And What if Neuheisel Gets In on the Action?

Gambling on the NCAA tournament “is expected to surpass the $70 million bet on the Super Bowl,” says David Whitley of the Orlando Sentinel. “That’s just the Vegas-style legalized gambling.

“The office-pool style will amount to somewhere between $1 billion and $13 gazillion, depending on the extent of Pete Rose’s involvement.”

Another shot: Channel 9’s Alan Massengale, on Rose’s recent induction into the Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Fame: “Vince McMahon must’ve figured Rose deserved the honor after years of wrestling with the truth.”

Trivia time: How many USC players have become NBA head coaches?

Trivia II: How many UCLA players have become NBA head coaches?

All grown up: The USC baseball team has three players who played in the Little League World Series: pitcher Matt Cassel, Northridge, 1994; shortstop Blake Sharpe, Moorpark, 1996, and catcher Jeff Clement, Marshalltown, Iowa, 1996.

Not forgotten: It has been more than a decade since a Long Beach Little League team won two consecutive world titles with the help of a slugger who now plays for the San Diego Padres.

But the player has not been forgotten. The Times’ Steve Harvey heard this from the P.A. announcer at a recent Little League game in Long Beach: “Now batting, Sean Burroughs.”

Actually, it was 11-year-old Sean Buckle.

A big plus: Regarding Little League, Yogi Berra offered a different viewpoint.

“Little League is a great thing because it keeps the parents off the street,” he once said.

One shot, four aces: If 500 golf balls were dropped from a helicopter about 40 feet above a golf hole, how many would go in?

Radio station KLOS-FM (95.5) gave it a try at the Mark and Brian Celebrity golf tournament Saturday at Industry Hills, dropping 500 balls over a makeshift hole on the 18th fairway. Four went in the hole.

Each ball, costing participants $100, was numbered. The four people who had been assigned the numbers on the balls that went in the hole shared a $25,000 pot. An additional $25,000 went to the Stone Soup Foundation.

Looking back: On this date in 1969, Lew Alcindor led UCLA to a 92-72 victory over Purdue in the NCAA championship game and was chosen the game’s most valuable player for a third consecutive year.

Trivia answer: Six. Four of them were on the same team in the late 1940s -- Bill Sharman, Alex Hannum, Tex Winter and Bob Kloppenburg. The others are Paul Westphal and Mack Calvin.

Trivia II answer: Zero.

And finally: Elliott Harris of the Chicago Sun-Times, on reports that Larry Eustachy, the former Iowa State coach from Arcadia, is a candidate for the coaching job at Texas A&M;: “At least that’s the party line.”

Larry Stewart can be reached at larry.stewart@latimes.com.