LITTLE ROCK — Who stole the goon’s underwear?
Locker room pranks are nothing new, but in the case of Phoenix Coyotes enforcer and Twitter celebrity Paul Bissonnette’s missing underwear, it’s difficult to tell who was the intended target - the athlete or the reporter who had to ask about it.
After a practice session last week, Bissonnette’s underwear mysteriously disappeared from his locker and Fox Sports Arizona’s Todd Walsh was handed the job of getting the in-depth story in an interview that has since hit YouTube.
“I looked in the ice machine, the refrigerator,” Bissonnette told a clearly uncomfortable Walsh.
“You’d be surprised what guys do. It’s a locker room and a long season.”
“So I made a few phone calls, I called [teammate] Keith Yandle - it made him Suspect No. 1 as soon as they went missing - but it wasn’t him, so I guess they just disappeared.”
Walsh, by now barely containing his laughter, was forced to ask the burning question: “Are we talking boxers, briefs, thong, G-string? What are we talking about here ?”
“No, G-strings are for Saturday nights,” Bissonnette said, “and it wasn’t a Saturday night.”
The real answer? Lululemon boxer-briefs that Bissonnette says run $25 a pair.
“If you find them, please return them,” Bissonnette said. “And wash them first.” Carolina pride
With so many successful college basketball programs in North Carolina, Associated Press writer Christina Rexrode recently decided to call U.S. Rep.
Brad Miller, the state’s five-term congressman and ask about divided loyalties.
“The way I deal with it is, I scream my lungs out for Carolina,” Miller said. “I make no pretense that I am at all half-hearted in my support for Carolina. Nobody in North Carolina would trust a politician who claimed to be neutral on a matter as important as college basketball.”
Miller said he rooted for N.C.
State against Georgetown. And when they play out of state. And any time a Wolfpack victory doesn’t affect Carolina’s ranking.
And what about Duke?
“I have said very publicly that if Duke was playing against the Taliban,” Miller said, “then I’d have to pull for the Taliban.”
As AP columnist Jim Litke pointed out, “Guess who’s not running for re-election?” Dog’s day
A first-division soccer match in Sao Paulo, Brazil, was delayed for a few minutes after a police dog bit a player on the back of the leg.
Television cameras showed the dog, a German Shepherd reportedly called Nitro, biting Caxias striker Vanderlei as he and several other teammates complained with the officiating crew near the sidelines.
The dog was on a leash but the policeman, trying to assist the referees in controlling situation, got too close and the dog attacked, catching the player’s left leg and part of his shorts.
The Globoesporte.com website said Vanderlei had to be treated and the match in the Rio Grande do Sul state championship was stopped for nearly 10 minutes, but Vanderlei eventually was able to return.
Caxias lost 1-0 to Novo Hamburgo.
That’ll teach them to argue with the referee.
Quote of the day “They’ve got some good dudes down there.” Baylor center Quincy Acy, talking about Kentucky
Sports, Pages 14 on 03/26/2012