Our Stingers football team became movie stars recently, when they were extras in a Hollywood movie called The Sum of All Fears. Their “role” required them to stage an NFL Superbowl game at the Olympic Stadium.

The movie, which is based on a Tom Clancy novel and stars Ben Affleck and Morgan Freeman, ends in a nuclear explosion, but of course, that was just special effects. Members of the Montreal Alouettes and Toronto Argonauts were also involved in the film shoot.

Athletics has launched a new scholarship fund, the Father O’Brien Endowment, thanks to an initial, anonymous donation of $100,000.

This will enable the department to give five $1,000 scholarships a year. Next season, all fourth- and fifth-year athletes on the football team will receive a $1,000 award.

Director Harry Zarins said that the five-year goal is to give all of the football players in good academic standing a $1,000 scholarship.