Only People Who Appreciate This Record Live in Iberia, Mo.

Davis High School in Houston set a national record Thursday night in its usual unimpressive fashion.

The school suffered its 73rd consecutive football defeat, a 41-0 loss to Worthing High. The Panthers finished the season 0-10 and broke the record of 72 consecutive defeats set between 1965 and 1974 by Iberia, Mo.

During its dismal streak, Davis has been outscored, 2,916-354. Davis last won against Houston Austin on Oct. 11, 1985.

Add Davis: The school has been shut out 37 times during the streak, the most lopsided defeat a 77-0 loss to Houston Yates in 1988.

Trivia time: Name the only NCAA Division I school that went undefeated in football and basketball during the regular season in the same year?

Parting shot: Forward Tom Tolbert was cut by the Golden State Warriors, but he didn’t harbor any bad feelings toward the team or Coach Don Nelson.

“Anyway, I’d rather have it go down like this than get cut because of not being in shape,” Tolbert told the San Francisco Chronicle. “Also, I’d rather have (Nelson) lower the boom on one night rather (than) have little chunks taken out of me for 82 nights.”

As for Warrior fans, who booed him often last season, Tolbert said: “Now that I’m leaving here I can tell those fans to kiss my . . . . “

Public enemy: Dan Raley, of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, was booed by fans as he walked to the dressing room after Washington’s game with Stanford on Oct. 31--and was given the cold shoulder by some Husky players.

His crime? He voted for Miami as the No. 1 football team in the country that week. However, he switched his vote back to Washington after the Stanford game.

Raley said he isn’t trying to curry favor with the Huskies.

“I’m going to do what I damn well please,” he said. “Other than making the tactical mistake of talking about it on ESPN and showing everybody in (Seattle) what I look like.”

Get rid of them: John Feinstein, a contributing editor of Tennis magazine, said he has had enough of Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe.

“I truly wish both Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe would hang it up,” he writes. “Piece together one last musical tribute to the old boys and bundle them off . . . then, let’s turn our attention to the guys playing the best tennis.”

Wake-up call: Johnny Majors is a respected coach at the University of Tennessee but, like others in his profession, he knows that he has to win to appease fans and alumni.

In 1988, when Tennessee lost its first six games, he was under fire and Majors jokes were rampant, writes Leonard Shapiro of the Washington Post.

Early one morning, Majors’ wife, Mary Lynn, turned over and shook him awake. “It’s 20 to seven,” she said. Majors reportedly jumped from under the covers and said, “You mean it’s not halftime yet.”

Trivia answer: Rutgers, which finished the 1975-76 basketball season undefeated, then won all 11 of its regular-season football games the next fall.

Quotebook: From “Caught on the Fly” column in the Sporting News: “OK, here’s how bad the (New York) Islanders are. They’ve got Czechs defecting to get away from them.”