So what was Jim Schwartz up to? Cooking up some kind of deal?
NFL.com's Vic Carucci blogs that they were on the same flight to Indianapolis for the NFL combine Wednesday, but Schwartz declined to share a cab to the hotel.
Carucci says "Schwartz volunteered that he was well aware that 'we could have shared a cab, but I had a couple of phone calls to return, and they were the kind of calls I couldn't have in front of someone from the media.'
"I told him I understood. For the record, I did shower this morning."
Chauncey: Sad farewell
He shared more than a few tears with friend Rip Hamilton when the Pistons dealt him to Denver in 2008, but Chauncey Billups says breaking the news to his family about being traded from his hometown was even harder to deal with.
"That right there was the hardest thing I've ever had to do in my life," Billups told the Denver Post. "That right there was the toughest thing for me -- the family aspect of it. Basketball is basketball, I've been doing that all my life, that won't change, wherever I'm at.
"But it's the family aspect that people don't understand. I got to go home and face my three daughters, I have to face my wife, and tell them that daddy's leaving. And daddy doesn't have a choice. ... And that I have to go in 24 hours."
Including Billups in the Carmelo Anthony trade to the Knicks is something the Nuggets said they dreaded doing, and team executives even issued public apologies for it.
"I heard about it," Billups said. "That's cool. That's a nice gesture. My family appreciates that. At the same time, I'm in New York City -- and my family and kids are in Denver ..."
Law of probability
Revenge of the nerds, some were calling it. Division III Caltech -- known more for Nobel Prize winners -- broke a 310-game conference losing streak in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference with a 46-45 win Tuesday over Occidental College.
How does it feel, Coach?
"Superb elation, overwhelming emotion, pride," Oliver Eslinger said Wednesday.
The hero was senior Ryan Elmquist, who hit a free throw with three seconds left and had a game-high 23 points, nine rebounds and four blocked shots in his final college game.
Bottom line
• Former Tigers star Charles Barkley, quoted by ESPN.com on the Alabama fan accused of poisoning those hallowed oaks at Auburn's Toomer's Corner: "We're from Alabama -- you can't make this (stuff) up. Some things just happen there, and people want to know why we rank 48th in education?"
Compiled from staff reports and news services by STEVE SCHRADER, who can be reached at 313-222-6710 or sschrader@freepress.com .
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