Arellano Is Looking a Little Jumpy Now

Boxing manager Rolando Arellano survived his HALO jump -- high-altitude, low-opening sky dive -- from 30,000 feet in the skies over Somerville, Tenn., calling the 10-minute fall “an overwhelming experience.”

“I touched hands with God’s angels,” said Arellano, co-manager of former two-time junior middleweight world champion Fernando Vargas. “As you’re descending at 200 mph, you just look down and see Mother Earth. It’s beautiful.”

More jump: Arellano was tethered to Senior Chief Petty Officer Ben Crowell of the Coast Guard from the jump point, where it was 30 degrees below zero, to the landing.

“Before the jump, every now and then he’d get a little excited,” Crowell said. “I wouldn’t say a panic attack, but he was stoked up.”

Crowell said the two-minute free fall, during which they fell 1,000 feet every four seconds, lasted 24,000 feet before he pulled the parachute at 6,000 feet “for a six- to eight-minute canopy ride.”

Trivia time: Fernando Valenzuela spent the first 11 seasons of his 17-season career with the Dodgers. With what other teams did the left-hander play?

Crossing the road: Bret Lewis of KFWB found humor in the backlash the San Francisco Giants have received for selling rubber chickens to fans so they can wave them at opposing pitchers when Barry Bonds is walked intentionally.

“The San Francisco Chronicle interviewed Francine Bradley of UC Davis, who says it’s wrong to consider chickens cowards and, ‘As a poultry scientist, it disturbs me greatly,’ ” Lewis said.

“She’s a poultry scientist. Imagine how disturbed her parents must be.”

He’s shifty: Running back Fred Russell is only 5 feet 7, and his chances of making the Miami Dolphin roster as an undrafted free agent may seem shorter. But he has a theory as to why he was one of the most prolific runners in Michigan high school and University of Iowa history.

“As a kid, I played lots of tag,” Russell told the Palm Beach Post. “And I was always running from my parents trying to avoid spankings, things like that.”

Lost and found: Too bad Jamin Elliott, the receiver who spent eight days on the New England Patriots’ active roster last year yet claims he deserves a Super Bowl ring, was not at Providence Place Mall in Providence, R.I., on Saturday. That’s when Lou Schorr found a Patriot ring sitting on a restroom sink.

Turns out the $20,000 ring with 104 diamonds belonged to rookie linebacker Tully Banta-Cain, who told the Boston Herald he took it off while washing his hands.

“I knew I had to return it to its owner,” said Schorr, who did just that and was promised a seat at New England’s season opener by Banta-Cain.

Trivia answer: The Angels, Baltimore Orioles, Philadelphia Phillies, San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals.

And finally: From Zen to zip, according to KCAL’s Alan Massengale. “I heard Phil Jackson may be coming out with a new book,” Massengale said. “The title is, ‘How I Went From Legendary Coaching Genius to Unemployed in Just Five Games.’ ”