Open Your Eyes and Say Hello to Picabo Street

Picabo Street, the bubbly American downhill skier who won a silver medal in the Albertville Olympics, has dreams of being a country-western singer or a broadcaster, and drives like an Indianapolis 500 participant, according to Outside magazine.

How else has Street enjoyed her post-Olympic celebrity?

She was able to attend a charity benefit and got to meet Jack Nicholson and Whoopi Goldberg.

“And Christian Slater,” she told Outside. “He’s my full-on heartthrob. He kinda realized who I was, but I don’t know. He was semi out of it.”

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Trivia question: Who has the record for receiving the highest number of ballot points in Heisman Award voting?

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Conjugate this: Steve Hummer of the Atlanta Journal/Constitution has had it up to his shoulder pads with the Philadelphia Eagles.

Writes Hummer: “Enough of the Philadelphia quarterback upheaval and the pillorying of Rich Kotite, who looks to be a perfectly fine junior high English teacher.”

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Foolish Bull: In its year-end wrap-up of “The Lamest of the Lame,” Inside Edge magazine lists the Chicago Bulls’ Scottie Pippen right alongside Burt Reynolds, Tori Spelling and Fabio.

Here’s why:

“What have you got to complain about?” the magazine says. “Michael’s gone, you’ve had your chance to (star), you’re making millions, and yet you’re suddenly (an idiot)? Or were you one all along?”

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Cool Cowboy: By the way, if you haven’t already figured it out, Inside Edge is directed toward a Generation X audience. The magazine says that Dallas Cowboy Emmitt Smith, though, is a sportsman to respect.

“Big, strong, fast, mean--well, he’s not mean as long as you’re not on the opposition’s defense,” they write. “ . . . There’s the two Super Bowl rings, the MVP awards, the trips to the Pro Bowl, the ads, the media hype, the fans, and the huge wads of cash. We mean huge!”

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Fore more years? He hits the ball long, but has an uncertain short game. Oh, and he isn’t chintzy with the mulligans, either. For President Clinton, according to Golf Digest, golf is a true passion.

“Whether it’s on Army base courses or private and public courses in his travels, President Clinton plays as much golf as any President ever has,” the magazine writes.

“Rumor has it, he’s trying to break President Eisenhower’s record of 150 rounds in a year while in office.”

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Trivia answer: USC’s O.J. Simpson, in 1968.

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Quotebook: Picabo Street on Nancy Kerrigan, Tonya Harding and all the other Olympic figure skaters she has known: “I’ve never met a normal one yet.”