Hair today, gone tomorrow for mullet man

Looks like Dwayne Schintzius picked the wrong day to get snippy with the boss.

The former NBA center blames his lobster mullet — or rather, the way he reacted to the GM's edict to lose the hairstyle — for the San Antonio Spurs trading him away in 1991.

"He told me to cut it," Schintzius told TampaBayOnline.com. "So I got it cut and sent him the shavings in an envelope. I'm not sure he appreciated that.

"And then, away I went."

Yankees or Cards?

When Alex Rodriguez said he was hungry for a World Series ring this year, did he mean baseball or poker?

Chicago headlines

• At SportsPickle.com: "Jay Cutler breaks up with his center after bad snap."

• At SportsPickle.com: "White Sox throw at Adam Dunn's head during batting practice."

Stuffing the run

A man jumped the White House fence Tuesday but was quickly tackled.

D.C. oddsmakers immediately installed the Secret Service as 7 ½-point favorites over the Redskins. <252>

Spoiler alert

"Cowboys & Aliens" is a movie whose plot revolves around:

a) Spaceships invading a tiny Arizona town in 1873.

b) Tom Landry trying to communicate with Hollywood Henderson.

Hockey Lingo 101

Fore-checking: When a Toronto Maple Leaf asks when the first playoff tee time is.

Silver & old

The Oakland Raiders have a 37-year-old cheerleader who's already a grandmother.

A Raiders granny? Hey, don't laugh — Al Davis doesn't look a day over 107.

Nonsense and sensibility

"Let me get this straight," wrote Len Berman of ThatsSports.com. "NBA owners locked out the players, and now the owners have filed an unfair-labor-practices suit against the players. Got it."

Quote marks

• Brad Dickson of the Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald, on Ford recalling 1.1 million pickups because of faulty gas tanks: "Picture 1.1 million pickups — it looks like the parking lot at a Texas Tech home game."

• Idaho Potato Commission executive Frank Muir, to AP, on why jokes about the newly-named Famous Idaho Potato Bowl don't faze him: "You have to have a tough skin to be in the potato business."

• Times reader Charlie Gay, after his son offered to show him his new A-Rod card: "He handed me the ace of spades."

Thumb like it hot

According to a Wall Street Journal baseball investigation, there are 5.8 ejections per 100 games when temperatures fall below 50 degrees, and nearly twice that — 11.4 — when the mercury climbs above 90.

In other words: Chill the umpire!

Dwight Perry: 206-464-8250 or dperry@seattletimes.com

By Dwight Perry The Seattle Times

By Dwight Perry
The Seattle Times