Drunk Dialing Gets New Meaning

If you attend sporting events, then this has probably happened to you: A fan or a group of fans seated near you, usually after a few too many beers, is using foul language and generally misbehaving. You look for an usher to voice a complaint, and none can be found.

The Cincinnati Bengals have hit on one possible solution. The team announced Tuesday the creation of a hot line number that fans can call on their cellphones to report bad behavior.

The number should be easy to remember -- (513) 381-JERK.

Trivia time: The National League record for most home runs hit in one season by a pitcher is seven, which was tied on this day in 2001 by Mike Hampton when he was with the Colorado Rockies. He shares the record with two former Dodgers. Name them.

Magical streak: The odds of getting a hole-in-one are 12,500 to 1. So what are the odds of getting a hole-in-one on the same hole on three consecutive Saturdays? Experts say it’s 2 trillion to 1, or like winning a Lottery jackpot twice in a year, according to ananova.com.

The website picked up a report from the Sun of London that Stewart Sneddon, 41, an army captain stationed in England, recently accomplished the feat on the 147-yard 13th hole at Swantson course in Edinburgh.

For Sneddon, 13 was a lucky number.

Another golf oddity: Harrison Vonderau had two hole-in-ones about 20 minutes apart during a father-son tournament last month in Newburgh Heights, Ohio, the Plain Dealer of Cleveland reported.

The oddity here is that Harrison is 8 years old.

A common bond: Actor Chris Noth got a high-speed ride from NBC commentator Wally Dallenbach for the “Wally’s World” segment during last weekend’s coverage of the NASCAR Allstate 400 at Indianapolis.

Said Dallenbach: “Your nickname on ‘Sex and the City’ was Mr. Big. That’s funny, that’s my nickname around here.”

Noth: “Mr. Big what?”

Dallenbach: “Mr. Big Mouth.”

Be prepared: Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle believes athletes who get caught taking performance-enhancing drugs should have their alibis prepared.

“If it takes you a full day to ‘reveal’ the explanation of testing positive, it’s too late,” Ostler wrote. “Ask any guy sneaking home at 4 a.m. with lipstick on his collar. If it takes you 24 hours to stammer out a plausible alibi, your window of opportunity has slammed shut.”

Looking back: On this day in 1936, Jesse Owens became the first American to win four Olympic gold medals; he was the leadoff man for the U.S. 400-meter relay team that set a world record of 39.8 seconds at the Berlin Games.

Trivia time: Don Drysdale hit that many home runs twice, in 1958 and 1965. Don Newcombe did it in 1955.

And finally: Golfer Craig Stadler, as quoted in Golf Digest, on why he started using a new putter: “Because the other one didn’t float.”

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