He’ll Probably Move the Team to a New Town Next Week, Too

Joe Gibbs had one career as a football coach, helping Washington Redskin owner Jack Kent Cooke win three Super Bowls. Now, in another career, he is the owner of his own drag racing and stock car racing teams.

“I kind of like this job,” he says. “I told the team: ‘Hey, I’m not going to lose a race, I’ll second-guess everything that’s going on, and if we win one, I’ll climb up on the hood and take all the credit.’

“So, yeah, I like being an owner. I couldn’t figure out why Mr. Cooke liked it so much. Now I have.”

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Trivia time: Tiger Woods is the only player to win the U.S. Junior Boys’ Amateur golf championship three years in a row. Who is the only girl to do it?

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Now we know: There was a certain mystery about Steffi Graf when she appeared at Wimbledon with a red “S” logo on her sleeve. Turns out, it was the logo of her new sportswear collection.

For the record, Graf’s jeans have a 30-inch waist and a 34-inch inseam--and cost from $110 to $180.

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Quiet air: Two-way radio communication from car to pits, long an important part of Winston Cup stock car racing, is becoming more and more an emergency-only piece of equipment.

“There are so many scanners out there now that we don’t talk,” Mark Martin said. “I never talk about anything that doesn’t absolutely have to be said. For years, the competitors have listened to everything we’ve said, and now thousands upon thousands of fans are listening to the same thing. So we don’t say anything on the radio.”

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Never satisfied: When the New York Yankees’ Wade Boggs saw the Texas Rangers’ new Ballpark at Arlington, he wasn’t all that impressed. “It’s brutal,” Boggs said. “It’s like playing in a parking lot.”

All of which brings to mind Casey Stengel’s comment after the first game in Shea Stadium, when some of his Mets complained about how hard it was to see.

“When the other side gets 16 hits, how can it be hard to see?” he snapped.

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Trivia, perhaps: Remember the name Ron Wolfley. He might be the answer to a trivia question some day. If his comeback bid with the St. Louis Rams is successful, he could be that rare player who suited up for different football teams in the same city.

Wolfley, 32, was special teams player of the year with the Cardinals in 1987, their final season in St. Louis before moving to Phoenix. Today, he’s in the Ram camp as a free agent.

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Trivia answer: Hollis Stacy of Savannah, Ga., in 1969-70-71.

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Quotebook: Oliver Gibson, rookie defensive tackle with the Pittsburgh Steelers, on college football: “It’s a team thing at Notre Dame. You know how men are into that fierce thing, that brutality.”