Dodgers might have a legitimate gripe about their schedule
Andre Ethier and the Dodgers would have a legitimate gripe with the schedule-maker if they’re unable to overtake the San Diego Padres in the National League West.…
FOR THE RECORD:
BCS rankings: Jerry Crowe’s column in Thursday’s Sports section said Auburn finished second in the final BCS college football standings in 2004. Auburn was third in the final BCS standings, which were computed at the end of the regular season, but finished second in the Associated Press poll released after all bowl games were played. —
While the Dodgers played all of their interleague games against teams with records of .500 or better, the Angels, New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox among them, the Padres played the bulk of theirs against the Seattle Mariners and Baltimore Orioles.…
The difference in the division rivals’ interleague records — the Padres were 9-6, the Dodgers 4-11 — was the difference in the standings before Wednesday night’s game.…
Hong-Chih Kuo is a marvel.…
Angels fans might have greeted John Lackey more warmly if Torii Hunter & Co. weren’t fading from playoff contention and the Red Sox hadn’t aided in their demise.…
Things keep going from bad to worse for the Angels.…
Derek Jeter, by a wide margin, is baseball’s most marketable player, according to a survey of sports business executives and media personalities conducted by SportsBusiness Daily.…
Hunter tied for 10th.…
Jeter and Lane Kiffin are like polar opposites in “Seinfeld’s” Bizarro World, the New York Yankees shortstop rarely making a false step and the USC coach repeatedly doing so.…
Texas Tech Coach Tommy Tuberville, formerly of Auburn, on news that the 2004 BCS championship would be vacated if USC is stripped of its title: “Give it to somebody, because there are teams that did things the right way.” …
Auburn finished second in the final BCS standings in 2004.…
NBC notes that Al Michaels, preparing for another season of “Sunday Night Football,” has logged nearly 2,100 hours in prime time, more than anyone else in television history.…
Reader George Luebke of San Dimas e-mails to note that four recent sports newsmakers — Pat Haden, J.K. McKay, Dan Haren and Michael Young, whose home run Friday gave the first-place Texas Rangers a 1-0 victory over the Angels — are graduates of La Puente Bishop Amat High.…
Eric Bieniemy, targeted by Kiffin as USC’s next running backs coach before Kiffin hired Kennedy Pola, also is a Bishop Amat graduate.…
Marquez Pope, the Matt Barnes of the NFL, was the only player in league history to play for all four California-based NFL teams, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.…
Pope, a defensive back from Fresno State, played for the Los Angeles Rams in 1994, their last season in Anaheim.…
Barnes will be the 17th ex-Bruin to play for the Lakers.…
Terrell Owens — or is it Ocho Uno? — should fit well with Carson Palmer, who has experience dealing with diva receivers.…
Noting that Chris Coghlan of the Florida Marlins landed on the disabled list after suffering a knee injury while delivering a shaving cream pie to the face of teammate Wes Helms, reader Bill Littlejohn of South Lake Tahoe, Calif., e-mails to suggest, “It looks like the Marlins have gone from fire sales to Soupy Sales.” …
Add another name to the list of current Spanish sports stars: Two-time Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso, winner of Sunday’s race at Hockenheim, Germany. …
Jack Tatum, best known for his punishing hit on Darryl Stingley, also played a part in “The Immaculate Reception,” in the Raiders’ 1972 playoff loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers.…
Tatum’s hit on Frenchy Fuqua late in the game jarred loose a desperation pass from Terry Bradshaw, knocking the ball into the arms of Franco Harris, who caught it just before it hit the ground and never broke stride in running for the winning touchdown.…
Reader Bob Fish of Yorba Linda e-mails to remind that in perhaps Ben Davidson’s most infamous screen role the ex-Raider portrayed Porter the Bouncer in the X-rated 1972 film “Behind the Green Door,” starring Marilyn Chambers.…
Rumor has it that BMX star Daniel Dhers of Venezuela, in town this week for the X Games, learned sign language so that he could flirt with motocross champion and fellow X Games gold medalist Ashley Fiolek, who is deaf.…
Backers of an initiative to get Wilt Chamberlain’s image put on a commemorative postage stamp are urging fans to write letters to this address: Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee, Stamp Development, U.S. Postal Service, 1735 North Lynn St., Suite 5013, Arlington, VA 22209-6432.…
Perhaps a letter from Karl Malone would carry some weight.…
Ten years ago Thursday, on Bob Wickman All-Star Poster Night in Milwaukee, the guest of honor was absent.…
He’d been traded a day earlier.
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