European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 02, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                J it j Muj Ortii or re a Vinny Shannon Tommy Bob Kravitz Rocky Mountain news thoughts myths and half truths whatever they do they have to keep this Vinny Vecchione character away from the Shaw Shakeem pay per View. A million viewers for Mike Tyson s coming out party is one thing but if this Shaw Hakeem mess draws even a half million Homes i m moving to Canada and becoming a full time Curling correspondent maybe Joey Crawford can officiate and throw them both out. I hear the loser has to eat an entire meal at Taco Bell so these Guys will be playing for their lives. Has the Shannon Faulkner workout video hit the stores yet while Denver s teams Are getting these tax Breaks from the City i was wondering if maybe just maybe these teams could give the fans some kind of a break say on parking. Or maybe even on Rockies postseason tickets. You mean you Don t have " $3,000 in disposable income lying around the House Why can t they let fans put the postseason tickets on a credit card and charge the games As they come along what s so difficult about that Why put people in a position where they have to Dole out a couple thousand dollars now for games that May never be played so How Many Michigan boosters were looking up Bill Mccartney s phone number at halftime of the Virginia game and How Many were calling for an Extension of Lloyd Carr s contract after the game if Michigan Virginia is a foreshadowing of the 1995 College football season i can t wait. If Pat Riley can do something great with the monumentally average Miami heat i will gladly introduce him at his Hall of Fame induction. Talk about devolution Kareem Abdul Jabbar to Patrick Ewing to Matt Geiger. Nothing personal but it boggles my mind that Dante Bichette did not. Jump All Over a two year $8 million Deal to stay in Denver. He is Welcome to test the free agent Waters but something tells me there s ,. Not a huge Market for Guys who do most of their hitting at Home and struggle in the Field and on the base paths. That said he does deserve a whole lot -x\.\, a / 1" r4 r. A Dante Bichette of the Colorado Rociles could be in the running for no map. Of consideration for National league most valuable player particularly if the Rockies find a Way to win the no West. My Choice Barry Larkin. Greg Maddux is the league s Best player but i m one of those who believes by Youngs Are for pitchers and  Are for everyday players. Fresno state athletes have received a Booklet telling them which professors give jocks the easiest a a and the Jerry Tarkanian Iera has t even started. You wonder what it says about women s Tennis that Monica Seles would come Back after nearly two years off and Breeze to a championship. J honest i would have thought the Clinton who did some rafting on vacation last weekend in Wyoming would have done anything to a void urn Whitewater. I say we put Shaw and Hakeem in a room charge $29-95, and you know completely ignore it. / they were going to have the Little league world series at Coors Field but they decided the fences were too close. Tyson s next opponent will be Buster Mathis jr., which can Only Lead me to conclude that Joe Bugner was not available. So now Jeff t atari Goy who made a from of. To Shaw spectacle of himself at Wimbledon and has been fined close to $64,000 so far is calling his outburst an act of civil  i can t Tell if he reminds me More of Thoreau or Gandhi. / How about a pay per View event pitting Phil Rizzuto and the suits at Pix to in new York i d pay to see that. /  " of great now we re going to have to Start keeping track of the National league wild card race. " it brought a tear to my Eye when i read How Tommy Lasorda was defending umpires. Can we assume now that Lasorda will be sending an Ltd bouquet to the Crew that made the dodgers forfeit bust update both Blair Thomas and Andre Ware were waived last week. Just intense you were wondering. I keep thinking if Vinny Vecchione and Robert Mcnamara could have changed jobs we would have had one Heck of a heavyweight fight and saved a couple Hundred thousand lives in Vietnam. Please excuse any typos in this column i m still exhausted after that raucous windows 95 party. Scripps Howard news service Jason Whitlock Kansas City Star i m not controversial. I m Justa brother with an  recently received my invitation to of. Simpson s Homecoming party. Pea brained prosecutors Marcia Glare and Chris Darden and lying cop Mark fun Hornan arc hosts for the event. I be got $100 that says former Kansas City chief Bill Maas does better on the Fox network than former 49cr Joe Montana does on Abc. After watching Michigan stun Virginia on the final play of last saturday s game i wonder How i made it seven months without College football. I disagreed when Michigan selected Lloyd Carr to replace Gary Mucller As football coach. But i be got to give Carr credit. Sticking with freshman or Scott Dreisbach after two interceptions and trailing 17-0 was one of the guts est moves i be Ever seen a coach make right now Carr s my favorite for National coach of the year. Royals Utility player David Howard has locked up Jason Whitlock s 1995 Johnnie Cochran trophy. The Cochran is Given to the athlete who makes the most out of a really bad situation. Somehow Howard has turned a body  starving refugee s into pne that operates the same As a legitimate major league player. Congratulations David what do you think about Mike Tyson fighting two people on the same night i d p a Money to see it. And it does t denigrate the sport of boxing. Nothing can do that. On the other hand i have no. / interest in watching Shaquille o Neal  Hakeem Olajuwon play one on on. This docs denigrate pro basketball. This would be evidence of pro basketball totally Selling out to commercialism. Besides that there Are about 1 billion things i d rather do than watch Shaw play somebody one on one. Have you Ever seen the fat kid at the Park who turns his Back to the Basket and dribbles in backing up until he has pushed his opponent All the Way underneath the goal pretty Boring right that s what watching Shaw play Hakeem would be like. Shaw has no moves no skill and no business playing anyone one on one. Scripps Howard news service september 2-8, 1995 beyond the game Page 19