Will Ohno Go Out in Blades of Glory?

Short-track speedskating star Apolo Anton Ohno can break his deadlock for the U.S. men’s Winter Olympics medals record with former long-track speedskater Eric Heiden if he wins his sixth at Vancouver in 2010. But that’s not a done deal.

“Whether I want to dedicate the next four years of my life to that, I’m not sure,” Ohno, 24, told a Seattle television station. “There are a lot of things I want to do in between. I want to branch out as an athlete into the entertainment world.”

He said he has signed with a Hollywood production company and moved to Los Angeles.

“I am living in L.A., exploring the entertainment industry,” he told the Chicago Sun-Times. “I love being on film. I have no acting skills -- but I’ve never had training in acting, either.”

Sounds like the perfect time for “Ice Castles II: Hot Bladed.” Move over, Robbie Benson.

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Trivia time: Who set records for most assists and turnovers in a seven-game NBA championship series?

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An appropriate knock: Hearing that the retirement party thrown for the New York Jets’ Wayne Chrebet included 3-foot-tall bobble-head dolls of the receiver, David Thomas wrote in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: “Oversized bobble-head dolls might seem too appropriate for someone who retired because of repeated concussions.”

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No footy fan: “As all we snobby Americans know, the only thing worse than soccer is warm beer,” wrote Jim Armstrong in the Denver Post. “So it’s official, then. There’s no reason for anyone from the United States to go to Germany to watch the World Cup.... Just because Europe and a half-dozen llama herders in the Andes care about kickball doesn’t mean I have to.”

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The blame game: Albert Pujols, the major league leader with 25 home runs, was put on the 15-day disabled list because of a strained muscle, probably ending his chance to break the single-season record of 73 homers.

Wrote Greg Cote in the Miami Herald: “Am working overtime on your behalf, trying to figure a way to somehow blame Pujols’ injury on Barry Bonds.”

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How time flies: This season is the Dodgers’ 45th at Dodger Stadium -- the same number of seasons the team spent at Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field (1913-1957).

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Looking back: On this date in 1969, quarterback Joe Namath, who’d led the New York Jets to an upset in Super Bowl III five months earlier, resigned from the NFL after Commissioner Pete Rozelle said he must sell his stake in Bachelors III, a nightclub reportedly frequented by gamblers, or be suspended.

Six weeks later, “Broadway Joe” changed his mind.

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Trivia answer: Magic Johnson accomplished both feats in the 1984 Finals, which the Lakers lost to the Boston Celtics. He averaged 13.6 assists, including a single-game Finals record 21, but committed 31 turnovers.

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And finally: The St. Paul Pioneer Press reported that Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer acquired 80 acres of secluded land, complete with an airplane hangar, in Braham, Minn.

Wrote Dwight Perry in the Seattle Times: “No truth to the rumor he had to invoke squatter’s rights.”