Kobe-Shaq rivalry now has a price

Kobe vs. Shaq.

Again. Haven’t we had enough of this already?

Of course not. Not even if it’s an Internet-only auction of sports memorabilia and cards, running through Thursday at scpauctions.com. Among Lakers-related items, there is Bryant’s game jersey from the 2002 Finals and O’Neal’s game jersey from the 2000-01 season.

So, who happened to be ahead on points online? Here were the standings as of 10 a.m. Thursday, hours before the first of Briefing HQ’s many Thanksgiving meals.

O’Neal: Five bids, and the current bid was $483.

Bryant: Three bids, and the current bid was $605.

Naturally. It’s all about the playoffs.

One of the more intriguing items -- other than the Lakers’ 1979-80 championship banner, which had a bid of $5,000 -- was a 2001 championship ring. Action on this lot was more active, with bidding hitting $6,278.

But that wasn’t the issue. One picture had the words “Papa Steve” engraved on the side. First thought: Papa Steve, a colleague of Briefing HQ,

Lakers writer and father of two. But the mystery was solved by the listing explanation, saying it was “presented to a family member of one of the players.”

You’re outta here

Perhaps it could be too many viewings of “Grey’s Anatomy,” but one item in the Sotheby’s/SCP Auctions catalogue looked suspiciously like actor Chris O’Donnell as a baseball player with outdated curls. And several websites say O’Donnell’s hobby is collecting baseball cards.

But the player was Otto Hess, who played for Cleveland in the early 1900s. You could say he was a McPitcher and McOutfielder.

Trivia time

What season was Hess a 20-game winner?

Subway Sandwich

Station alert

The reports, in the New York Daily News, that Citigroup will be paying about $20 million a year for the naming rights to the Mets’ new ballpark could have other ramifications, spreading to a stop on the Long Island Rail Road and another on the No. 7 subway line.

Why? Both stops hold the name of the current park, Shea Stadium.

“What’s next? Will we give riders directions to take the Bayer Aspirin IRT to Walt Disney’s Times Square and then switch to the McDonald’s 7 line to the Citigroup stop in Queens, which also happens to be the stop for the Mets’ stadium?” said Gene Russianoff, lawyer for the Straphangers Campaign, to the newspaper.

Trivia answer

Hess was 20-17 for Cleveland in 1906. He was born in Switzerland in 1878, served in the army in the Philippines before playing in the majors, and finished his career in Boston in 1915.

And finally

Florida basketball Coach Billy Donovan, to the Sporting News, about a certain giant of a man now playing at Louisiana State: “Glen Davis is to college basketball what Shaquille O’Neal is to the NBA. Glen Davis has that same personality, that charisma. Plus, he knows how to play the game. I love Glen Davis.”

lisa.dillman@latimes.com