His Tee Shot Was Clearly Out of Bounds

Ron Rapoport in the Chicago Sun-Times: “White Sox advance scout Bryan Little says his brother, Red Sox Manager Grady Little, once carried a small pistol in his golf bag and shot his brother Tommy’s ball right off the tee.

“‘Grady can get pretty loud and crazy on a golf course,’ Bryan told the Boston Globe. ‘You’d think he would have learned some golf etiquette.’”

Etiquette? From a baseball manager?

Trivia time: Who holds the record for assists in an NBA playoff game?

The ace and his aces: The late Sam Snead won a record 81 PGA Tour events, three Masters, three PGA Championships and one British Open.

However, Robert Harris, director of golf for the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia, where Snead was head pro for 38 years, told National Public Radio, “By his own admission, his most remarkable feat was 36 holes in one--with every club in the bag except the putter.”

Visual junk: “What a great visual image this is,” said “Celebrity Boxing 2” host Chris Rose during 7-foot-7 Manute Bol’s victory--by unanimous decision--over former Chicago Bear William “the Refrigerator” Perry, which aired Wednesday night on Fox.

Comment by Tom FitzGerald of the San Francisco Chronicle: “Great image? P.T. Barnum wouldn’t have televised that bout.”

Fantasies: Jim Armstrong in the Denver Post: “North Carolina has run its NBA team out of the state so it can devote its time to watching hockey. In a related development, Nebraska announced that it has dropped football and applied for admission to the Ivy League.”

Ordained? Fran Blinebury of the Houston Chronicle on Robert Horry’s game-winning shot on Sunday: “The ball just seems to come to [him] in these situations. Like metal filings to a magnet. Like moths to a flame....

“One of these days, Horry is going to be standing out on the street and have a winning lottery ticket ride into his grip on the wings of a breeze.”

Still intimidating: Scott Ostler in the San Francisco Chronicle: “When you buy a pack of the new Tiger Woods golf balls, you get a Tiger bobblehead doll.

“And it’s cute. If you put the Tiger doll in with a group of other players’ dolls, their putters start to bobble.”

FYI: Creighton Miller, the College Hall of Fame halfback from Notre Dame who died Saturday, scored the first touchdown against USC at the Coliseum in 1942 on a 48-yard pass from Angelo Bertelli.

A crowd of 94,519 watched the penalty-marred game, won by Notre Dame, 13-0.

Trivia answer: Magic Johnson, on May 15, 1984, and John Stockton, on May 17, 1988, each with 24.

And finally: Mike Morgan, 42-year-old Arizona Diamondback relief pitcher, was felled by a line drive off his kneecap in Friday night’s game against the Dodgers. But he finished the inning and, remarkably, had no swelling in his knee the next day.

Morgan credits his sturdy knees to his drinking habits--milk.

“I’ve always had a milk fetish,” he told the Arizona Republic. “On our charters, I drink nine to 10 cartons of milk. It’s strange but on Friday night I drank a gallon of 1% milk and a half-gallon of 2%.”