Suddenly, He Found Himself Sitting Pretty

The Heads-Up Basketball Move of the Week Award goes to Peter Kohl of Germany’s TTL Bamberg team.

During his team’s 100-64 loss to UCLA Tuesday night, Kohl dived for a loose ball and landed out of bounds. As the nine other players ran to the opposite end of the court, Kohl sat up and found himself next to a UCLA cheerleader.

Without hesitating, he kissed her on the cheek.

Add kiss: TTL Bamberg’s coach is Terry Schofield, who played on UCLA’s three NCAA championship teams in 1969-’71.

Asked after the game about Kohl and the cheerleader, Schofield said: “You’ve got to remember, we’ve been on the road a long time.”

Trivia time: Name the only World Series in which every game was a shutout.

We promise: Like any great football game, USC’s 45-42 victory over UCLA last Saturday already has created its own little volume of statistical mythology.

Thomas Pleasure of Venice noted that USC had the ball for a little more than 37 minutes and scored six touchdowns--roughly one touchdown every six minutes--whereas UCLA’s six touchdowns in just under 23 minutes works out to about one touchdown every 3 1/2 minutes.

Pleasure wrote: “So watch out for the fast-scoring Bruins in the years to come.”

Over-the-hump gangs: Only two football teams in NCAA Division I-A began the 1990 season 0-3 and will finish the regular season with winning records: Alabama (6-4), which plays Auburn on Dec. 1, and Cal State Long Beach (6-5).

Mile-high mauler: When Denver Nugget center Blair Rasmussen committed five personal fouls in Monday’s loss to the Lakers, his 1990-91 season average fell to 5.3 a game. In the Nuggets’ first 10 games, Rasmussen fouled out five times.

At his current rate, Rasmussen will need 73 games to break the NBA single-season record of 386 personal fouls, set by Darryl Dawkins of the New Jersey Nets in 1983-84.

And if he continues to foul out of half his games, he will shatter the NBA single-season record of 26, set by Don Meineke of the Ft. Wayne Pistons in 1952-53.

Loose cannon: Butch Johnson, the former Dallas Cowboy wide receiver whose “California Quake” dance helped speed the NFL’s decision to outlaw rehearsed end-zone celebrations, recently said the football public doesn’t know what it missed.

Johnson described a routine he never got to use:

“I had this idea where I’d have a bunch of my teammates who were standing near the bench get right up to the sideline a few yards apart after I scored a touchdown. I’d catch the ball, hold it up in the end zone, and then I’d run back onto the field. One by one I’d shoot them down, and they’d all fall back like they just died. It was going to be great.”

Reverse bearding: All variations on “get their goat” and “kidnap” are fair play:

Early Sunday morning, a group of cadets from the United States Military Academy invaded the Annapolis (Md.) quarters of the goat Bill XXVI, Naval Academy mascot, and captured a goat. But it wasn’t Bill XXVI. Instead, it was a decoy goat, one of several that auditioned to succeed Bill XXV, who was retired in 1988. The Midshipmen had anticipated the prank.

Trivia answer: The New York Giants beat the Philadelphia A’s in 1905, four shutouts to one.

Quotebook: Ralph Zobell, BYU sports information director, bemoaning an alleged regional bias in the polls and Heisman Trophy balloting: “If I had one wish, I would wave a magic wand and change the Mountain time zone to the Eastern time zone.”