Bud Selig needs to expand instant replay to avoid more trouble

Please, Bud Selig, for the love of Armando Galarraga, Jim Joyce and justice-seeking baseball fans: Expand the use of instant replay before the sport is embarrassed anew. …

Galarraga, Joyce and Detroit Tigers fans all exhibited remarkable sportsmanship considering the circumstances. …

Galarraga, believe it or not, was the 10th pitcher to lose a perfect game with two out in the ninth inning. …

If you were born after March 31, 1975, when John Wooden coached his last game, UCLA has won one NCAA basketball championship in your lifetime. …

Vin Scully, returning to his broadcasting roots, will make a rare trip east of Colorado to work the Dodgers’ interleague series opener June 18 against the Boston Red Sox. …

Scully made his professional play-by-play debut at a Maryland-Boston University football game Nov. 12, 1949, calling the action from atop the press-box roof at Fenway Park. …

A few months later, in time for spring training, the young redhead was hired by the Dodgers. …

The Angels, in the midst of their longest trip in eight years, were forced from Angel Stadium because of U2 concerts scheduled for Sunday and Monday, dates that were postponed last week after Bono needed emergency back surgery. …

Now, next year’s schedule probably will be affected. …

The Lakers are 0-4 in Game 7s against the Boston Celtics, most famously losing at the Forum in 1969. …

Celebrity chef Michael Symon, a Cleveland native, has posted a letter on his Facebook page offering to cook a meal once a month for LeBron James and his crew if the two-time MVP re-signs with the Cleveland Cavaliers. …

Perhaps Wolfgang Puck could go to bat for the Clippers. …

With his Magic Johnson-like enthusiasm, Ken Griffey Jr. was a dynamic, captivating performer and an anomaly in baseball’s steroid era: a player who actually declined as he aged. …

Griffey’s announcement came 75 years to the day after Babe Ruth ended his playing career. …

Eight days before Ruth’s exit, the Bambino hit three home runs for the Boston Braves in a game at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, the last a towering shot that cleared the roof. …

Jamie Moyer of the Philadelphia Phillies, who last month joined the late Hall of Famer Robin Roberts as the only pitchers in major league history to give up as many as 500 home runs, has never given up a home run to a pitcher. …

Nor has he hit one. …

A foundation established by Moyer and wife Karen, daughter of Digger Phelps, is co-hosting a bereavement camp for kids Aug. 27-29 at Junior Blind’s Camp Bloomfield in Malibu. …

Information: MoyerFoundation.org. …

Patrick Kane of the Chicago Blackhawks describes his mullet hairstyle as “ Billy Ray Cyrus with a touch of Vanilla Ice.” …

While UCLA is hosting an NCAA baseball tournament regional for the first time in nearly 25 years, USC is one of only two Pacific 10 Conference teams that did not make the field. …

Thanks to the Lakers, who ended the Phoenix Suns’ season a few weeks earlier than he would have hoped, Steve Nash is free to file reports from the World Cup for CBSSports.com. …

Brad Pitt, a swimmer, golfer and tennis player at Kickapoo High in Springfield, Mo., has joined the group trying to bring the World Cup to the United States in 2018 or 2022. …

A SportsIllustrated.com All-Alliteration Team includes Cassius Clay, Mickey Mantle, Paul Pierce, former Bruins Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Karch Kiraly, former Trojan Lisa Leslie, two-time badminton world champion Xie Xingfang and Andre Agassi, whom the website calls “as alliterate an athlete as any.” …

Alain Deloeil, chief of the French cycling team, calls for checks at the Tour de France to ensure that racers are not cheating by using motors in their bike frames, suggesting that in cycling even the equipment is improperly enhanced. …

In a scene from “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” a Swedish mystery film, a woman strikes a man with a golf club inside a house and then, as he tries to flee in a black SUV, hits the car windows with the club, causing him to crash. …

The film is based on a novel published in 1995, long before Tiger Woods’ infamous crash last November. …

It must have been an NBA fan who named these adjoining cul-de-sacs in Chatsworth: Laker Court and Celtic Court. …

Can anyone say for sure?

jerome.crowe@latimes.com