Vitali Klitschko used his son's wet diapers to keep his fists from swelling up after winning his WBC heavyweight title bout against Nigeria's Samuel Peter, the Ukrainian told a German newspaper yesterday.

Klitschko said he wrapped them around his hands and it helped him recover.

“Baby wee is good because it's pure, doesn't contain toxins and doesn't smell,” the 37-year old boxer told Bild after he won back the WBC title Saturday.

“I wrap nappies (diapers) filled with my 3-year-old son Max's wee around my fists,” he said, adding he got the idea from his grandmother. “The nappies hold the liquid and the swelling stays down.”

Klitschko said Peter should try the nappy trick as well.

TRIVIA TIME

True or False: The NFL's St. Louis Cardinals drafted quarterback Joe Namath from Alabama.

CASHING IN ON CATCH

The ball from the last home run at Yankee Stadium will be sold at auction this weekend in New York. The man who snagged it decided he could use the money to pay off debts and send his kids to college.

“We talked about it as a family and we said we can keep it locked up in a safe deposit box and when I die the kids can fight over it, or maybe it can go to a good collector with a massive Yankees collection, and we can take the money and do some good with it,” Steve Harshman of Casper, Wyo., told the Casper Star-Tribune.

Harshman, a high school football coach and Republican state lawmaker, said he has heard estimates that the ball will fetch at least $200,000.

The home run was hit by Yankees backup catcher Jose Molina on Sept. 21. Harshman had traveled to the Bronx with his 11-and 9-year-old sons and his brother to fulfill a lifelong dream of his father, who died six years ago.

“The memory of it, that's all we went for,” he said.

Auction house Guernsey's will auction the ball Saturday at Madison Square Garden along with other items from the stadium.

CURSE OF THE CUBBIES

A black bear wandered in and inspected the Subway sandwich shop in Kitimat, B.C., sending a lone employee scrambling for safety.

“You know how they got rid of the cub?” asked comedy writer Alex Kaseberg. “They put it in the baseball playoffs.”

FANS FLEEING BENGALS

Disappointed fans of the 0-6 Cincinnati Bengals are trying to unload thousands of tickets for remaining home games, many of them well below face value.

The online ticket agency StubHub.com has 3,000 tickets for Sunday's game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. At least 4,000 tickets are available for each of the remaining games.

Some sellers don't care about making a profit. There are $64 tickets priced as low as $24.

TRIVIA ANSWER

True. The St. Louis Cardinals selected Namath in 1965 in the first round of the NFL draft; the New York Jets selected Namath in the first round of the AFL draft that year.

– COMPILED BY TOD LEONARD FROM NEWS SERVICES, ONLINE REPORTS