Really going back in the history books

Some old soldiers won't just die, they'll be going, going, gone.

The last remnants of Andrews Field, a minor-league ballpark that opened in 1916, are slated to be razed to make way for expansion of the Fort Smith (Ark.) National Cemetery next door, the Arkansas Democrat & Gazette reported. Or, as giddy graveyard historians are proclaiming the makeover, the second coming of the Dead-Ball era.

It's a Cardinal rule

With the Florida basketball team trying to defend its NCAA championship, Gators coach Billy Donovan brought in someone in the same fix — Cardinals manager Tony La Russa — to address his team, the Palm Beach (Fla.) Post reported.

As to what he told the Gators, La Russa replied, "Same thing I say here: Get so far ahead the coach can't screw it up."

John Deere letter

Slavomir Milnovic, furious to learn he'd been lopped from the town soccer team, returned to FC Mramor's field near Nis, Serbia, and plowed it unplayable with the family tractor, ananova.com reported.

Milnovic had been listed on the roster as a midfielder. Check that: attacking midfielder.

Food for thought

Seattle came in second behind Albuquerque, N.M., among America's fittest cities in Men's Fitness magazine's ninth annual rankings announced this month, belying the fact Seattle is an anagram for "let's eat." (Albuquerque, in case you're wondering, is an anagram for "Albuquerque.")

Pass the tweezers

John Amaechi, whose revelations in his book "Man in the Middle" have sparked public debate, says he sometimes found the NBA locker-room scene a bit absurd.

"It's like watching a flock of peacocks preening themselves and looking at each other," he told HBO's Bill Maher. "And I would sit there sometimes while a teammate might be painting his toenails seasonally and another teammate might be tweezing eyebrows or something, and I'd just sit there and think, 'And I'm the gay one?' "

Say what?

• Chris Foster of the Los Angeles Times, in a salute to the Academy Awards, on why ex-ballplayer Oscar Gamble beat out Oscar Robertson, Oscar De La Hoya and Oscar Madison on his ranking of sports' all-time Oscars: "That hair, man, that hair."

• Mike Bianchi of The Orlando Sentinel, speculating on what Colts tight end Dallas Clark could have possibly said to get himself kicked out of a high-school girls basketball game in Iowa: "Hey, ref, that's the worst call I've seen since Lovie Smith decided to stick with Rex Grossman."

• Ex-Yankees pitcher Don Larsen, 77, to The Associated Press, after he and catcher Yogi Berra finally got to watch video of Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series for the first time more than 50 years later: "It ended the way I hoped it would."

Let's go to match play

Real-estate mogul Donald Trump wants to build a wedding chapel at his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., the Newark Star-Ledger reported.

The golf chapels will be just like Vegas, proponents say, except previously married couples will be issued a mulligan certificate.

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