Tight end channels superheroes

Martellus Bennett doesn't have one of the NFL's marquee names, but the New York Giants tight end has one of its most colorful personalities.

He also leads the league in lives saved.

A self-described superhero who answers to "Black Unicorn," Bennett broke the fall of a man who fell over a railing trying to grab a glove the player was handing to a child after the Giants' win over the Packers on Sunday night.

"I just did what any superhero would do: saved his life," Bennett said after the game. "I'm like Scott Summers. You know who Scott Summers is? Cyclops of X-Men."

Recounting the incident Monday, Bennett likened himself to another superhero.

"I caught him, and then I was about to set him down gently, kind of like when Lois Lane is caught by Superman and then he kind of takes her down and sets her down so she can land on her feet," he said. "But it didn't happen like that."

While trying to channel Superman, Bennett turned into Clark Kent, tripping over a cameraman and falling, but no one was hurt.

A certified lifeguard, Bennett said he has saved "at least 10 or 12" other lives, including several of his cousins who don't know how to swim and nearly drowned, and a helpless ball boy who was knocked down at a Texas A&M basketball game when the crowd rushed the court.

A true man of steel, Bennett didn't suffer any ill effects from a helmet-to-helmet hit by Packers safety Jerron McMillian that knocked him out of Sunday's game.

Bennett said he aced a concussion test.

"I passed it with flying colors, like I do all tests," he said. "Like Doogie Howser."

We don't want to tell you who to compare yourself to, Black Unicorn, but you should stick with Cyclops and Superman.

■ PROVO PARKER STYLE - With Brigham Young in the running for Chicago's Jabari Parker, the nation's No. 2-rated basketball recruit, Cougars fans have made every effort to lure him to Provo, Utah.

With Parker in attendance for Saturday's win over Cal State Northridge, 6,300 BYU students wore "Chicago to Provo" shirts.

Other students produced a "Gangnam Style" parody video that has gone viral.

The "Jabari Parker Style" video features the lyrics "Might sign with Duke, MSU, and I said 'Oh, no.' There's only one place for you Jabari, that's Provo."

There's no dancing in the video, so the Cougars still have a shot at landing Parker, a Mormon who has narrowed his list of schools to BYU, Duke, Florida, Michigan State and Stanford.

■ NO WINTER RULES - After Justin Verlander tweeted a photograph of himself standing next to his golf ball that landed on top of a tree stump, the Detroit Tigers ace received a ruling from Shooter McGavin that he retweeted to his 289,000 followers.

"Sorry about your lie but you have to play the ball as it lies," wrote McGavin, a "Happy Gilmore" character. "I had to play a ball off Frankensteins fat foot 16 years ago."

Had the ball landed in a bunker, we're sure Shooter would've said, "This guy spends more time in the sand than David Hasselhoff."

COMPILED BY TODD DEWEY
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL