And on Birthdays, Winners Get a Call From Willard Scott

Coming off a recent Senior PGA Tour victory, Lee Trevino jokingly said he is going to play forever.

“We’re going to have a Super Super Super Super Super Seniors section,” he said. “If you win when you’re 95, you get a 30-year exemption.”

And there will be another section for even older players, those at 105 and up.

“There’ll only be three players in the field,” Trevino said. “They’ll play one hole a day for three days and the winner is the guy who can remember his score.”

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Trivia time: Who holds the major league record for striking out the most times in a season?

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Going up: USC has already yielded 100 points in five games in contrast to 1967, when the Trojans gave up only 87 points in an 11-game season.

In 1932, in a 10-game season, USC gave up only 13 points.

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Come again? Before Boston College beat Syracuse on Saturday, B.C. Coach Tom Coughlin said: “Lately, we’ve had to stop and ask ourselves where we were, why we were there and where we are going.”

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Come again? II: Rick Ferman, coach of tennis player Todd Martin, was quoted in Tennis magazine on his pupil’s rise from 96th to 14th in the rankings:

“What we are seeing is the culmination of Todd’s acclimation to being at the top of the professional game.”

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Thrill is gone: George Brett on his retirement from baseball: “About the only thing I can relate it to is riding a roller coaster 162 times, 20 years in a row.

“Don’t you want to go on another ride once in a while? I want to go on Space Mountain. I’m tired of the Matterhorn bobsled. I think the game just beat me, which it beats everybody in time.”

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Research needed: From Alan Greenberg of the Hartford Courant: “If God and the Devil were to come out of their respective corners and meet at the center of life’s ring, you’d want Bob Sheppard on hand to make the introductions.

“He is, quite simply, the world’s greatest public address announcer.”

Yo, Alan. Have you heard every other P.A. announcer in the world?

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FYI: The potential owners of Baltimore’s prospective NFL franchise have finally selected a nickname for the team--the Bombers--after rejecting Ravens, Cobras and Rhinos.

Suggestion: Try again.

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Eclectic group: Update on Ram owner Georgia Frontiere’s advisory board. The 25 members now include a sheriff, Orange County’s Brad Gates, an evangelist, Rosey Grier, a lord, David Westbury of the House of Lords, and a comedian, Bob Hope.

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Trivia answer: Bobby Bonds of the San Francisco Giants, with 189 in 1970.

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Quotebook: Kevin Mitchell of the Cincinnati Reds after teammate Jacob Brumfield was injured in a bicycling accident near Mitchell’s home in San Diego: “We’ve got to get Jacob training wheels.”