Florida racing dogs fail drug tests

Drug-sniffing dogs? No kidding!

A greyhound-racing trainer in St. Petersburg, Fla., had his license revoked after five of his charges tested positive for cocaine.

Track officials suspected something was amiss when his dogs kept stopping to snort up the finish line.

Headlines

■ At SportsPickle.com: “ESPN announces new hockey reporter: a link to NHL.com.”

■ At TheKicker.com: “NBA introduces penalty box for Celtics-Wizards series.”

Sports quiz

King’s College London Dental Institute, citing a survey of 11,000 patients, claims that a profound fear of dentistry:

A) can sabotage a person’s physiological, psychological, social and emotional well-being

B) is the main reason Britain can’t field an Olympic hockey team.

Two thumbs up

Donkey Kong is among four new inductees into the World Video Game Hall of Fame in Rochester, N.Y.

Pundits predict there won’t be a dry eye in the place when Mario and Luigi deliver their induction speech.

Truth be told

April 30, in case you missed it, was National Honesty Day. Notice it didn’t fall on any of the days leading up to the NFL draft.

Talking the talk

■ Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel, after the QB-needy Browns failed to draft one with any of their three first-round picks: “This is like the homeless man who wins the lottery and buys everything but a new home.”

■ Comedy writer Alex Kaseberg, on Ryan Seacrest’s introduction as Kelly Rypa’s new TV co-host: “He ran out in between the gap in Michael Strahan’s front teeth.”

Goooooold!

Orlando City’s star forward Kaka tops Major League Soccer with a $7.2 million salary this season. Which also means every other MLS player gets to rightfully complain he’s not making Kaka.

One more headline

■ At TheKicker.com: “Isaiah Thomas petitions league to just skip to 4th quarter from now on.”

Quote marks

■ Janice Hough of LeftCoastSportsBabe.com, on the $495 asking price for the “ZO2: Prime” Lonzo Ball sneakers: “So does the shoe come with a shirt for your significant other saying, ‘I’m with stupid?’ ”

■ Jim Barach of WCHS-TV in Charleston, W.Va., after a girl was kicked out of a chess tournament in Malaysia because she wore a “seductive” knee-length dress: “If she really wanted to arouse a room full of chess-playing geeks, she would have come in carrying a fully operational light saber.”

■ Eric Kolenich of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, on Lonzo Ball failing to land a big-bucks-endorsement deal with Nike, Under Armour or Adidas because of his daddy’s grandstanding: “The best business move for Lonzo might be to change his name. Or ask his father to.”