ESPN and other outlets are putting out word of a report on a television station in Dallas - which was based on a police report in Dallas - that Terrell Owens was trying to kill himself when he was rushed to the emergency room last night.

Here's the original report on WFAA's website. There's also a link to the police report, which says, in part, that Owens admitted to some official (if any experts in emergency response lingo is reading this, give us a hand with some of these abbreviations) that he was "depressed,'' and that when asked "if he was attempting to harm himself,'' he said yes. He also apparently admitted that he had taken the remaining 35 pills in his painkillers prescriptions, and that whoever was with him tried to take the two pills she saw him put in his mouth, out of his mouth.

ESPN is reporting that Dallas police officials plan a press conference sometime today. The Cowboys also have just announced a briefing for this afternoon.

For what it's worth (probably not much), T.O.'s SportsCentury special on ESPN Classic debuted last week. I was interviewed for it last fall, because I had written about him when he was with the 49ers, and many of the questions and answers were about whether a lot of his outlandish actions and statements were rooted more in insecurity and a serious case of poor self-esteem when he was growing up.

None of this might have anything to do with what happened last night. Just putting it out there, and fully willing to dismiss it as it relates to this.