THE ELEVATOR

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 | 7:08 a.m.

Who's headed toward the penthouse in the world of local sports - and who's getting the shaft:

GOING UP

Jim Schlossnagle: Three years ago, the UNLV baseball coach kissed Las Vegas goodbye and turned into a frog - a TCU Horned Frog. It was another high Schloss finish as TCU went 17-5 in its first season in the Mountain West, earning Schlossnagle conference coach of the year laurels.

Joey Chestnut: Maybe it should be "throwing up" instead of "going up" for the San Franciscan, who scarfed down 50 hot dogs in 12 minutes to set a new U.S. record at the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Championship at New York-New York. No word yet on whether he wanted fries with that.

Kim Sisak: While I'm not sure what the World Agility Championships are, the Las Vegan "helped bring home the Team Gold" in the Netherlands, and striking gold in the Netherlands is almost always good. Upon initial review, I learned that the World Agility Championships are obstacle races for dogs and the best thing to hit the canine world since "Stupid Pet Tricks."

GOING DOWN

Parallel negotiations: That's not the working title of the latest John Grisham-inspired blockbuster but the name Mayor Oscar Goodman has given his surreptitious talks with a couple of National Hockey League owners about moving here - at the same time a City Council-appointed task force is supposed to be studying whether Las Vegas should even pursue major league sports. Right hand, meet left hand.

Rebecca Alvarez: She's the California Athletic Commission employee who made an error when recording the judges' scores, resulting in what had been announced as a draw between Marco Antonio Barrera and Rocky Juarez in their super featherweight title bout being reversed to a split-decision victory for Barrera. Judges Ken Morita and Duane Ford of Las Vegas each scored the 12th round 10-10, but Alvarez wrote down 10-9 - apparently in ink.

Ken Morita and Duane Ford: For scoring the 12th round 10-10 in the first place. According to many boxing experts, there is no such thing as an even round.

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