*A Berry Picker phoned in a Steve Groene sighting this morning, at 9:30 -- exiting Duncan's Donuts on Fourth. Said she: "He deserves a doughnut after the ordeals he's gone through in the last few weeks."

*I have a candidate for the most inappropriate use of a cell phone possible. I'm in the men's restroom at the WSU/California game, almost shoulder to shoulder with other fans taking care of business at one of those trough setups, when I notice the guy to my right is talking on a cell phone. At that point, I was tempted to tell him: Hang up and pee. But he wasn't finished and I didn't know how he might react.

*SR colleague Taryn Brodwater tells Huckleberries that a Sanders Beach homeowner awoke one morning last week to find a message 3 feet high spray-painted on his seawall. The only word of the three-word graffiti that can be used here is "... Greedy ..."

*Family Phil also sent along a link that shows that one bidder is willing to pay $71 for two tickets to the Boise State-UI game this weekend in Moscow in an eBay auction that's been going on for more than a day here.

*Don't look now, but a coupla ESPNers are predicting UIdaho -- Idaho! -- to play in the MPC Computers Bowl game this postseason against Miami or North Carolina State, according to this story passed along by Family Phil, here.

*Gotta call and an e-mail from readers today, noting that Libby is in Montana rather than Idaho. Of course. As you can see in the last sentence of the first item here, I refer to a woman's "Own Private Idaho Grease Spot." "Own Private Idaho" refers to the movie in which River Phoenix's male prostitute character searches for a place to belong and often entered a dream world to escape. As this woman who hates Libby must do. Sometimes, I fear, I get to obscure with my three-dot column.

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