NFL dropout Ricky Williams chilling in Sierra / He's been found studying the healing arts: "He's no longer Ricky Williams the football player. He plans to become Ricky Williams the holistic healer."

"Then he dropped from sight. But now Williams has turned up about as far away from professional football as you can get, as a student of the ancient Indian medical system known as Ayurveda. In the Sierra foothills, no less.

'I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate,'' he said, 'and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.''"