Back to court Scoopsville . . .

Vroom doom: Sneed hears Bears linebacker Lance Briggs, who made headlines last year after smashing his luxury car on the Edens Expy. and fleeing the scene, has ran afoul of the law again.

• • To wit: Sneed is told Briggs, who was ordered to do 120 hours of community service and placed on probation, has only done two hours of community work and left the state without the judge's permission.

• • The buckshot: Briggs has been ordered to return to court June 19 to explain to Judge Earl Hoffenberg why he left the state without permission and how he plans to complete his community service within the next five months.

• • The backshot: Briggs abandoned his 2007 black Lamborghini, valued at $400,000, on Aug. 27 -- and shortly thereafter called 911 to report it stolen. The linebacker later confessed to leaving the scene of the accident, a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail. Stay tuned.

• • Foreground: It was Briggs' first offense, and the judge told him: "Young adults -- children -- they really kind of look up to you."

It's a shocker! A major player has just quit City Hall. And Mayor Daley is reportedly furious.

• • War games? Sneed is told tempers flared big time between Daley and his first deputy chief of staff, Brian Murphy, last Friday in Hizzoner's office -- and the bombastic exchange nearly burned up the furniture.

• • The upshot: An irate Murphy quit Monday -- and rumble is it had something to do with the CTA. Or was it fallout at the Chicago Police Department, which is scrambling to put a lid on the escalation of violent crime?

• • Background: Murphy, a former police lieutenant, was Daley's surrogate/listening post at the Police Department following the mayor's selection of former FBI agent Jody Weis as the new top cop. (Daley has since dispatched Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Masters to become his new eyes and ears at the cop shop.)

• • Praise 'em: Daley once described Murphy as ... "a hands-on manager with a broad knowledge of city government. He knows how to make a department run efficiently. ... He also knows what it's like to be a police officer working with community residents to make neighborhoods safer."

• • Political pedigree: Murphy's meteoric rise included stints as top deputy in the three departments at the center of the Hired Truck scandal -- Water Management, Streets and Sanitation, and Transportation. His father was also a bodyguard and driver for former Ald. Ed Vrdolyak (10th).

Good grief: Now comes word via the Donald Trump hotline that O.J. Simpson has requested participation in the upcoming celebrity version of "The Apprentice" series. Hmmm. ... Will Kato Kaelin also call?

Actor Harrison Ford, who sports an earring, told newsies his inspiration was a wet lunch with the late "60 Minutes" icon Ed Bradley and singer Jimmy Buffett -- who both sport ear gear. There ya go.

Irrepressible sportscaster Chet Coppock, who once rolled a peanut down Michigan Avenue with his nose for doubting a Sneed sports scoop that proved true, will be emceeing the hit stage play "Hizzoner" beginning May 18 on Friday and Saturday nights at the Frank Sinatra Theatre at the Italian American Sports Hall of Fame. Takeabreath.

Today's birthdays: Barbra Streisand, 66, Shirley MacLaine,74; Mayor Daley, 66; Lou Farina, 85; Eric Bogosian, 55, and Monique Bond, ageless and tireless.