With this incarnation of the Jazz poised to infuriate Jerry Sloan by becoming the first Utah team in the last 15 years to allow more than 100 points per game for the season, what can be done to fix the defense?

a) See if the Suns are still interested in that Andrei Kirilenko-for-Shawn Marion swap. While AK is great with weak-side help, Marion would be the on-the-ball shut-down defender they so desperately need.

b) Fire Sloan, replace him with Paul Westphal. Abandon any pretense of playing defense and adopt a you-may-score-110-but-we'll-score-120 style, a la Phoenix and Golden State.

c) Have the EnergySolutions Arena crew raise the opponent's basket by six inches before the game and again during halftime and hope no one notices.

d) Coax Shawn Bradley out of retirement for a lemons-into-lemonade scenario: He won't actually stop anyone, but they can boost revenue by selling all those posters of him getting dunked on.

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Last week

When Nevada backed out of its contract to play BYU in Provo in 2008, Cougars coach Bronco Mendenhall said he wanted to "schedule down," as Hawaii did in scheduling two Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA) opponents to reach the BCS (ignore how the Rainbow, er, Warriors were obliterated by Georgia and hadn't faced a good team all year). If you were BYU, what patsies would you put on the schedule?

a) The Bakery on 300 East. Why settle for just one creampuff when you can get a dozen? 28.6%

b) Hawaii. After the schedule it played, no one sees any difference between the Rainbow Warriors and the creampuffs. 36.1%

c) Timpview University, er, High School. Hey, it'll put butts in the seats, help recruiting (until an NCAA crackdown), and aren't the Thunderbirds just like a university (see Judge Memorial, Juan Diego)? 16.7%

d) Judge Memorial or Juan Diego. See above. 7.5%

e) Former Cougar All-Stars. Just think, Ty Detmer, no, no, Gary Sheide, yeah, and Golden Richards and Pete the Fleet could all come back. Doug Scovill could be the OC to show the present-day Cougars the true spirit of beating up on creampuffs. BYU fans would take the All-Star game about as serious as an FCS team. 11.0%

No Seinfeld for you!

What's the deal with that?

Eli Manning enjoys ''Seinfeld'' reruns.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. Many NFL players have far worse vices.

But Jay Zollar, general manager of WLUK, a Fox affiliate in Green Bay, last week made it clear that he, not the Giants' quarterback, is the master of that domain.

On a video on the station's Web site, Zollar points at the camera and says, ''Eli, no 'Seinfeld' for you!''

Yup, the station pulled its regularly scheduled 5:30 p.m. CST Saturday ''Seinfeld'' rerun in an attempt to disrupt Manning's preparation for today's NFC Championship Game against the Packers.

(Manning was set to be free at that hour; the first thing on his schedule was a team dinner at 6.)

''We don't want to give any comfort to the enemy whatsoever when they come into town,'' Zollar says. ''We know laughter is good medicine, and we decided we're not going to give that to him.''

- Newsday

Fanatic Packers fan

Not using his cheesehead

Upset that his 7-year-old son wouldn't wear a Green Bay Packers jersey during the team's playoff victory against Seattle on Jan. 12, a man restrained the boy for an hour with tape and taped the jersey onto him.

Mathew Kowald was cited for disorderly conduct in connection with the incident with his son at their home in Pardeeville, Wis., Lt. Wayne Smith of the Columbia County Sheriff's Department said. Pardeeville is about 30 miles north of Madison.

The 36-year-old Kowald was arrested last Monday after his wife told authorities about the incident. Kowald was taken to the county jail and held until Wednesday, when he pleaded no contest, paid a fine of $186 and was released.

Kowald's wife filed a restraining order Wednesday, so Kowald will not be able to have contact with his family, Smith said. Smith said other domestic issues have surfaced, though he wouldn't elaborate.

Kowald, contacted later Wednesday by the Portage Daily Register, said the incident started as a joke. His son challenged him by saying he wouldn't root for the Packers. When he tied the boy up, the youngster was laughing while his wife took pictures, he said.

''Then he couldn't get out and he got upset and that's it. It lasted a minute,'' Kowald said. ''I didn't mean no harm, and he knows that, but I haven't been able to tell him that.''

- The Associated Press