Sports by the numbers: 3/31/11

1,200,000.

Japanese golfer Ryo Ishikawa vowed to donate his entire 2011 earnings to disaster relief for his home country. Ishikawa, who made $1.2 million last year on tour is hoping to make two times that amount this year. “I believe this is the most positive way for me to spend money,” said Ishikawa, who consulted his banker father Katsumi and his sponsors about the relief project. A round of applause for an athlete who genuinely cares.

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The Barry Bonds trial was fairly quiet yesterday–quiet in the sense that nobody talked about his balls shrinking, his bacne, or his oversized head. One witness though had some damning evidence on Bonds. Randy Velarde, a former MLB player claimed that Bonds’ trainer Greg Anderson injected him about 10 times with steroids. His 12-minute testimony, however, never implicated Bonds himself as Velarde never had any contact with him about illegal substances.

80,000

How much was former LSU player Patrick Peterson worth on the scandalous black market that is football recruiting? Well, according to Willie Lyles, a Texas-based football trainer, $80,000. Lyles is being investigated for violations after receiving $25,000 from the University of Oregon. “A few days after the kid’s visit, Will calls and says, ‘If you want this kid, there are other schools that want this kid as well. They’re willing to pay a certain amount of money, around the $80,000 mark,’” Malone said. “He said that was something we were going to have to beat as a university to be able to obtain the services of this kid.” Good thing the boys in Baton Rouge are willing to pony up.

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Late last night, Giants starting pitcher Barry Zito was involved in a two car accident in West Hollywood. Thankfully, it appears he was unhurt, although, he was taken to Cedar Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles as a precaution. Zito, who has a home near the area isn’t due to pitch til Sunday, so if there are any lingering problems, they should be cleared up by then.

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