The Food Here Has Really Gone to the Dogs

It wasn’t that long ago that the cuisine at Dodger Stadium, particularly the Dodger Dogs, earned national acclaim. Now it’s the butt of national jokes. Dwight Perry took a shot in Friday’s Seattle Times.

Perry found a news item in the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune about a 44-year-old man, missing on a rowboat trip for four days off the coast of Florida, surviving on beer and seaweed.

Added Perry: “Or, as it’s come to be known, the Dodger Stadium Diet.”

Trivia time: Terry Norris, along with nine other boxers, plus Bud Furillo and the late Jim Healy, are being inducted into the California Boxing Hall of Fame today during a luncheon at a restaurant in the City of Commerce. Norris is one of three boxers who defeated Sugar Ray Leonard. Who are the others?

Freudian typo: The spring training roundup in Friday’s Houston Chronicle included an item about the PA announcer at Tempe Diablo Stadium making neutral announcements such as “your Angels” or “your 2005 Angels.” There were no city references.

The item ended, “The Angels prefer ‘Los Angeles Dodgers of Anaheim,’ but that change faces a legal challenge in Southern California.”

Reader Alan Johnson, who spotted the mistake, said, “Yeah, I’ll bet that name would face a legal challenge.”

Intentional typo: NASCAR is making its first appearance in Mexico this weekend with a Busch series race at Mexico City on Sunday.

Wrote Greg Cote of the Miami Herald: “It sold out in advance when local advertisements for the event accidentally misspelled NASCAR as ‘SOCCER.’ ”

A safer place: David Letterman, co-owner of the car driven by Buddy Rice to victory in the Indianapolis 500 last year, had Rice offer this as one of the top 10 reasons he loves auto racing: “All the excitement of driving like a New York cabdriver without the risk of getting shot.”

Short attention spans: The NBA could be called the NPA, short for the Nobody Pays Attention league.

Golden State Coach Mike Montgomery told San Francisco radio station KNBR how pleasant it was to recently return to Stanford, where he had previously coached, to give the players a pep talk.

“As I started speaking, I expected to have to stop after a minute or two -- the normal attention span I’ve been used to,” he said. “But they’re looking at me, great eye contact. I said, ‘God, I forgot about this. These guys are actually listening to what I am saying.’ ”

Looking back: On this day in 1966, pole vaulter Bob Seagren set an indoor world record by clearing 17 feet 1/4 inch in a meet at Albuquerque.

Trivia answer: Roberto Duran and Hector Camacho Sr.

And finally: Minnesota Viking Coach Mike Tice, quoted in an Associated Press report about lame-duck owner Red McCombs’ admitting he nearly fired Tice twice last season: “I gave serious thought to quitting.... So I guess we’re even.”

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