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February 11, 2002

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Sued
•The NFL, by Patriots receiver Terry Glenn over the four-game suspension the league gave him in September for missing a drug test. Glenn, who was also suspended from the playoffs by Pats coach Bill Belichick for skipping team meetings, says he was discriminated against because he suffers from chronic depression, which is covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act. He seeks unspecified damages for what the suit describes as "lost employment, pain, suffering, humiliation and embarrassment."

Bound
•And doused with gasoline, George Oguta, the headmaster of the Nyabohanse boys' boarding school in Kenya, by students who were angry that he had forbidden them to watch the African Nations Cup soccer tournament on TV. The students were about to set Oguta on fire when he was saved by police; the near immolation ended two days of rioting that was led by a nine-year-old.

United
•In a three-year agreement, the NFL and the FC Barcelona soccer club. The deal, the first of its kind for the NFL, calls for the league to promote FC Barcelona in the U.S. and for the team to promote the NFL in Spain.

Charged
•With stealing $19 worth of groceries from a market in Norcross, Ga., four-time Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Olga Korbut, who competed in the 1972 and '76 Games. Korbut, who was jailed and released on bond, said she left her wallet in her car and had intended to return to pay for her booty, which reportedly included chocolate syrup, figs and tea.

Resigned
•Under pressure from the school, Georgia Tech defensive coordinator, Rick Smith after admitting he'd never played football or baseball at Florida State, as the 2001 Kentucky media guide says. Smith was hired last month by new Tech coach Chan Galley, the successor to George O'Leary, who'd taken a job at Notre Dame but resigned after falsities were found on his résumé.

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