Twin City Twinbill Will Keep ‘Em Moving

Northwestern College, a Division III school of 2,600 students located in Roseville, Minn., will do something today that few, if any, schools have done: play two football games on the same day.

The Eagles, who are 3-2 and aiming for a sixth consecutive winning season, will play host to Trinity Bible College of Ellendale, N.D., at noon local time. They will then take a 6 1/2 -mile bus ride down Snelling Avenue in St. Paul to play Macalester College at 7 p.m.

Northwestern Athletic Director Matt Hill told Associated Press that this was the only way the school could play the maximum of 10 games. Hill said he could find no one who has heard of a college team playing a doubleheader.

The hardest part for the players may have been preparing in practice for two opponents.

“It’s a little confusing sometimes out there,” defensive lineman Sam Townsend said earlier this week.

Trivia answer: Minor league manager Torey Lovullo, one of the candidates to become the Dodgers’ next manager, is the son of Sam Lovullo, the producer of what long-running hit TV show?

One for the road: Fox Sports radio’s Andrew Siciliano reported Friday that Tennessee Titan rookie cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones had a $14,000 tab when he took the team’s entire defense out to dinner.

Titan Coach Jeff Fisher, who was on the Fox morning show with Siciliano at the time, didn’t know that Jones had spent that much, but did add to the validity of the story.

“I got a linebacker, and I’m not going to mention his name, but I know he has never had a glass of wine in his life,” Fisher said. “The maitre d’ comes by and shows him a bottle of wine, and the linebacker says, ‘How much is that?’ He [the maitre d’] says, ‘Five hundred dollars.’ He [the linebacker] says, ‘I’ll take two.’ ”

Time to stop gambling: Regarding Thursday’s Morning Briefing trivia about Houston defeating Tulsa, 100-6, in 1968, reader Marty Ross of Carlsbad says, “I remember that game well. I took the ‘dog plus 93 -- and lost.”

More gambling woes: A “looking back” item mentioned that Northern Illinois defeated Fresno State, 73-18, on Oct. 6, 1990. Before that game, a Times staffer who went to Fresno State made a 25-cent bet with a colleague who went to Northern Illinois.

And, feeling generous, the Fresno State grad gave 30 points -- and lost by 85.

Name game: ESPN’s Stuart Scott might like to know that, as Randy Hill of Foxsports.com points out, the last name of California quarterback Joe Ayoob spelled backward is Boo-ya.

Looking back: On this day in 1956, Don Larsen of the New York Yankees pitched the only perfect game in World Series history in a 2-0 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Trivia answer: “Hee Haw.”

And finally: A Dodger manager with connections to “Hee Haw”? Now that would supply critics with a few one-liners.

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