Someone missed a grand opportunity to meet Tony Kornheiser on Sunday.
Kornheiser and Mike Wilbon, the Washington Post columnists and my boys from "Pardon the Interruption," are doing their gossipy sports show from the Dome this afternoon. That's become the norm to accommodate T.K.'s "Monday Night Football" responsibilities that tonight involve an important game the Vikings had better not lose to the Bears.
"C.J., Kornheiser," said a voicemail left Saturday. "I'm at [a local hotel]. I'm at your disposal on Sunday. Whatever you need, you let me know. Give me a call and whatever you want, I'm happy to do it unless it's bizarre, utterly bizarre, like doing the DNA test for Larry Fitzgerald. Wouldn't know how to do that. Bye."
He was responding to my voicemail greeting that was a wise crack about the embarrassing DNA situation Larry Fitzgerald Jr. finds himself in as a result of a paternity lawsuit. All last week I recorded "PTI" hoping to get the Kornheiser-Wilbon take on the lawsuit filed by former Raiders cheerleader Angela Nazario about the baby she's expecting Jan. 8.
Maybe I missed it, but I don't think my boys said nary a word. I wondered if they shared the attitude of my Strib colleague Patrick Reusse who yelled this across the newsroom: "C.J., LEAVE LARRY FITZGERALD JR. ALONE! He's a virile young man with numerous options." Ahh, that's no excuse for Jr., who loves the image of being a responsible young man, not to slap on a condom.
My hunch is that Wilbon thinks it would be more friendly to weigh in on this matter after paternity is determined, as Mike is a close friend of Larry Fitzgerald Sr., the Spokesman-Recorder sports editor and managing partner of radio's (take a breath here) National Programming Network. Sr. is father of Jr., a wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals and a former preps star at Holy Angels.
Although Stat Boy, as they call Tony Reali on "PTI," did not fly in, I'm still going to play a round of the game "PTI" producers call "Odds Maker."
I predict that there's a 99.9 percent chance that Jr. is the father of that baby.
No, I wasn't in the room at time of the alleged conception. However, if that friend of Nazario's who called me was telling the truth, he's the daddy. That friend of Nazario's had a few gossipy tidbits that my boys on "PTI" may have some fun with under the right circumstances.
C.J. is at 612.332.TIPS or cj@startribune.com. E-mailers, please state a subject -- "Hello" doesn't count. Attachments are not opened, so don't even try. More of her attitude can be seen on FOX9 Thursday mornings.
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