Michael Vick’s turnabout is remarkable

Michael Vick’s on-field transformation has been remarkable. …

At this rate, Vick might one day join Doug Williams as the only African American quarterbacks to win Super Bowl championships while also gaining entry to another exclusive club: left-handed Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks. …

Ken Stabler and Steve Young could use some company. …

Young, like Vick a dynamic dual threat, is the only left-handed quarterback in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. …

USC turned back the clock Saturday in its victory at Arizona, dominating with a punishing, clock-controlling ground attack led by workmanlike tailback Marc Tyler. …

Arizona drew a bigger crowd for a September game against the Citadel than it did for Matt Barkley and the Trojans. …

You’re probably a diehard San Francisco 49ers fan if you’d ever heard of Eric Johnson before the former NFL tight end’s engagement to paparazzi magnet Jessica Simpson. …

Johnson, from Yale, led the 49ers in receptions in 2004. …

With Andrew Bynum and Theo Ratliff sidelined, it will be hard for Phil Jackson to limit Pau Gasol’s minutes. …

Thirty-one points, 31 rebounds: Whole Lotta [ Kevin] Love. …

Blake Griffin might be “the most athletic power forward ever to play the game,” Clippers announcer Mike Smith says. …

Until they ran into the Clippers on Monday night, Brook Lopez and the New Jersey Nets hadn’t won on the road against a Western Conference opponent in nearly two years. …

It might be time for Brett Favre to fade into the sunset. …

Attention, Buster Posey: Three of the previous five Giants who won National League rookie-of-the-year honors — Willie Mays, Orlando Cepeda and Willie McCovey — were later inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame. …

Among the 16 Dodgers who have won the award, only Jackie Robinson is enshrined at Cooperstown. …

Mike Piazza, based on his numbers, should join him one day. …

What might Donovan McNabb be worth to the Washington Redskins if Coach Mike Shanahan believed his quarterback was in tip-top shape and had a firm grip on the offense? …

Jason Gay of the Wall Street Journal, on the pummeling inflicted upon Antonio Margarito by Manny Pacquiao, “Halfway through the fight, Mr. Margarito’s right eye resembled a slot in a coin-op dryer. By the 10th round, a coin-op dryer looked like Cary Grant by comparison.” …

In addition to the usual campus locales, college football games Saturday will be played at Yankee Stadium ( Notre Dame vs. Army) and Wrigley Field (Northwestern vs. Illinois). …

Dodger Stadium has never hosted a football game, according to Dodgers historian Mark Langill, but Super Bowl media day was held there before the 1993 game at the Rose Bowl. …

Luckily for Manny Ramirez, who might have to leave the country to find a job, he has expressed interest in the Toronto Blue Jays. …

If Dustin Brown and the Kings didn’t know it already, the three-time defending Pacific Division champion San Jose Sharks showed Monday that they won’t be easily dislodged. …

“Jews and Baseball,” a documentary narrated by Dustin Hoffman and featuring an interview with Sandy Koufax, makes its Los Angeles premiere Wednesday night at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. …

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LeBron James, who recently suggested that he was playing too many minutes, is averaging about three minutes a game fewer than he did with the Cleveland Cavaliers last season. …

Mark Cuban, during a radio interview, reveling in the Miami Heat’s struggles: “Hallelujah, boys, is that great or what? … My buddy Dan Gilbert is smiling all the way too.” …

Gilbert, owner of the Cavaliers, wrote an open letter to fans last summer, blasting James’ “cowardly betrayal.” …

Roland Thatcher, who squandered a four-shot 54-hole lead Sunday but retained his PGA Tour card by making a five-foot par putt on the final hole of the final event of the year: “You’ll never see a happier guy who just vomited away a tournament.”

jerome.crowe@latimes.com