Running on Empty? By Now He Should Be All Out of Gas

How do you get ready for a marathon? Well, if you’re Jerry Dunn of Spearfish, S.D., you run 26.2 miles every day for the 25 days preceding the Boston Marathon on April 15.

Dunn, 50, is a marathon junkie.

In 1991, he ran across the United States, averaging 17 miles a day, six days a week during the 3 1/2 month trip. In 1993, he broke the world record for most marathons in a year, with 104.

“I have a passion for running,” he said. And for understatement.

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Trivia time: Who did the Dodgers play in their stadium opener, April 10, 1962?

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Color crisis: Dennis Rodman’s influence has extended to a freshman wrestler at Banks High in Banks, Ore.

Stephen Vandecoevering was disqualified from competing for the school until he shaved off his neon green hair.

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Add Rodman: A recent Sports Illustrated cover pictured Rodman and asked, “The Best Rebounder Ever?”

Dave Kindred of the Sporting News points out that Wilt Chamberlain averaged 22.9 rebounds during his 14-year NBA career and that Bill Russell averaged 22.4 (actually 22.5) for 13 years. Rodman’s career average is 12.5.

Kindred: “Don’t bring that weak Rodman stuff in here again.”

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Historian: He won three NBA championships and was a seven-time league all-star, but that didn’t assure former Laker James Worthy a place in history. Now, he’s guaranteed one.

On Wednesday, Worthy will donate his trademark goggles and No. 42 Laker jersey to the Smithsonian, after which he will become the first athlete to take part in the Institution’s oral history project, providing hours of taped interviews available to scholars.

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Trivia answer: The Cincinnati Reds.

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Quotebook: John Kruk, former Philadelphia Phillie first baseman: “Spring training should last one day. We’d have the team golf outing and head north.”