Second thoughts

— Schilling has bloody good idea

His video game company in bankruptcy, former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling is selling the blood-stained sock he wore during the 2004 World Series.

The sports director at Heritage Auctions told The Associated Press that online bidding begins around Feb. 4. Live bidding will take place in New York on Feb. 23.

The sock had been on loan to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. It’s now at Heritage’s headquarters in Dallas and is expected to bring in at least $100,000.

Schilling’s 38 Studios was lured to Rhode Island from Massachusetts with a $75 million loan guarantee, and it later filed for bankruptcy.

Schilling guaranteed loans for the business. The state also is now likely responsible for some $100 million related to the deal.

Three-point record

There is a new queen of high school three-point shooting after a top Kentucky prep prospect made a national record 17 three-pointers during a game Monday night.

The Messenger Inquirer in Owensboro, Ky., reported that Owensboro Catholic High senior Rebecca “Becca” Greenwell hit 17 three-pointers in her team’s 99-35 rout of Whitesville (Ky.) Trinity High. Greenwell hit 17 of 28 shots, all from behind the three-point line, and finished with a game- and career-high 51 points.

MaxPreps’ statistics show she also had 9 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals.

According to Greenwell’s coach, Trinity’s defense set up Greenwell for unprecedented success from the field by giving her plenty of room to shoot, which she took advantage of time and time again.

“They played a 2-3 zone,” Owensboro Catholic Coach Ray Zuberer told MaxPreps. “She was a little bit leery of attacking the basket so we set her on the perimeter. As they began to challenge her, she just kept moving farther and farther back.”

Greenwell isn’t leery of attacking the basket because of a lack of skill. Rather, the senior is still recovering from the second knee injury of her career, which cost her the entire 2011-12 season.

The record for three-pointers in a single game by a female inArkansas is 15, shared by Ashley (Hutchcraft) Nance in 1999 and Shana Cunningham in 2009.

Both played for Guy-Perkins, and Nance is now the head girls basketball coach at Conway.

Pacino as Paterno

Al Pacino will play Joe Paterno in a movie about the late Penn State football coach.

Producer Edward R. Pressman confirms Brian De Palma will direct Happy Valley, the tentative title of the film, based on Joe Posnanski’s best-seller Paterno.

“Happy Valley reunites the Scarface and Carlito’s Way team of De Palma and Pacino for the third time, and I can’t think of a better duo to tell this story of a complex, intensely righteous man who was brought down by his own tragic flaw,” Pressman said in a statement.

No start or release dates were given for the film.

While Pressman said the plot remains “under wraps,” Posnanski’s book followed Paterno’s final years as the winningest coach in college football history who saw his career end in disgrace in 2011 with the sex abuse scandal involving assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.

Quote of the day “I heard a coach say his film isn’t PG, it’s R-rated for violence.” Coach Grant Redhead of South Fort Meyers, Fla., on linebacker D’Ronzjiah Mathews, who has been offered a scholarship by Arkansas

Sports, Pages 20 on 01/18/2013

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