Sanders Might Be an All-Pro, but He’s Definitely All-Jewelry

C.W. Nevius of the San Francisco Chronicle on Deion Sanders, who shopped his services to several NFL teams and is expected to sign with the 49ers:

“Sanders is the guy who made getting dressed after a game a media event. The listing of his various rings, necklaces, watches and bracelets filled a good three paragraphs.

“When he used to follow that up by pulling on a pair of boxer shorts with green dollar signs on them, the scene was complete.”

Trivia time: Who was USC’s opponent in its first football game in 1888?

Count down: Fight doctor Ferdie Pacheco was asked to comment on whether Julio Cesar Chavez, who meets Meldrick Taylor on Saturday night in a pay-per-view bout at the MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas, should continue to fight.

“You’re asking the wrong guy,” he said. “My opinion is get out while you have all your brains all together and your money and, as Joe Bugner put it, the ability to count it.”

Jurassic Park: Bill Lyon of the Philadelphia Inquirer remembering feared linebacker Dick Butkus of the Chicago Bears:

“His eyes would congeal into dark, beady, predatorial slits. Bent, bow-legged, with knuckles all but dragging along the ground, he looked positively primal.

“He was either going to stuff a running back, or club a T-Rex.”

Intrigue: Dan Patrick, ESPN announcer, on his colleague, Keith Olbermann:

“I still view him as the weird guy in the basement with a chemistry set. I don’t want to go down there to see what he’s doing, but I know he’s up to something.”

Ernie who? Ernie Banks, a Hall of Fame player with the Chicago Cubs, along with a friend, wanted to see a home Michael Jordan is building in a Chicago suburb.

Unfortunately, a security guard didn’t recognize “Mr. Cub,” even though he played 18 years for the team, made 11 All-Star teams and hit 512 home runs.

“No, he didn’t know me,” Banks told Steve Rosenbloom of the Chicago Sun-Times. “I’ve been in the Vatican and White House, but I couldn’t get in to see (Jordan’s) house.”

Fixer upper? The Seattle Kingdome won’t be available to the NFL Seahawks until Nov. 1 because of repairs being made to the roof.

Club President Ken Behring initially called the Kingdome an Edsel, then backtracked.

“I would apologize to an Edsel,” he said. “We have a building here that was never well designed, that was never well built and was poorly maintained from day one.

“Plus, it’s downright homely. It was outdated at the time it was built.”

Trivia answer: The Alliance AC. USC won, 16-0.

Quotebook: Nick Price on his golfing hot streak with six victories this year: “I know it won’t last. But it sure is one hell of a lot of fun while it’s going on.”