Disposable income, disposable underwear

They don't spend it like Beckham, either.

British soccer star David Beckham buys 30 pairs of Calvin Klein designer underwear every two weeks, the Sunday Mirror of London reported, because he wears two pairs a day and throws them away.

The bad news is that his estimated monthly undies outlay was about $1,750, with the accent on was.

Word of his shorts-shrift habit has reportedly earned him a $2 million endorsement deal with Calvin Klein.

Look who's back

History repeated itself at Idaho on Wednesday when Dennis Erickson was hired for his second tenure as Vandals football coach.

Erickson's first week in Moscow figures to be busy, what with meeting Vandals players, assuring incoming recruits, watching game film and denying persistent reports he's leaving to coach at Miami, Washington State, Wyoming or Oregon State.

TGIM

The Web site superbowlmonday.com is campaigning to make the day after the Super Bowl a national holiday, even offering up name suggestions such as "Super Monday," "National Recovery Day" and "Lombardi Day."

" 'Lombardi Day' has a nice ring to it," wrote Jeff Gordon of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "That beats, 'Way Too Much French Onion Dip Day.' "

Crunchy time

Forget Disney World. With the Super Bowl over, Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel says he's headed to football detox.

"You know you've been watching too much football on TV," Bianchi wrote, "when you're at Publix and you see a lady pick up a jar of Jif peanut butter, put it back on the shelf, and you say in your best John Madden voice, 'Al, she saw something she didn't like.' "

Talking the talk

• Lynn Swann, Hall of Fame receiver and Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate, when asked by a radio interviewer about who hit him the hardest during his NFL days: "The IRS — during my rookie year."

• Jennifer Floyd Engel of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: "Am I the only person who does not think John Madden is a Hall of Famer? What, is he in the video-game wing?"

• Cory Wolfe of the Saskatoon StarPhoenix, on the challenges of covering the Winter Olympics in Turin: "Until a few weeks ago I knew no more than five Italian words, and one of them was Bertuzzi."

• Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times, on the keys to a successful U.S. showing in the Winter Olympics: "Bode Miller can ski crooked, snowboarders can stay straight and NBC can stay interested."

Paging Dr. Karolyi

If former gymnasts Nadia Comaneci and Bart Conner — expecting their first child in July — get stumped for baby names, what could be more perfect than Ten?

Dwight Perry: 206-464-8250 or dperry@seattletimes.com