Homer Simpson Would Be Really Mad

Could it be that some stadium workers take their jobs a little too seriously?

The Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette reported that workers at Iowa’s Kinnick Stadium removed beer they’d found in a refrigerator in a box leased by Bill Krause, who happens to be the university’s leading donor. He recently gave $5 million to the athletic department.

School policy allows no alcohol on campus, but beer is OK at the stadium.

No one is sure who removed the beer.

Said Krause: “They have to raise money and make it a better university, and then when you have people doing something like this, it’s a little trite.”

Add Iowa: Regarding a Morning Briefing item about Iowa clearing out Michigan Stadium two years ago when the Hawkeyes won there, 34-9, reader Richard Owings of Yucca Valley recalls how the Iowa faithful abandoned Pro Player Stadium when USC beat the Hawkeyes in the Orange Bowl, 38-17, on Jan. 2, 2003.

“It was a beautiful thing, watching all those tractors leaving the parking lot, heading north,” Owings said in an e-mail.

Trivia time: Who are the three successive Heisman Trophy-winning running backs from USC? (Trick question)

Good question: Ichiro Suzuki is having a great year; the Seattle Mariners are not. Before Monday night’s game against Oakland, the Mariners had a winning percentage of .387 and Suzuki had a batting average of .373.

Asks reader Joe Gutierrez of Cambria, Calif.: “Has anyone in the history of the game ever had a higher batting average than the team’s winning percentage?”

Rapping wrestling fans: Andy Rooney, on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” made it a point that dumb people shouldn’t vote. He concluded: “This message was paid for by people who watch ’60 Minutes,’ most of whom are smart enough to vote or they wouldn’t be watching ’60 Minutes.’ They’d be watching wrestling.”

Joe McDonnell and Doug Krikorian, who play sound bites from wrestling on their KSPN radio sports-talk show, might have been offended by Rooney’s comments, but they were probably watching wrestling.

Shark bite: Sharks will be featured on ESPN today at 4 p.m. No, the network isn’t doing another series on gambling or anything more on Pete Rose. It is offering highlights from a shark-fishing tournament held in July.

ESPN points out that most of the sharks are released, and those that aren’t are donated to senior centers and food pantries. Also, the non-consumable parts are used as organic fertilizer.

One other thing: The Sharks, according to ESPN, also provide scientific data for something called the Apex Predators Program.

Trivia answer: Charles White, George Rogers and Marcus Allen in 1979, ’80 and ’81. Rogers played for the other USC, the University of South Carolina.

And finally: Rogers, while playing for the New Orleans Saints, uttered a classic quote: “I want to rush for 2,000 yards, or 1,500, whichever comes first.”

Larry Stewart can be reached at larry.stewart@latimes.com.