To stop teams from deliberately losing down the stretch, Houston Rockets head coach Jeff Van Gundy said last week he wants to open the NBA lottery to all teams.

Van Gundy also suggested determining playoff seeding with scratch-and-win tickets.

T-shirts that West Virginia players wore after winning the NIT championship last week accidentally misspelled the school's name "West Virgina." School officials said there's no excuse for such an obvous mstake.

Actor Eddie Griffin crashed a $1.5 million Ferrari race car last week while filming the movie "Redline." It's the most damage Griffin has caused since the hit his career took from "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo."

The owners of Ultimate Fighting Championship agreed last week to buy their biggest rival, Pride Fighting Championships, in hopes of staging "megafights" for pay-per-view. Among the first proposed bouts on the docket: A death match between Vermont and New Hampshire.

Several Toledo football and basketball players were implicated last week in a point-shaving scheme. Federal authorities also are investigating Drew Neitzel for possible involvement in a head-shaving scheme.