It’s he said, she said, at 200 mph

Men and women compete in many fields, including certain sports. But sometimes they still sound like ... men and women.

Consider the exchange between Danica Patrick and Dan Wheldon after they bumped wheels as she tried to pass him during the IndyCar Series race in suburban Milwaukee on Sunday. The contact sent Patrick sliding into the infield grass before she recovered and finished eighth.

On pit road after the race, she confronted Wheldon, grabbing him by the elbow before flinging his arm as she walked away.

“I told him, ‘If you don’t think I’m going to remember this, I don’t know why you’re being like this, but if you don’t think I’m going to remember, you’re crazy,’ ” Patrick said.

Wheldon’s response: “She’s just being Danica. She’ll be fine when she calms down. She’s messing with the wrong person if she wants to get feisty.”

Men are from Mars, women are from Andretti Green Racing.

Trivia time

Billy Donovan, the aspiring Florida Gators/Orlando Magic/Florida Gators coach, looks as if he has joined the growing change-of-heart club, whose members include Rick Majerus, who reneged citing health concerns only days after taking the USC job in 2004 but is now coach at St. Louis.

What coach reversed field and wrote a note resigning as “HC of the NYJ” after one day?

You could look it up

Memorabilia from the estate of Casey Stengel will be among several impressive sports collections auctioned by Sotheby’s and SCP Auctions today in New York.

Among the items: Stengel’s 1951 World Series ring, one of seven he won as manager of the New York Yankees, a 1969 Mets World Series ring given to him by his former players in appreciation, and his Hall of Fame plaque.

Items from other collections include a 1931 Lou Gehrig Yankees jersey and Willis Reed’s signed New York Knicks home jersey from 1970, the year of his dramatic return from injury in the NBA Finals.

Other gems can’t be bought or sold -- the sayings uttered by Stengel, who died at 85 in 1975 in Glendale.

A selection of Stengelese, as compiled in “Sportswit,” edited by Lee Green:

“Now all you fellers line up alphabetically by height.”

“Good pitching will always stop good hitting, and vice versa.”

“When a fielder gets a pitcher into trouble, the pitcher has to pitch himself out of a slump he isn’t in.”

“The secret of managing a club is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the five who are undecided.”

And, after the Yankees let him go after losing the 1960 World Series to the Pittsburgh Pirates:

“I’ll never make the mistake again of being 70 years old.”

It’s a religious experience

Grant the citizens of Cleveland this: This is the Cavaliers’ first trip to the NBA Finals, so they’re excited.

But check out the name on the otherwise handy-dandy LeBron James computer stat tool on the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s www.cleveland.com site.

It’s called the King James Statistical Bible.

Still, it’s cool. You can quickly call up all his career 40-point games, 40-point playoff games and assorted 2007 postseason stats.

The Times would offer a Kobe Bryant 2007 postseason tool, but noted a shortage of statistical data.

Trivia answer

Bill Belichick, resigning as coach of the New York Jets in 2000 before becoming coach of the New England Patriots.

And finally ...

None other than Yogi Berra said Stengel was crazy -- like a fox.

“He could fool you,” Berra said. “When he wanted to make sense, he could. But he usually preferred to make you laugh.”

robyn.norwood@latimes.com