Sweetness of proposal puts High School student over the moon

So much for prancing cheek to cheek.

Huron (Mich.) High School suspended Kristoff Wennersten and 12 of his lacrosse teammates after Wennersten got them to bend over and moon fellow student Carolyn Campbell with the message, "Will You Go To The Prom With Me? Yes or No?" printed across their posteriors.

Campbell tapped the "yes man" on the back with her answer, and then school officials slapped all 13 with one-day school suspensions, multiple game suspensions and 20 hours of community service.

"Some very nice kids made a really bad choice," Huron parent Karen Van Eck told the Ann Arbor News. "... Who wants a bunch of boys with their butts hanging out [representing the school]? They had to do something."

Impressive lineup

"The Cincinnati Bengals had a busy draft," noted comedy writer Alex Kaseberg. "They got a miscreant, a scofflaw, two firebrands and a recidivist reprobate to be named later."

Hail to the cheap

Kris Mole of Sussex, England, visited 26 European capitals on a six-month, 9,763-mile trek to raise cash for cancer research, the London Sun reported — and he did it without spending a penny.

So not only did he raise more than $3,000, the Florida Marlins want him to be their traveling secretary.

20-Gallon Hat Dept.

Snippet from a Dan Patrick radio interview with defensive end Chris Long, the Rams' top draft pick, on the hat size of his Hall of Fame father, Howie:

Long: "I'm going to estimate 8 ¾."

Patrick: "So I could use your dad's hat for a beer cooler if I wanted to?"

Long: "You could. You might have to buy out 7-Eleven's ice supply."

Scotty, get your gun

"Seamheads are still wondering how Barry Zito could be 0-6 with a 7.56 ERA," wrote Mark Kriegel of FoxSports.com. "But the real question is this: How did Scott Boras get him $126 million without using a gun?"

Talking the talk

• Giants defensive end Michael Strahan, on HBO's "Costas Now," taking a jab at WFAN's Christopher "Mad Dog" Russo and other sports-talk radio hosts: "Last time you had a uniform on was when your mom took you trick-or-treating when you were 5."

• Times reader Bill Littlejohn, on the downside of hiring Chris Webber as a studio host for the NBA playoffs: "He tried to go to commercial, but TNT was out of commercials."

Earning his Spurs

Transplanted San Antonians John and Rhonda Till of Greensboro, N.C., are such big fans of the Spurs that their 2-year-old son is named Parker Duncan Ginobili Till.

Just be glad he wasn't born back when Dampier, Olberding and Paultz were playing.

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