Guess how much the dugout urinal sold for!

An online auction of Tiger Stadium memorabilia raised about $192,729, not including seats from the former home of the Detroit Tigers that are being sold separately at a fixed price.

The most expensive bid in the auction, which ended Saturday, was $4,025 for a piece of a fence around a light tower hit by Reggie Jackson's home run in the 1971 All-Star game.

The fence piece came with a photo of the stadium and a Jackson baseball card.

Other top-selling items included $2,000 for Al Kaline's locker, $3,800 for a 1968 World Series banner and $900 for the home dugout urinal.

Thousands of seats from the stadium are being sold separately. As of Saturday afternoon, about 6,000 pairs had sold, bringing in $1.7 million.

The city plans to use proceeds from the auction and seat sales to defray the costs of demolition.

Wake up the echoes

The body of George Gipp, the Notre Dame football legend, was exhumed this month in Traverse City, Mich., for DNA testing at the request of some members of his family.

Nothing unusual here, the Houghton County medical examiner's office reported, aside from indications The Gipper has been spinning in his grave a lot this season.

Boys off the bus

Anthony Porter, a middle-school football coach in Jackson, Mich., has been fired because he stopped the team bus in a fit of pique and made his players get out and do calisthenics alongside the road.

As for a possible appeal, the ex-coach no doubt plans to exercise all his options.

The verdict is in

A jury decided Madison Square Garden and its chairman must pay $11.6 million in damages to a former New York Knicks executive over her sexual harassment lawsuit. As further punishment, Isiah Thomas will keep running the Knicks.

Horse humor

Heard the one about the horse racing bettor whose wife found a piece of paper in his pants pocket with the name Laura Lou on it?

"Laura Lou was one of the horses I bet on," the horse player said, and his wife accepted his explanation.

But three days later she smacked her husband upside the head, and he said, "What was that for?"

She replied, "Your horse called."

Wire reports