Timberlake bowled over

Wardrobe malfunction? Turns out Justin Timberlake experienced one of those with Peyton Manning, too.

The scene: a charity bowling event put on by Indiana Pacers star Reggie Miller, just after Manning signed with the Colts.

"I walked up to shake his hand and said, 'Hey, man, really honored to meet you,' " Timberlake told Sports Illustrated. "I told him the whole story of how my cousin went to Tennessee and I watched him play and congratulated him on the Colts and blah, blah, blah.

"And he looks up at me and says, 'That's great, man. Tell you what. Can you give me an 111/2?'

"I was like, 'Uh, what?'

"He says, 'The shoes. I don't have any shoes. Can you give me 111/2?'

"And I was like, 'Uh, OK.'

"So he thinks I work at this ... bowling alley. I didn't even say anything to him. I thought it was so funny that I just went and got him his shoes and brought them back.

"I said, 'Here you go,' and I walked off."

• HE'S NOT MISSED -- So, now, the truth comes out about the Allen Iverson era in Denver.

Nuggets coach George Karl recently told The Denver Post that since the trade that sent Iverson to Detroit in exchange for Chauncey Billups, "There are less bad plays, more solid plays (now). I think the wasteful, cheap possessions that we used to have, 10 to 15 a game, they don't exist much anymore.

"Sometimes I saw something, but I couldn't get it done on the court because I didn't have a playmaker out there."

• DOC FORGOTTEN -- During a timeout in a game last week against the Detroit Pistons, the Boston Celtics entertained fans with a contest on the scoreboard in which a couple of players tried to name all of Snow White's Seven Dwarfs.

Ray Allen got five right. Eddie House had three. A fan from the crowd got six.

Which did they all forget?

Doc.

So, how did Celtics coach Glenn "Doc" Rivers feel about that?

"I think we're going to practice on Monday, now," he said. "Honestly, I don't think I could name all seven, either."

• REBUILDING YEAR -- Minnesota Timberwolves coach Randy Wittman said he hadn't lost any sleep over his team's 2-9 start, but he told the St. Paul Pioneer Press that the decor of his bedroom has changed.

"I sleep in a padded bedroom now," Wittman said.

• IN A REARS -- New York Jets wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery, to ESPN.com, on quarterback Brett Favre's reputation as a butt-slapper: "You have to watch out for him because you may be stretching out or something, and he just comes out of nowhere."

• ALMOST RIGHT -- Gary Loewen of the Toronto Sun, offering a fitting excuse for spelling England soccer coach Fabio Capello's name "Capelli" in a previous column: "In typing the 'o' I went wide left."

• PUNCH LINE -- Pete McEntegart of SI.com, offering 46-year-old Evander Holyfield a clue he might be too old to be making a boxing comeback: "A hard punch knocks out both your mouthpiece and dentures."

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