It's pubs over pug, and score it a knockout.

Scott Harrison, the world's second-ranked featherweight fighter, has been banned from every pub, club and hotel in downtown East Kilbride, Scotland, because he allegedly threw a barstool and demonstrated other violent behavior in local establishments.

"Scott Harrison's behavior was not acceptable to any of the licensees in the town center, and the decision was taken to ban him for six months," David McDougall, manager of Shenanigans bar and town Pubwatch chairman, told The Scotsman newspaper. "If his behavior improves after the six-month ban, he may be allowed in again."

Harrison has a record of 23-2-2, not including any bouts with East Kilbride bouncers.

CG's and Z's

Maybe it's no coincidence that the Florida Marlins, a team managed by a 74-year-old, lead the majors with five complete-game pitching performances.

Noted Jerry Greene of the Orlando Sentinel: "That's because nobody wants to wake up Jack McKeon after the sixth inning."

The old brawl game

There's the Yankees and Red Sox, and then there are more well-grounded rivalries, such as the Cubs and Cardinals.

One big difference?

"The fans are into it," Cardinals manager Tony La Russa told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "but they're not beating each other up in the stands that I know of."

Talking the talk

• John Wallis, FortuneFun.com president, on the new spokesman for his gaming Web site: "Our members look forward to playing against Mike Tyson online. It's safer than going against him in the ring."

• Syndicated columnist Tom FitzGerald, on the Eagles' Terrell Owens dogging QB Donovan McNabb while demanding that the team renegotiate the seven-year, $49 million deal he agreed to just a year ago: "T.O. is quite an athlete — the only receiver who can keep two feet inbounds with one in his mouth."

• Brad Dickson of www.sportsfanmagazine.com, on this week's Boston Marathon: "The surprise winner was a guy in a Red Sox cap, carrying a beer and being chased by Gary Sheffield."

• Jim Alexander of the Riverside, Calif., Press-Enterprise, on the new No. 1 item on his birthday wish list: "Remote-controlled golf balls, just like the ones Tiger Woods uses."

Throw out the records

In one of the most competitive Southeastern Conference races in memory, Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina have each had 11 football players arrested or cited in recent months.

The three teams' lineups are so evenly matched, penal pundits say, that the SEC might have to resort to the seldom-used strength-of-sentence tie-breaker.

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