Every night could be headphones night

I’ve got time for a few questions. Fire.

Have the A’s abandoned Howard Terminal as a potential ballpark site, after their recent meeting with the Schnitzer Steel people, who explained that the company does its steel pounding at night, so there would be a constant, earsplitting din right next door to a ballpark?

On the contrary, that makes the site more attractive. If you’ve been to a major sporting event in the past 20 years, you know that every home team strives to provide its fans a nonstop assault of annoying, harmfully loud, random sounds. Schnitzer’s steel pounding would be a bonus feature at A’s night games.

I’m teaching my kids to shoot jump shots. After whom should they model their shots?

Nice grammar, by the way. Have ’em watch video of Notre Dame’s Arike Ogunbowale, whose buzzer-beater jumpers dusted UConn and Mississippi State and gave the Irish the national championship.

It’s simple physics. Ogunbowale releases the ball as her body is on its upward path, rather than what 95 percent of shooters do, which is release the ball as their body is falling back to earth. Remember that old rock ’n’ roll song: “I fight gravity, gravity always wins.”

Oh, and if you want your kids to shoot like Ogunbowale, replace their blood with ice water.

What do the Warriors do that irritates the refs?

Here’s one cute trick: In a recent game, Draymond Green was barking about a foul. A timeout was called, Green continued his complaint, and the ball rolled to him. Instead of picking up the ball or stopping it with his foot, Green stepped over it and let it roll, forcing the ref to chase it.

The ball rolled to Joe Lacob in his courtside seat. The owner flipped it to the ref, who shook his head. Refs love to play fetch.

The NFL has replaced its convoluted “catch” rule with a shorter and simpler rule. What did the league do with the old rule?

The NFL shipped its old catch rule to the IRS, where it will be repurposed as a clause in the standard 1040 form.