Wait a Minute! Howie Long’s Hair Ranks Among the Best?

In case you were wondering--and that’s doubtful--Troy Aikman of the Dallas Cowboys has the best hairdo among quarterbacks in the NFL. Authority? Supercuts, Inc.

Ray Rhodes of Philadelphia and Mike White of Oakland have the best haircuts among coaches and Bob Costas and Howie Long have the best hair among commentators.

Jim Kelly of Buffalo has the worst hair among quarterbacks and Marty Schottenheimer of Kansas City has the worst hair among coaches. Jimmy Johnson and John Madden were picked as having the worst hair among commentators.

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Add Hair: Linda Loredo, the company’s national artistic director, said Johnson’s hair “is stiff and rigid with no movement. Too much goo in your ‘do: Jimmy, loosen up a little and let your hair breath!”

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Trivia time: Which UCLA and USC athletes have appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated the most?

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Handy stat: Blackie Sherrod in the Dallas Morning News: “Now you’ve heard the new math. Before Mike Tyson’s latest waltz, gofer John Horne reported on the boxer’s presumed injury: ‘Mike’s thumb is 110%.’

“Some of us don’t recall ever seeing a 110% thumb before.”

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Why me, Doc? Bernie Lincicome of the Chicago Tribune bestowed his annual “Bernie” awards for extraordinary achievement in sports in 1995. A sampling:

“So That’s Why the Easter Eggs Were Late Award: To the Barcelona soccer official who was fined and reprimanded for punching out a bunny rabbit that had hopped onto the field during a game.”

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To be or . . . Mark Soltau of the San Francisco Examiner reports that Jack Lemmon will miss the cut again this year at the AT&T; National Pro-Am at Pebble Beach, but it’s not his fault. “He’ll be in England, doing Hamlet.”

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All heart: Henry Joseph of the San Diego Union-Tribune nominates hockey agent Rich Winter as an early candidate for humanitarian of the year.

“He had this to say about Esa Tikkanen, his star client, who risks further injury to his knee playing for Vancouver:

“ ‘The knee is a mess, and maybe Esa will need a knee replacement at 50. But so what? He won’t be playing hockey then.’ ”

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Looking back: On this day in 1972, the Lakers’ record 33-game winning streak was snapped by Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) and the Milwaukee Bucks, 120-104, in Milwaukee.

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Trivia answer: Abdul-Jabbar, 26 times, and O.J Simpson, eight times.

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Quotebook: Colorado’s Rick Neuheisel on constantly being described as a young coach: “It beats being talked about as an old coach.”