Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones denied a Washington Post
report that Calvin Hill would be named a front-office
consultant. Jones: "That was a distortion. We are talking
to several people about what we are trying to do. But we
don't have anything to announce" (FT. WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM,
3/23)....In Boston, Peter May reports that the Larry Bird
"Rumor Mill (Indiana?) is heating up again." May adds that
Bird "has done a lot of college scouting" for the Celtics,
but is "uncomfortable discussing the job that would be his
in Boston: overseeing the basketball operations." Bird: "If
they ask me, we'll see. But if they do, I won't be a front
man for anyone" (BOSTON GLOBE, 3/24)....Nets VP/Head Coach
John Calipari called Newark Star-Ledger beat writer Dan
Garcia "a (expletive) Mexican," according to Chris D'Amico
of the STAR-LEDGER. The exchange took place after practice
last week. Nets President Michael Rowe and Calipari
"apologized to Garcia the night of the incident. The coach
also told Garcia he was joking." Calipari's agent Craig
Fenech: "John regrets it. It was stupid" (STAR-LEDGER,
3/24)....Tony Kornheiser, on the Nets piping in crowd noise
at the Continental Airlines Arena: "Considering they've won
just 20 of 66 games, they should pipe in a laugh track."
More Kornheiser: "How do they advertise? Come see the Nets
in surround sound" ("The Sports Reporters," ESPN, 3/23).
