• ODENIZED gets a rise out of Charles Barkley, who tells his TNT audience that Orlando Magic coach Stan Van Gundy looks a lot like Ron Jeremy.

• WALKOFF WALK sings the praises of the Pirates’ Jason Bay - to the high-pitched tune of a Beatles classic.

• THE WIZARD OF ODDS is sole-d on Chris Leak’s BCS Championship shoes up for bids on eBay, with a buy-it-now price of only $10,000.

• DEADSPIN is bedeviled that the Rays are in first in the AL East.

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The ORLANDO SENTINEL is downright giddy about the suddenly buoyant fortunes of the Magic. So Brian Schmitz reported, probably with a chuckle, that the club was kicked out of Philadelphia’s Wachovia Center for its morning shootaround yesterday - before Orlando took on the Sixers later that evening.

(Joey and the “Wingettes“)

Schmitz: “They were unable to hold their usual morning shoot-around at Wachovia Center because of ‘The Wing Bowl,’ the annual chicken wing-eating contest scheduled for the Friday before the Super Bowl. Doors opened at 6 a.m. and the eating began at 7:55 a.m.

“‘We didn’t get in on the wing thing,’ laughed Magic Coach Stan Van Gundy.”
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