Team’s Success Is Measured by Pie Chart

David Mayo of the Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press recently attended a football game at Hope College, an NCAA Division III school in Holland, Mich., and discovered one of the school’s charms--its stadium food.

Wrote Mayo: “I watched a guy drive up, buy two pies and leave.”

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Go away, O.J.: According to David Martindale of the Sporting News, NFL quarterbacks may be tempted to pass around a petition to keep NBC’s O.J. Simpson in the studio on game days.

Martindale reports that Simpson was pulling sideline duty when Raider quarterback Jeff Hostetler suffered a sprained ankle against the Cleveland Browns, Chief quarterback Joe Montana suffered a pulled hamstring against the Raiders and Dolphin quarterback Dan Marino suffered a torn Achilles’ tendon against the Browns.

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Trivia time: Four alumni of Western Hills High in Cincinnati have served as major league managers. Who are they?

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Wanted: Souls to save: Former NFL quarterback Babe Laufenberg, now writing a weekly column for the Dallas Morning News, finds it interesting that defensive end Reggie White, who once said he wanted to play in a city where he could establish a ministry to help troubled youth, signed with the Green Bay Packers.

“Have you been to Green Bay?” Laufenberg wrote. “Ward Cleaver would have been ostracized there as a communist, if that helps paint a picture. The closest thing to joining a gang is the Cub Scouts.”

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Add White: More from Laufenberg: “God told him to sign with the Green Bay Packers. Told him 17 million times.”

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Economics, NBA-style: Forward Derrick Coleman of the New Jersey Nets recently turned down an eight-year, $69-million offer from the team. Making the offer was Willis Reed, Net senior vice president. His salary as an NBA rookie in 1964-65: $11,000.

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Down and out in Argentina: According to the boxing newsletter Flash, actor Mickey Rourke recently visited Carlos Monzon in the Argentine prison where the former middleweight champion is doing time for murder. Rourke and Monzon reportedly discussed the actor’s fledgling boxing career and then engaged in a brief sparring session. According to the newsletter, Rourke got off a few tentative jabs before he was knocked out by a single right hand from the former champion.

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Don’t ask about his sister: Dwayne Johnson, junior defensive tackle for the University of Miami, comes from a long line of professional wrestlers. His late grandfather was High Chief Peter Maivia, one of the first Samoan pro wrestlers. His father, Rocky, is a former World Wrestling Federation tag-team champion. Two of his uncles are known as the Wild Samoans, four-time WWF tag-team champions. And his cousins, also wrestlers, call themselves the Head Shrinkers.

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At least it didn’t quit: Running last in Wednesday’s sixth race at Santa Anita was a horse you would think would be in the money: Ross Perrault.

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Trivia answer: Pete Rose (Reds), Don Zimmer (Padres, Red Sox, Rangers and Cubs), Jim Frey (Royals and Cubs) and Russ Nixon (Reds and Braves).

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Quotebook: Mike Ditka, NFL analyst for NBC, on the touchdown dance of Houston Oiler wide receiver Ernest Givins: “It’s a new move--called ‘the Jerk.’ ”