Defensive Back Has Pro’s Body

Maurice Douglass, Chicago Bears defensive back from the University of Kentucky, says, “I don’t want people to think I’m only a football player. I’m much more.”

Douglass also works as an assistant manager of the Scandinavian Health Spa in Cincinnati. He also puts in three nights a week on the Ohio nightclub circuit, earning $500 a week. He’s a male stripper.

Of the job, he said: “The women, they’re everywhere, they’re all over you, grabbing you. They have guards up front to keep the women off the stage.”

Douglass, who wears earrings and has a dog named Seka, the same name as Chicago’s porn-movie queen, was asked what kind of women show up for his performances.

“They’re all ages,” he said. “There was a 70-year-old woman there one night having a birthday party.”

Said Bear Coach Mike Ditka: “Well, some got it and some don’t.”

Quiz Time: Who holds the major league record for most assists by a first baseman in a season? (Answer below.)

Said U.S. baseball Coach Ron Fraser, when asked to rate the Cuban team in the Pan American Games: “They’d probably finish about third in the American League East.”

Trivia Time: If Bobby Wadkins wins the PGA Championship, joining brother Lanny, who won in 1977, they would join what other brother combination to win PGA titles? (Answer below.)

If Bill Buckner thinks the media was tough after his World Series error, here’s what the New York Times said after outfielder Fred Snodgrass dropped a fly ball in the 1912 Series:

“BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 16--Write in the pages of World Series baseball history the name of Snodgrass. Write it large and black. Not as a hero; truly not. Put him rather with Merkle, who was in such a hurry that he gave away a National League championship. It was because of Snodgrass’ generous muff of an easy fly in the tenth inning that the decisive game in the World Series went to the Boston Red Sox this afternoon by a score of 3 to 2, instead of to the New York Giants by a score of 2 to 1.”

Quiz Answer: Bill Buckner, with 184 for the Boston Red Sox in 1985.

Trivia Answer: Lionel Hebert in 1957 and Jay Hebert in 1960.

Quotebook

San Francisco 49ers linebacker Tom Cousineau, to a reporter who asked him if he majored in basket-weaving at Ohio State: “No, something much simpler--journalism.”