Notoriety? He says it’s in the bag

A golf bag that once belonged to Tripp Isenhour can be yours, if you visit EBay.

Isenhour is the Nationwide Tour player who was charged with two misdemeanor counts after he killed a hawk with a golf ball. Matt Allmen, 37, of Sherman Oaks, is offering the bag on the online auction site and wants to donate half of the winning bid to charity.

“My first choice is the Audubon Society,” said Allmen, an actor and stuntman who says he shoots in the 80s when he plays golf.

Allmen said he’s had the bag for at least six years and that a friend’s brother who lived next door to Isenhour in Orlando, Fla., gave it to him. The bag was set out at the curb as trash, said Allmen. Isenhour’s name is stitched on the front of the bag.

Allmen has no idea what the bag is worth.

“Sometimes weird things catch on and sometimes cool things just sit there,” he said.

With a minimum bid of $5, no one had bid on the item as of 4 p.m. Monday.

Trivia time

Which school won the nation’s first conference basketball tournament?

Nay-smith

It’s one thing to invent a game. It seems quite another to coach it. James Naismith, the father of all that Dick Vitale holds dear, had a losing record as the Kansas coach, going 55-60 from 1899 to 1907.

Doubtful that record would keep a guy employed long in Lawrence these days.

Not kidding around

West Virginia officials have passed on an opportunity to hire a young go-getter as football coach.

Joshua Irizarry, a 12-year-old from Connecticut, applied to university President Mike Garrison, writing: “I understand this would be a move more suited for a team like Temple, but I am just asking for your consideration,” and adding, “I would work for any conditions you would wish to provide.”

While West Virginia officials certainly must wish former Mountaineers coach Rich Rodriguez had made such an offer, Garrison politely replied that the position had been filled by an “equally qualified candidate.”

Of course, it can be assumed new Coach Bill Stewart does have a degree . . . at least from middle school.

Irizarry, in the meantime, can try Youngstown State.

Costume ball

Big West Conference mascots will compete in “Mascot Mayhem” on Thursday at a restaurant near the Anaheim Convention Center, where the conference tournament will be played this week.

Finally, a basketball event where the Big West can go toe to toe -- or paw to paw -- with the Pacific 10.

Danger is his middle name

Ken Shamrock lasted only 1 minute 14 seconds before being knocked out in Cage Rage 25 -- a mixed martial arts competition -- in London on Saturday. Shamrock is billed as “The World’s Most Dangerous Man.”

Makes you wonder what they call the guy who beat him.

If you can’t stand the Heat . . .

First Shaquille O’Neal was traded. Then Coach Pat Riley announced he was taking a sabbatical to scout potential draft picks. Now Dwyane Wade is done for the season because of a knee injury, leaving the Miami Heat with seven eligible players and an interim coach as of Sunday.

“Man, it’s just one thing after another, huh?” newly acquired Shawn Marion told the Miami Herald.

Welcome to the Miami Chill, Shawn.

Trivia answer

North Carolina, which beat Mercer to win the Southern Conference tournament in 1922, according to the conference’s website.

The conference also claims to have been the first to cut down nets in victory, a tradition started by North Carolina State -- then a conference member -- after winning the conference tournament in 1947. Of course, a Southern Conference team has yet to cut down nets after an NCAA title game.

And finally

The Chicago White Sox’s Scott Linebrink was unable to pitch for several days last week because of migraines.

“I believe him because he’s a real religious guy,” Manager Ozzie Guillen told reporters. “Someone else tells me they have a migraine, I know they are hung over.”

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