Bruce Bochy knows how to get technical with the Dodgers
Tuesday wasn’t the first time San Francisco Giants Manager Bruce Bochy burned the Dodgers on a technicality. …
In August 2006, while managing the San Diego Padres, Bochy informed umpire Rick Reed that then-Dodgers manager Grady Little effectively had made two trips to the mound by momentarily stepping off and returning. …
That led to the removal of Dodgers pitcher Brad Penny, not to mention ejections for the protesting Little and Penny. …
The Dodgers lost that game too. …
Five players named Matt rank among the NFL’s top 20 quarterbacks, according to a Sporting News list, but Matt Leinart of the Arizona Cardinals doesn’t make the cut. …
Ranked ahead of the 2004 Heisman Trophy winner are Matt Ryan of the Atlanta Falcons, Matt Hasselbeck of the Seattle Seahawks, Matt Schaub of the Houston Texans, Matt Stafford of the Detroit Lions and Leinart’s former USC teammate, Matt Cassel of the Kansas City Chiefs. …
Peyton Manning tops the list. …
Terry Bradshaw, unimpressed by Carolina Panthers rookie Jimmy Clausen, this week called the former Westlake Village Oaks Christian High quarterback “just another guy.” …
The late Ralph Houk was a major influence on Tom Lasorda, a minor leaguer under Houk at Denver in the 1950s. …
In Bill Plaschke’s 2007 Lasorda biography, “I Live for This! Baseball’s Last True Believer,” the former Dodgers manager notes, “Ralph told me that if you treat players like human beings, they will try to play like Superman. He taught me how a pat on the shoulder can be just as important as a kick in the butt.” …
Houk, who died Wednesday, was manager of the New York Yankees when the two-time defending champions were swept by Sandy Koufax and the Dodgers in the 1963 World Series. …
Forbes’ annual list of the 50 most valuable sports teams, topped by soccer behemoth Manchester United, includes all 32 NFL franchises as well as the Dodgers and Lakers. …
The Dodgers come in at No. 45, the Lakers at No. 49. …
Forbes’ list of the 50 top-earning athletes, led by Tiger Woods, includes one woman ( Maria Sharapova), one cyclist ( Lance Armstrong) and, at No. 3, Kobe Bryant. …
Floyd Mayweather Jr., in no rush to fight Manny Pacquiao, “needs to either show he’s still a boxer,” USA Today’s Tom Weir writes, “or move on to a stint [as] the San Diego Chicken.” …
NFL teams seem to be lining up to tell whomever will listen that they are uninterested in signing Terrell Owens. …
While there are currently no active major league players named Williams, there are two named Suzuki (Ichiro of the Seattle Mariners and Kurt of the Oakland Athletics) and two named Nix (Laynce of the Cincinnati Reds and younger brother Jayson of the Cleveland Indians). …
Smith, the most common surname in the United States, is represented by only three major leaguers, while there are seven each named Gonzalez, Rodriguez and Johnson. …
Whitey Herzog on Sunday will join Dick Williams as the only former Angels managers inducted into the Hall of Fame. …
Herzog managed the Angels for only four games and Williams, his successor, posted a losing record in Anaheim. …
UCLA, set to play football at Texas in September, probably should not expect a repeat of its last visit, in 1997, when Cade McNown and the Bruins swamped the Longhorns, 66-3. …
Former UCLA All-American Marques Johnson, after 20 years in broadcasting, says he’s itching to get back into coaching after guiding the Belize national team this month in a tournament in the Dominican Republic. …
Before getting into broadcasting, Johnson was an assistant to former UCLA coach Gene Bartow at Alabama Birmingham. …
Kirk Gibson, honored in 1988 with the Dodgers, is the only most valuable player who never appeared on an All-Star roster. …
Of course a team called Glasgow Celtic won the first soccer game played at Fenway Park. …
Taking exception to Nick Saban’s comparison of agents to pimps, Charles Barkley took to the radio Thursday to proclaim that college coaches are “more [like] pimps than agents.” …
Actual pimps have yet to be heard.
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