In This Case, 66 2/3% Is Worth More Than 85%

Here’s a shocker: a boxing controversy.

It’s sort of a small one, really, but interesting nonetheless. A USA network poll asked whether George Foreman or Axel Schulz had won last week’s heavyweight title fight.

The network reported that 85% of its respondents said Schulz had won.

More important to Foreman, two of the three judges in Las Vegas said he had won.

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Trivia time: What is the given name of former major leaguer Mookie Wilson?

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Sapp says: Passed over by 11 teams before Tampa Bay drafted him in the first round, Miami defensive tackle Warren Sapp has a message for them:

“I just hope they’re on the schedule.”

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Denny’s, maybe? Larry Guest of the Orlando Sentinel thinks Florida Marlin third baseman Terry Pendleton is overweight.

“Quite obviously, Pendleton did not spend the baseball strike locked away at Bally’s,” Guest wrote.

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Uh, air? Detroit Red Wing goaltender Mike Vernon: “I don’t know if a lot of coaches know what goes through a goalie’s head. The bottom line is, if he’s not stopping the puck, the coach is going to pull him.”

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Young team, man: For what it’s worth, the Lakers have the youngest roster of any team in the NBA playoffs, an average age of 26. Cleveland has the oldest, averaging 32.2 years.

Although 32, Michael Jordan transcends age in Chicago.

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That’s not punny: Houston Rocket Coach Rudy Tomjanovich’s reaction to the news that power forward Carl Herrera had dislocated his shoulder: “It’s a sick joke.”

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Streaky: During the consecutive-games streak of Baltimore’s Cal Ripken Jr. that began May 30, 1982, major league players have been put on the disabled list 3,372 times.

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Lesson No. 1: Kyle Brady laughed when the NFL draft crowd at Madison Square Garden booed his selection by the New York Jets.

“The New York fans are tough,” Brady said. “I’ve never been booed in my life.”

Get used to it, Kyle.

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Show stopper: Corona del Mar High’s Ericka Sparks, after winning several honors in the Interscholastic Equestrian League’s final show, is selling her horse, Heart Of Gold, because she is going away to college.

“It was a tough decision to make, but it was the right one for both of us,” she told Barry Faulkner of the Newport Beach-Costa Mesa Daily Pilot.

No doubt she asked the horse.

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Trivia answer: William Hayward Wilson.

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Quotebook: Charlotte Hornet center Alonzo Mourning on the Bulls’ chances of winning the NBA title now that Michael Jordan is back: “Michael can’t do it by himself.”