They May Need Something to Clear the Air
Beverly Hills-based XEL Inc. plans to launch a new men’s fragrance in November named after Michael Jordan.
“We have captured the essence of Michael Jordan,” said Sondra Love of XEL’s parent company, Bijan Fragrances.
Let’s hope the fragrance is devised after Jordan takes a shower.
Trivia time: Jack Nicklaus, in 1972, was the last player to win the Masters and U.S. Open in the same year. Who finished second to him in both tournaments?
Yu get it? Hawaiian-born Akebono, the first foreigner to become grand champion in sumo wrestling, is considering marrying Japanese TV personality Yu Aihara.
Akebono’s stable master, Jesse Kuhaulua, hasn’t approved the marriage yet. Wrote Curtis Peck of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “But if he does, Yu will be the first to know it.”
Jolly good show: David Casstevens of the Arizona Republic writes that hockey fans are a special breed:
“Imagine golf fans throwing mammals onto the 18th green at the Masters. Can you picture rats raining down onto center court in Wimbledon? There aren’t enough smelling salts in England to revive the Royal Box.”
Now we know: NBC sportscaster Bob Costas on why Dennis Rodman is nicknamed “the Worm”: “He has so many fish hooks in his nose, he looks like a piece of bait.”
What next? A woman whose husband died after falling off a golf cart in June 1994 is suing her son, who was driving the cart, and the cart’s manufacturer.
The lawsuit filed by Diana J. Nagy in Charleston, W. Va., seeks $15 million in damages in the death of her husband, Alexander Nagy Jr. It names her son, Alexander Nagy III and alleged the Berry Hills Country Club course’s carts were defective because they lacked seat belts, doors and better brakes and suspension.
No doors in a golf cart? Shocking.
Out of bounds? Gary McCord, calling an errant shot on a CBS golf telecast last Sunday: “That’s what we call a Marge Schott--just a little bit to the right.”
FYI: Tex Winter, assistant coach of the Chicago Bulls, played on a USC basketball team that had a 10-14 record in 1947. He was also a pole vaulter for the Trojans in 1946.
Looking back: On this day in 1973, the Dodgers’ infield of Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, Ron Cey and Bill Russell played together for the first time in a 16-3 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies. They played together in the same infield for 8 1/2 years, a major league record.
Trivia answer: Bruce Crampton.
And finally: Sunday was the 50th anniversary of the longest home run hit in Boston’s Fenway Park. It measured 502 feet into the right-field bleachers.
Dan Shaughnessy of the Boston Globe wrote that the ball landed on the straw hat of a fan, Joseph A. Boucher. The hitter? Ted Williams, of course.
