Casting Call May Be Needed After the Show

The Extreme Games, which will feature competition in at least 27 events and nine sports, will make their debut in 1995.

Participants in the made-for-television event will compete in bungee jumping, in-line skating, mountain biking, orienteering endurance, skateboarding, sky surfing, sport climbing, street luge racing, board sailing, kite skiing and barefoot ski jumping.

Wrote Ray Frager of the Baltimore Sun: “Medals will be awarded in gold, silver and plaster.”

Trivia time: What pitcher lost the most games in the major leagues last season?

The Expendable One? Wrote Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe: “Doesn’t it make all the sense in Wayne’s World for the Kings to trade Wayne Gretzky? For starters, they could dump his $8-million salary and still get a couple of good players and probably some draft picks. . . .

“Right now, the Kings are dead in the water, proof that 1992-93 was a mirage. Dealing Gretzky could be their only way to keep fans happy in the long run.”

Whole lotta love: In a complete-the-sentence interview with Sun magazine, Pete Sampras said the rock band he most wished he had been in was Led Zeppelin.

The world’s No. 1 tennis player has left many more than one opponent trampled underfoot.

It’s a start: Asked to assess the play of Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, who played a round of golf recently at White Cliffs Country Club in Plymouth, Mass., pro Mark Buell told the Boston Globe, “She hit it every time she swung at the ball.”

Head-turner: Said right fielder Jim Eisenreich of the Philadelphia Phillies after the Dodgers’ Mike Piazza hit a three-run home run Monday night with an awkward, one-handed swing: “I couldn’t believe he hit it that far with that swing. At first, I thought it would be foul, but it had a backspin and still went a good 10 feet past the fence. He’s incredibly strong.”

Bad boy wanna-be: Michael Moorer, who will fight Evander Holyfield for the heavyweight championship tonight, said he would have been good for the Detroit Pistons.

“I can knock guys out on the court as well as I can in the ring,” he said.

Trivia answer: Scott Erickson of the Minnesota Twins, who was 8-19.

Quotebook: Dan Wilkinson, a defensive tackle who is expected to be among the top picks in Sunday’s NFL draft after giving up his final two seasons of eligibility at Ohio State: “When you’re a kid growing up, you don’t dream about school, you dream about playing in the National Football League.”