Dodgers fans, you are all witnesses

Frank and Jamie McCourt finally landed in court this week, but this entire season has been a trial for Dodgers fans. …

With Manny Ramirez off doing his thing for the Chicago White Sox as of Tuesday, the Dodgers have canceled their Sept. 17 promotion: Manny Ramirez Poster Night. …

The posters were never printed, a club spokesman says. …

Ramirez, asked this week if he would cut his hair to conform to White Sox club policy, told a reporter, “Why not?” …

With the addition this week of prospect Loek Van Mil, a 7-foot-1 right-hander acquired in the Brian Fuentes trade, the Angels now employ the same number of 7-footers as the Clippers. …

Thirty-five years ago Friday, Pete LaCock hit the only grand slam of his career, the Woodland Hills Taft High graduate and son of longtime “Hollywood Squares” host Peter Marshall connecting against Bob Gibson. …

It was the final appearance of Gibson’s career. …

No team featuring Kevin Durant should be taken lightly, of course, but Mike Krzyzewski just might win a world championship with what basically is the Team USA junior varsity. …

UCLA, 10-2 in its third season under Karl Dorrell five years ago, is not expected to win more than six games in its third season under Rick Neuheisel. …

The over-under on the number of games the Bruins will win, according to odds posted at BetUS.com, is 5½. …

For USC, it’s 9½. …

Among the members of the board of trustees at the University of Miami, which is in talks to play a football game at Yankee Stadium, is one Alex E. Rodriguez. …

Yes, it’s the Yankees’ third baseman, a Miami native. …

Brigham Young’s undergraduate enrollment of nearly 30,000 students is only slightly lower than the combined enrollment of its eight future partners in the West Coast Conference. …

David Clowney of the New York Jets, on HBO’s “Hard Knocks”: “Coach calls me the butt back. You know what a butt back is? You go up to the coach [and ask], ‘Coach, can I get into the game?’ He’s like, ‘Boy, get your butt back.’ “…

While the Green Bay Packers have enlisted only two starting quarterbacks since 1992 — Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers — their three NFC North rivals have utilized 54. …

Deacon Jones, Merlin Olsen, Eric Dickerson, Elroy “Crazylegs” Hirsch and Norm Van Brocklin are among the former Los Angeles Rams featured in “The Top 100: NFL’s Greatest Players,” which debuts Friday on NFL Network. …

On the day after a team from Japan defeated a team from Hawaii to win the Little League World Series, reader Toyo Kimura of Los Alamitos e-mails to note, Hawaii-born Shane Victorino exacted a measure of revenge for his home state by breaking up a no-hit bid by Japanese right-hander Hiroki Kuroda. …

Noting that Kuroda apparently does not speak English, reader Roy Reel of Culver City e-mails to ask, “What do catchers and managers say to him when they go out to the mound?” …

Sayonara? …

Kuroda last pitched a complete game two years ago. …

At Hockey Fest ‘10, the Kings’ Sept. 11 celebration of all things hockey in El Segundo, firefighters from six Southland stations will prepare and sell food to benefit the Widows, Orphans and Disabled Firefighters Fund. …

Kings scouts Ace Bailey and Mark Bavis, en route to training camp from Boston, were aboard the second plane that was flown into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. …

“If Matt Leinart does not make it in the NFL,” reader Van Barbieri of Rancho Palos Verdes e-mails to suggest, “he can always go back to USC and teach ballet.” …

Actually, Leinart’s field of study was ballroom dancing. …

Ryan Garvey, a Palm Desert High senior and son of former Dodger Steve Garvey, is part of a U.S. team taking on a team from Japan in a three-game high school baseball series this weekend at the MLB Urban Youth Academy in Compton. …

His old man, who turns 62 in December, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch before Saturday’s opener. …

Seventy-one years ago this month, in his rookie season with the Boston Red Sox, Ted Williams hit a home run against Thornton Lee of the Chicago White Sox. …

Fifty years ago this week, in his final season, Williams homered against Thornton’s son, Don, becoming the only player in major league history to hit a home run against father and son. …

Headline over an Internet report that Tiger Woods is dating a woman in her 50s: “Tiger falls for Cougar.”

jerome.crowe@latimes.com