Notes on a Scorecard - May 18, 1993

The Kings lost ugly Monday night. . . .

Getting outscored, 3-0, and outshot, 22-1, during the third period in Maple Leaf Gardens was bad enough. . . .

Losing their cool and taking runs at the feisty Toronto star, Doug Gilmour, made it even worse. . . .

Fists and elbows aren’t what brought the Kings into the Campbell Conference championship series for the first time. . . .

They need to return to their run-and-gun, no-nonsense style Wednesday, when a slow-down, penalty-filled game would favor the Leafs. . . .

Whipping the American League West leaders in Chicago after a losing home stand was the kind of thing that should make the Angels believe in themselves even more. . . .

The only thing the Dodgers play worse than outdoor baseball is indoor baseball. . . .

Pay attention to the credits after writer-director Jim Abrahams’ “Hots Shots! Part Deux,” and you will see: “FUN FACT: Baseball superstar Darryl Strawberry spends his winters thinking of new excuses.” . . .

Yeah, but at least one of his excuses, recovery from back surgery, is legitimate. . . .

Todd Scott of Brentwood writes: “Glancing at the list of major league batting leaders recently and seeing the names of Bonds, Alou, May, Williams, McRae and Griffey, I thought I had accidentally picked up a newspaper from the 1970s.” . . .

If the Colorado Rockies continue to lose, they might draw only 45,000 for their next home game. . . .

It seems to me that there are more no-hit bids ruined in the ninth inning than there are no-hitters. . . .

As usual, a Boston Red Sox third baseman is hitting over .300--Scott Cooper. . . .

Cable TV ratings for the Philadelphia Phillies’ games have tripled from a year ago. . . .

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Angel President Richard Brown will be honored by the Anti-Defamation League, Pacific Southwest Region Legal Division, at a dinner-dance June 3 at the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum. . . .

Player of the week: UCLA first baseman-pitcher Ryan McGuire, who led the Bruins to four victories in five games and a probable NCAA bid. McGuire pitched 6 1/3 innings of hitless relief, earned a victory and a save, went nine for 20, hit two home runs, drove in six runs and walked nine times. . . .

McGuire, who will stick to first base in the pros, is projected by Baseball America as the 18th selection in the draft in June. . . .

Look-alikes: Houston Rocket Coach Rudy Tomjanovich and singer Brian Ferry. . . .

Tomjanovich has done a terrific job, but I’m not about to argue with the choice of the New York Knicks’ Pat Riley as coach of the year. . . .

The Clippers, who have had about as many publicists as coaches, lost a good one when Mike Williams left to start a marketing and design business in Olympia, Wash. . . .

A heavyweight to watch is 6-foot-8, 240-pound Lance Whitaker, who won the Golden Gloves Tournament of Champions title in only his 15th amateur fight Saturday at Little Rock, Ark. . . .

Nicknamed “the Undertaker,” Whitaker, 21, is a former football and basketball player at San Fernando High and a powerful right-handed puncher. . . .

Carlos Navarro, 112 pounds, and Guillermo Moreno, 125, also won titles for the Southern California team that finished second to Knoxville, Tenn. Navarro was selected as the tournament’s outstanding boxer. . . .

Busiest fighter on TV is Oscar De La Hoya. His bout against former International Boxing Federation featherweight champion Troy Dorsey on the George Foreman-Tommy Morrison pay-per-view card June 7 will be his eighth since he turned pro in November and all have been televised. . . .

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The segment on Riddick Bowe’s manager, Rock Newman, will not rank among “60 Minutes’ ” hardest-hitting pieces. . . .

Scott Simpson showed more emotion after overcoming three bogeys on the back nine and winning the Byron Nelson Classic on Sunday than he did after winning the 1987 U.S. Open. . . . No more than four of the 19 horses that ran in the Kentucky Derby will compete in all three Triple Crown races. . . .

Sea Hero’s fifth-place finish in the Preakness meant no Triple Crown winner again and slim interest in the Belmont Stakes on June 5. . . .

O.J. Simpson is part owner of Hoosie, a 3-year-old colt who made his debut by winning a six-furlong race for maiden claimers Sunday at Hollywood Park. . . .

Congratulations to Genuine Risk on the birth of her first live foal, a boy. . . .

Wayne Gretzky owns at least a share of 58 NHL records. I didn’t think there were 58 NHL records.