Lakers Ought to Be Hungrier Than They Are

Laker Coach Del Harris was enraged last week when he learned that a couple of his players had a ball boy deliver some nachos and hot dogs to them in the locker room before a game.

Before the next game at the Forum, there was a knock on the door of the Laker locker room.

Someone asked for Harris, who opened the door. Standing there was a pizza delivery man, the one Vlade Divac had called to order a pizza for Harris.

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Add Lakers: Unbeaten Nebraska and Florida are playing the game of the season in college football, but no Gator and only one Cornhusker has ever played for the Lakers: Stu Lantz (1974-76), now a Laker broadcaster.

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Trivia time: Who is the Clippers’ all-time leader in blocked shots?

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Wimbledon already knows: From TV golf analyst Roger Maltbie after watching former tennis star Ivan Lendl hit five shots into a water hazard: “Grass isn’t his best surface.”

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High on Hill: According to a survey of the NBA’s most marketable young stars by the Sports Business Daily, Grant Hill of the Detroit Pistons was the top player, named by 80 percent of the respondents.

Hill already has endorsements of about $5 million for products that include sneakers, soft drinks, trucks and razors.

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Rocky Top top: Florida’s Danny Wuerffel may have been a Heisman Trophy finalist, but Southeastern Conference coaches made him a second team All-SEC quarterback behind Tennessee’s Peyton Manning.

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Try yodeling: After a Miami Heat-Boston Celtic game last week at the FleetCenter that included a fight and 98 foul shots called by replacement officials, Alonzo Mourning wondered about his hearing.

Said Mourning: “Man, there were so many whistles blowing in here I thought there was an echo in the building.”

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Welsh dresser: Colin Thomason ran his 186th marathon last week in Culver City. He said he has run the last 86 wearing a dress.

Why, you ask? Well, Thomason is from Wales, and he says it’s a tradition to run in a dress after your 100th marathon. On this occasion, Thomason wore an orange and black ensemble and carried daffodils.

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Trivia answer: Benoit Benjamin with 1,117.

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Quotebook: Mike Lupica of the New York Daily News: “I think we just misunderstood Buddy Ryan when he got to Arizona, and he was just warning everybody that there was a whiner in town.”