Los Angeles Newspaper Group

•Michael Ventre, in the Los Angeles Daily News: "It seems unfair that Buster Douglas has to pay $293,163 in back taxes when he really only worked one day in his life."

•Ron Rapoport, in the Los Angeles Daily News: "Let's see, we've got dirty secrets, conflicting stories, a whole cast of unsavory characters and more overheated media coverage than all of Elizabeth Taylor's marriages...

•Tim Brown, in the Los Angeles Daily News, noting that oft-disciplined Cleveland Indian leftfielder Albert Belle is a year away from earning a degree in accounting from Cleveland State: "Then he'll be able to budget...

•Michael Ventre, in the Los Angeles Daily News: "Darryl Strawberry now predicts he's going to the Hall of Fame. The Dodgers probably wish he'd go now so they can replace him with somebody who can hit and field."