Notes

As a quarterback at Cincinnati's fabled Moeller High, Scott Schaffner had a fellow named Ken Griffey Jr. to throw to one year. Now, as Schaffner prepares to begin his junior season at Minnesota, Griffey, 20, is an All-Star centerfielder for the Seattle Mariners.

"He's the best athlete I've ever seen," says Schaffner. "If he had decided to play football, he'd have started as a wide receiver. I told him that, and he said he doesn't like to get hit. For the money he's making, I don't blame him."

Schaffner, who also played baseball with Griffey, says, "There were times he'd hit a ball so far it was like a golf ball. We played on a field with no fence. You'd see outfielders 500 feet back, and still he'd pop it over their heads."

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Wisconsin defensive tackle and team co-captain Don Davey (SI, Sept. 5, 1988) can become the first four-time first-team Academic All-America football player in the 38-year history of the award. Davey is working on his master's degree after getting his undergraduate degree last spring in mechanical engineering.... Jack Crowe is the first Arkansas assistant to be hired as head coach there since 1944.... New Kentucky coach Bill Curry, formerly the coach at Alabama, on how tough it was to please Alabama writers: "There was a joke going around that when I went on a fishing trip, the boat tipped over, but I got to shore by walking on water. The headline in the next day's paper read: CURRY FAILS AT SWIMMING."