Notes on a Scorecard - June 26, 1990

For a million and one reasons--well, at least four--the Clippers should draft Bo Kimble Wednesday. . . .

1. He’s the shooting guard they need. 2. He would fit perfectly into Coach Mike Schuler’s run-and-gun offense. 3. He would give the team a much-needed public relations boost. 4. He would rather play basketball in Los Angeles than in Italy. . . .

Of course, there’s the question of whether the Loyola Marymount star will be available when the Clippers draft eighth. Most reports say he will be. . . .

The Lakers would be making a mistake if they traded A.C. Green for a mid-first round choice. . . .

When the NBA came to Los Angeles 30 years ago, there were eight teams in the league. Now there are 27. In other words, some first-round draft choices in 1990 are the equivalent of fourth-rounders in 1960. . . .

George Raveling remains bullish on the most controversial player in this year’s draft, former Florida center Dwayne Schintzius. “He’s the best passing big man since Bill Walton,” said Raveling, the USC coach who was an assistant to John Thompson on the U.S. 1988 Olympic Games team. “Schintzius was one of our last cuts. He never gave us any trouble during the 30 days of tryouts.” . . .

Raveling was surprised that Thompson turned down the deal with the Denver Nuggets that would have been worth about $4 million in ownership, $750,000 in annual salary, and the possibility of more in bonus clauses. . . .

The USC Board of Trustees has approved a feasibility study for a campus basketball arena that would seat 8,000 to 10,000. . . .

If Tom Lasorda had a reliable bullpen, he would have taken out Fernando Valenzuela earlier in Cincinnati Sunday night. . . .

However, Lasorda should have juggled his rotation and gotten Ramon Martinez at least one start during the recent seven games against the division-leading Reds. . . .

Belated congratulations to Mike Port on the trades that brought the Angels Luis Polonia and Dave Winfield. . . .

Can you remember the last time a baseball manager’s protest of a game was upheld?. . . .

The new Cohen Center in El Paso looks nice, but there are other ballparks just like it. There was only one Dudley Dome. . . .

Nobody with a last name beginning with the letter X has ever played major league baseball. . . .

Look-alikes: Actress Charlotte Rae and Marge Schott. . . .

I actually heard two people talking about the World Cup in The Times lobby Monday. They were raving about the West Germany-Netherlands game. . . .

Hollywood Park should have delayed its first Friday night card a week and focused all its advertising and publicity on the Gold Cup. The race of the year Sunday deserved a bigger crowd than 30,010. . . .

In dress and speech, Wayne Lukas is the Pat Riley of the race track. . . .

John Hammond, the chief scout of the Minnesota Timberwolves, is expected to become one of Schuler’s assistant coaches with the Clippers. . . .

You’re trying to tell me that Janet Evans won only six events at the Swim Meet of Champions at Mission Viejo during the weekend? . . .

All those months of preparation and then Ivan Lendl loses the first set at Wimbledon to Christian Miniussi. . . .

Starting Saturday, the Tour de France, World Cup and Wimbledon will compete for space in European newspapers. . . .

The Detroit Piston influence was not felt Sunday at Larry Bird’s charity game in Indianapolis, where the Whites beat the Reds, 168-161. . . .

Light flyweight Michael Carbajal has become the most successful professional of the 1988 U.S. Olympic boxing team. Among the disappointments have been Andrew Maynard and Anthony Hembrick, both knockout losers in recent bouts. . . .

George Foreman, who beat five men one afternoon in Toronto, wants to fight in Canada again in late July. There would be only one opponent. . . .

Eddie Cotton, who died Sunday, will be best remembered for his fight against light-heavyweight champion Jose Torres in 1966. Just about everyone at the Las Vegas Convention Center except the judges thought Cotton, then 39, beat Torres. . . .

Participants in the 39th Shrine All-Star football game July 28 at the Rose Bowl have only recently graduated from high school, but the average offensive lineman is 6-foot-4 and 251 pounds for the North and 6-5, 243 for the South. . . .

Chris McCarron, on crutches after suffering broken legs in a spill three weeks ago, found himself in close quarters again in the Hollywood Park elevator Sunday. I was standing in front of him. “You OK, Chris?” somebody asked. “Yeah, just as long as Allan doesn’t fall down in front of me,” he replied.