LITTLE ROCK — 62-year-old notches 2 more KO’s
Two would-be thieves in central Sweden got an unexpected lesson in respecting their elders when they failed to heed a warning issued by the 62-year-old target of their crime.
Gray-haired and requiring the use of a walker to get around, Rolf Klasson certainly didn’t give the impression that he would put up a fight when two young men approached him on Tuesday in Lidkoping.
Klasson was about to take out money from an ATM when one of the hoodlums demanded he give up his wallet, while the other brandished a knife. What Klasson’s attackers didn’t know was that Klasson was a retired professional middleweight boxer.
“I said to them, ‘This isn’t going to go well’,” Klasson told the Expressen newspaper.
When they ignored his warning, Klasson knocked theknife-wielding thief to the ground with a right hook.
“Then I laid out the other with a left jab,” Klasson said.
Both men fled the scene.
Wonder what hurt more, their bruises or their pride?
Uh, thanks?
Former Colorado offensive line coach Denver Johnson, now with Tulsa, had high praise - of a sort - for former Colorado tackle and NFL prospect Nate Solder.
“You can’t watch this guy work out and not say, ‘Wow,’ ” Johnson told the Detroit Free Press on Thursday. “... I’ve got a quarter horse in Tennessee that doesn’t have an a** on him like that.”
Honest mistake
Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain had a home gym installed during the off season- and still put on 30 pounds.
“One unsubstantiated report,” wrote Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle, “is that he swallowed a 25-pound barbell plate, mistaking it for an Oreo.” Duck, duck, sue
Good news for bad golfers, at least in Illinois. Nailing someone who lives on a golf course with an errant shot isn’t your fault.
According to Bill Bird of the Naperville Sun, DuPage County Circuit Court Judge John T. Elsner ruled Friday that golfer Ray Kinney wasn’t liable for striking homeowner Lillian Demo in the head during an Aug. 25, 2005, incident at St. Andrews Golf & Country Club in West Chicago.
“My understanding is the judge felt, in the state of Illinois, the golfer is not liable because he has no control over the golf ball” once it has been launched, Kinney said Friday evening during a telephone interview. “Wayward shots happen, and people who live on golf courses have to assume risk.”
Demo owns a house near the country club’s 17th hole. She filed a June 2007 civil lawsuit that sought damages of more than $50,000, alleging that Kinney’s tee shot caused her severe and permanent injuries, including migraine headaches.
Kinney, a Naperville businessman, wasn’t in court Friday to hear the verdict. That’s because he was on a golf outing in Florida.
Piston pressure
Detroit Pistons players Tracy McGrady, Tayshaun Prince, Richard Hamilton and Chris Wilcox missed the team’s shoot around Friday morning before that night’s game against the 76ers in Philadelphia, and team sources told multiple media outlets that the players were staging a protest directed at Coach John Kuester.
Or maybe they just realized they were playing for the Pistons.
“We played on a course with no houses,” Kinney said.
Probably a good idea.
Quote of the day “I’m happy, excited,
bummed out - all in one.” Arkansas senior Shelise Williams, on the Razorbacks’ second place finish at the SEC Indoor Championships.
Sports, Pages 14 on 02/28/2011