Take my husband, please
Even marital bliss, it appears, has its price limit.
Someone paid $1,000 for the chance to cut a rug with former NFL linebacker Antonio London at a “Come Dance With a Star” fund-raiser in London’s hometown of Tullahoma, Tenn. - but the winning bidder wasn’t his wife, Gloria. “I was short by $100,” she told The Tennessean. “After I bid $900, I said, ‘You can have him.’ ”
Sponsored
by AFLAC?
Programming update from Thomas Bonk of the Los Angeles Times: “The YES Network has begun its third season of ‘Yogi and a Movie,’ co-hosted by Yogi Berra.
“At least we’ll know when it’s over.”
Just say neigh
Some snippets from a pre-Breeders’ Cup tale of the tape comparing TV icon Oprah Winfrey to star filly Oprah Winney, from breederscup.com:
“Age: Winney, 4; Winfrey, 53.
“Earnings: Winney, $577,800; Winfrey, $1.5 billion.
“Height: Winney, 15.1 hands; Winfrey, 5 feet 6.
“Weight: Winney, 950 pounds; Winfrey, a lady never tells.”
One fact somehow overlooked: Does Winney have a boyfriend named Studman?
Mel’s on the clock
“Hey, I’m all for the NFL speeding up the draft,” wrote Kevin Gleason of the Middletown (N.Y.) Times Herald-Record, “but does this mean I’m losing valuable Mel Kiper time?”
Hiding in Pullman
It was tough to tell whether UCLA lost a football game or got field-dressed Saturday in out-of-the-way Pullman, where the country Cougars - who entered 0-4 in the Pac-10 to the Bruins’ 4-0 - shocked the city-slicker Bruins 27-7.
“This is like going to the moon to play a game,” wrote Bill Dwyre of the Los Angeles Times. “Did those loud and inebriated fans in their deer-hunting clothes really come to watch a football game?
“Or when they chanted at the end of the game to the Bruins: ‘We own you! We own you!’, did they mean the entire team or just their hides?’ ”
Paging James Taylor
This is what’s known as bad location, location, location.
Saints QB Drew Brees, the owner of homes in San Diego and New Orleans, had one residence threatened last week by those Southern California wildfires and the other’s basement flooded by a 6-inch Gulf Coast deluge of rain.
So what does he do for an encore - buy a vacation home in Fallujah?
Talko time
• Fox-TV NFL reporter Tony Siragusa, to USA Today, on being a 6-4, 340-pounder in London: “I’m lying in bed and my feet are hanging two feet over. In showers, I have one leg out. Everything here is, like, miniature. I’m in Wonka land.”
• London retiree Ronald Brown, 83, to Canadian Press, on the NFL coming to his city: “I watch it now and again, but it doesn’t appeal to me. Some of the tackling they do is so bloody cruel.”
• Pete McEntegart of SI.com, on the Southern California wildfires threatening the Chargers’ home game Sunday: “It’s the biggest smoke-related problem for the NFL since Ricky Williams.”
• Ian Hamilton of the Regina (Sask.) Leader-Post, after a Pacoima, Calif., golf course had to bring in the bomb squad to detonate a World War II hand grenade found buried near the 12th hole: “Tough pin placement.”
They smell victory
So much for the Rockies’ humidor factor.
To the Red Sox, those Coors Field baseballs merely smelled like victory cigars.
Dwight Perry: 206-464-8250 or dperry@seattletimes.com