Golf tips unlike any others

The Mount Sinai School of Medicine Department of Orthopaedics released “Tips for a Safer, Injury-Free Golf Game,” just in time for . . . hushed tone, please . . . “The Masters.”

They include:

Stretch before playing. (Stretching after playing -- like on what you shot on the back nine -- is also fine.)

Carrying a heavy golf bag can add a lot of stress to your shoulders and back. (Lightening that load can by achieved by heaving certain offending clubs into a lake after unpleasant moments.)

Avoid overexertion. (So, it was just a two-foot putt and you rimmed it?)

If you start to develop pain in a specific area, a short period of rest and anti-inflammatories are a good start. (Both can be found at the 19th hole.)

Trivia time

Where was the first head-coaching job for the nomadic Larry Brown?

Seeing red,

not Red Sox

Red Sox Nation went on the warpath Tuesday morning after technical problems with DirecTV left them in the dark at 6 a.m. as their team was playing in Japan.

A smattering of fan ire from Boston.com:

“I’m gonna flip some cars.”

“This morning I took my DirecTV satellite dish and literally threw it off my balcony and onto my car windshield, and now I can’t drive my car.”

“You DO understand that they’re going to burn you guys to the ground in Boston for this, don’t you? What a bunch of morons. Where’s my pitchfork? . . . “

Spring into action

What do you want to see in April, baseball or college football?

In Texas, the answer is easy: They play baseball?

In Bristol, Conn., they came up with a similar answer.

ESPN announced it would broadcast Florida’s spring football game April 12, giving Gators quarterback Tim Tebow a leg (or passing arm) up on his 2008 Heisman campaign.

For those with actual lives but who still might want to catch a glimpse, just TiVo Tebow.

And Howe

Hockey great Gordie Howe turns 80 Monday and, in a Q-and-A with the Detroit Free Press, provided this medical laundry list on his current health.

“Well, I have had both knees replaced, and that has put a damper on playing any more hockey or putting on the skates. My wrists have arthritis, and one I can’t bend. My back often bothers me, and lately my left shoulder has a sharp pain. . . .”

No word on whether the Kings are pondering a one- or two-year deal.

Yankee strippers

The House That Ruth Built may soon be on the market, piece by piece. The New York Post reported the Yankees want to buy the stadium from the city and send it to the chop shop.

Mike Heffner of Lelands. com, a memorabilia auction site, told the Post, “Each brick could sell for $100 to $300.”

That seems similar to the per-brick rate of exchange Clippers owner Donald Sterling is receiving these days, but the payday wouldn’t stop there.

Said Heffner: “At other stadiums, everything from the scoreboards to the dugout urinals have been snatched up by fans, but Yankee Stadium is in a whole other league of collectibles.”

Meanwhile, the Post said, the Mets are also looking to sell off Shea Stadium, though there’s no telling how much the Halfway House That Darryl Built will bring.

Trivia answer

Davidson. Unfortunately, school officials learned Brown’s where’s-my-hat tendencies pretty quickly. He quit after one month.

Still, Brown did win a championship for Davidson -- Bill Davidson, the Detroit Pistons’ owner.

And finally

The rush to learn more about Davidson guard Stephen Curry led to the door of former NBA guard and longtime family friend Muggsy Bogues, who told the Charlotte Observer, “He’s a small, scrawny kid.”

Now if the 5-foot-3 Bogues says you’re small . . .

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chris.foster@latimes.com