Superman Shows Bo a Few Things

In the Feb. 27 episode of “Lois & Clark: the New Adventures of Superman,” Clark Kent will play a one-on-one basketball game against new Angel Bo Jackson.

After an obligatory “Bo knows jump shots” line, Kent, played by former Princeton football standout Dean Cain, leaps super high to block a shot.

Kent returns to Earth, smiling sheepishly.

Says Jackson: “Bo don’t know that.”

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Add Bo: Before anyone writes off Jackson, Peter Schmuck of the Baltimore Sun points out that only three players last season hit longer home runs.

Jackson hit a 472-foot shot in Seattle’s Kingdome, the sixth-longest of the season, according to IBM Tale of the Tape.

The Detroit Tigers’ Cecil Fielder had three longer home runs, and Dean Palmer of the Texas Rangers and Andres Galarraga of the Colorado Rockies also went deeper than Jackson.

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Trivia time: In California girls’ high school basketball, who are the only two players to have scored 100 points in a game?

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Shaken Shirley: You’d think drag racer Shirley Muldowney has felt worse shakings than the 6.7 earthquake on Jan. 17. Not so, apparently.

“Our house is 1 1/2 blocks from the Northridge apartment building that collapsed,” she told National Dragster magazine.

“The shaking was at least 10 times worse than any tire shake I ever had on the track. During the two hours before the sun came, up we had good reason to believe everything was flattened from here to San Diego.

“Since the quake, we’ve been sleeping in our truck because our nerves are on edge.

“I’m out of here. We’re looking for property in Northern Michigan right now.”

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The joker: Fred Richman, longtime friend of NFL Hall of Fame member Dick Butkus, says some of Butkus’ greatest plays were as a practical joker, not as a linebacker for the Bears.

“The two of us spent a weekend at a friend’s Chicago apartment once,” Richman recalled. “At the last minute, the friend had to go out of town, and he asked us to help out a carpet installer when he came.

“When the guy finished with the carpet, Dick and I moved all the furniture. We put his couch in the kitchen, put his refrigerator in the bedroom. . . . stuff like that. Then we left.

“A month later, Dick called the guy and asked how he liked the carpet.

“The guy told him: ‘The carpet’s great, but that installer--what a . . . idiot that guy was.’ ”

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Semper Fi: Hall of Fame horse trainer Charlie Whittingham, 80, explains why he remained at Santa Anita rather than attend the recent Eclipse Awards in New Orleans, where his Flawlessly was honored as female grass horse of the year:

“I’d better not go back. The last time I was in New Orleans, I joined the Marines.”

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Trivia answer: USC Coach Cheryl Miller, who scored 105 points in a 1982 game, and her current center, Lisa Leslie, who scored 101 in 1990.

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Quotebook: Former Oakland Athletic relief pitcher Rollie Fingers, who endorses a brush-in color product for facial hair: “People come up to me all the time and say: ‘You’ve got a mustache just like Rollie Fingers.’ ”