POSTCARDS FROM 1997.(SPORTS)

Byline: GEORGE VECSEY

You can't be everywhere. This is one of the verities of modern sports, what with seasons overlapping and big events butting into each other.

For example: In my quest for journalistic postcards, I was at Wimbledon when I heard about Mike Tyson's biting Evander Holyfield's ears in Las Vegas.

The reporters flicked on televisions and computers to get the lurid details from eight time zones away. What with BBC and ESPN and CNN and the Internet, it seems as if everybody is everywhere. This is where some of the action was in 1997:

New York, Jan. 30: Bill Parcells wants control of the Jets, insisting that great chefs insist on buying their own food for the kitchen. My boss suggests I call noted Manhattan restaurateur Elaine Kaufman to get her take on chefs. …