Golf Coach Wants This Sponsor to Miss the Cut

The top sponsors -- platinum partners -- of the National Golf Coaches Assn. (NGCA) are The Golf Channel and ... Hooters, the restaurant chain that features waitresses in tight, low-cut tank tops and short shorts.

That’s the same company that is sponsor of the Hooters Collegiate Match Play Championship in Myrtle Beach, S.C., in November.

The partnership -- the NGCA’s Web site even has a link to Hooters.com -- has raised the eyebrows of some coaches, although Ohio State Coach Therese Hession, president of the NGCA, told the San Jose Mercury News that the group has been assured any “Hooters Girls” at the tournament will be “professionally dressed.”

Not everyone is satisfied. “What are we trying to sell here?” Stanford Coach Caroline O’Connor said. “I don’t know if the image I want to portray as a collegiate coach is maybe the same image Hooters would want to portray.”

Trivia time: Who was the last rookie NHL coach to lead his team to the Stanley Cup finals?

Mo-nophony: New York Met shortstop Rey Sanchez has denied reports he recently got a haircut in the clubhouse while his teammates on the field were suffering through a lopsided loss.

While most Mets have been unwilling to talk candidly about the situation, Mo Vaughn offered this perspective: “If we were in first place, nobody cares. You could be getting a full body shave.”

Really? When was the last time Mo was in first place?

T-shots: Nothing like profiting from kicking the Mets when they are down.

These T-shirt specials are being offered by BlownSave.com this week: “Say It ‘Aint Mo,” “Trade Benitez” and the just-released “Cut Sanchez.”

Job security: Morris Brown University has laid off its coaches and suspended its athletic program after the school lost an appeal to keep its accreditation.

The only remaining employees: Athletic Director Russell Ellington and business manager Bob Jones.

“My job right now is to stay here and make sure that everything is closed out,” Ellington told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Tough gig.

Seminole experience: In his trial on gambling charges, former Florida State quarterback Adrian McPherson will be prosecuted by ... the daughter of another former Seminole.

Georgia Cappleman’s father, Bill, was Florida State’s quarterback in 1968-69.

In defending her objectivity, Georgia Cappleman told Associated Press she will be “prosecuting it like I’d prosecute any other case,” noting that she has handled several other cases involving Florida State students.

Surely that will comfort Florida State alumni.

Trivia answer: Doug Mac- Lean, in 1996 with the Florida Panthers, who were swept in the finals, 4-0, by the Colorado Avalanche.

And finally: Sammy Sosa told AP this week that he didn’t believe a stretch when he went one for 13 with seven strikeouts qualified as “a slump.”

Added Cub Manager Dusty Baker: “I don’t believe in that word slump, either. I just think it’s an unfortunate period of time.”

Tell that to Alan Trammell.

-- Mike Hiserman