This Team of Neuheisels Would Rather Not Run Triple Option

Rick Neuheisel, Colorado’s new football coach, has a law degree. His father, Dick, and his sister, Katie, are partners in a law firm.

“If Rick had gone into practice with his dad, it would have been Neuheisel and Neuheisel,” Rick’s mother, Jane, told Jim Armstrong of the Denver Post.

“Now that Katie is his partner, that would have made it Neuheisel, Neuheisel and Neuheisel. . . . I don’t know about that.”

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Trivia time: Who holds the NCAA Division I record for most free throws made in a game?

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Aloha to this game: David Casstevens of the Arizona Republic on the Dec. 25 Aloha Bowl: “Just once it would be nice to have no sports on Christmas Day. ESPN will urge Christians to celebrate the birth of Jesus by cheering on those two old Hawaiian favorites, Kansas State and Boston College.”

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Come again? Heavyweight champion George Foreman during the Riddick Bowe-Larry Donald bout:

“Donald needs to take five steps backward in whatever direction. Bowe acted like Donald’s jabs didn’t hurt, and it doesn’t, but it takes its toll.”

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Beer run: The postponement of Tuesday night’s NBA game between the Phoenix Suns and Washington Bullets because of moisture on the court at the USAir Arena at Landover, Md., didn’t bother Charles Barkley.

“I’m going out in New York City. I have better things to do,” the Sun star said. “They should have postponed this thing a half-hour sooner--I’d have a six-pack in my system by now.”

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Alternative: John Hillyer in the San Francisco Examiner: “Unhappiness over playing time has Seattle’s Kendall Gill demanding to be traded. Suppose he’d be happier as a Clipper?”

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Not so fast: Edwin Pope of the Miami Herald writing before the Dolphins played the Buffalo Bills on Sunday night:

“This time they (the Dolphins) are for real, past the point of folding. This is a different team with better skills and more heart.”

Yawn. Buffalo won, 42-31.

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Greg who? Greg Sutton, a reserve guard for the Charlotte Hornets, appraising his skills: “I’ve got a great all-around game. Offensively, I’m great. Defensively, I’m great. I don’t think I have any lows in any part of my game.”

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Bland: Bill Lyon in the Philadelphia Inquirer on the struggling Eagles:

“You’d like some fizz, some carbonation, some tang. Something to tickle your nose. Something to induce a burp, a hiccup, a gasp. . . . something .

“But these Eagles, instead, are tap water.”

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Looking back: On this day in 1940, the Chicago Bears defeated the Washington Redskins, 73-0, to win the NFL championship.

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Trivia answer: Pete Maravich of Louisiana State with 30 in 31 attempts against Oregon State on Dec. 22, 1969.

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Quotebook: San Antonio Spur guard Avery Johnson, after a loss to Seattle at the Alamodome: “It’s frustrating losing at home. It’s like bad gumbo. I hate it.”