She wears the rings in this relationship

Just call her Caddie Dearest.

Brenda Calcavecchia, who frequently carries husband Mark's bag during golf tournaments, once gave him the ultimate incentive for curbing his famous temper.

"He did throw one club one time at the Tour Championship," she told TNT during the British Open. "It almost hit my ring. I said, 'If you break the diamond, you buy a bigger one.' And that was the end of that."

Knuckled under

Bill Foley was thrilled to win his kids some blowup bats at a speed-pitch game — until reality set in.

"I nearly threw my arm out with a 54-mph heater," Foley wrote in Butte's Montana Standard. "At the same time, 42-year-old pitcher Tim Wakefield was throwing about 15 mph faster than that at Fenway — with a knuckleball.

"I've never felt less like an athlete in my life."

So Favre, so good

Vikings coach Brad Childress, after watching tapes of Brett Favre throwing a football, says the surgically repaired quarterback's motion "looked fine" to him.

Though still not as good as his pump-fakes.

Sports quiz

Cabrera, Glover and Cink:

a) are the unlikely winners of the year's first three golf majors;

b) is the law firm on Pacman Jones' speed dial;

c) in terms of TV ratings, might as well be Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod.

See the USA

Hung Ng and girlfriend Heather Griffith share one common interest: running ultramarathons.

"Ultras are like a vacation to us," Griffith told the Orlando Sentinel. "It's like going someplace new and exploring the country together. I had never been to Death Valley in California before I met Hung."

Quote marks

• Comedy writer Jerry Perisho, on "earmark" being among the new words listed in the Merriam-Webster dictionary: "No specific examples, although they do briefly reference Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield."

• Golfer Boo Weekley, to BBC Sport, on why his food intake rarely went beyond chicken wings during the British Open: "I only stick to things I can spell."

• Headline at SportsPickle.com: "Benches clear over mouse."

• Drew Curtis of Fark.com, on the upstart United Football League: "The league is going to fold faster than Superman on laundry day."

Just call him LeBong

Cavaliers star LeBron James says in a new book he once tried marijuana as a high-schooler, but don't bother looking for any YouTube evidence.

Those ubiquitous Nike henchmen alertly seized all the party tapes.

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