For the Minnesota Timberwolves' Fred Hoiberg, the NBA All-Star three-point shootout is just kid stuff.

"I'd love to go out there and give it a shot," Hoiberg, the league's top long-distance shooter, told the Chicago Tribune. "The biggest reason would be to take my kids.

"My 5-year-old (Jack) now has some interest in sports. Before, all he asked me was about Power Rangers.

"It would be fun for him to go out there and meet the guys in his PlayStation."

Simple wardrobe

There are Green Bay Packers fans, and then there is 8-year-old David Witthoft of Ridgefield, Conn., who has worn his Brett Favre jersey every day — that's 409 days and counting — since he received it as a Christmas gift in 2003.

As David's father, Chuck, told the Green Bay Press-Gazette: "David has a lot of sticktoitiveness."

And after 400-plus days, we assume, the same can be said for the jersey.

'Roid Rangers

The New York Daily News reports that former slugger Jose Canseco, in his upcoming book, will claim that President George W. Bush had to have known that some Texas Rangers players were using steroids when Bush owned the team in the early 1990s.

On the contrary, Bush backers say, Rangers intelligence sources never mentioned any injections of mass construction.

Pass the football

• Comedian Chris Rock, on the difference between the Academy Awards and the Super Bowl: "The Oscars are a lot easier. You can't get your teeth knocked out at the Oscars."

• Jim Armstrong, of AOL.com, on corpulent Eagles coach Andy Reid: "Not that Reid needs to lose a few pounds, but it took three containers of Gatorade to douse him after the NFC Championship Game."

• Fox NFL analyst Cris Collinsworth, to the Washington Times, on watching the Patriots' two-way Troy Brown play defensive back: "Because he's a receiver, he knows the routes as well as the guys he's covering. It's like watching synchronized swimming."

• Comedian Argus Hamilton, on the L.A. Coliseum hosting the Lingerie Bowl on Super Bowl Sunday: "Los Angeles knew if we stuck to our guns we would eventually get a football team that represents our values."

Duked out

Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, saying he must have gotten woozy from standing up too quickly, momentarily collapsed midway through the first half of Saturday's game, then bounced back to his feet after a few seconds and resumed his bench duties.

Blue Devils publicists, never ones to miss a marketing opportunity, announced they will henceforth refer to Krzyzewski as "Coach K-O."

Talking the talk

• Bill Scheft of Sports Illustrated, on Jim Beam and Fruit of the Loom sponsoring Robbie Gordon's NASCAR ride: "I don't know about you, but I haven't seen bourbon and underwear on the same car since my sophomore year."

• Bill Lankhof of the Toronto Sun, on reports that the Maple Leafs have gotten no ticket cancellations during the NHL lockout: "If there were anything dumber than a Leafs season-ticket holder, you'd have to stick it in a pot and water it."

• Randy Turner of the Winnipeg Free Press, on the only thing that prevented him from copying Piston Richard Hamilton's tire-tread hairstyle: "Radial pattern baldness."

• NBC's Jay Leno, on last week's Iraqi election: "Apparently, by mistake, a lot of ballots were switched with NBA All-Star ballots, and now the new president of Iraq is Yao Ming."

Silver lining

An armored car bound for Tampa flipped on Highway I-75 last week, spilling more than a ton of quarters and golden dollars and providing police officers and inmates an afternoon's worth of on-their-knees pickup work.

Panic was averted when the Devil Rays announced that enough coins were recovered to meet their next payroll.

Dwight Perry: 206-464-8250 or dperry@seattletimes.com