The glaring CTE statistic, Beckham’s belief & Spieth’s amazing finish . . .

It was announced by Boston University researchers the other day that research conducted on the brains of 111 former NFL players found evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in 110 samples.

You know the only statistic in sports that mattered this week? That one. Going into Saturday’s games,

had just two fewer RBI this season than

is another one of those guys in sports about whom you have to ask this question: Does he ever run out of saliva? The mayor of the city and the governor of the state get along about as well as and did.

I’m surprised the president didn’t have his new communications director, clean up MS-13. He’s a tough guy. I love the idea that a bright new day has started for the Knicks. Tell me why. Or how. But if you’re looking for positives with Knick fans, here’s one: They’re not Jets fans. It has become more than somewhat official that

has become the latest New York City sports star to think that having an unspoken thought is against the law.

“I believe that I will be hopefully not just the highest-paid receiver in the league, but the highest-paid, period, “he said the other day to a waiting world. Good luck with that. Maybe he’s figured out a way to throw the ball to himself. That $217 million that

threw at is looking better and better, by the way.

Say it again: The only thing that might be separating the Red Sox from the Blue Jays and Orioles might be

You start to get the idea now that the pep rally in the Rose Garden after the House passed its health care bill must have thrown itself. Two things on One, he was a terrific pickup for Tampa Bay. Two? So far, anyway, I’m not missing him nearly as much as I thought I would.

I’m sorry, but this isn’t about truth and beauty with It’s about money. From the time he got the ball near the 13th green at Royal Birkdale, after it turned out the driving range wasn’t out of bounds,

proceeded to play the greatest four-and-a-half holes in the history of major championship golf.

I am aware that once birdied the last four holes to win the Masters.

But this was the kid, Spieth, winning a major on the back nine on Sunday after he’d kicked away — or drowned away — his last best chance at the 2016 Masters.

He was losing the ’17 British Open to had been losing it, really, since the first tee.

And then, when it was all going against him, and he’d lost his lead, and had tried to hit a drive in the general direction of County Cork, he managed a one-putt bogey on 13.

And played the next four holes in 5-under.

This was the way played on the back nine at Augusta on Sunday in ’86.

He was 46, and had already won 17 majors.

Spieth did what he did at 23, on the day he won his third. Somebody needs to explain to me why the Red Sox weren’t interested in

Worth mentioning again that while there’s no “i” in team, there sure is one right there at the end of “Scaramucci.”

The Mooch says he’s just guilty of using colorful language sometimes.

Well, yeah, if you just got your foot caught in a bear trap.