Islands Are Just One Big Playground for Them

There’s a youth movement afoot this weekend in Hawaii, where 15-year-olds Freddy Adu and Michelle Wie are doing more than hanging out at the beach.

Adu and D.C. United will play the Galaxy in an exhibition Saturday night at Aloha Stadium; Wie has already teed off with the big girls in the LPGA’s SBS Open at Turtle Bay.

“How young are Adu and Wie?” asked the Honolulu Advertiser’s Ferd Lewis. “Let’s put it this way: If Wie wasn’t playing in the SBS, she could get in free under the tournament’s youth category -- if she could get a pass from her 10th-grade classes for the day, that is.”

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Trivia time: Who is the only major league pitcher with 300 victories and a better career winning percentage than Roger Clemens’ .667?

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Spring cleaning up: The Boston Red Sox, coming off their first World Series title since 1918, can somewhat justify their decision to charge a major league-high $44 for premium spring-training game tickets.

The Philadelphia Phillies, who haven’t been to the playoffs since 1993, have a harder sell. The Phillies charge $25 for their best tickets, the second-highest amount in the majors.

Anyone who pays those prices is a real Philly Fanatic.

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Prime time pitchman: Deion Sanders, a la George Foreman, is hawking a device that makes hot dogs.

“There’s no other appliance out there like this one,” an advertisement states.

“With the Deion Sanders’ Hot Dog Express you can enjoy hot dogs the professional way. No more messy BBQs or split-open hot dogs, the Hot Dog Express gives you a juicy hot dog that pops in your mouth in just minutes.”

At a cost of $49.95 plus shipping and handling, it had better.

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A mighty tailwind: KFWB’s Bret Lewis, on the reported trade that would send Minnesota Viking receiver Randy Moss to the Oakland Raiders: “It doesn’t become official until March 2. At that point, Randy will fly to Oakland on one plane -- with a cargo plane following carrying all his baggage.”

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Athletes in action: Tom Arnold, making a list on “The Best Damn Sports Show Period” of things you wouldn’t say to the International Olympic Committee debating whether to award New York the 2012 Games: “Hey, IOC, oh, that guy’s not sleeping on a cardboard box, he’s training for the luge.”

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Frosty response: Noting that the cancellation of the NHL season triggered barely a peep in the United States, Dennis Miller said on his CNBC show that it sparked a “national riot in Canada, with enraged mobs overturning snowmobiles, torching ice fishing shacks and rampantly looting throughout Gordon Lightfoot’s neighborhood. Because remember, Canada oozes hockey like Pier One does wicker.”

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Trivia answer: Lefty Grove, whose winning percentage was .680.

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And finally: Sports Illustrated’s Bill Scheft wrote that the failed last-ditch negotiations between NHL players and owners became so contentious that player-owner Mario Lemieux “couldn’t be in the same room with himself.”