Two fans wore yellow and green Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles outfits to Yankee Stadium to answer comedian John Oliver's call to dress like "riff-raff."
Joe Spillo and John Welch of suburban Yorktown Heights sat in the second row of the Legends Suites luxury seats behind home plate Tuesday after winning the tickets for 25 cents each from HBO's "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver."
Claiming the Yankees are elitist, Oliver is selling the premium seats (normally priced at $1,000) to this week's opening three-game series for a quarter to fans who promise to dress like they don't belong there.
The Yankees announced in February that fans no longer could print tickets at home, and chief operating officer Lonn Trost later explained on radio station WFAN in that someone buying a discounted ticket from a resale service "may be someone who has never sat in a premium location, so that's a frustration to our existing fan base."
Science guy
One reason Phil Mickelson likes to play practice rounds with Dustin Johnson seems to be comic relief.
Mickelson told two great tales from Tuesday's practice round at the Masters. The two played with Keegan Bradley and Bryson DeChambeau, who won the 2015 U.S. Amateur at Olympia Fields. DeChambeau is a physics major at SMU who will turn pro next week.
"The funniest line of the day came from Dustin," Phil said. "Bryson and I were talking about some of the science of an uphill putt and a downhill putt and the break and why it's most from this point and that point and so forth. He was using some pretty scientific terms. Dustin kind of shook his head and said, 'If I hang around you guys much longer, I'll never break 100.' "
Better late than ...
Swimmer Janet Evans, diver Greg Louganis and hurdler Edwin Moses are landing on the cover of a Wheaties box decades after their Olympic-champion careers ended.
General Mills says they will be honored on cereal boxes as part of the Wheaties Legends series. The boxes will be on stores shelves in the U.S. in May.
Evans won four gold medals in distance swimming at the 1988 and 1992 Olympics; Louganis swept the 3-meter and 10-platform diving events in the 1984 and 1988 Games; and Moses won two golds and set a world record in the 400-meter hurdles at the 1976 Montreal Games.
Evans is a vice chair for the group trying to bring the 2024 Olympics to Los Angeles; Louganis is a mentor for the U.S. Olympic diving team and an LGBT rights activist; and Moses is a sports administrator.
Bad schedule
The Yankees-Astros opening game on Monday was postponed because of weather.
"What a shame," wrote Janice Hough of leftcoastsportsbabe.com. "Too bad neither of these teams plays in a warm weather area. Oops, never mind."
Sports quiz
Who was the first athlete to be dipicted on a Wheaties box?
Sports answer
Lou Gehrig in 1934
Sports on 04/06/2016