Phil Mcconkey

How interesting that Dan Henning, a man desperate for clues about his failing football team, hired Phil McConkey last week to return punts. Henning is the son of a former New York detective. McConkey is also the son of a former New York detective. Henning's father worked homicide and knew the Manhattan theater district like the back of his hand. McConkey's father worked vice in upstate Buffalo for 20 years. Buffalo Vice. That's the squad they didn't name the TV show after.

Former New York Giants receiver Phil McConkey and two friends have won more than $400,000 from an arbitration panel's finding that Wall Street brokerage Dean Witter Reynolds mishandled their stock orders. The charges stemmed from the three men having purchased stock in a company called Special Devices. McConkey, who caught a touchdown pass in the Giants' 1987 Super Bowl victory, said he purchased 7,000 shares in the company in 1992, after a Dean Witter broker recommended it in glowing terms.

Former New York Giants receiver Phil McConkey and two friends have won more than $400,000 from an arbitration panel's finding that Wall Street brokerage Dean Witter Reynolds mishandled their stock orders. The charges stemmed from the three men having purchased stock in a company called Special Devices. McConkey, who caught a touchdown pass in the Giants' 1987 Super Bowl victory, said he purchased 7,000 shares in the company in 1992, after a Dean Witter broker recommended it in glowing terms.

How interesting that Dan Henning, a man desperate for clues about his failing football team, hired Phil McConkey last week to return punts. Henning is the son of a former New York detective. McConkey is also the son of a former New York detective. Henning's father worked homicide and knew the Manhattan theater district like the back of his hand. McConkey's father worked vice in upstate Buffalo for 20 years. Buffalo Vice. That's the squad they didn't name the TV show after.

You might vote for Tunney against Dempsey in the first fight, Donerail in the 1913 Kentucky Derby, or the Miracle Braves in the 1914 World Series, but the longest shot I ever saw in sports was Roger Staubach at the Dallas Cowboys' 1969 training camp. Staubach had been a Heisman Trophy winner but he had not played a competitive game of football in four years. He'd been in the Navy, and all he had to do to get to be the Cowboys' quarterback was beat out Don Meredith, Craig Morton and Jerry Rhome.

Sharp-eyed television viewers who thought they saw Phil McConkey, the New York Giants' wide receiver-punt returner, with a pistol as the teams left the field Sunday after the Super Bowl game, saw precisely that. McConkey was seen, briefly, handing the gun to a National Football League security guard. It had been dropped by a Pasadena policeman. "At the end of the game, one of our officers was struggling with an individual who had jumped out onto the field," said Sgt.

The Chicago Bears and the New York Giants, winners of the last two Super Bowls, meet tonight in a game whose significance both teams downplay (Channels 7 and 10, 6 p.m., PDT). "It's one game and it's not life and death if we lose it," says Giant wide receiver Phil McConkey. "It's going to be a great test, a great game, but it is only one game." Mike Tomczak, the Bears' starting quarterback, says: "It's just one of 16 pivotal games for us.

Thirteen years ago today, relations between umpire Ron Luciano and Baltimore Manager Earl Weaver, never the best to begin with, reached unprecedented depths. Setting a record that can't be broken, Luciano threw him out in both games of a doubleheader. Here's how they regarded each other: Luciano: "I hate Earl Weaver with a passion. I met Weaver in my second year in baseball. I threw him out that first night and three nights after that. Our relationship has gone downhill ever since.

What: "Anchors Aweigh for Honor & Glory: The History of Navy Football" Where: Channel 2 When: Sunday, 1:35 a.m. TV Guide, calling this a great show, says it's one VCRs were made for. But that is still no reason for Channel 2 to put it on at such an ungodly hour. CBS stations in the rest of the country will use it as a lead-in for Saturday college football. But not KCBS.

You might vote for Tunney against Dempsey in the first fight, Donerail in the 1913 Kentucky Derby, or the Miracle Braves in the 1914 World Series, but the longest shot I ever saw in sports was Roger Staubach at the Dallas Cowboys' 1969 training camp. Staubach had been a Heisman Trophy winner but he had not played a competitive game of football in four years. He'd been in the Navy, and all he had to do to get to be the Cowboys' quarterback was beat out Don Meredith, Craig Morton and Jerry Rhome.

H-back Craig McEwen, who joined the Chargers as a free agent with four games remaining last season, has signed a new contract with the team, a Charger spokesman said Monday. Terms of the agreement, which was signed last week, were not released. McEwen, a third-year player from Utah, played in four games, starting two. He caught seven passes for 99 yards. His best game was in the season finale against Denver when he caught five passes for 78 yards.