An Eagle Eye Might Notice Foam Flurries

The film, “Jerry Maguire,” in which Tom Cruise plays a sports agent reportedly patterned after Leigh Steinberg, is shooting in Phoenix.

Snow was recently placed around the Arizona Cardinals’ practice field to simulate a game between the Cardinals and Eagles in Philadelphia.

It was 97 degrees, but the snow didn’t melt because it was actually foam.

So Hollywood has tricked us again.

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Trivia time: Which high school did Hakeem Olajuwon attend?

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Big deal: The New York Knicks’ first-round playoff sweep of the Cleveland Cavaliers didn’t impress Dennis Rodman of the Chicago Bulls.

“We could beat the Cavaliers with our eyes closed,” he said. “Beating them is no accomplishment.”

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No sir, Sir Charles: Armon Gilliam, now with the New Jersey Nets, is a former Philadelphia 76er teammate of Charles Barkley, and he is not a Barkley fan.

“Charles is the type of person who wants to dominate a team and tell the players what to do,” Gilliam told Mike White of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, adding he had a couple of shouting matches with Barkley. “A lot of players would yield to him. But I had a different opinion, and he didn’t like me being so opinionated with him.”

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Image adjustment: After only eight seasons, the Minnesota Timberwolves are changing their logo to a more ferocious-looking wolf, prompting Dave Krieger of the Rocky Mountain News to write: “So that was the problem.”

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Bionic man: Kirk Bohls of the Austin-American Statesman on Carl Lewis: “He’s been running longer than Bob Dole.”

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Success story: Eddie Sefko in the Houston Chronicle: “This is what the NBA is all about these days. Tracy Murray, the former Rocket [and UCLA player] who had never averaged more than 6.6 points in three previous seasons, averaged 16.2 points this season with the 21-victory expansion Toronto Raptors and is looking to get $2 million, minimum, next season.

“What a country.”

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Give it time: Jimmy Quinn, manager of the Reading soccer club in England, on the various injuries suffered by his Bulgarian goalkeeper, Bobby Mihailov: “The only thing he hasn’t had is mad cow’s disease.”

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FYI: In a Golf Digest poll, 50 PGA Tour players were asked to name their peers who have done the most with the least talent and the least with the most. Results: Tom Kite, No. 1 overachiever. Tom Purtzer, No. 1 underachiever.

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Trivia answer: Muslim Teachers in Lagos, Nigeria.

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And finally: Veteran BBC announcer John Snagge, 91, who died recently, was famous for his broadcast of a boat race between crews of Oxford and Cambridge universities in 1949 on the River Thames when he announced:

“Oxford are ahead, no, Cambridge are ahead. I don’t know who’s ahead--but it’s either Oxford or Cambridge.”