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By BRUCE LOWITT, JASON LUSK, ANTHONY PEREZ, MIKE READLING and JAMAL THALJI
© St. Petersburg Times, published January 28, 2001
Highs
SUPER BOWL XXXV: It ends today. Thanks for visiting. Now everybody go home.
ACE: Andrew Magee banked in a 333-yard tee shot for what the PGA Tour is calling its first hole-in-one on a par 4. The ball ran onto the 17th green at the TPC of Scottsdale in the Phoenix Open, bounced off Tom Byrum's putter and rolled 8 feet into the cup for a double-eagle. Easy game. "It was the first putt Tom made all day," joked Rusty Uresti, caddie for Gary Nicklaus, who was standing on the green.
JAMES TRAPP: The Baltimore Ravens cornerback was shopping for shoes at West Shore Plaza when he struck up a conversation with a young mother and her son while waiting for a sales clerk. Trapp, who has a foundation named Preparation for Opportunity that supports educational opportunities for underprivileged children in Baltimore, ended up buying a pair of shoes for the youngster and another pair for his sister.
CHRIS MOSS: The junior center on the West Virginia basketball team lost it Sunday against Notre Dame. He hit an opponent's face with his foot, pushed his coach to go after an official after fouling out and spat on a Notre Dame cheerleader as he was hauled off the court by an assistant. This from a normally subdued player, whose outburst surely was rooted in the recent death of his grandfather and his mother's grave illness from multiple sclerosis. To his credit, he apologized for his behavior and has taken a leave of absence from the team.
BRIAN BILLICK: The Ravens coach, in what was probably a misguided effort to draw attention away from Ray Lewis (and questions about the killings just after last year's Super Bowl) and onto himself, opened his first news conference with a 41/2-minute diatribe, basically telling the media how to do their job and to lay off his star linebacker. All it did was exacerbate an already tense situation.
RAY LEWIS: When asked if he had anything to say to the families of relatives killed in the fight after last year's Super Bowl, he responded, "Nah." Ray, you and your family may have suffered aggravation, and maybe even injustice as you claim, but here's the kicker: You're alive; those men are not. Their families deserve respect and sympathy. You have offered neither.