This week's mission: Connect the Dalai Lama, the enlightened Tibetan Buddhist leader, to Britney Spears, the endeared sex object of millions of young boys. You must use at least one sports figure in the connection:

	The 14th Dalai Lama is the exiled spiritual and political leader of Tibet.
	During a U.S. tour, he met last week with Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, who asked the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize Winner if he had ever seen the movie "Caddyshack." (No, we're not making this up).
	That 1980 comedy features Bill Murray as Carl Spackler, the country-club groundskeeper who claims he once caddied for the Dalai Lama, receiving not a tip but the assurance that on his death bed, he will receive total consciousness -- "So, I've got that going for me, which is nice."
	Murray is a co-owner of the St. Paul Saints' minor-league baseball team, for whom Darryl Strawberry played in 1996. Strawberry was one of nine major-leaguers recruited as ringers to play for Mr. Burns' company softball team on a 1990 episode of "The Simpsons."
	Because he bats right-handed, Homer Simpson pinch-hits for the left-handed Strawberry with the bases loaded in the ninth inning and wins the game -- when he is hit in the head by a pitch.
	Britney Spears guest-starred on "The Simpsons" last year, as a celebrity presenter with Kent Brockman at the "Springfield Pride Awards" show.