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Poor Del
Los Angeles coach Del Harris thinks it may be time for his Lakers to end their longtime training-camp association with Hawaii. Seems Del, whose team had already been evacuated when a fire broke out at the team hotel, wasn’t thrilled Saturday when fans at Blaisdell Arena rooted for a Sonics victory.
“I’m a little disappointed in Hawaii as a place to train,” he said after Seattle beat the Lakers 105-103. “I thought we played in front of a hostile crowd tonight. I feel that if a team trains here, it should be treated as the home team. Maybe they should invite the Sonics to help out the (local) economy.”
Good idea. George Karl could create a few jobs on aspirin purchases alone.
I think we’ll win the Super - THUD!
Oakland receiver Tim Brown celebrated the team’s 5-1 start with a look ahead - four months ahead - and assessed the Raiders’ chances in the Super Bowl.
“Joe Bugel (assistant coach) tells us all the time we can’t be afraid to talk about the Super Bowl and talk about winning it,” Brown said.
“I don’t know if we’ll be favored against San Francisco or Dallas, but I think definitely it would be the best chance for the AFC to win a Super Bowl.”
In the Raiders’ next game, on Monday night, they were dominated in a 27-0 loss to the Denver Broncos.
Freak accident
From the hockey rinks of Stockholm, Sweden, comes one of the year’s saddest sports stories. Bengt Akerblom, a 28-year-old Swedish Elite League player, died after his throat was slashed by a teammate’s skate during a game last weekend.
Akerblom was skating behind a teammate when an opposing player checked the teammate and sent him tumbling in midair. The teammate’s legs went up and his skate hit Akerblom’s throat, cutting a main artery. Akerblom died in surgery.
On the lighter side …
An employee of the St. Louis Blues apparently couldn’t resist a parting shot at the team after he was fired. On the page listing playoff records in the hockey team’s media guide, between the date of the Blues’ last overtime game on the road and their last overtime loss at home, the anonymous employee slipped in a crudely worded “record” for sexual favors.
The red-faced Blues have recalled the guide and will have to amend it, at a reported cost of $70,000.
That puts Miami over the top
After failing to attract the likes of Carl Herrera, Jon Koncak, Derek Strong and Marty Conlon, the Miami Heat settled on Stacey King - prompting the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentel to run the following headline: “No aces available, so Heat picks up King.” qO< The last word …
“… come out and watch the Sonics take on Spokane native John Stockton and his longtime Utah Jazz teammate, Moses Malone.”
- Radio advertisement, aired on KDRK, for Tuesday night’s NBA exhibition
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