If He Had a Victory for Every Soup Pun ...

How long before a certain soup maker latches on to U.S. Open winner Michael Campbell?

“M’MM M’MM GOOD,” read the headline on the back cover of Monday’s New York Daily News, and the New York Post ran a similar one on its back page.

“Campbell Was Simply Soup-er,” the Post declared in another headline on an inside page.

Forget Donovan McNabb and his mom. The Campbell Soup Co. might want to recruit Campbell. The only downside is that a golfer might not want to associate with anything that has chunks.

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More Campbell: He’s on top of the golf world, and NBC commentator Johnny Miller had this to say about him Sunday: “At the rate he’s going, after this week he might be named Sir Michael Campbell.”

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Trivia time: Which two Pacific 10 coaches have won college baseball national championships as a player and coach?

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A few extra downs: A statewide test for seventh-graders in North Carolina asked students to figure out a football team’s average gain per play if its first six plays went for minus-six, three, minus-two, seven, 12 and four yards.

Someone didn’t think that question through.

“As any football fan would know, those first three plays would result in fourth and 15,” wrote Dwight Perry in the Seattle Times, “and the seven-yard gain wouldn’t have picked up the first down.”

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Another 100-meter record: Last week Jamaica’s Asafa Powell set a world record of 9.77 second in the 100 meters. Kozo Haraguchi of Japan set another 100-meter record on a rain-slickened track in Tokyo on Sunday.

Haraguchi’s time: 22.04 seconds. He is 95 years old, and it was an age-group record.

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A matter of inches: Powell’s time broke the record set by Tim Montgomery in 2002 by .01 of a second. Mathematically speaking, former Times sportswriter Rich Roberts figured out that if Powell and Montgomery had been running side by side, Powell would have finished 3.94 inches in front.

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Spreading the blame: Denver Nugget Coach George Karl told the Denver Post why he hates a zone defense.

“I don’t know who to yell at when it doesn’t work,” he said.

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Looking back: On this day in 1964, Jim Bunning of the Philadelphia Phillies pitched a perfect game against the New York Mets. It was the first perfect game in the National League since 1880. Bunning, now a U.S. senator from Kentucky, pitched a no-hitter in the American League as a member of the Detroit Tigers in 1958.

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Trivia answer: USC’s Mike Gillespie and retired Arizona coach Jerry Kindall.

And finally: Associated Press reported that Marshall, in order to have its Sept. 10 home game against Kansas State televised by ESPN2, has agreed to a 10:30 a.m. kickoff.

“Forget the grill,” read the lead paragraph in the AP article. “You may want to pull out the old waffle iron for this tailgate party.”

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