21.   Former Carolina receiver Rae Carruth was charged last month with murdering his pregnant girlfriend.

22.   Former Packers receiver Sterling Sharpe was another high-profile sufferer.

23.   Former Patriots receiver Randy Vataha and his partner Bob Caporale are expected to be big players in the sale of the Red Sox.

24.   Former receiver Pete Gent wrote North Dallas Forty, which became a popular film starring Nick Nolte.

25.   Former Cowboys receiver Alvin Harper, cut yesterday by Saints coach Mike Ditka, could get a look from the Cowboys, team vice president Stephen Jones said.

26.   Former NFL receiver Irving Fryar, noon.

27.   Former Patriots receiver Randy Vataha is associated with the All-American League, which also hopes to start next March.

28.   He recounted the story of former Oilers receiver Haywood Jeffires, who played for several seasons with a form of atrial fibrillation before consulting doctors about it.

29.   His mother was hospitalized, and he later went through a trying reconciliation with his estranged father, former NFL receiver Jack Snow.

30.   It also prompted former Cowboys star receiver Bob Hayes to fly in from Florida, where he had been bedside with his cancer-stricken father.