Nighttime nuggets: Thursday

Padres
The Padres pulled the trigger Thursday and traded SS Khalil Greene to the Cardinals for RHP Mark Worrell and a player to be named. ...

Fellow blogger Paul DePodesta, who moonlights as a Padres executive VP, gives the lowdown on Worrell and his funky delivery. ...

Why didn't the Greene-to-the-Orioles whispers ever grow louder? Scott Miller of cbssports.com says Baltimore wanted to give up only RHP Hayden Penn, a Santana High School product, and have the Padres pay part of Greene's 2009 salary. Heck, the Padres didn't even want to pay all of his 2008 freight. ...

Craig Colbert, the Padres bench coach the past two years after long service in the minors, will be Philadelphia's advance scout in 2009. The Padres did not employ an advance scout during Colbert's tenure as bench coach.

Chargers
The Chargers' 34-7 victory over Oakland on Thursday night -- or, more to the point, the manner of the victory -- had RB LaDainian Tomlinson smiling. ...

After the loss, Raiders players were calling one another out for not caring enough.

Media
Tom Hoffarth of the L.A. Daily News reviews the 3D broadcast of the Chargers-Raiders game. It was shown in theaters in select cities.

San Diego State
Aztecs basketball player Lorrenzo Wade had a better day in court Thursday than he has ever had on the court. A judge dismissed the felony burglary charge Wade was facing. Now we'll find out if that's enough for coach Steve Fisher to end Wade's suspension from the team. ...

So San Diegan Mike Martz is a candidate to come back home and coach the San Diego State football team. It seemed inevitable his name would be mentioned after all-time great Aztecs RB Marshall Faulk got involved with the search. ...

The Aztecs women's volleyball team signed middle blocker Andrea Hannasch out of Texas to a letter of intent for 2009.

Aztecs men's soccer players Nick Collins and Raymundo Reza made the Pac-10 all-academic team.

Baseball
The Golden Baseball League offered Rickey Henderson $1 million to wear a San Diego Surf Dawgs hat on his Hall of Fame plaque. Henderson, on the HofF ballot for the first time, played for the Surf Dawgs in 2005 when he wasn't ready for retirement. Yeah, it's a publicity ploy by the league. Henderson doesn't really have an option about his hat. And, yeah, the ploy worked. I bit. ...

When the Red Sox came asking about C Jarrod Saltalamacchia, the Rangers sought RHP Justin Masterson, a San Diego State product. Can't hurt to ask.

Cycling
The Tour of California finalized the route for the February race that will feature comebacking Lance Armstrong and perhaps disgraced Temecula rider Floyd Landis. For the first time, the race visits San Diego County. The final stage is nearly 97 miles from Rancho Bernardo, up Palomar Mountain and ending in downtown Escondido.

Soccer
The start-up Women's Professional Soccer league is holding a combine camp in San Diego from Dec. 11-14. The list of participants was released this week, and it's chock full of local names, including Carrie Dew, Amy Epsten, Jen Lalor-Nielson and Leigh Ann Robinson.

Pro football
Junior Seau's postgraduate studies continue. The former Chargers linebacker and Oceanside High School star is set to resume his NFL career with the injury-plagued Patriots. ...

Patrick Henry High School graduate Ricky Williams enjoyed his playing days in the Canadian Football League. That's in the news again because the Dolphins play the Bills on Sunday in Toronto.

College football
The UCLA student paper writes that QB Kevin Craft, a former San Diego State and Valley Center High School player, isn't hanging his head after struggling with turnovers in 2008.

Preps
Interesting story in the Union-Tribune about St. Augustine High School football fans questioning whether Cathedral Catholic should keep a semifinal playoff game on its campus when the capacity of 4,500 is about half of the demand for tickets. Judging from the copied e-mail referenced in the story, someone from the St. Augustine side was hoping a bit of publicity would pressure the CIF San Diego office into moving the game.