21.   Slaughter was a star receiver for Schottenheimer in Cleveland.

22.   Star receivers are not any more valuable than dominant running backs or linebackers.

23.   Star receiver Bobby Shaw had to sit out the first several series of a game because he was late for a team meeting.

24.   Star receiver Tony Martin, who has caught six touchdown passes, said he has never done the Dirty Bird, but has no problem with dancing.

25.   The Cowboys, meanwhile, not only lost their season opener in pathetic fashion Sunday but lost their star receiver and their quarterback as well.

26.   The ex-Raider and USC star receiver Chandler missed the last two Raiders road games while he received post-operative treatment for a benign tumor on his lung.

27.   The first dissenter summoned to explain himself before his colleagues was Representative Steve Largent of Oklahoma, a former star receiver in the National Football League.

28.   The only thing they were missing was injured star receiver Jerry Rice.

29.   The star receiver frets.

30.   The star receiver stood at attention while Alvarez read him the rules, then repaired to a side office while bailiffs organized a departure.