Darren

Hamilton Tiger-Cats wide receiver Darren Flutie can't remember how many times he's been told he's too small to play in the National Football League.After a dominating season as the Canadian Football League's top receiver, Flutie probably will receive some offers south of the border, several NFL scouts said.The 33-year-old Flutie, whose older brother, Doug, is quarterbacking the Buffalo Bills after eight seasons starring in Canada, said he hopes to hear from NFL clubs when they're allowed to begin negotiating with CFL players on Dec. 5. NFL teams can't sign CFL players until Jan. 4."

Darren Drozdov finally has found a profession in which he can be himself.During his days as a defensive lineman at Maryland in 1988 to 1992, Drozdov often battled with members of the coaching staff over his appearance. With his outlandish haircuts, multiple tattoos and various piercings, Drozdov turned quite a few heads at College Park.And then there are his pets, namely three snakes -- a boa constrictor and two pythons -- and an Argentine horned frog that dines on mice.Drozdov, however, fits in perfectly with his new employer.

Growing up in Richmond, Va., Darren Sharper carried on endless rivalries with his older brother, Jamie. The trash-talking debate after recreational football games typically centered on who scored the most touchdowns. During the winter, the argument shifted to who would score the most points on the basketball court.Tomorrow at Lambeau Field, Darren plans to welcome Jamie and at least 15 friends and family members into his new home. No house-warming gifts will be necessary, although more talk promises to break out on the field.

There's the comic strip, TV and movie character Batman and there's the Batman that stars on the Archbishop Spalding football team.Darren "Batman" Johnson, a muscular 6-foot-3, 175-pound junior, has become an impact player at running back and linebacker in Spalding's quest of two consecutive winning seasons.The Batman moniker was put on Johnson when he was an 8-year-old playing youth football for the Severn Athletic Club. It has stuck while would-be tacklers have not.His shifty, slippery, power running along with his bone rattling tackles have made the 4-2 Cavaliers' highlights film practically every week this season.

Maximillian Cohen is a man on the verge of a nervous breakdown.A mathematician by trade, Max (Sean Gullette) is obsessed by numbers -- their beauty, their logic and their ineluctable hold over our lives and the natural world.Max is also convinced that by using numbers theory -- specifically, by figuring out the mysteries of pi, a number with an infinite amount of integers -- he can crack the stock market. Max's days are spent seeing patterns in otherwise random events, whether he's reducing the leaves of a tree to a series ofelegant theorems or charting recurring symbols on the New York Times financial pages.

Cardinals: St. Louis has been successful on 15 straight stolen base attempts.Padres: San Diego hasn't won a season series against the Astros since 1992, when it had an 11-7 edge. Tony Gwynn, in an 11-for-60 slide, didn't start for the second time in five games.Phillies: Darren Daulton received the Major League Baseball Players Association 1997 NL Comeback Player award before the game.Pub Date: 7/27/98

Wanda Lou Dawson's only brother, Larry Lee Tolliver, was killed in Vietnam in 1967 at age 24. She said her mother still has not recovered from his death.Ms. Dawson's only son, Darren L. Rector, also 24, died in a one-car crash Jan. 22 in Churchville and the 49-year-old Forest Hill resident said she is determined not to let the same thing happen to her, not to turn her grief inward.Instead, Ms. Dawson has turned to music, with the help of a computer expert who is also a musician. She is recording as inspirational songs with a country beat poems she has written about her son and her belief that they will meet again, in heaven.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Everyone knew that a Flutie would lead his team into the Grey Cup, but it wasn't supposed to be this one.Instead of "The Magic Flutie," we get "The Other Flutie."Doug Flutie, the Calgary Stampeders' star quarterback and three-time winner of his league's Most Outstanding Player award, was denied a berth in Sunday's championship game against the Baltimore CFLs when younger brother Darren caught a 4-yard touchdown pass with no time remaining to give the B.C. Lions a 37-36 victory in the Western Division final.

In Darren Berry's dream city, there would be parks -- lots of parks. There would be boat slips and markets and neighbors who are not afraid to leave their doors open or unlocked at night.In Darren's dream city, there would be few police officers and no corner gatherings of sleepy-eyed young and middle-age men near his home in the Lexington Terrace public housing development in West Baltimore.And the playgrounds would be glass- and litter-free in Darren's dream city. Most would even have working play equipment.

In Darren Berry's dream city, there would be parks -- lots of parks. There would be boat slips and markets, and neighbors who are not afraid to leave their doors open or unlocked at night.In Darren's dream city, there would be few police officers and no corner gatherings of sleepy-eyed young and middle-age men near his home in the Lexington Terrace public housing development in West Baltimore.And the playgrounds would be glass- and litter-free in Darren's dream city. Most would even have working play equipment.