There’s Nothing Mickey Mouse About What Crooks Are After

Watch out. This is the advice police in Minneapolis are giving to Super Bowl fans who need to guard against pickpockets, prostitutes and “Rolex women.”

Uh, “Rolex women?” According to an Associated Press report, they are so-called because they pick out men wearing expensive jewelry, seduce them, drug them and make off with their fancy watches after they pass out.

Detective Rich Klingeman of the Bloomington, Minn., Police Dept. said it’s probably a good time to be careful: “If it looks too good to believe, it probably is.”

Last call: Attention, Super Bowl revelers. The taps shut down at 1 a.m. in Bloomington. In Minneapolis, pubs with special permits can stay open until 3 a.m.

Trivia time: What is the projected total economic impact of the Super Bowl on the Twin Cities?

Just kidding?Washington Redskin owner Jack Kent Cooke called quarterback Mark Rypien a “bloody idiot” for holding out 10 days at the start of training camp. Wonder what Cooke thinks about Rypien now.

Prophet: Don’t forget this Super Bowl prediction from CBS analyst John Madden: “Washington looks unbeatable.”

Prophet II: Don’t forget this Super Bowl prediction from Buffalo Bill quarterback Jim Kelly: “I thrive on a fast track. This (Metrodome) is a quarterback’s dream--no wind, no rain.”

Soloists: Kelly is one of only two NFL quarterbacks who call their own plays. John Elway is the other.

Jump center: Stanford basketball Coach Mike Montgomery claimed he was unconcerned last spring when his top player, Adam Keefe, went bungee-jumping. “My only concern was that (UCLA Coach Jim) Harrick or (USC Coach George) Raveling, or one of those guys, would go lengthen the cord,” Montgomery said.

Snow job: Obviously, Phil Jackman of the Baltimore Evening Sun is not a fan of certain famous bobsledders. Wrote Jackson: “If the Willie Gaults and Herschel Walkers of the world are such big sportsmen, not just publicity-seeking egomaniacs, why don’t they take a shot at the rugged Iditarod 1,100-mile dogsled mush across Alaska instead of knocking lifetime bobsledders off the U.S. Olympic team?”

Least East: Remember the Big East? It may be shaping up as a down year for the conference that was expected to dominate the college game for a while. Connecticut is the only Big East team ranked in the top 10.

And no interceptions: Florida State sophomore Charlie Ward, who is the probable starting quarterback for the Seminoles next fall, is averaging 7.8 points and 3.3 steals a game as a guard on the basketball team.

Riled up: What exactly did Knick Coach Pat Riley say about the officials after New York’s loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers that cost him a $2,500 fine?

Said Riley: “A great effort and a win that was really, I felt, taken away from us. It’s just tough to lose it that way. It was taken away.”

That doesn’t exactly sound like $2,500 worth, does it?

Trivia answer: $165 million, according to Jim Wright, Minneapolis city coordinator.

Quotebook: Russ Grimm, 32, of the Washington Redskins, on reassessing his thoughts about retiring: “I don’t want to close the door. You don’t know what’s on the other side. You might have to get out there in the real world and you might not like it.”