Blotter

Xposed
?Doug Henderson, a New York City court worker and former personal assistant to Jimmy Connors, was charged with stealing Malcolm X's bloodstained, bullet-riddled diary and selling it to a collector for $5,000.

Headed
?The 2002 Women's World Cup, to a date two months before the men's Cup; the women were to have played four months after the men.

Retired
?Inventive San Diego Chargers equipment manager Sid Brooks, after a 27-year career in which he devised formfitting shoulder pads for linemen and three-color numbers for football jerseys.

Outdone
?Legendary courtroom orator William Jennings Bryan, by lawyer Bill Diehl, who in defending Charlotte Hornets owner George Shinn against charges that Shinn had sexually assaulted a woman, argued that the alleged oral sex was consensual, saying, "If she ain't bitin', she ain't fightin'."

Missed
?By a 25-pound bomb that fell from an Air Force F-16, two trios of golfers on the 17th hole of an El Mirage, Ariz., course.

Tarnished
?The Golden Dome, when the Notre Dame football program was hit with two years' NCAA probation and the loss of two scholarships after an investigation revealed that a booster named Kimberly Dunbar gave players gifts, trips and cash.