He Has Lots of Runs, Hits and Arrows

An avid archer, first baseman Will Clark of the Texas Rangers displayed a unique way of keeping his eyesight sharp while the team was in Toronto. He took target practice on the SkyDome infield an hour after a game.

“This is my off-season thing,” said Clark, a quiver full of arrows on his back and a hunting bow in his hands.

“This is what I do when I get away from everybody. It’s what I do in my time away from the game,” he added, hitting the middle of a four-inch target 100 feet away.

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Trivia time: Corey Pavin is not the first UCLA golfer to win a national championship. Who was?

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Expensive lodging: After Indiana University was given a hefty fine for basketball Coach Bobby Knight’s profane outburst following the Hoosiers’ first-round NCAA loss in Idaho, it prompted columnist Randy Hill of the Pasadena Star-News to comment:

“You might say the Hoosiers’ tab from Boise figures out to $30,000 per Knight.”

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Passed around: Darryl Strawberry, when he appears in his first game with the New York Yankees, will become the first player in baseball history to have played for all the teams with New York ties, the Dodgers, Giants, Yankees and Mets.

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Crusty decision: Pizza Hut has scrapped plans to make a commercial with Pete Rose.

The script depicted a young boy asking Rose about his accomplishments in baseball. At the end, Rose would have asked if the boy likes his pizza and the boy replies, “You bet.”

Rose would have told him that wasn’t the best choice of words.

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Pick your sport: The National Unhappy Fedup Fan Assn. (NUFFA) is looking for members. Details: (612) 646-3500.

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Down and dirty: Since the closing of Riverside International Raceway in 1988, motor racing enthusiasts have been waiting for someone to “move dirt” on a number of proposed tracks.

To assure that they indeed had moved dirt to start construction on a track in Buttonwillow, Cal Club publicists included a sample of dusty Lokern Clay No. 3, neatly packaged, with their press announcement.

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A good question: A recent headline in The Times: “The Mick Wasn’t the Babe, but He Could Have Been.”

Reader and former columnist John Hall wants to know, “Who could the Babe have been?”

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Summertime fun: The Power Bar International Women’s Challenge bicycle race was halted in mid-stage Monday because of a freak snowstorm near the mountain resort of Ketchum, Ida.

“It was like a middle-of-the-ski-season blizzard,” said Jolene Aubel, an event spokeswoman. “We got to the top of a pass and couldn’t see anything.”

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The promised land: Quarterback Troy Aikman of the Dallas Cowboys has donated $250,000 to help build an ultra-modern playroom at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas. It will be called “Aikman’s End Zone.”

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Trivia answer: Kay Cockerill, who won the U.S. Women’s Amateur in 1986 and 1987.

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Quotebook: Laker announcer Chick Hearn, on Pat Riley’s decision to quit the New York Knicks: “He used to borrow clothes from me to wear, now he’s turning down $3 million a year.”