Hulk Hogan

Anthony Pasquale "Tony" D'Eugenio, a musician and former deli owner whose booming laugh and Italian cold-cut hoagies were a fixture in downtown Westminster, died Wednesday at Sinai Hospital after complications from heart-valve surgery. He was 65 and lived in Westminster. In addition to running the Giulianova Groceria at 11 E. Main St., which he sold last year, Mr. D'Eugenio had been a working musician since childhood. He specialized in slide trombone but was able to play almost anything, except piano and drums, said his wife of 26 years, the former Marilyn Kay Jordan.

These days, what were once considered fantasy match-ups between sports heroes of different ages are almost everyday occurrences. Michael Jordan (before he was injured) came out of retirement to take on young basketball stars like Vince Carter and Kobe Bryant. Golden-years golfers like Jack Nicklaus tee it up alongside Tiger Woods. But sports fans still can only imagine what it would have been like to see Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron play against each in other in a World Series, or Jordan and Wilt Chamberlain square off in the NBA Finals.

Walls of VodouPlumb the depths of an ancient African religion transplanted to Haiti 400 years ago via the slave trade. See artwork, sculpture and relics at Sacred Art of Haitian Vodou at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Art Museum Drive, Sunday through Aug. 30. A lecture Sunday by curator Donald J. Cosentino at 2 p.m. explores "The Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou," and there's a free Caribbean festival at the museum June 21 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.Also new at the...

Not even a steel-cage match could settle the hottest feud in professional wrestling today.Wrestling's top two organizations -- the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling -- are engaged in a quarrel that has gotten nastier than a Texas death match.This wrasslin' war is being waged in living rooms across the country. Every Monday at 9 p.m., fans must decide whether to watch the WWF's "Monday Night Raw" on the USA Network or WCW's "Monday Nitro" on TNT. This Saturday, World Championship Wrestling is coming to the Baltimore Arena, where fans can judge its lineup in person.

Kevin Nash has wanted to be a star for as long as he can remember.For most of his life, he wasn't sure what he would be the star of, he just knew that he craved the limelight.Standing 6-foot-10, Mr. Nash once thought basketball might be the answer. He later took a shot at acting, but casting agents weren't exactly knocking down his door after his portrayal of Super Shredder in the film "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze."By combining athleticism with acting, however, Mr. Nash finally attained the fame he had been seeking -- as a professional wrestler.

SARASOTA, Fla. -- Sid Fernandez stepped on a scale in the Orioles clubhouse yesterday. The moment of truth.In February and March, word out of his native Hawaii was that the pounds were cascading off the left-hander, who weighed 262 when the players went on strike last year. About a week ago, Fernandez told Orioles strength and conditioning coach Tim Bishop over the phone that he weighed 226 pounds.To his teammates, who had watched Fernandez quit jogging less than one lap around the field last year, that seemed fantastic.

There are certain basic truths about the human existence, and one is this: Unless you count cartoons, pro wrestling is the only place on Earth where you can smash a metal folding chair over a man's head, crush his windpipe with your elbow and drive a knee into his groin, only to watch him jump up as if he had just received a brisk massage.That is exactly what's taking place on this steamy night at the Baltimore Arena. A roaring, sell-out crowd of 12,000 is watching Hulk Hogan mop the ring with Vader in the feature match of World Championship Wrestling's Super Brawl V, with the whole ugly business being beamed across the nation on pay-per-view.

When you first meet Hulk Hogan face-to-face (make that face to belly-button), you are tempted to blurt out to the 6-foot-7, 275-pound professional wrestler, "Oh man, you are huge."And we do mean huge. Biceps like ham hocks -- so large that a regular shirt won't hold them (he wears denim cutoffs). Thighs the size of redwoods. Everywhere you look at Hulk Hogan, there's muscle. Even his eyelids are muscular.This Herculean-sized man is affectionately called "The Hulkster" by thousands of screaming Hulkamaniacs.

The success of the NBA Dream Team has U.S. Olympic officials considering a bold new way to increase this country's medal haul.If pro basketball players can practically guarantee the gold iBarcelona, the reasoning goes, why not send a squad of pro wrestlers led by Hulk Hogan and "Macho Man" Randy Savage to the '96 Summer Games in Atlanta?"

There are about four laughs in ''Suburban Commando,'' and two of those are funny only if you think that cats sailing through the air is funny.The other two laughs are as good as the cat jokes, but that's about all you're going to get in this film.It is, however, reasonably innocent, and small children will like it. The film does include a scene in which an intergalactic villain threatens to shoot a young girl in the head, but that seems to be happening everywhere in the movies, and no one seems to be making any objection to it.Hulk Hogan is the ''Suburban Commando.