As if He Needed Another Crazy Stunt

Golf Digest’s website lists bizarre occurrences on the links. Included is the time a man who, as part of an agreement with his partner, cut off part of his finger rather than pay off a bet.

“Yeah, it hurt ... and there was blood everywhere, but I didn’t care back then,” the golfer said. “The guy I bet was so disgusted he just left. I guess he didn’t want the tip of my finger, so I put it in my pocket and headed to a nearby hospital. A doctor sewed it back on, and that was that.”

The golfer: daredevil Evel Knievel.

Trivia time: Since the modern NBA draft started in 1966, which team has had the most No. 1 picks and who were they?

Tongue-in-cheek? Not that there’s anything wrong with that, to borrow a “Seinfeld” line, but there’s definitely something wrong with this:

“I didn’t want to do it in front of the camera,” Allen Iverson said of the hiring of Maurice Cheeks as coach of the Philadelphia 76ers. “But I wanted to take him in the back and kiss him on the mouth.”

Not reality TV: After last week’s final episode of “Everybody Loves Raymond,” Newsday columnist Chuck Culpepper wrote this about the star’s role as a sports columnist:

“Debra actually once complained Ray didn’t help enough with the housework, when in fact anybody who had been married to a sportswriter for 12 years would have surrendered long ago.... If a sportswriter cleans his room, it’s usually at a Marriott.”

Generation gap: Jerry Rice, 42, became a Denver Bronco this week. Second-year receiver Darius Watts was 8 when Rice caught three touchdown passes in San Francisco’s 55-10 victory over Denver in Super Bowl XXIV in 1990.

Whatever: Discussions about bringing an NFL team back to the L.A. area have dragged on for 10 years, prompting Scott Adamson of the Birmingham Post-Herald to write:

“So what shall we call them? The Los Angeles Whatevers of Anaheim, the Los Angeles Whatevers of Pasadena, or the Los Angeles Whatevers of Carson? Maybe we’ll just go old-school and call them the Los Angeles Whatevers, if, in fact, the Whatevers play in the City of Angels.”

Storm brewing: Surfers are preparing for the start of the Globe WCT Fiji on the island of Tavarua. On Wednesday, Surfline.com forecaster Sean Collins predicted, “We’re looking at Fiji’s version of the Hollywood movie ‘The Perfect Storm.’

“It will be very strong tonight, peaking with 60 mph winds and ocean swells in the vicinity of 45-50 feet, but the best thing is that it will spin a fetch in a real positive way toward Tavarua.”

Wave faces at the famed surf spot early next week are expected to reach 30 feet.

Trivia answer: The San Diego/Houston Rockets with five: Elvin Hayes in 1968, John Lucas in 1976, Ralph Sampson in 1983, Hakeem Olajuwon in 1984 and Yao Ming in 2002.

And finally: From Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times: “If 361 home runs could turn Joe DiMaggio into Mr. Coffee, imagine what a few more LPGA victories could do for Ms. [Paula] Creamer.”