All It Needs Is Replay Official in Back Seat

New York Giant cornerback Jason Sehorn didn’t impress his wife, actress Angie Harmon, when he came home with a customized $60,000 Cadillac Escalade SUV.

“When you put it in reverse, four spotlights shoot out of the back bumpers, and there’s a [closed-circuit TV] screen so you don’t have to turn around and look to back up,” she told People magazine. “I just want to go to the store. I don’t want to dock the Star Trek Enterprise, you know?”

Comment from Tom FitzGerald of the San Francisco Chronicle: “We’ve seen Sehorn get burned often enough to know why he’s worried about going in reverse.”

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Trivia time: Who was UCLA’s first consensus All-American in basketball?

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Revelation: Stricter visa regulations in the wake of Sept. 11 have forced several Latin American big leaguers to reveal they’re older than we thought.

According to Baseball America, “Fifteen players have added years to their lives, and we expect to find out about more.”

Said Dan Daly of the Washington Times: “On the plus side, they’ll qualify for their pensions that much sooner.”

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Party line: Rudy Martzke in USA Today: “Despite another Match Play Championship without major names in the final, PGA Commissioner Tim Finchem insisted to ABC’s Mike Tirico that match play is ‘great for golf.’”

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Mr. Nice Guy: Skip Bayless in the San Jose Mercury News, on whether Oakland Raider owner Al Davis might go after Steve Mariucci as a coaching replacement for Jon Gruden:

“The Raider hierarchy views Mariucci as softer than Charmin. He’s a little too college rah-rah, too tearfully sentimental, too country club, too corny, too melodramatic, too thin-skinned and too needy of pats on the head to be a Raider coach.”

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Shhh! Demonstrating a base-stealing lesson for reporters, new Boston Red Sox outfielder Rickey Henderson said it’s important to take the first step toward second base with the right foot. Most players start with a crossover of their left foot, he said.

“Don’t tell them,” teammate Johnny Damon chimed in. “They’ll tell their kids and we’ll lose our jobs.”

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Out of place? Comedy writer Jerry Perisho: “During the closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics, the rock band KISS with Gene Simmons played for the crowd. Watching KISS play in Salt Lake must be like seeing the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at Woodstock.”

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Put-down: From Jay Leno: “We love Bob Costas, and you know he loves the Olympics. Like tonight, he said when he saw the Americans with all that gold, it made him feel 5 feet tall.”

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Trivia answer: Dick Linthicum in 1931 and 1932.

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And finally: Mike Lupica in the New York Daily News on the Lakers’ rout of the Knicks on Sunday: “Shaq was Shaq, the giant of the game at the weakest center position in 40 years.... [He] did whatever he wanted. The Kings won’t stop him in the playoffs, the Mavericks won’t. No one will.

“But it is Kobe [Bryant] who makes them a joy to watch because he is.... It’s a shame the Garden only sees him once a year. He might be the best player in the sport.”