This Party Resulted in One Huge Hangover

For Tank Carter, brother of Pittsburgh Steeler safety Tyrone Carter, the Super Bowl was everything he had hoped it would be.

He even partied with Snoop Dogg after the game.

This week the party pooper showed up in a Florida judge’s robe and increased Carter’s jail sentence from six months to five years for attending the game instead of reporting to prison on time, after he was caught driving with a revoked license.

Undaunted, Carter told reporters, “Even knowing what I know now, I would do it again. It was the greatest game in my life.”

Where he’s going, he’ll have plenty of time to relive it.

Trivia time: Fourteen of the last 16 NCAA tournament titles have been won by No. 1- or No. 2-seeded teams. Name the two exceptions.

Uprooted: Stanford’s “Tree” mascot was suspended for the remainder of the NCAA women’s tournament for showing disrespect to its opponent a day after the Cardinal cut down that opponent, Florida State, in a second-round game.

Or, as the San Francisco Chronicle’s John Ryan wrote, “a day after it was forced to make like itself and leave” after refusing requests by security to stay clear of Seminole players.

Poor example: A teacher in Japan was ordered to apologize to his students for watching last week’s World Baseball Classic game between Japan and Korea while they were taking a test.

According to the Yomiuri Shimbun daily, the teacher kept blurting out statements such as “Hit the ball!” when Japan seemed about to score.

Japan lost the game, 2-1, but some of the students were winners after learning that their test scores were thrown out because of the distraction.

Not so fast: Australia’s Kate Smyth, who finished seventh in the marathon Sunday during the Commonwealth Games at Melbourne, said she was so disoriented as she was creeping toward the finish line that it appeared to be moving away from her.

“I think I could possibly have gone faster if they’d turned me around,” she said.

No contest: USC alumni are sure to cry foul when they learn that the NCAA’s list of the top 100 student-athletes -- who, according to President Myles Brand, “represent the best of what college sports and higher education bring to our society” -- includes only one former Trojan: Cheryl Miller, at No. 93.

UCLA, meanwhile, claims the top two spots -- Jackie Robinson and Arthur Ashe -- and eight overall.

Rounding out the top five were Jesse Owens (Ohio State), Dwight D. Eisenhower (U.S. Military Academy, football) and John Wooden (Purdue).

Trivia answer: Syracuse, a third-seeded team, won in 2003, and Arizona, seeded fourth, won in 1997.

And finally: When Arizona Coach Lute Olson, 71, signed a contract extension through 2011, a reporter joked that he would be about 100 years old when it expires.

His response, according to the Tucson Citizen: “And there’ll be an extension on that one, too.”