A nice find from Fasolamatt, who tells us Dolphins running back Ricky Williams is going to school and might want to be a doctor someday.

The pre-algebra teacher was just making small talk when he approached Dolphins running back Ricky Williams on the star’s first day of school at Nova Southeastern University last week.

”You look like a football player,” the man said.

”Yeah, I play football,” Williams replied.

The conversation then took its natural course, as the running back told the teacher he played for the Dolphins, which prompted the obvious question.

”What’s your name?” the teacher asked.

”Williams,” he said, leaving off his first name.

”OK,” the teacher said. “So how’s Chad Pennington doing?”

Yes, Williams is just a regular student these days, apparently unrecognizable to dozens of students and his teacher as he pursues an undergraduate degree he never got during his tenure at the University of Texas.

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Williams wants to become a doctor, and Nova has a program that will allow him to study Osteopathy.

”Hopefully, when I’m 40, I’ll be starting my next career,” Williams, 31, said.

These are obviously high aspirations, but Williams said he realized he was gifted in the field of holistic medicine, which is encouraged in Osteopathy, during his world travels.

”I like seeing people feel better, and I know what it feels like to deal with pain,” Williams said.

We can only hope he starts his own practice with noted urinary specialist Onterrio Smith. Meanwhile, no update on how Carl Everett is doing on that paleontology career.

“You can’t say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Someone actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus rex.”

That will never be unfunny.

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