Grant Hill, reportedly being wooed by the Boston Celtics to help return them to the top of the Eastern Conference, has never played for a team that won a playoff series. . . .
Their refusal to play at Indian Wells is understandable, but what do Wimbledon finalists Venus and Serena Williams have against the annual WTA Tour stop in Carson, which is just down the road from where they grew up in Compton? . . .
Perhaps, like a number of fans and other players, they preferred when the tournament was played in Manhattan Beach. . . .
Rutgers, which last week agreed to a home-and-home series against UCLA in football that includes a 2017 game at the Rose Bowl, has played only once in California, losing at Cal in 1999. . . .
Reader Jackson E. Eckstein of Oceanside, identifying himself as a longtime USC season-ticket holder, e-mails to call it "absurd" that a ranking of the greatest football coaches in Pacific 10 Conference history would not include UCLA's Red Sanders near the top, noting, "I knew greatness when I saw it." . . .
Nick Daschel of BusterSports.com, which compiled the list that was topped by Pete Carroll, explains that the rankings covered only the last 50 years, which the website considers to be college football's "modern era." . . .
The Long Beach Armada of the independent Golden Baseball League tonight will host Michael Jackson Night at Blair Field, where anyone dressed like the King of Pop will be admitted free to a game against the Chico Outlaws. . . .
Reflecting the motto of face-stuffing baseball fans everywhere, a sign posted at a concession stand in the new Yankee Stadium suggests, "Eat with one hand, high five with the other."
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