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Pat O’Brien of CBS has seen more than a few coaches try the television business. Terry Donahue is the latest.

To help out his new colleague, O’Brien has some advice for the UCLA football coach who becomes a former coach today.

“It’s the same thing I told Dean Smith, Coach K and Ara Parseghian,” O’Brien said. “He’ll find out it’s a whole lot more fun coaching somebody else’s team from a comfortable booth.”

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Trivia time: Who wears the biggest sneakers in the NBA?

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Extra! Extra! Just a guess, but these just have to be some of the personal favorites of University of Wisconsin freshman basketball player Duany Duany:

Favorite island: Bora Bora. Favorite town: Walla Walla. Favorite band: Duran Duran. Favorite song: “Monday Monday.” Favorite food: mahi mahi.

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Scoring change: In “Caught on the Fly” in The Sporting News, the former Dodger shortstop is referred to as “JosE-6 Offerman.”

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Fashion news: Mike Lupica of the New York Daily News asked former Knick Coach Red Holzman if he ever purchased designer suits. Holman said he did.

“Guy called ‘Off the Rack,’ ” Holzman said.

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Excuse yourself: The National League of Junior Cotillions, an etiquette group, awarded its “Most Ill-Mannered Person of 1995” to Art Modell.

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Or his socks: It sounds like Kevin McHale, the Minnesota Timberwolves’ vice president of basketball operations, didn’t exactly like the firing of Coach Bill Blair, the fifth coaching change in six years.

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“I mean, holy cow, a guy barely gets a chance to change his underwear and it seems like he’s out of town,” McHale said.

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That’s Albert Belgrade: Yinka Dare of the New Jersey Nets was glancing at a newspaper and was asked if he was reading about Beirut.

“You mean the great home run hitter?” Dare said.

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Trivia answer: San Antonio Spur center Will Perdue, size 21 AAAAA.

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Quotebook: Shaquille O’Neal of the Orlando Magic to the replacement referees on their last night of work: “Make sure you get those uniforms back to Foot Locker.”

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