Odds Are He’s Pleased With Pair of Aces

Tommy Boyd, pro at Chardon Lakes Golf Course in Chardon, Ohio, had never had a hole in one--until Sunday, when he aced both the fourth and eighth holes during a late-afternoon round.

According to Golf Digest, the odds of two holes in one in 18 holes are 67 million to one.

No one has calculated the odds against Boyd’s feat: two aces in five holes.

Trivia time: Who was Portland’s coach when the Trail Blazers won their only NBA championship in the 1976-77 season?

Hermit mentality: From David Letterman’s “Top Ten Coach Bob Knight Tips For Controlling Your Anger: Avoid situations that trigger outbursts, like being around people.”

A granite chin? Irichelle Duran, Roberto Duran’s daughter, will make her pro boxing debut against British fighter Audrey Guthrie at Ashford, England, on June 2.

She hasn’t fought yet but already has a nickname: “Little Hands of Stone.”

Why not? New York Islander fan Bob Ceparano, after being invited to a pancake breakfast with prospective team owners Charles Wang and Sanjay Kumar:

“They’re billionaires and they’re taking us to IHOP?”

One of a kind: Flip Bondy of the New York Daily News, on Rickey Henderson, 41, who was recently released by the Mets and signed by the Seattle Mariners:

“[He] doesn’t have a mean bone in his body. He is one of baseball’s eccentrics, a player who lives harmlessly in his own world, who simply cannot remember the names of even his next-door lockermates.”

Door to door: New York Knick Allan Houston, after a jet blast from the team’s charter plane had blown waiting cars into a tangle:

“I walked up to my car and saw [assistant coach] Brendan [Malone’s] car was right next to mine, no space or air in between. I was thinking, ‘Why did he park the car so close?’ ”

Bighearted: Scott Ostler in the San Francisco Chronicle: “Bobby Knight, say what you will about the guy, it was darn decent of him to give Indiana University another chance.”

Watch for el sacko: Jim Maxedon of Hayward recalled his favorite Carnak the Magnificent moment to the San Francisco Chronicle:

Answer: El Paso.

Question: What comes before el punto?

You don’t say: Manager Mike Hargrove, after the Baltimore Orioles had blown a 7-4, sixth-inning lead Thursday in an 8-7 loss to the Texas Rangers:

“Our inability to hold leads in the seventh inning is probably our biggest concern right now.”

Trivia answer: Jack Ramsay.

And finally: Susan Fornoff, sportswriter for the San Francisco Examiner, before her marriage to Marc Squeri on the Bodega Harbour (Calif.) Golf Links:

“We’ll wed at the blues, tee off at the reds and honeymoon in Carmel Valley, golfing all the way.”