Team’s True Colors May Have Been Exposed
Every team appreciates fan support, but Danish soccer team Odense BK really appreciates the kind it’s getting.
In an attempt to lift the struggling team’s spirits, a group of fans hired a stripper to dance at practice. She swung her hips and cracked her whip, and when she left the players were feeling good about themselves.
They’re still winless, but as captain Nicolai Stokholm reasoned on UEFA.com, “It was a good initiative. It is important to us to feel that our fans are backing us, and this was obvious proof that they do.”
Sounds fishy: A headline in the Humboldt (Calif.) Beacon sports section announced, “Strippers Hopping in Sacramento,” prompting San Francisco Chronicle columnist Leah Garchik to write: “Who says that Gov. Schwarzenegger has cut funding to the arts?”
Actually, the story was about fishing for striped bass, commonly called stripers, not strippers.
Trivia time: Before Bobby Simmons was honored as the NBA’s most improved player this season, who was the last Clipper to win a major award?
Out of control: It’s a good thing they don’t allow carts on the PGA Tour. If they did, Tiger Woods would be considered a menace. His caddie, Steve Williams, is a dirt-track racer who on Saturday walked away uninjured after rolling his car four times during his second crash this year in New Zealand. In January, he required surgery on his wrist after flipping and striking a safety wall.
No Hallmark moment: Yankee Manager Joe Torre, after an 11-4 loss to Tampa Bay on Tuesday dropped New York to 11-16: “You don’t sit around and say ‘Woe is me.’ Certainly with all the success we’ve had we’re not going to have anyone writing us any get-well cards.”
Horse cents: Yankee owner George Steinbrenner got quite a bargain in Bellamy Road, the morning-line favorite in Saturday’s Kentucky Derby. Or, as retired Daily Racing Form columnist Joe Hirsch told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “Eighty-seven thousand dollars is darn cheap considering the $200-million Yankees can’t win a game.”
She did, he didn’t: Mark Calcavecchia and his caddie were late for their wedding Thursday.
After shooting a season-worst 78 in the first round of the Italian Open, Calcavecchia and his fiancee, Brenda, his caddie for the tournament, raced off to a lake resort for their wedding.
But they were held up in traffic and late for the ceremony.
During his six-over-par round, Calcavecchia was briefly under the impression that his caddie was razzing him for poor play.
On two of his golf balls, Brenda had written “I DO.” But when Calcavecchia first looked at them, he read it as “100” ... and asked whether that’s what she thought he was going to shoot.
Trivia answer: Terry Cummings, who was rookie of the year in 1982-83, when the team played in San Diego.
And finally: Writes Greg Cote of the Miami Herald: The “Lakers and Knicks are supposed finalists to land Coach Phil Jackson. New York is playing its ace, offering to rename its arena ‘Madizen’ Square Garden.”
