Many head coaches don't make predictions, saying they don't have a crystal ball. Some of us are more fortunate -- so let's take a gaze, shall we?

Here are a few predictions for 1994.

Pro football: The Dallas Cowboys, on the verge of winning a second straight Super Bowl over the Buffalo Bills, become the laughingstock of the league by pulling a Houston. No, not by fighting on the sideline, but by blowing a 35-3 lead in the second half.

Leading 35-34, with less than a minute to go, the Cowboys' Leon Lett gets possessed by the spirit of Jim Marshall. He picks up a Don Beebe fumble and rumbles 76 yards in the wrong direction for a Buffalo safety.

Final score, Buffalo ends years of frustration with a 36-35 win.

Michael Jordan asks Jerry Jones for a tryout, saying, "I can do better than Leon Lett, I should play football."

Rupert Murdoch immediately signs Jordan to an endorsement deal to hype the Fox Network's new football package. His reasoning: "If he'll do commercials with Bugs Bunny, he'll do them with Homer Simpson."

Winter Olympics: All of the figure skaters and their entourages come back from Lillehammer with a funky neon glow, after having to pass through just as many metal detectors and X-ray devices as the fans.

The U.S. bobsled team captures the gold with a team made up of two actual bobsledders, plus Herschel Walker and Edwin Moses.

Michael Jordan is quoted as saying, "I've got a gold medal, I should be in the Olympics."

College basketball: Michigan and its "Fab Four" once again make it all the way to the Final Four, but they manage to pull a Buffalo, and lose for the third straight year. It's an all-Big Ten final in 1994, and this time the Wolverines lose to the year's Cinderella story -- Indiana.

Not that Indiana is a sleeper team by any means. It becomes a Cinderella team, meaning that Bobby Knight and company are relegated to playing barefoot, after every major shoe company backs out on them because "The General," already booted by Adidas, insists on wearing whatever he wants -- with or without the right logo.

"If any of these shoe companies made argyle sweaters, we'd be all right," says Knight. "But none of these (bleep) shoe people make (bleep) argyles."

Michael Jordan gets in his two cents by saying, "My shoes are better than Adidas, they should use Air Jordans."

Pro hockey: Commissioner Gary Bettman tries to create a new image for the league and orient it more towards families. He immediately hires Wayne Gretzky's kid to say the name of every hockey player, Russians included, like he does in that camcorder commercial. (You know, "Gretzky scores!")

Bettman also pushes the idea of expanding once again, this time into Mexico. The team name: the Santa Fe Santas. It's actually the Santa Fe Saints, but if Americans can refer to Montreal's team as the Canadiens, as opposed to Les Habitants, so be it.

Michael Jordan chimes in, "If I can bobsled, I can skate. I should play hockey."

Pro baseball: Michael Jordan, after hitting in the Comiskey Park batting cages and throwing out ceremonial first pitches, gets his tryout with the White Sox. Everyone accuses owner Jerry Reinsdorf of creating a circus as spring training opens.

Skipper Gene Lamont says, "He's better than Dan Pasqua, he should play baseball."

Pro basketball: The Houston Rockets lose to the Chicago Bulls in five games.

During the parade afterwards, somebody tracks down Michael Jordan. "I'm better than Pete Myers, I should play basketball."

World Cup soccer: "Who cares," says Michael.