Maverick Tickets Score High at Charity Stripe

How much is a season ticket to Dallas Mavericks’ basketball games worth?

How much can you raise?

Team owner Donald Carter recently auctioned six of his own Reunion Arena courtside seats for charity.

Four of them went for $55,000 to Danny Falkner, a Dallas businessman, and two went for $37,500 to Jimmy Fuller, a friend of Carter’s.

Fuller said he thought he’d gotten a bargain, since the Mavericks threw in two parking passes.

Trivia Time: Who hit the first home run in World Series history, and who was the pitcher? (Answer below.)

Does USC basketball Coach George Raveling like the new three-point shot in the Pac-10?

Raveling said that a most of the nation’s college basketball coaches would not have voted for the three-point play had they had known the line was going to be only 19 feet 9 inches from the basket.

“That’s ridiculously short,” Raveling said. “If we continue to follow that logic, why shouldn’t we have a four-, five-, six- and seven-point play. Why, you could be seven down with 30 seconds left and tie the game up.”

The principal at a New Jersey high school recently suspended three varsity football players for roughing up the team’s only female player.

The three players were disciplined because they threw equipment at, knocked down and wrestled to the ground Elizabeth Balsley, 17, who had won a court battle to join the team.

One of the suspended players said he didn’t feel disciplinary action would have been taken if he’d roughed up a male.

However, Balsley still wants to play football.

“She feels the same way she’s always felt about football,” Balsley’s mother said. “She still loves the game.”

Metsmania has even hit Broadway.

Norman Kean, the producer of “Oh! Calcutta!,” has asked cast members to announce the latest baseball playoff scores to the audience, and he plans to continue the service throughout the World Series.

Agent Bob Woolf wasn’t surprised when sportswriters didn’t show up to question quarterback Doug Flutie after the Rams traded his rights to the Chicago Bears. The writers were all at Fenway Park covering the American League playoffs.

So, Woolf took Flutie to Fenway Park and sneaked him onto the field before the sixth game.

Flutie and Woolf were later escorted off the field by security guards, but only after they had held an impromptu press conference.

Said Boston’s Wade Boggs: “That’s weak, having a football player down on the field before a game like this.”

Trivia Answer: Jimmy Sebring of the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1903, off the Boston Red Sox’s Cy Young.

Quotebook

Chicago Bears linebacker Otis Wilson, on quarterback Doug Flutie: “I don’t think he’s gonna get no million dollars around here. What’s he worth to me? How much change have I got in my pocket?”