Game Film Surely Not Part of This Breakdown

Pete Carroll apparently has something else to shoot for besides a third consecutive national championship.

In an interview he taped with Chris Myers that will be seen on FSN West tonight at 10:30, burnout came up.

“I don’t know how you avoid it,” the USC coach said. “You just go as long as you can go. If your heart is in it, and you love what you’re doing, you just go until you just physically break down.

“That’s what I’m going for, that physical breakdown.”

Trivia time: What is the NCAA individual record for yards rushing in a football game?

It’s all relative: Cris Collinsworth and Dan Marino on last week’s edition of HBO’s “Inside the NFL” debated: Who has the better arm, Peyton or Eli Manning?

While the segment was being taped, Peyton Manning returned Marino’s call. Afterward, Marino announced, “He said, ‘He’s my younger brother. No chance.’ Peyton’s got a better arm and a stronger arm.”

Misleading title: According to Randy Hill of Foxsports.com, the ESPN original program “Four Minutes” that was on ESPN2 on Thursday night “is not a documentary that reveals how long the average viewer can stand Stephen A. Smith’s ‘Quite Frankly’ before grabbing the remote.”

A free plug: As anyone who works in the ESPN promotion department will tell you, it’s all about branding.

Then why, in the Oct. 10 issue of ESPN the Magazine, next to a Vin Scully feature, is there a picture of Scully posing while holding an FSN microphone?

Free parking: Tampa Bay Devil Ray owner Stuart Sternberg announced he would offer free parking at home games next season as a way to reconnect with fans.

The Devil Rays finished fifth in the American League East with a 67-95 record. The Dodgers finished fourth in the National League West at 71-91.

So, what are the chances that Frank McCourt will offer free parking?

The lighter side: St. Louis Cardinal pitcher Chris Carpenter, asked by ESPN the Magazine to name his favorite pitcher, said, “Bud Light.”

Looking back: On this day last year, Texas lost to Oklahoma, 12-0, marking the first time in 282 games that the Longhorns had been shut out. It had been the longest such streak in the country.

Trivia answer: 441 yards, set by Dante Brown of Marietta College of Ohio on Oct. 5, 1996, in a 43-30 Division III victory over Baldwin-Wallace College of Berea, Ohio. Brown carried 45 times and scored six touchdowns.

And finally: Jennifer Wilbanks, who made headlines nationwide in April as Georgia’s “Runaway Bride,” will be on the run again today in the Chicago Marathon, according to Chicago’s WBBM-TV.

Wrote Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times: “Race organizers, not wanting to take any chances, plan to set up an auxiliary finish line in Albuquerque, N.M.”

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