Her Daughter Also Appears a Bit Spacey

On a 1950s record album, “Into Outer Space With Lucia Pamela,” there is a line in the last song, “In the Year 2000,” where she warbles, “There will even be football in the year 2000.”

And who is Lucia Pamela?

She is the mother of Georgia Frontiere, owner of either the St. Louis or Los Angeles Rams.

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Trivia time: How many Indianapolis 500 winners have also won a Formula One race? This is a trick question.

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Thunder silenced: Chocolate Thunder, what have you done?

Darryl Dawkins has been suspended by the Harlem Globetrotters for disciplinary reasons, according to an announcement from team headquarters in Alhambra. Owner Mannie Jackson gave no details.

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Sound reasoning: Defensive tackle Henry Thomas, on why he left Minnesota to sign as a free agent with the Detroit Lions: “I’m tired of chasing Barry Sanders.”

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Not so sound reasoning: And why did veteran relief pitcher Rob Dibble choose the Chicago White Sox?

“The color of the uniforms,” he said. “I love black. That’s my favorite color. It’s a good look for me.”

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Plenty of time: Ian Woosnam won the Masters in 1991. When Steve Hershey of USA Today asked the Welshman when he expected to win a second major tournament, he replied, “Well, it took Greg Norman nine years to win his second.”

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Good little man: Muggsy Bogues is only 5 feet 3, but last year he was the Charlotte Hornets’ most valuable player. Gary St. Jean, coach of the Sacramento Kings, tells why:

“They’ve got the two horses (Alonzo Mourning and Larry Johnson), but Muggsy drives the wagon. He feeds ‘em the oats.”

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No banking: Dale Earnhardt thinks nothing of driving 200 m.p.h. hubcap to hubcap on high-banked superspeedways, but he’s afraid to drive in downtown New York City.

He told Phyllis George on TNN that his favorite mode of transportation in the Big Apple is “to get in the back of the car and hold on.”

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Baseball strikers: Jim Caple, writing in the Seattle Times, doesn’t think much of striking baseball players who don’t believe in picketing.

“When real unions go on strike, their members grab picket signs and protest management’s actions,” he wrote. “When the baseball union strikes, the players grab the No. 8 sunscreen and protest the high cost of the back nine at Pinehurst.”

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Getting ready: Len Pasquarelli reports in the Atlanta Constitution that former San Francisco 49er coach Bill Walsh is working with four quarterbacks--Rob Johnson of USC, John Walsh of BYU, Kerry Collins of Penn State and Chad May of Kansas State--to improve their chances in next month’s NFL draft.

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No problem: When Peter Gammons of the Boston Globe asked Dodger pitching prospect Hideo Nomo if it was emotionally difficult going home to Kobe after the earthquake, the Japanese star replied through an interpreter:

“No, the plane and rail service was restored.”

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Trivia answer: 14: Jimmy Clark, Emerson Fittipaldi, Graham Hill, Mario Andretti, Johnnie Parsons, Lee Wallard, Troy Ruttman, Bill Vukovich, Bob Sweikert, Pat Flaherty, Sam Hanks and Rodger Ward. The last nine won when the 500 was part of the F1 schedule, from 1950-59.

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Quotebook: Bob Ano, senior vice president EMC Corp., a major sponsor for the yacht Young America: “The America’s Cup is the metaphor for America’s high-tech capability against the rest of the world.”