He has her number: Someone has hacked...

He has her number: Someone has hacked into TV newswoman Wendy Walsh’s car phone and is using her number for his business. “I get calls from people saying things like, ‘You buying? What do you need?’ ” she said. “Or sometimes it seems like they want to buy from this guy.”

While Walsh, a weekend anchor at Channel 13, waits for her cellular phone company to clear up the problem, she has spoken with her phone mate.

“Talk about nerve,” she said. “He called me the other day and said, ‘Yo, Wendy. Would you do a favor for me? Will you keep your phone off tonight? I’m losing a gang of business.’ ”

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A bad omen?Experts disagree over the probable outcome of Saturday’s USC-UCLA game, but an anonymous Bruin supporter sent along proof that the Trojans have already suffered one beating of sorts.

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More on the Tirebiter family: Speaking of the rivalry, we recently mentioned that George Tirebiter, USC’s mascot/mutt, was fatally run over by a set of whitewalls in 1950.

Herb Furth of Pacific Palisades writes to say that an Airedale was subsequently pressed into service as George Tirebiter II.

Prior to the 1952 USC-UCLA game, George II was dognaped during a USC rally by some members of the Kelps, a UCLA spirit group, Furth recounts.

George II was held hostage for five days before his release was negotiated at a neutral site. Furth notes that George “appeared reluctant” to leave his Bruin captors. Furth, by the way, signs himself as “former Men’s Student Body Vice President”--of UCLA.

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At least this group should be able to cope: About 1,500 fledgling therapists took the Marriage, Family and Child Counseling Examination last winter, only to find out later that all received incorrect test results because of a computer boo-boo.

The state Board of Behavioral Science Examiners says it didn’t flunk anyone who had actually passed. But 200 people were misinformed about what part of the oral exam they had failed.

Thus, any applicants who intended to retake the licensing test at the Westin LAX hotel last weekend spent several nervous months boning up on the wrong part. They were notified of the error a few weeks before the test.

The notice said: “Due to an error, those people told they were not adequate in Referrals should have been told they were inadequate in Legal/Ethical.”

Who’s calling whom inadequate?

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O Come All Ye Felines: “Jingle Cats: Meowy Christmas,” a tape created by Mike Spalla, a sound engineer and grad of the USC School of Music, just arrived in the mail.

Spalla recorded more than 200 meows from the cats in his neighborhood and, according to his publicist, “digitally mastered the voices into this collection of the world’s most beloved Christmas classics . . . the cat’s meow for the holidays.”

We’d love to have seen either Tirebiter at the recording session.

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Cal State Long Beach’s new auditorium, you may have heard, is expected to be named the Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center in recognition of Richard Carpenter’s donation of $1 million. The brother-sister recording team have also left their mark in their hometown of Downey--they named one apartment complex “Close to You” and another “Only Just Begun,” after hit singles of the same names.