Perhaps Jordan Would Be Up to NFL Task

Steve Rosenbloom of the Chicago Sun-Times writes that Philadelphia quarterback Randall Cunningham would sign Michael Jordan now to play for the Eagles as a two-point conversion specialist.

“Put a guy like Michael Jordan in the backfield, hand him the ball and let him dive over,” Cunningham said. “Anybody can dive over from two yards. That will make a difference in the game.

“If teams are smart, they’ll use it.”

A new challenge for Air Jordan?

Trivia time: Who holds the NFL record for most touchdowns rushing?

Overpaid?Kevin Paul Dupont in the Boston Globe on the Kings’ signing of Jari Kurri for $2 million a year for two years:

“Sorry, the guy’s got Jack Clark written all over him. Good guy, but he already was clicking at less than a point per game last year, and the big ticket now looks like money paid for past performance--and most of that happened in Edmonton.”

Name crisis: John Steigerwald of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on what he calls the singular-name plague:

“You can trace the origin back to the World Football League in the mid-1970s, but the tradition has been carried on and totally abused by several indoor soccer leagues.

“Chicago Wind and Philadelphia Bell were bad enough. But soccer brought us the Pittsburgh Spirit, the Cleveland Force and Cleveland Crunch, and now we have the Anaheim Splash. It’s time for the federal government to get involved.”

Too good, too far: West Virginia’s Todd Sauerbrun averaged 60.1 yards on nine punts, one a 90-yard effort, in his team’s 31-0 loss to Nebraska in the Kickoff Classic on Aug. 28.

Impressive? Not particularly to West Virginia Coach Don Nehlen, who said: “Todd punted the ball real well, but the problem is, he kicked it too far and we couldn’t cover it. Then, they’d still bring it back 20 yards.”

Dream course: Lee Trevino told Golf World why he loves the Pinehurst No. 2 course in North Carolina:

“No condominiums, no houses around it. You see other players when you look across the fairways. You don’t see a big dog going, ‘Woof, woof.’

“You don’t see fences, and you don’t see those rubber pink flamingos in back yards or any other goofy things like you see on other courses.”

Trivia answer: Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears, with 110 from 1975-1987.

Quotebook: Green Bay quarterback Brett Favre on Ed West, a 33-year-old tight end: “He looks like some guy we picked up from Wal-Mart.”