Limelight is too bright
It has been less than a week since he won the Masters and already Zach Johnson, a self-described “normal guy” from Iowa, says he’s tired of being a celebrity. “I don’t particularly care for the limelight at all,” Johnson said. “I haven’t gotten used to it.” Between chats with presidential contender Barack Obama and talk-show host David Letterman, Johnson barely has had time to swing a golf club since slipping on the green jacket. When he’s bold enough to turn his phone on, it’s “beyond crazy.” And that’s one of the biggest reasons Johnson chose to tee it up at the Verizon Heritage at Hilton Head Island, S.C., instead of taking a well-deserved rest. “For whatever reason, when you’re inside the ropes, it kind of feels normal,” Johnson said.
Lighten up, Francis
After Chicago defeated New York 98-69 on Tuesday night, Knicks guard Steve Francis accused the Bulls of running up the score and singled out coach Scott Skiles for violating an unwritten code of respect that exists in the NBA. Flash back to Dec. 16, when Denver beat the Knicks 123-100 in a game at Madison Square Garden that featured the same accusations, not to mention a brawl and ejections of 10 players. On Tuesday, when Thabo Sefolosha and Tyrus Thomas converged to block a Nate Robinson layup at the buzzer, Francis confronted both players and was led off the court by coach Isiah Thomas. At the end of the night, the Knicks were left with the league’s ninth-worst record, with their lottery pick headed to the Bulls.
Now that would be one ugly toothless girl with a mullet
“I’ll just go on and do what I have to do. In the States, they wanted me to go on one time in Pittsburgh. Jaromir Jagr, it was when he had long hair and he was with Mario Lemieux, and I said, ‘There’s Mario and his daughter.’ It didn’t go over too good.”
Don Cherry, longtime announcer on CBC’s “Hockey Night In Canada,” on his return to the U.S. to work NBC’s Stanley Cup playoff telecasts
