Cheerleaders punished for getting behind the team
Talk about getting penalized for excessive end-zone celebration.
Six Ripon (Calif.) High School cheerleaders were given two-day suspensions, the Stockton Record reported, after they bent over side by side at the season-ending football game, lifted their skirts and showed the crowd the words “Indians No. 1″ spelled across their collective bloomers. Flipping out
Saturday’s Michigan-Ohio State football game featured a memorable coin flip - with a coin featuring Wolverines legend Bo Schembechler on one side and Buckeyes counterpart Woody Hayes on the other.
Just one problem: The opposing captains couldn’t agree which side was tails.
Numb and number
Forget triple-double. This is the basketball version of getting hit over the head with a two-by-four:
Lester Hudson, a junior guard at Tennessee Martin, needed just 31 minutes in a game last week to ring up 25 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists and 10 steals against Central Baptist College, The Tennessean reported.
Just kicking back
Things are going so good for the Patriots that punter Chris Hanson, with just 21 attempts in the first nine games, didn’t have enough kicks to qualify for the NFL leader list.
Wrote Paul Domowitch of the Philadelphia Daily News: “The loneliest job in the world is no longer a Maytag repairman. It’s punting for the Patriots.”
Yellow Flag Dept.
Nextel Cup driver Kasey Kahne of Enumclaw and a security guard had some sort of disagreement over access to the drivers’ motorhome lot at Homestead-Miami Speedway last week, but it sounds like a classic case of he said, he said.
The guard claims Kahne pushed him to the ground while trying an illegal pass, while the driver’s camp says he was merely bump-drafting.
Quote marks
• Former big-leaguer Toby Harrah, in Coach and Athletic Director magazine, on his one season (1984) in the Bronx: “Everybody should play for the Yankees one time just so they get an idea of what it’s really like to be hated by everybody.”
• Dan Daly of the Washington Times, on puffed-up Giants slugger Barry Bonds getting indicted on a charge of perjury after denying he’d knowingly used steroids: “On the plus side, Barry has probably done more than any ballplayer in history for the popularity of adjustable-size caps.”
• David Thomas of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, on the growing list of Bay Area water attractions: “San Francisco has had McCovey Cove, now it will have Barry’s jury pool.”
• Utah State football coach Brent Guy, to Logan’s KVNU radio, after his team broke a school-record 16-game losing streak with a 35-17 win at New Mexico State: “Sometimes you get sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
Hog Wild Dept.
Arkansas football coach Houston Nutt scolded the media Saturday after an ESPN report started circulating that the coach won’t be back next season.
Hey, one good Nutt-out deserves another.
Dwight Perry: 206-464-8250 or dperry@seattletimes.com