Notes on a Scorecard - Dec. 17, 1990

It sure will be nice to have Bo Jackson--a veteran of the Tangerine, Cotton, Liberty, Sugar, Senior and Japan bowls--back playing postseason football after a four-year hiatus. . . .

Bo is even more versatile than some TV commercial scriptwriters think. He can hurdle, too. He wouldn’t have made that 88-yard run against Cincinnati if he hadn’t leaped over the fallen body of blocker Jay Schroeder. . . .

Wonder how Bo, who went to Auburn, felt about somebody named Bama Glass working as line judge Sunday in the Coliseum. . . .

The Raiders are getting exceptional cornerback play from Terry McDaniel, who made the defensive play of the game by intercepting Boomer Esiason’s pass in the end zone in the second quarter when the Bengals were trailing only 14-7. . . .

Remember this about the Ram-49er rematch tonight: San Francisco has the Anaheim Stadium advantage. . . .

More than a few New York fans showed their usual class by cheering when Buffalo quarterback Jim Kelly went down Saturday at the Meadowlands. . . .

A Frank Reich-Jeff Hostetler quarterback duel isn’t exactly what I had in mind. . . .

Maybe Warren Moon should be voted AFC most valuable player. . . .

If bullpens decide pennants, as Tommy Lasorda says, don’t concede the National League West pennant to the Dodgers quite yet. . . .

Bob Ojeda and Kevin Gross don’t necessarily answer the questions about the starting rotation, either. . . .

However, Brett Butler might be even more valuable to his new team than Darryl Strawberry. Butler fills two Dodger needs--leadoff hitter and center fielder--and gives them their first Steve Sax-type player since Steve Sax. . . .

Butler on Strawberry: “I’m excited. I only hope he doesn’t run into me.” . . .

I like the idea that the Dodgers were able to strengthen themselves without trading Kal Daniels. . . .

Sudden thought: Why not re-sign Fernando Valenzuela, who began his Dodger career as a reliever, and put him back in the bullpen? . . .

The Kings ended their winless streak Saturday night at the Forum because Wayne Gretzky did what he’s paid to do: dominate a game. . . .

Pity the person who sat behind Manute Bol at the Mike Tyson-Alex Stewart fight. . . . Think the Lakers could use Frank Brickowski now? . . .

Bill Musselman is Paul Westhead in reverse. . . .

On Saturday, Westhead’s Denver Nuggets lost, 142-134, to Phoenix, but gave up 30 fewer points than his old team, Loyola Marymount, did losing to Oklahoma. . . .

Clipper forward Charles Smith again showed that he has become a premier NBA player when he scored 27 points and grabbed 11 rebounds in Milwaukee Saturday although he could hardly get up and down the court because of an injured thigh. . . .

Wednesday was a crazy night in the NBA. Five of seven road teams won. . . .

USC Coach George Raveling thinks the Trojans’ best win so far this season was at Colorado State, although they beat Notre Dame more decisively in South Bend than UCLA did in Westwood. . . .

Basketball announcers and graphics people still aren’t giving us the score enough. . . .

After winning the $250,000 Bay Meadows Handicap aboard longshot New Zealand import Robinski Saturday, Jorge Velasquez gave most of the credit to trainer Roger Stein. It was the most important thoroughbred victory yet for Stein, the former champion Standardbred trainer. . . .

The Main Event, a sports journal for physicians, listed its top 10 physician-athletes of all time: Tenley Albright, figure skating; Roger Bannister, track and field; Dan Fortmann, football; Sammy Lee, diving; Jack Lovelock, track and field; George (Doc) Medich, baseball; W. Delano Meriweather, track and field; Benjamin Spock, rowing; Ernie Vandeweghe, basketball; and William Yorzyk, swimming. . . .

Cases could have been made for, among others, football’s Bill McColl and baseball’s Bobby Brown. . . .

Just imagine how much attention Andre Agassi will get if he ever wins a major tournament. . . .

American tennis must be in pretty good shape when all four semifinalists in the Grand Slam Cup are Yanks. . . .

NFL Films is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Founder Ed Sabol got his first NFL job in 1962 when he successfully bid for the rights to film the championship game between the Green Bay Packers and New York Giants. The bid was $3,000, twice that of the year before. . . .

Tying Louisiana Tech in the Poulan Weed Eater Independence Bowl is like kissing your mother-in-law.