Klingler Had a Pretty Good Track Record

If University of Houston quarterback David Klingler hadn’t become a football player, he might have been a good decathlete.

Klingler, who has a vertical leap of 38 inches, high jumped 6 feet 9 and long jumped 25 feet in high school.

“His high school track coach asked him to run the 100 (meters) at the district meet even though he had never run it before,” Klingler’s father, Dick, told the Sporting News. “He ran a 10.77 and finished fourth.

“With a little work, I think David could have been another Bruce Jenner. He’s got the size, the build and the upper body strength.”

Add Klingler: He can lift more than 200 pounds--with his right arm alone.

Trivia time: How many numbers have the USC and UCLA football teams retired?

Kiss and tell: Morganna, the kissing bandit who disrupts sporting events by running onto the field and kissing players, has company.

Topsy Curvy, a buxom blonde, ran onto the field at Shea Stadium during a game between the New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals, threw her arms around Met pitcher David Cone, and hugged him.

It was the second time in less than a month that she had disrupted a baseball game in New York. On July 28, she ran onto the field at Yankee Stadium during a game between the Angels and the Yankees.

Taking a cut: Doug Williams, who earned $1.2 million in his final season of pro football, is being paid $32,000 a year in his new job as a high school coach.

The former Washington Redskin quarterback is the football coach and athletic director at Central Pointe Coupee High, a new school in New Roads, La.

“The average guy who’s been where I’ve been would not be here,” said Williams, who works 12 hours a day. “You have all these guys who are professional athletes saying they are ‘giving something back to the game.’ They’re not giving anything back. This is giving back. This is the bottom line.”

So far, Williams hasn’t tried to use much of the Redskin playbook.

“Sure, I would love to be able to do some of the things we did at Washington, but I know we are not at that level,” Williams said. “Here’s where the patience comes in.”

Million-dollar mile: Want to make a million?

Start running.

The Indonesian Athletic Federation has offered $1 million for the athlete who breaks the mile record of 3 minutes 46.32 seconds, set by Britain’s Steve Cram in 1985.

Ten of the world’s top milers have entered the Million Dollar Mile, to be run Oct. 3 in Jakarta.

Already in the field are Said Aouita of Morocco, Peter Rono of Kenya and Cram.

But there’s a catch.

The race will be held just one month after the World Championships in Tokyo and some of the athletes will probably have long since peaked.

Dept. of irony: Rickey Henderson must be getting tired of being upstaged by Nolan Ryan.

Two years ago yesterday, Ryan fanned Henderson for his 5,000 career strikeout.

Earlier this season, on the day Henderson broke baseball’s stolen base record by swiping his 939th base, Ryan pitched his seventh no-hitter.

Trivia answer: USC has retired the numbers of its four Heisman Trophy winners--Mike Garrett, 20; O.J. Simpson, 32; Charles White, 12, and Marcus Allen, 33. UCLA has retired seven jerseys: Kenny Easley, 5; Kenny Washington, 13; Gary Beban, 16; Paul Cameron, 34; Burr Baldwin, 38; Donn Moomaw, 80, and Jerry Robinson, 84.

Quotebook: Bo Jackson on his return to baseball: “I think the media is making more hype out of this than I am. I’m just going out there to play ball. Once I get there, it won’t be Bo Jackson playing a baseball game. It’ll just be a baseball game.”