry Cooney Monday in Atlantic City, N.J. . . .

The late football legend, Bronko Nagurski, is also remembered as a professional wrestler who used to draw big crowds at old Wrigley Field in Los Angeles before World War II. . . .

Add Lou Saban, who once was president of the New York Yankees, to the list of football people who made the switch to baseball. . . .

John Wooden, who loves the game, would have been a successful baseball manager. . . .

Ron Shelton is putting the finishing touches on “Blue Chips,” a screenplay for 20th Century Fox that explores college basketball recruiting. . . .

Why is it that hockey players are the only ones in sports who do TV and radio interviews during intermission? . . .

There are 11 NBA players under 6 feet. . . .

Charles Barkley, who sometimes doesn’t think much of his own Philadelphia 76ers, speaks so highly of the Clippers that they’ve been using his quotes on television commercials. . . .