‘Superman’ hoping to make profit

For sale: One fake phone booth, used only once. Price: Make an offer. Current owner: Motivated seller.

Yes, the phone booth prop that Dwight Howard used during the NBA's All-Star dunk contest is up for sale. And Howard's team, the up-to-the-rim-in-debt Orlando Magic, could use the money.

Howard used the booth to don a Superman cape, to be used, in a losing effort, against Nate Robinson. And now, that booth has to be moved.

Asks David Arnott of SportingNews.com: "What I want to know, though, is a detailed explanation of who owns the phone booth. Who made it? Did Howard make it in his garage, Hugh Jackman style? Or did the NBA and the Magic plan this all along? Did some league executive sign off on the Phone Booth leading in to Krypto-Nate?"

• SOUNDTRACK FOR AIR BALLS -- Basketball and pop music forever are intertwined, so it shouldn't be surprising to learn that Spalding has developed an iHoop basketball standard, complete with a fully integrated 2.1 stereo sound system that is water resistant.

The Spalding Web site touts iHoop as "the ultimate fusion of basketball and music," adding that it "looks as good as it sounds."

The music selections are up to the user, who probably should avoid the Commodores' "Brick House" and Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall."

• NOT BAD FOR A ROOKIE -- Add the name Unni Haskell to the list of hole-in-one tales that make long-searching golfers gnash their teeth.

Haskell, 62, fresh off eight half-hour lessons, teed up her first shot on a course, any course, and aced the 100-yard first hole at Cypress Links, a par-3 course in St. Petersburg, Fla. Her tee shot traveled 75 yards, bounced onto the green and rolled in.

"I didn't know it was that big of a deal," Haskell told the St. Petersburg Times. "I thought all golfers do this."

Her teaching pro, Rick Sopka, was quick to remind her: "Unni, here's the problem: There's nowhere to go from here but down."

• FACING FACTS -- NASCAR driver Jeff Burton was stunned to land a cameo gig on ABC's "General Hospital."

"I'm certainly not a good actor, and I don't have a Hollywood face," Burton told Newsday. "When I go to the beach, whales gather around."

• GETTING MUSHY -- "When Lance Mackey won his third straight Iditarod race from Anchorage to Nome the other day," noted NBC's Len Berman, "he actually said: 'There's no place like Nome.'

"I assume one of his sled dogs is named Toto."

• TOUGH TIMES -- Comedy writer Alex Kaseberg, on The Wall Street Journal expanding its sports coverage: "They had to -- professional athletes are the only ones who still have any money."

• MAGIC SHOW -- Comic Torben Rolfsen, on the featured performers in Las Vegas to commemorate the NHL moving its annual awards show there from Toronto: "Siegfried and Patrick Roy."

• MAD, MAD WORLD -- From Richard Oliver of the San Antonio Express-News, on this year's Final Four site:

"Everyone wants to go to Detroit? Gads, it really is March madness."

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