It might have been legendary producer Norman Lear who said that the key to a good TV comedy was putting your lead actor in the most uncomfortable places possible.
If that's the case, NBCSN could have a hit on its hands.
Numbers running
Though this isn't sports, it is information those who read these pages might find useful.
Whitney Houston's room number, 434, hasn't come out in the Pennsylvania Daily Number since March 28, 2010. The last time it was drawn in New Jersey was on Nov. 23. If it does come out, anyone who hits it ought to send a few dollars to Houston's arts school in East Orange, N.J., as a gesture.
Saul in his sights
With 279 in his career, Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin is just 55 points shy of becoming the all-time leading NBA scorer among Harvard products. Here's a look at each Ivy League school and their NBA/ABA points leaders:
School Leader (final season) Pts.
Brown Woody Grimshaw (1946) 61
Columbia Jim McMillian (1979) 8,736
Cornell Ed Peterson (1951) 804
Dartmouth Rudy LaRusso (1969) 11,507
Harvard Saul Mariaschin (1948) 333
Penn Corky Calhoun (1980 2,896
Princeton Geoff Petrie (1976) 9,732
Yale Chris Dudley (2003) 3,473
Notes: Penn (11) has produced the most players. Brown and Cornell (two each) the fewest . . . Princeton's Bill Bradley, widely considered the greatest Ivy League player of all-time, had 9,217 from 1968-77. All with, ironically enough, the Knicks.
