But Did the Baby Nail the Landing?

Gold medal-winning gymnasts Nadia Comaneci, 44, and Bart Conner, 48, are the parents of a baby boy, Dylan Paul, born Saturday in Oklahoma City.

The baby was born a few weeks early and weighed only 4 pounds 10 ounces, but Conner said, “He already has definition in his deltoids and his biceps.”

The Associated Press reported that the delivery room staff created a poster proclaiming the boy a “perfect 10.”

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Trivia time: Comaneci was the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 in Olympic competition when she did it on the uneven parallel bars at the 1976 Montreal Games. In all, how many 10s did the 4-foot-11, 14-year-old Romanian have at those Games?

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A forgotten perk: Does Kobe Bryant wish he had played college ball? In a taped episode of “Best Damn Sports Show Period,” which will be broadcast on FSN West tonight at 9, that question was posed to him.

“Every March,” Bryant says. “Just to see the intensity and the energy in those games, the pressure and the high stakes. Yeah, I miss it every March.”

He also says, “Part of me wishes I had gone for at least a year.”

Wonder if he thinks that getting a college education and enjoying the college experience might have been beneficial too?

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Long bowling: Dave Wilson of Middletown, Ohio, recently bowled 481 consecutive games in 102 hours 1 minute 25 seconds and raised more than $13,000 in pledges to help fight breast cancer.

Wilson, whose best score during the series was 236, reclaimed the world record for endurance bowling. He held the record briefly last year.

Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times claims Middletown bowling alley operators set a world record too -- “for most cans of spray needed to fumigate a pair of bowling shoes.”

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An impressive trick: Channel 9’s Alan Massengale believes that a new career may be in order for boxer Jose Luis Castillo, whose scheduled fight against Diego Corrales was canceled last week when Castillo couldn’t make weight.

The show went on without the main event, and drew a sparse crowd.

Massengale suggested that Castillo could try becoming a magician.

“After all,” he said, “last Saturday in Las Vegas he made about 15,000 people disappear from the Thomas and Mack arena.”

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Looking back: On this day in 1986, the Boston Celtics defeated the Houston Rockets, 114-97, in Game 6 of the NBA Finals to win their 16th league championship. Larry Bird scored 29 points for the Celtics, who haven’t won a title since.

Trivia answer: Seven.

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And finally: A recent Morning Briefing item reported that Tiger Woods said at a children’s clinic in Arkansas that his last name is Woods because he hasn’t hit every fairway.

Reader Michael Shaw, citing caddie Steve Williams’ passion for auto racing, wonders if Williams refers to his boss as Tiger “Indy” Woods.

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