Can We Vote More Than Once In This Poll?

Borrowing a page from the TV show “Survivor,” ESPN.com asked Internet surfers to vote for what sports personality--from a list of six--they most likely would vote off their island.

Boxing’s Mike Tyson collected 43,464 votes, nearly half the total. Second was another boxing figure, wild-haired promoter Don King, followed by Atlanta Brave pitcher John Rocker, basketball commentator Bill Walton and Indiana basketball Coach Bob Knight.

Laker Coach Phil Jackson got 3,400 votes, finishing sixth.

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Trivia time: UCLA athletic teams have won 82 NCAA championships. Which sport has produced the most?

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It’s only money: The makers of Viagra have at least matched the going rate among NASCAR sponsors, earning the right to put their logo on Mark Martin’s No. 6 Ford in 2001 for what is believed to be one of the richest deals in stock car racing.

The agreement with Pfizer Inc. is said to be worth about $14 million a season, in the same neighborhood as Jeff Gordon’s new deal with DuPont, which was described last month as the biggest in the business.

Pfizer also will have a “Men’s Health Tune-Up for Life” trailer at all Winston Cup tracks to give tests for conditions such as high cholesterol, diabetes and erectile dysfunction.

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Tough league: After Yankee second baseman Chuck Knoblauch had committed three errors in a game, the banner headline in the New York Post the next day read: “CHUCK-E-E-E.”

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Say what? With the British Open returning to St. Andrews next week, Ben Crenshaw had this to say about the famous 17th hole:

“The reason the Road Hole is the greatest par four in the world is because it’s a par five.”

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Now he knows: When Tiger Woods played in the Los Angeles Open as a 16-year-old amateur in 1992, former Masters champion Sandy Lyle was asked what he thought of Tiger Woods.

“I don’t know, I’ve never played there,” he said.

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Hockey note: Keith Gretzky, brother of hockey hall of famer Wayne Gretzky and former coach of the Bakersfield Condors, will be the first coach of the expansion Arctic Xpress, which begins play in the United Hockey League in 2001.

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High flier: In high school, Stacy Dragila was a rodeo star who could tie a goat faster than she could tie her shoes.

Today, at 29, she is the world-record holder and favorite in the women’s pole vault at the Sydney Olympics.

In 1994 she set the U.S. indoor record at 10 feet. Six years later, she holds the world indoor and outdoor records at 15-1 3/4.

“That’s the nature of the event,” she said. “It’s so young, so new [for women], that a world record could go down on any vault. That makes it exciting for spectators and exciting for athletes.”

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No hard feelings: Larry O’Connell will referee Lennox Lewis’ world heavyweight title defense against South Africa’s Francois Botha at the London Arena on July 15.

O’Connell was a ringside judge for the Lewis-Evander Holyfield unification title fight at Madison Square Garden last year, which was ruled a draw. O’Connell scored the fight even, when most felt Lewis was the clear winner.

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Trivia answer: Men’s volleyball with 18, three more than men’s tennis.

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And finally: Formula One driver David Coulthard, who won Sunday’s French Grand Prix, was asked by TV talk-show host David Letterman if he ever sneezed while driving at more than 200 mph.

“No, I’ve never sneezed but I know you can’t pass gas in a corner, only on the straightaways,” the Scotsman replied.