During Hunting Season, Don’t Disturb the Prey

Dexter Manley, a former Washington Redskin defensive end, has advice for players rushing a quarterback: “Shut your mouth.”

Manley told Sport magazine that he once drew a bead on Philadelphia Eagle quarterback Ron Jaworski, but he alerted Jaworski by screaming.

“Jaworski ducked and I flew over his back,” Manley said. “You don’t want to scare him away. It’s like a hunter not wanting to scare his deer.

“But on that particular play against Philly, I screamed. I was like, ‘I got one!’ But I missed. I wish I could have mounted Jaworski on my wall.”

Trivia time: Who holds the NBA record for highest scoring average in a season?

One on five: Bob Lanier, a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, on former USC standout Harold Miner, now with the Miami Heat:

“There’s an aura of excitement when the ball is in his hands. As soon as he learns to play with everyone else, he’s going to be a good one.”

Lead bench: Kerry Eggers of the Portland Oregonian reported that two reserve players on the San Antonio Spurs--Lloyd Daniels and Sam Mack--have bullets lodged in their bodies as a result of shootings.

Eggers quotes an unnamed sports writer as saying of new Spur Coach Jerry Tarkanian: “When Tark goes to his bench, he has two choices--leaded or unleaded.”

Looking back: Mike Shanahan, the offensive coordinator of the San Francisco 49ers, on his head coaching experience with the Raiders before he was fired in 1989:

“All I would have liked to have done as a head coach is to have the opportunity to run the football team,” he told the San Francisco Examiner. “Not the whole organization, just the team. But with the Raiders, Al (Davis) runs the organization, the offense, the defense, everything.”

The candy man: Montreal Canadien forward Brian Skrudland has missed more than 100 games in the last four seasons because of injuries. However, he doesn’t like to be called injury prone, or worse, brittle.

“Brittle is a candy--I hope I’m not a candy,” Skrudland told the Boston Globe. “But in the last five years, I’m the guy who keeps taking a licking.”

Why worry? Rick Essex, a police officer at the University of Washington, said of two football players who have permits to carry concealed weapons: “They can run 40 yards in less than five seconds. I don’t know what they are worried about.”

Timber! Konishiki, the 580-pound Hawaiian who became a sumo wrestling star in Japan, told GQ magazine: “I break dance. I break the floor when I dance.”

Ten, the hard way: Gary Hallberg’s total score on two par-five holes on the front nine of the recent Mexican Open was 10. Ho hum, two pars.

Not quite. Hallberg made an eight on the 565-yard third hole and a double-eagle two when he holed a four-iron shot on the 473-yard seventh hole.

Trivia answer: Wilt Chamberlain, 50.4 points, 1961-62.

Quotebook: New York Jet defensive end Paul Frase on his team’s 3-9 record: “I feel like I’m stuck in a Stephen King novel--’Misery,’ or something.”