It’s Too Bad He Doesn’t Use Brain of Brains

In a television interview, President Clinton said he’s “a big Dennis Rodman fan” but added that the Chicago Bull star should admit he had done wrong in kicking a courtside photographer.

“I’m sure in his heart of hearts he regrets doing that,” the president said.

Rodman apologized to cameraman Eugene Amos and agreed to pay him $200,000--with reservations: “But most people in the world would say he’s acting.”

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Add Rodman: You think he gets a lot of bad press? In his new book, due out in May, one of Rodman’s lines is, “The only bad press is an obit.”

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Trivia time: Who holds the record for most interceptions in a Super Bowl game?

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Spooky: ESPN2, which televised the Super Bowl Media Day live, sent a worker around the field with a voodoo doll in an effort to spice up a dreadfully dull interview session.

The doll was actually a Patriots’ uniform stuffed with Spanish moss. Not a good omen for the Patriots: The doll’s head fell off.

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Outsider’s view: Dolphin quarterback Dan Marino told Armando Salguero of the Miami Herald that he’s not impressed with either team in the Super Bowl:

“It’s a shame because both teams are very beatable. Neither are as dominating as teams in the past who have won Super Bowls.”

Miami split games with New England during the regular season, winning, 24-10, and losing, 42-23. The Dolphins didn’t play the Packers.

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How boring: Today’s Super Bowl game will be played indoors, but that doesn’t stop the NFL from issuing a daily weather report.

For the record, the official forecast for the Superdome is temperatures in the low 70s, with winds from north, south, east and west at 1 mph.

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Perseverance: Green Bay Packer fan Rob Coleman--who got on the team’s season-ticket waiting list when he was in high school in 1975 and is now up to No. 1,640--on when he thinks he will get the tickets:

“I figure my first Social Security check will be made out to the Packers, hopefully.”

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Looking back: On this day in 1992, the Washington Redskins defeated Buffalo in Super Bowl XXVI in Minneapolis, 37-24, the Bills’ second of four consecutive Super Bowl losses.

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Trivia answer: Rod Martin of the Oakland Raiders, with three against Philadelphia in 1981.

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And finally: Van Nightingale, a Times news editor: “Williams College’s nickname is the Ephs [pronounced eefs] after the founder of the college, Ephraim Williams. The school’s mascot is Ephelia, a purple cow. Why a purple cow?

“According to ‘What’s In a Nickname’ by Ray Franks, ‘No one really knows. However, Williams is located in a valley of the Berkshire Mountains [in Massachusetts], which glows with a purple hue at dusk. It has been affectionately dubbed the Purple Valley. Perhaps purple cows live in the Purple Valley.’ ”