The Missouri Tigers are gearing up to face the Memphis Tigers in the NCAA Tournament. That is confusing enough for some people.

Now comes word that the Harrisburg (S.D.) School District has been using a logo eerily similar to Mizzou’s trademark for its sports teams. Imagine how disorienting this could be for fervent University of Missouri fans living in rural South Dakota.

Fortunately, Collegiate Licensing Co., on behalf of the university, contacted the school and alerted officials there to this glaring infringement. Harrisburg is now phasing in a new Tigers logo.

“It’s just a small school in South Dakota,” student Jessa Knust told the Sioux Falls Argus Leader. “I don’t know why they care so much.”

Listen, kid, Missouri’s football and basketball teams are winning at the same time, which is unheard of. Mizzou Nation is rolling now. Don’t crowd us.

MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE

Questions to ponder while waiting for Marquette coach Buzz Williams to calm down:

• After his team got all those free throws Sunday, how could Williams possibly become so outraged at the officiating?
• Jeff Suppan is one of the best guys ever, but is it a good sign for Milwaukee that he will be the Brewers’ Opening Day starter? Any chance the Brewers will C.C. Sabathia and Ben Sheets?
• Does anybody in our country really care that Japan won the World Baseball Classic? How many fans really locked in on his event in the midst of March Madness?
• Who could have possibly guessed that a Cardinal – Troy Glaus this time – would suffer a setback while rehabbing an injury?

UNLUCKY ATHLETE OF WEEK

Dallas Stars center Brad Richards missed 15 games with a broken wrist, finally made it back to action . . . and promptly broke the other hand. Nice.

WHERE IS T.O.?

The Buffalo Bills were eager to meet their new teammate. “I welcome him with open arms,” Bills receiver James Hardy told reporters. “I’m going to try to soak up as much information as I possibly can and try to put it into my game. I know overall, at the end of the road, it’s going to be a great experience for me.”

Unfortunately, Terrell Owens didn’t show up to the start of voluntary off-season workouts in Buffalo. So the Bills will have to wait.

Meanwhile, some Dallas Cowboys fans seem OK with his exit.

Sportswriters and fans aren’t the only ones picking on T.O. these days. Some of his peers have weighed in, too. Here is receiver Donald Driver, chatting it up with Packers fans:

So when T.O. looking for some frozen tundra to play on, it was a good thing he picked Buffalo over Green Bay. He may not have seen a welcome mat in Wisconsin.

PEYTON MANNING, COUNTRY MUSIC STAR

Here is the formerly shy Colts quarterback performing with Kenny Chesney in Key West, Fla.

Cocktails anyone?

Looks like somebody really had fun on spring break.

ANOTHER LIGHT BALLPARK SNACK

Waits for you in Michigan. Yum!

UNLIKELY USE OF DIVINE INTERVENTION

Yahoo! Sports brought us this quote from the Cleveland State locker room over the weekend, courtesy of assistant coach Jayson Gee:

“God sent Moses to free Israel. God sent Gary Waters to resurrect Cleveland State. I really believe that. I believe that 100 percent. He’s a prophet. Everything that’s happening – and you can ask anybody in this locker room – is something he put down in black and white before it happened.”

WORST INTERVIEW EVER!

Back in the day, Tommy Lasorda could get worked up talking baseball. These days, not so much.

QUIPS ‘R US

Here is what some of America’s leading sports pundits have been writing:

Pat Forde, ESPN.com: “Don’t look now, but the NCAA tournament has become a gated community. The riffraff is out — some of it kicking and screaming. (Thank you, Siena, for at least going out swinging.) The Sweet 16 is straight blue blood, old money, upper crust. The rich and powerful always take over by the Final Four, but this year they’ve assumed command earlier than ever.”

Joe Posnanski, Kansas City Star: “You get the feeling that many Marquette fans will always remember Sunday’s 83-79 loss to Missouri as the Great Free-Throw Robbery. The facts don’t quite back that up, but facts rarely have anything to do with sports emotion. Bill Buckner did not lose game six of the 1986 World Series (the score was already tied). Steve Bartman did not blow the Cubs’ playoff series by reaching for a foul ball (the Cubs blew a 3-0 lead and then lost again the next night). The Royals did not beat the St. Louis Cardinals in the ’85 World Series because of one bad call (as many people have pointed out, there was only one out when the winning run scored in game six, and the Royals won 11-0 the next night). But you would have a hard time convincing heartbroken fans. No, losing fans don’t want cold logic.”

Dan Daly, Washington Times: “Herb Sendek, who has brought the Arizona State program back to life, was valedictorian of his high school class and graduated summa cum laude from Carnegie Mellon with a 3.95 GPA. In other words, Herb is way past X’s and O’s. With him, it’s more like X cubed and the square root of O.”

Mike Lupica, New York Daily News: “Madonna probably wishes A-Rod looked at her the way he looks at himself.”

Greg Cote, Miami Herald: “Let’s play sports Jeopardy!: Answer — Pavlyuchenkova vs. Radwanska and Azarenka vs. Zvonareva. Question — What is either an explosion down at the alphabet plant or the women’s semifinals of the Indian Wells tennis tournament.”

MEGAPHONE

“I’m not trying to needle anybody or tell them their business. What’s amazing is they honor the guy, I don’t know, every year. They honor him, but while they’ve got a lot of ex-players in their organization, they’ve never made any move to try to hire him. That to me is amazing . . . The fans certainly love him. The organization to me sort of pretends to appreciate him and like him.”

Orlando Magic coach Stan Van Gundy, on the Knicks and former Knicks star Patrick Ewing.