LITTLE ROCK — He’s alive, but he isn’t still kicking
Former Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver is still alive, but not according to a New York Times column that ran over the weekend.
In Saturday’s New York Times, political columnist Ross Ramsey wrote: “Texas Democrats have become the Baltimore Orioles of politics. Somewhere in heaven, Earl Weaver and (former Texas governor) Ann Richards are comparing notes on what went wrong with the teams they left behind.”
“I’ll be damned,” Weaver said to the Baltimore Sun. “All I can do is say that’s false.”
The newspaper printed a correction to clarify that Weaver, 80, is still very much alive.
“I’m still here, although my knees have given out, so I don’t play golf anymore,” Weaver said. “I’ve always said that there were two places that I wouldn’tmind dying. One was Memorial Stadium (in Baltimore); the other, the golf course. Now I’ve got to wait forever (to go) because both of those places are gone.”
Memorial Stadium was the home of the Orioles until 1993, when the team moved to Camden Yards.
Ramsey was right about Richards. She died in 2006.
Help wanted
Minnesota Vikings fans are being asked to help dig out the University of Minnesota campus stadium in time for Monday night’s Vikings game with the Chicago Bears.
Workers are scrambling to remove snow from bleachers, concourses and the field at TCF Bank Stadium. The university will host the NFL game because the snow-damaged Metrodome roof won’t be fixed in time.
The problem is that snow is piled up at the stadium in fivefoot drifts in some areas.
The university says it will take shoveling volunteers every day from today through Sunday.
The school will even provide the shovels if necessary.
A Yankee scorned
“The New York Yankees say they are not upset about being spurned by Cliff Lee,” wrote Janice Hough of leftcoastsportsbabe.com. “In fact they are happily going to move on and just buy the Phillies.” Not totally committed
Los Angeles Lakers forward Ron Artest, to ESPN.com, on hiscommitment to a vegan lifestyle: “About 80 percent; I like pork chops.” Headlines
From the website sportspickle.
com:
“Al-Qaeda claims responsibility for Metrodome deflation”
“Lebron hoping to be Phillies’ 5th starter”
“Jets trainer asked to knee Mark Sanchez before starting suspension” The Bigger Ten
“The college sports conferences get sillier and sillier,” wrote Len Berman of thatssports.
com. “Say no more than Texas Christian in the Big East. I think the Ivies have it about right. The longest road trip, Dartmouth to Pennsylvania, is 370 miles. When Nebraska joins the Big Ten next year, the distance from fellow conference member Penn State is three times longer. Then there’s the concept of names. There will be 12 schools in the Big Ten.
They’ve divided them into two divisions, ‘Legends’ and ‘Leaders.’ Not too stimulating. I might have gone with ‘Geographically Unwieldy’ and ‘Mathematically Challenged.’ ”Quote of the day “It really hasn’t hit
me yet. It seems like a dream still to me,
to play Ohio State in New Orleans in a BCS game.” Arkansas receiver Joe Adams
Sports, Pages 20 on 12/16/2010