It Had Everything, Including the Kitchen Sink

Some highlights--or lowlights--from the always wacky Bay to Breakers event Sunday in San Francisco:

* A man dressed as Fidel Castro and a woman dressed as Janet Reno with a teddy bear representing Elian Gonzalez between them.

* A group calling itself, “In Sink,’ a copycat boy band, with one of its members dressed as a kitchen sink.

* A gang that recreated the shower scene from “Psycho.”

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Trivia time: Tiger Woods was honored as the male athlete of the year by the Associated Press in 1997 and 1999. Who was the first golfer to receive the honor?

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The Reggie Show: Mike Lupica in the New York Daily News on Reggie Miller, whose Indiana Pacers are playing the New York Knicks in the NBA’s Eastern Conference finals:

“[The Knicks] beat [Pat] Riley and now here is Reggie, the most fearless and theatrical opponent a New York sports team has ever had.

”. . . He thinks he can take on the Knicks and the Garden and the whole city and win.”

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Bewildered: Lyle Spencer in the Riverside Press-Enterprise on the Lakers being routed by Portland on Monday night: “The system, Tex Winter’s eternal triangle, was of no help this time. The Lakers look lost in it as if they were flying somewhere over the Atlantic.

“This was the Bermuda Triangle for one night, anyway.”

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More Lakers: Fran Blinebury in the Houston Chronicle: “Never mind Hack-a-Shaq. This was Hijack-a-Shaq as the Trail Blazers took the regular season most valuable player completely out of the L.A. offense until garbage time.”

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Spiteful Spike: Ron Rapoport in the Chicago Sun-Times: “The Heat told Spike Lee he couldn’t sit at courtside Sunday in Miami and if he wore a Knicks jersey, the season tickets he was using would be revoked.

“So Lee sat directly behind the [Miami] bench and taunted Riley all afternoon. ‘Because of their pettiness, I was able to torment them the whole game and they got what they deserve,’ Lee told the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel after the Knicks won the series.”

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Happy birthday: Bill Sharman and K.C. Jones, standout players on the Boston Celtic championship teams of the 1960s, turn 74 and 68, respectively, today.

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Looking back: On this day in 1965, Muhammad Ali knocked out Sonny Liston a minute into the first round in the controversial rematch in Lewiston, Maine. for Ali’s heavyweight title. Listed as the fastest knockout in a heavyweight title bout, Liston went down on a short right-hand punch.

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Trivia answer: Gene Sarazen in 1932.

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And finally: Chicago Sun-Times classical music critic Wynne Delacoma was trapped between rowdy fans and the Dodgers in the stands during last week’s battle over L.A. catcher Chad Kreuter’s cap at Wrigley Field.

She says she’s glad “the only audience eruptions she has to worry about are crazed cellophane-crinklers and terminal coughers. At least they aren’t running down the aisle wasted from too much white wine trying to filch the maestro’s baton.”