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Predicting the Victory
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LIFE
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1 / 1990 |
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Tom Knott
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If this year is anything like last, Dr. Ruth will become one of the most important persons in sports.
Heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson will announce that he intends to remarry Robin Givens and that theirs is a misunderstood relationship.
Pete Rose will provide the color commentary at the Kentucky Derby.
Steve Garvey, former baseball star and now politician-in-waiting, will be hired as the national spokesperson for a fertility clinic.
Sprinter Ben Johnson will open a drug-rehab center in Toronto and write a book on how he was built like Eddie Murphy before using steroids.
Boston Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs will leave his wife for Margo Adams and blame his problems on the press while appearing on Geraldo to discuss his addiction to sex.
Pete Rose will win a seven-day cruise in the Caribbean and dominate the shuffleboard.
Mild-mannered Joe Gibbs will retire as football coach of the Washington Redskins and become a drag racer.
Don King, the porcupine-headed boxing promoter, will serve as best man at Mike Tyson's wedding and Margo Adams will give the bride away.
Wade Boggs will blame his problems on the press while appearing on Oprah to discuss her addiction to food.
Pete Rose will win a nineteen-inch color television set, contingent on looking at potential investment property in the Everglades.
The Los Angeles Clippers will win the National Basketball Association championship, prompting a summer-long investigation by commissioner David Stern.
George Bush, Jr., will move the Taxes Rangers back to the nation's capital, so his father won't have to commute to Baltimore whenever he gets the urge to attend a baseball game.
Hockey will extend its play-offs through August and become the first year-round sport.
Ben Johnson, subsisting on vegetables and mineral water, will start to look like Eddie Murphy again.
George Steinbrenner will fire Bucky Dent after the New York Yankees lose on opening day and appoint himself manager.
Pete Rose will win Ed McMahon's million-dollar sweepstakes.
Wade Boggs will blame his problems on the press while appearing on Donahue to discuss Phil's addiction to being the quintessential '80s man.
Joe Gibbs will insist he's going to take it one drag strip at a
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