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Sometimes you just can’t tell the sportscasters without a scorecard.

Or, maybe in this case, it’s the confusion resulting from Channels 2 and 9 having their people jump back and forth between the commonly owned stations.

Anyway, the media website ronfineman.com reports that when Channel 9 co-anchor Mary Beth McDade went to introduce the duo handling sports, she forgot one reporter’s last name.

“Right now we’re going to turn it on over to Steve Hartman and John ... “ she said before hesitating.

Luckily, co-anchor Dave Clark was there to interject, “Ireland.” After McDade apologized, Ireland observed, “It’s always those good-looking blonds who forget your name.”

More confusion: A sign on L.A.’s Main Street illustrated the old left-lane-doesn’t-know-what-the-right-lane-is-doing problem (see photo).

More than one way to reach the top: In Switzerland, Pixie Klemec of Sherman Oaks noticed an international sign that illustrated there was a steep path to the summit as well as a gentler approach (see photo).

Brothers, where art thou? Throughout history, individuals fleeing the law have sought sanctuary in a church. At USC, apparently, a frat house serves the same function.

“A student fled from LAPD officers who were attempting to write him a jaywalking ticket, and they pursued him” to the Sigma Nu house, the school’s Department of Public Safety said in a recent dispatch.

“The student locked himself inside and the other residents refused to cooperate with the officers.” The campus police were summoned and they “requested to speak with the fraternity president.... He responded to their location with the student.”

The latter was “cited and released” and the case was referred to the school’s judicial affairs department.

Nothing so dramatic as when a suspect is talked into surrendering after a standoff.

Wrong terrain: Beachcomber columnist Steve Propes wrote that drivers of some off-road vehicles were racing in a Long Beach flood-control channel when authorities arrived and impounded the vehicles.

Wrote Propes: “That’s when the vehicles truly became off-road by virtue of being lifted off the road by tow trucks.”

miscelLAny: Notice to would-be car thieves: You’d better avoid Placentia.

Westways magazine reports that Randy McWilliams of that city’s Police Department, named Officer of the Year by the Auto Club, recovered 58 stolen vehicles in 2005 (including 23 that still had the thieves inside), resulting in 39 arrests.