ON THE SCENE
The walk of fame?
Steve Young's going to take another hike.
The 49ers' Hall of Fame quarterback will team up with current 49ers safety Michael Lewis for a treadmill walk Wednesday at Santana Row to celebrate the American Heart Association's National Start! Walking Day. The main event will begin at 11:45 a.m. at Park Valencia with a group zumba exercise led by Susan Armeta of the Bay Area Women Sports Initiative.
Young and Lewis (who was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat as a college freshman) headline the program, which will extol the virtues of walking 30 minutes a day. Plenty of others are taking part in the corporate challenge, which runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
ON THE AIR
Camera's good side
That wasn't just former 49ers and Lions coach Steve Mariucci watching his boyhood pal Tom Izzo coach Michigan State at the Final Four. It was Emmy Award nominee Steve Mariucci; he was recognized in the category of outstanding sports personality/studio analyst for his work on NFL Network.
# And that isn't just sportscaster Greg Papa anchoring the Giants pregame show and the new "Chronicle Live" show on Comcast SportsNet Bay Area. That's Greg Papa, the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association's California sportscaster of the year. Papa won the award for his work as the Raiders' radio
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play-by-play man.
Papa joins big names including Vin Scully, Dick Enberg, Chick Hearn and Bill King. "Scully won 28. I've got one," Papa said.
RANDOM THOUGHTS
Save the date: Forget opening day. As rites of spring go, nothing is more reliable or consistent than NHL teams testing the Sharks' mental and physical toughness at the end of the regular season.
Senior class: Courtney Paris' tearful postgame interview — in which she again promised to repay her scholarship — wins the NCAA tournament award for humanity. Meanwhile, the Connecticut men get to keep their scholarships and anything else they might have received. (Allegedly.)
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