Vince Young would like that trophy now

Vince Young probably wonders why USC doesn’t just ship Reggie Bush’s replica Heisman Trophy to him. …

The former Texas quarterback always believed that Bush never should have won it in the first place. …

Mike Garrett gets too much blame for USC’s troubles. …

Bush gets too little. …

It would not be surprising to see football jersey No. 5 back in circulation at USC in the near future. …

Pat Haden is not too short to be an effective athletic director. …

Derided as too small to be an NFL quarterback despite a 35-19-1 record as a starter, the 5-foot-11 Haden twice took the Los Angeles Rams to within a victory of the Super Bowl. …

In 1979, when the Rams finally made it, Haden was the starter for 10 weeks until, in the midst of perhaps the best game of his career, he suffered a broken right pinkie when he caught it on a seam of artificial turf at the Kingdome. …

Vince Ferragamo later took over and led the Rams to the Super Bowl, where they lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers. …

Don Mattingly’s next visit to the mound will be less eventful. …

He hopes it’s less costly. …

Who knew that Mel Gibson was such a passionate Lakers fan he would fly into a rage when forced to sell his tickets? …

Reader Tony Chan of Walnut suggests that the newly minted Miami Heat triumvirate of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh be known henceforth as “The Three Amegos.” …

By the way, the over-under on the number of games the Heat will win next season is 65, according to odds posted at Bodog.com, while for Andrew Bynum and the Lakers it is 62½. …

For the LeBron-less Cleveland Cavaliers, it is 33½. …

Kobe Bryant, fourth a year ago, has pulled into a tie with apparently unsinkable Tiger Woods as America’s favorite sports star, according to a Harris Interactive poll. …

Serena and Venus Williams rank 1-2 among female stars. …

An all-time All-Orange County baseball team submitted by reader Pete Donovan of Palm Desert includes three players enshrined at Cooperstown: right-hander Walter Johnson and shortstop Arky Vaughan, both from Fullerton High, and former Fullerton Sunny Hills High catcher Gary Carter. …

Also making Donovan’s cut: first baseman Mark Grace (Tustin High, Saddleback College); second baseman Jeff Kent (Huntington Beach Edison High); third baseman Tim Wallach (Irvine University High, Cal State Fullerton); outfielders Lenny Dykstra (Garden Grove High), Brian Downing (Anaheim Magnolia High) and Brady Anderson ( UC Irvine); left-handed starter Randy Jones (Brea Olinda High, Chapman College); and closer Trevor Hoffman (Anaheim Savanna High). …

Even Brett Favre’s agent, Bus Cook, seems tired of the quarterback’s ongoing retire-or-play indecision, telling Men’s Journal that his client is a “drama queen.” …

Bud Black’s success with the Padres reminds that Tom Lasorda, 0-4 during a brief career with the Brooklyn Dodgers and Kansas City Athletics, is the only former major league pitcher to have reached the Hall of Fame as a manager. …

Three more non-pitchers — Joe Torre, Tony La Russa and Bobby Cox — appear Cooperstown-bound as managers. …

Noting that the WNBA recently reached the midpoint in its season, Brad Dickson of the Omaha World-Herald writes, “This is the time of year the typical sports fan traditionally asks, ‘The WNBA is still around?’ ” …

Perhaps the NHL rejected Ilya Kovalchuk’s contract with the New Jersey Devils after realizing that in the last few years of the deal, Kovalchuk would make less than politicians in the city of Bell. …

TBS is paying tribute to George Steinbrenner this week by airing “Seinfeld” episodes featuring Larry David as the often shrill voice of the late New York Yankees owner. …

In real life, hardly anyone believed Steinbrenner when he noted during the 1981 World Series, after supposedly tussling with two Dodgers fans in an elevator at the Hyatt Wilshire, “I clocked them. There are two guys in town looking for their teeth.” …

The fans, toothless or otherwise, never surfaced.

jerome.crowe@latimes.com