Times staff
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Number of the day
$3.5M Base salary for Auburn football coach Gene Chizik after getting a $1.4 million raise for winning the national championship. That puts Chizik, left, eighth among I-A coaches but only second in his own state. Alabama's Nick Saban makes $5.2 million.
Fake headline of the day
Tampa Bay Rays Reunite Living Members Of 2008 AL Championship Team
— The Onion
Cameos of the day
Yankees sluggers Mark Teixeira, top, and Alex Rodriguez filmed cameos on Wednesday for the HBO show Entourage, according to the New York Post. Both players will play themselves in a story line that has them as possible investors in a fictional Italian restaurant in Queens. The new (and final) season of Entourage debuts July 24.