Turned Out to Be a Baaaaaaad Ideeeeeeaaa

Andres Cantor is the soccer announcer known for yelling, “Gooooooooaaalll!”

Now the host of Telemundo’s new NBA studio show, he is looking for another signature word or phrase.

Fans are invited to sign on the NBA.com/espanol and offer advice.

Early suggestions include: “Slllaaammm Duuunnnkkk,” “It’s Goooooooooood” and “Sweeeeeeeshhh.”

Sometimes fan participation isn’t such a good idea.

Trivia time: Carson Palmer broke the USC record for passing yards with 448 in a 44-33 victory over Oregon this season. Who held the previous record?

Family man: Brendan Shanahan of the Detroit Red Wings likes being a new father of twins.

“With this team, it feels natural,” he told Mitch Albom of the Detroit Free Press. “You come to practice on the weekends and see the players with their kids out on the ice, all these Stanley Cup champions teaching 6- and 7-year olds how to skate.

“I’m now one of the guys.”

Call him “Anna”: The marketing agent for New York Giant rookie tight end Jeremy Shockey recently compared his client to Anna Kournikova. The New York Daily News responded with a back-page layout featuring photos of both.

Giant Coach Jim Fassel says he is now calling Shockey “Anna.”

Money-grubber: Annika Sorenstam would have finished eighth on the PGA Tour money list with $2,863,904. Not bad considering the total purse on the LPGA Tour was $43.5 million -- compared to just under $200 million on the PGA Tour.

Name game: Humor correspondent Wanda Sykes of HBO’s “Inside the NFL” made this point on Thursday night’s show:

“I’m thankful that a lot of corporations got busted by the feds so they can stop naming stuff. You won’t be hearing Martha Stewart Stadium anytime soon.”

Trivia answer: Mike Van Raaphorst passed for 415 yards against Stanford in 1999. USC lost that game, 35-31.

Raptor rap: Vince Carter appeared on stage in Toronto recently during a concert by the rapper Nelly -- on the same night his team, the Raptors, were getting soundly beaten, 117-92, by the Atlanta Hawks in Atlanta.

Carter, who played Wednesday for the first time since Nov. 2 because of a strained quadriceps, angered more than a few Raptor fans who thought he should have been home watching the game.

“Who cares?” Carter said in Newsday. “It was a concert; I went there to enjoy it just like anybody else. I’m a grown man. They [his critics] don’t pay my bills, they don’t make decisions for me.”

Add Carter: Coming to Carter’s defense was Raptor General Manager Glen Grunwald, who said, “Maybe he had the game on and turned it off, which is something I might have been tempted to do. I wish I had been at the concert [instead of the game].”

And finally: Carter’s response is reminiscent of the classic Benoit Benjamin line when he played for the Clippers: “I don’t give a

It was one of the late Jim Healy’s favorites.

-- Larry Stewart