HEY, IT COULD HAVE BEEN BUD COLLINS Apparently the only thing dropping from Wimbledon faster than Americans and top-seeds are the pigeons. Championship officials last week hired an assassin to take out pigeons who werent scared of by the two hawks originally hired to rid the area of flying rats. The dive-bombing birds were a nuisance to players for sure, but they were also creating a health hazard in one of the restaurant areas of the All England Club, officials said, when they began defecating on patron tables. Sort of puts the yuck factor in the traditional Wimbledon indulgence: strawberries and cream. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, of course,... ...