If People Don’t Know Them, It’s Their Own Double Fault

Murphy and Luke Jensen, doubles partners and brothers, have been gaining attention as a refreshing antidote to professional tennis’ often stuffy atmosphere. The Jensens’ long hair and mismatched, baggy tennis clothes have, thus far, made them more famous than their tennis playing.

Happily, the brothers seem to have a healthy understanding that fame in tennis may not translate to fame in the real world. To wit--Murphy Jensen recently played guitar with his band at a tennis charity event. The name of the band: We Haven’t Heard of You Either.

Trivia time: Who is the career leader among active pitchers in strikeouts?

Score them errors: It wasn’t exactly a heads-up week for the Angel public relations department.

After Tuesday’s game, Manager Marcel Lachemann said pitcher Mark Langston was hampered by a tight calf. The postgame quote sheet said Langston had “a tight cap.”

On Thursday the team issued a news release stating that reliever Mike James was placed on the disabled list because of a “strained right neck.” His left neck, apparently, was OK.

Gut check: Athletes with knee injuries take note: Researchers at Purdue University report they have developed a surgical technique that removes portions of a pig’s intestines and uses them to replace damaged ligaments and tendons in humans.

Who knew?Guy Winters, fishing lure manufacturer and expert on crappies, revealing the little publicized life-on-the-edge of his favorite fish:

“We crappie fishermen are our own worst enemies. We catch them in the spring when they are trying to reproduce. We take males off the nests that they are guarding. People don’t realize how serious that is. If you keep a male crappie out of the water for just 30 seconds or move him as much as six feet from his nest, he gets disoriented. He may never find his way back. And if he’s out longer than 30 seconds, it’s too late, anyway. The minnows, perch and crawdads move in and eat everything on the nest. You’ve just killed 10,000 fish.”

Never on Sunday: For millions of Americans, golf is a religion. To John Boyle, that’s precisely the problem.

Boyle, a former professional golfer, filed suit in federal court to force the Jerome Country Club in Boise, Ida., to change its tournament schedule so that he would not have to play on Sunday. Boyle, who is a Mormon, said his religious beliefs forbid him from playing golf on Sundays. He asked the court to allow him to play on Friday and Saturday, instead of Saturday and Sunday or to play 36 holes on the same day.

Boyle’s legal argument failed to make the cut. A U.S. Magistrate ruled that Boyle’s inability to play in the tournament as scheduled is a self-imposed handicap.

Trivia answer: Oakland’s Dennis Eckersley, with 2,248.

Quotebook: Coach George Karl of the Seattle SuperSonics, on whether the pressure on him now is worse than at any time in his career: “That’s hard to judge. It’s kind of like when you’re in hell. What’s the difference if you’re in the north part of hell or the south part of hell?”