Milestone season wouldn’t make Dodgers’ Matt Kemp an MVP lock

Even if Matt Kemp were to join the 40-40 club this season, gaining entry to one of baseball’s most exclusive fraternities, he wouldn’t be a lock as most valuable player. …

Among the four players in major league history who have bundled 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in a season, only Jose Canseco won the MVP balloting in his signature year. …

Barry Bonds finished fifth in the voting in his 40-40 season, Alfonso Soriano sixth and Alex Rodriguez ninth. …

Kemp, though, might be given special consideration for keeping his head amid the tumult and turmoil in Chavez Ravine. …

“As we used to say, ‘He’s a team photo,’ ” Vin Scully noted Wednesday during a telecast, calling Kemp a “one-man gang.” …

The Angels are 12 games above .500 against the Dodgers since their annual home-and-home series was launched in 1997, reflecting the American League’s dominance of interleague play. …

The Florida Marlins, whose series against Torii Hunter and the Angels this week was played in front of the usual collection of empty seats in Miami, are expected to draw three of their biggest “home” crowds of the season this weekend in Seattle. …

The games were moved to the Mariners’ home because of a scheduling conflict with a U2 concert in Miami. …

“The only thing that could have made [Rory] McIlroy more Tiger-like Sunday,” USA Today’s Tom Weir notes, “would have been if he’d crashed a golf cart into a fire hydrant.” …

Jimmy Walker, the top pick in the 1967 NBA draft, fathered a son, Jalen Rose, who was the 13th pick in 1994. …

Lakers broadcaster Mychal Thompson, the top pick in 1978, will do Walker one better if son Klay slips into the top 12 on Thursday, as some have projected. …

Luke Walton, son of Bill, was a second-round pick. …

While former Jefferson High star Bill “The Hill” McGill is the only player from a Southland high school taken with the top pick in the NBA draft, the list of players taken with the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft includes Bellflower’s Ron Yary, Fremont’s Ricky Bell, Granada Hills’ John Elway, Dorsey’s Keyshawn Johnson and Rancho Santa Margarita’s Carson Palmer. …

Serena Williams’ matches rarely lack drama. …

Jimmy Connors didn’t exactly wave the flag for the United States when he said of Andy Roddick’s chances at Wimbledon, “He’s going to have to come up with something spectacular, and I don’t know if he can do that now.” …

Not since Goran Ivanisevic in 2001 has a man seeded outside the top four won at Wimbledon. …

In North Carolina, home to Michael Jordan and Mike Krzyzewski, the official state sport is NASCAR after Gov. Bev Perdue signed a bill this week making it so. …

This reminds that Jordan used to call teammate Will Perdue “Will Vanderbilt” (after Perdue’s alma mater) because he “doesn’t deserve to be named after a Big Ten school.” …

California has no official state sport. …

Brad Dickson of the Omaha World-Herald, noting that Maurice Clarett spoke out in defense of Jim Tressel and Ohio State: “Now if they can only get O.J. Simpson, Barry Bonds, the Chicago Black Sox, sprinter Ben Johnson and Rosie Ruiz behind them, the Buckeyes will be in good shape.” …

It would be fun to see Sidney Crosby line up alongside Jaromir Jagr next season — or anyone else, for that matter. …

The NHL needs Crosby on the ice. …

Tim Thomas and his celebrating Boston Bruins teammates needed only four hours Saturday to rack up a $156,000 bar tab at a Connecticut casino, the Boston Globe reports. …

Included were a 30-liter bottle of champagne priced at $100,000 and, much to the delight of the bar staff, a $25,000 tip. …

Olympic softball gold medalist Jennie Finch, apparently no fan of common names, this week delivered a son, Diesel Dean Daigle, whose brother is named Ace Shane. …

Noting that the wedding registry of New Jersey Nets forward Kris Humphries and fiancee Kim Kardashian includes a $1,600 coffeepot, R.J. Currie of sportsdeke.com suggests, “Probably not Kris’s idea; dating Kim has enough perks.”

jerome.crowe@latimes.com