Elevator keeps Bosh close to home

You know what they say about the Toronto Raptors' Chris Bosh: You can't stop him, but you can keep him contained in an elevator in his Toronto condo for nearly an hour.

Bosh had 30 points and 10 rebounds Friday night in the Raptors' 93-88 victory over the Atlanta Hawks, but earlier in the day Bosh spent 50 minutes stuck inside an elevator in his condo just after he got on at the 28th floor.

"I sat and reflected on life and just chilled," Bosh told The Associated Press, adding that he tried to force the door open, but failed.

"I tried my superhuman strength, but it wasn't opening," he said.

• CHEW ON THIS -- Holiday eating advice by the Washington Redskins' team nutritionist did not have a 100 percent completion rate.

The nutritionist recommended avoiding butter- and cream-drenched mashed potatoes and fried anything. Offensive lineman Randy Thomas, who stands 6 feet 5 inches and weighs 317 pounds, wasn't buying into the program.

"Look, I don't live by that," he said. "I live to be happy. I eat fried chicken. You're going to tell me that's living dangerously?"

• WHERE'S MY RIDE? -- Willie Anderson was prepared to spend his entire NFL career with the Cincinnati Bengals, then ride off into the sunset on an all-terrain vehicle, just like the one the Bengals gave 13-year center Rich Braham for his retirement in 2006.

Instead, the Bengals told Anderson during the offseason to take a pay cut to remain with the team as a backup. After 12 years of good service to the Bengals, Anderson chose instead to sign with the Baltimore Ravens, who defeated the Bengals 34-3 on Sunday.

"We all know there is no love in the game, but you think that they like me and I do the right things, I say the right things and I play well when I do play," Anderson said during a conference call last week.

"I was like, 'They're going to allow me to retire here and maybe get my Richie Braham tractor. I was looking forward to that. I was like, 'Man, Richie got a tractor.' "

• BIG CROWD COUNTRY -- A record crowd of 25,629 showed up to watch this year's Montana-Montana State football game -- or about 2.7 percent of the state's well-scattered population.

"When Montanans get that many people packed into a relatively small area," noted Pat Ryan of Butte's Montana Standard, "it's usually known as 'The Opening Day of Hunting Season.' "

• HAIR RAISING -- Eric Hahn of Omaha, Neb., set a world record for Mohawks when his reached 27 inches above his scalp.

To which the Omaha World-Herald's Brad Dickson wrote: "The way my year's going, I'll find out my season ticket for Creighton basketball is directly behind this guy."

• PUMPED UP -- Former Aussie sprinter Melinda Gainsford-Taylor, to The Age of Melbourne, after 265 competitors broke the world record for running a race in stilettos: "All the girls were pumped."

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