He’s Weary of This Patriot’s Games

The Boston Globe’s Bob Ryan has had it with Terry Glenn, the New England Patriots’ troublesome receiver, and says the Patriots should send him on his way. Glenn was recently suspended four games for missed drug-check appointments.

“The rest of us told you so, told you so and told you so,” Ryan wrote. “How much more evidence do people need to accept the fact Terry Glenn is textbook incorrigible?

“Yes, he has talent, and no, it doesn’t matter, not any longer. Mr. Talent will be spending the first four games of the 2001 NFL season in exile, courtesy of the league’s substance abuse policy.

“If Patriot fans are lucky, he will spend the rest of the season in Bermuda, where there is no team, and where he no longer will be able to tease the locals with the promise of that great talent.

“The Glenn spinmeisters will no doubt tell you this business is nothing more than a procedural matter, that no one is accusing him of doing drugs--he was supposed to check in with a medical officer and didn’t. Of course he didn’t. He’s Terry Glenn.”

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Trivia time: How many baseball players had at least a .325 career batting average and 300 home runs?

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Danny boy: Tony Kornheiser of the Washington Post rips Washington Redskin owner Dan Snyder so often he has taken to calling him “The Danny.”

“All the buzz in town is about [Jaromir] Jagr and [Michael] Jordan playing on alternate nights in MCI Center,” he wrote recently.

“The only big-deal Redskins story lately was negative-Deion’s ‘retirement.’

“This has to be killing The Danny. He loves ink. Whenever there’s a lull in Yankees stories in the New York papers, George Steinbrenner does something dramatic, like fire his manager.

“Who can The Danny fire? Nobody. He’s already fired everybody!”

Of the addition of so many of new faces to the Redskins’ roster, Kornheiser added: “Radioactive uranium has been more stable than the Redskins.”

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In case you wondered: When Fred McGriff signed with the Chicago Cubs and joined Sammy Sosa, it marked the fifth time two members of the 400-home run club have been on the same team. The last time was when McGriff and Jose Canseco were both with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.

And no, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig weren’t one of the five pairs. In Ruth’s last year with the Yankees, 1934, he had 708 home runs but Gehrig didn’t get his 400th until 1936.

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Looking back: On this day in 1992, Carl Lewis anchored a world-record 400-meter relay team, winning his eighth gold medal in three Olympics. On the same day, the U.S. basketball team defeated Croatia, 117-85, with the 32-point margin of victory its smallest of the Games.

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Trivia answer: Eight, if you include Joe DiMaggio, whose career average was .32459. The others: Rogers Hornsby, Al Simmons, Jimmie Foxx, Stan Musial, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth and Ted Williams.

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And finally: From Greg Cote in the Miami Herald: “The long-awaited NBC special, “Greatest Moments in XFL History,” airs tonight from 8 till 8:02 p.m.”