LEFTOVERS: Lasorda’s wish almost comes true
May 13, 2014 - 10:37 pm
When you wish upon a star. Makes no difference who you are. Anything your heart desires will come to you.
However, when you wish someone gets hit by a car, it apparently helps if you’re Tommy Lasorda.
The former Los Angeles Dodgers manager’s wish that V. Stiviano “gets hit with a car” almost came true Monday, when the woman at the center of the Donald Sterling scandal crashed her car into the back of a Range Rover.
According to TMZ, Stiviano was driving a red Ferrari that the Los Angeles Clippers owner gave her when she was involved in the accident in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Sources told TMZ that an enraged Stiviano started “screaming every obscenity in the book,” saying “You know who you’re messing with, (expletive)?” as she jumped out of her car. But we’re guessing it might have been hard to hear her through the Darth Vader/Daft Punk-style visor she was wearing at the time of the crash.
She should leave her creepy reflective visor at home the next time she wants to take her car for a spin. Then again, it would be fine with us if we never have to see Stiviano’s face — or Sterling’s — again.
Shortly after Stiviano’s recording surfaced of Sterling’s racist remarks, the 86-year-old Lasorda spoke to a Florida TV station about the scandal surrounding his longtime pal.
“I’ve been a friend of that guy’s for 30 years,” Lasorda said. “It doesn’t surprise me that he said those things. And he shouldn’t have said it. ... And I don’t wish (Stiviano) any bad luck, but I hope she gets hit with a car.”
Lasorda was in Florida to pick up his honorary degree from Northwood University, where his commencement speech caused a 10-car pileup.
■ PORN? NO — On the subject of commencement addresses, ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Bilas offered some sage advice in his humorous speech to Queens University of Charlotte.
After apologizing for not measuring up to other speakers — including Bill Gates at Stanford, Peyton Manning at Virginia and Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs at Howard — he said the only reason he was there was that Dick Vitale couldn’t make it.
Bilas also told the graduates what not to do when they embark on their career.
“Don’t click on Internet porn at work,” he said. “This seems rather obvious, but HR departments across the country will tell you that, for some, it’s not. You’re welcome.”
Thank you.
■ BARKLEY UP WRONG TREE — Charles Barkley went on a recent tangent while talking about the Spurs-Trail Blazers series on TNT in which he took some unprovoked shots at the women in San Antonio.
“There’s some big ol’ women down there,” he said. “That’s a gold mine for Weight Watchers.
“And Victoria definitely a secret! They can’t wear no Victoria’s Secret down there! They wearin’ big ol’ bloomers down there.”
ESPN’s Michelle Beadle, who went to college in San Antonio, playfully fired back on Twitter with a picture of herself in shorts and a T-shirt with the message, “This delicate flower hails from San Antonio! DOES SHE LOOK LARGE TO YOU, MR. BARKLEY? (I’ll show myself out) #spurs.”
Beadle might be friends with Stiviano. She was wearing a visor. This is a trend that must be stopped.
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