Dolphins star's long trip into self: "Miami Dolphins running back Ricky Williams is equal parts artist and eccentric, which makes it very difficult to say what was the most interesting part of his Australian vacation.
Was it that he stayed in cheap, crowded Australian hostels, bunking in small rooms with strangers and students, waiting in line to use the community bathroom?
Or was it that, on a whim, he purchased a 1974 Volkswagen van -- ''like Scooby Doo's,'' he says -- and slept in it while driving for days across the dangerous, desolate Outback?
Was it that he got up one morning and, just because, he shaved off his famous dreadlocks, throwing away the $750,000 Gillette's marketing people had offered for the right to build an advertising campaign around that moment?
Or was it that he would stop while on those 16-hour drives to nowhere in particular to work on his photography, read books, write in a journal, surf, meditate, enjoy anonymity and question everything from democracy to religion to himself?"

"The other day, he was watching a Chris Rock special and, just like that, he decided to sell his Ferrari and Hummer so he could help 100-plus underprivileged kids get a good education."