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Brett Favre says he’s uncertain whether he’ll return next season. . . .

Here we go again. . . .

Eli Manning and the New York Giants might wind up playing an unbeaten AFC champion in the Super Bowl for the second year in a row. . . .

Against the Tennessee Titans, they would be favored. . . .

For Donovan McNabb, he of the alarmingly limited understanding of the NFL’s overtime rules, maybe honesty wasn’t the best policy. . . .

If Kurt Warner is inducted one day into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, he would not be the first Arena Football League alumnus enshrined. . . .

Joe DeLamielleure, a guard who spearheaded the “Electric Company” offensive line that opened holes for O.J. Simpson and the Buffalo Bills in the 1970s, came out of retirement to play for the Charlotte Rage when he was 42. . . .

Simpson, by the way, is one of eight players from the Pacific 10 Conference who have won various NFL most-valuable-player awards, the others being John Elway and John Brodie from Stanford, Frank Gifford and Marcus Allen from USC, Norm Van Brocklin and Dan Fouts from Oregon and Bob Waterfield from UCLA. . . .

Ryne Sandberg, erroneously listed Thursday as one of eight major league baseball MVPs from the Pac-10, was offered a football scholarship to Washington State but opted instead for a pro baseball career. . . .

Former UCLA centers Bill Walton and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a six-time winner, are the only NBA MVPs who honed their skills in the Pac-10. . . .

So far, it doesn’t look as if Kevin Love will be adding his name to that list. . . .

Former Duke sharpshooter J.J. Redick of the Orlando Magic, along with Adam Morrison of Gonzaga the toast of college basketball a few seasons ago, finally made his first NBA start Tuesday night. . . .

Morrison, who cut his signature long hair into a buzz last month, made 23 starts for the Charlotte Bobcats as a rookie in the 2006-07 season. . . .

Top-ranked North Carolina and eighth-ranked Notre Dame, stopping off on their way to Maui, are in Southern California for college basketball games tonight, but unfortunately neither is playing UCLA or USC, which are out of town. . . .

Still-idled Tyler Hansbrough and the Tar Heels are at UC Santa Barbara, Luke Harangody and the Irish at Loyola Marymount. . . .

Now that North Carolina transfer Alex Stepheson has been denied by the NCAA in his appeal for immediate eligibility, the 6-foot-9 USC junior is free to drive up the coast tonight to check in on his former teammates. . . .

Too bad for Tim Floyd’s Trojans, who could use another big man. . . .

Unless a domed stadium is built in California, the Final Four might never again be contested in a state that has produced 15 NCAA championship teams -- 11 at UCLA, two at San Francisco and one each at Stanford and Cal.

The Final Four has not been played in California since 1975, when John Wooden won the last of his 10 championships at the San Diego Sports Arena. . . .

Only one of Wooden’s titles was won in a domed stadium. . . .

A memorial for Pete Newell, a Hall of Fame coach and onetime Lakers general manager, is scheduled for Dec. 15 at Loyola Marymount. . . .

As reader Dick Bank e-mails to note, the tiny principality tucked between Switzerland and Austria is Liechtenstein, not Lichtenstein. . . .

Led by Hanni Wenzel, who won two golds and a silver at Lake Placid in 1980, Liechtenstein has won nine Olympic medals in Alpine skiing. . . .

Roy Lichtenstein was an artist. . . .

Oregon State, hoping for a return engagement in January behind freshman running back Jacquizz Rodgers, has played in the Rose Bowl game three times, but only twice in Pasadena. . . .

The Beavers defeated Duke in the 1942 game at Durham, N.C., which was moved out of Southern California after the attack on Pearl Harbor. . . .

They’re 0-2 in the Arroyo Seco. . . .

UCLA, in its first season under new Coach Rick Neuheisel, has not defeated a team with a winning record. . . .

In its last season under Karl Dorrell, it defeated four. . . .

A fourth consecutive Rose Bowl appearance wouldn’t be unprecedented for USC, which went to four in a row under John McKay. . . .

Has any team in major-college football history played a more unusual schedule than Ball State, which ran its record to 11-0 Wednesday night with a Mid-American Conference victory over Central Michigan? . . .

Rushing leader MiQuale Lewis and the Cardinals, who wrap up their regular-season schedule Tuesday night against Western Michigan, have played games every day of the week except Sunday and Monday and close the season with a Wednesday-Tuesday-Wednesday-Tuesday four-game November block. . . .

On the plus side, they’re usually free on Saturdays.

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jerome.crowe@latimes.com