These Fans Get to Enjoy Grey Cup a Little Too Much

Since 1909, the Grey Cup has been broken, forgotten, misplaced, lost and even held for ransom. But never stolen from a bar.

That is, until Thursday.

Toronto Argonaut kicker Mike Vanderjagt took the Canadian Football League championship trophy to a bar in his home town of Oakville, Ontario, and according to police, allowed admirers to drink from it. When Vanderjagt was ready to leave, the trophy had vanished.

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Add Cup: Among the fans drinking from the Cup were college students celebrating a Christmas party. One student reportedly joked she would pay $100 to have the Grey Cup in her apartment. When she arrived home, she found it in her kitchen.

Police were called and the trophy was returned to Vanderjagt on Friday. No charges will be filed.

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Trivia time: Who holds the NBA record for most three-point shots in a game without a miss?

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Laker magician: The Lakers’ Rick Fox told Peter May of the Boston Globe that Kobe Bryant is “at a stage already in his game where he’s capable of something amazing every time he has the ball.

“I suppose if he’s guilty of anything, it’s trying to hit a home run on every play, but the problem is that he really can do it.”

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Bleak future: Lawrence Funderburke of the Sacramento Kings says his NBA career will be cut short.

“In the next five, six, seven years I believe the world is going to come to an abrupt end the way things have been going and because of the prophesies I have read in the Bible.”

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Prepared: Jim Kelly was the analyst for a recent Detroit Lion game. When Lion quarterback Scott Mitchell went to the production meeting with Kelly the night before the game, he wore boxing gloves.

Mitchell was poking fun at Kelly’s skirmish with Indianapolis Colt quarterback Jim Harbaugh.

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Clip and save: Even though it has been rumored that Baltimore Raven Coach Ted Marchibroda will be fired if the team continues to lose, owner Art Modell recently gave him a second vote of confidence:

“I don’t tell untruths. Integrity is my middle name.”

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Looking back: On this day in 1984, Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie became the 50th Heisman Trophy winner.

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Trivia answer: Utah’s Jeff Hornacek against Seattle in 1994, and Seattle’s Sam Perkins against Toronto in 1997, eight each.

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And finally: A spectator found a novel way of disrupting a snooker match in London. He did it by snoring.

Alan McManus began to laugh as he lined up a shot, and had to step back from the table.

Referee Jan Verhaas and Stephen Hendry, McManus’ opponent, joined in the chuckles, which went on for several minutes until someone woke the fan, who made a quick exit.