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• Hiestand on TV

  - 2008-08-20

  Inside the industry CBS re-signed a veteran quarterback Tuesday and picked up some help on defense. Dan Fouts, a CBS analyst from 1988 to 1993 after a Hall of Fame NFL quarterbacking career, will be an analyst on some CBS NFL games...

  Tags: ABC Inc., analyst, CAREER, CBS Corp., ESPN, Games, NBC Universal Inc., NFL, TVs

• Koufos' foot problems in the past, Jazz say

  - 2008-06-28

  Last time a plummeting big man dropped to the Jazz, he had foot issues. Major foot issues. Curtis Borchardt -- selected 18th overall out of Stanford University in the 2002 NBA draft but expected to go higher -- was plagued by a stress fracture in his...

  Tags: CAREER, ESPN, Ford Motor Co., Games, NBA

• McShay gelling into his own

  - 2008-04-25

  ESPN's Mel Kiper went from being a teen obsessed with the NFL draft, sending his unsolicited previews to NFL teams, to being a brand. Now, he's a job description. Once a novelty, Kiper is a year-round draftnik who created a TV sports...

  Tags: CAREER, ESPN, NFL, TVs

• Family issues beset kicker

  - 2008-04-14

  Surfing the Web Recommended reading: Tynes' trying times On the morning of Masters Sunday, one of the top Google hits was a story about an NFL kicker and his brother. An ESPN story on New York Giants kicker...

  Tags: Benefits, CAREER, ESPN, FINANCE, HEALTHCARE, Investment, NFL, SOFTWARE

• Baseball star Rocker says officials knew of doping

  - 2008-02-11

  ATLANTA, Georgia AFP — Controversial former Major League Baseball pitcher John Rocker, who scoffed at the notion of huge doping trouble in his sport last year, now says he was in on it and officials knew it. In two separate interviews on Atlanta radio shows Monday, the former Atlanta...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Atlanta, CAREER, ESPN, MARKETING, MLB

• How a walk-on led St. Mary's to a Golden era

  - 2008-02-06

  THE BEST INDICATION of how well St. Mary's College senior guard Todd Golden understands his limits as a player is one hard-to- believe statistic: In 22 games this season, Golden has attempted 88 shots, and only three were from inside the 3-point arc. "I...

  Tags: CAREER, ESPN, Games, Oregon, University of California at Los Angeles

• Olbermann counts on NFL

  - 2007-08-24

  Keith Olbermann kept going after his ophthalmologist Renee Richards, tennis' best-known transsexual, who said he shouldn't drive again after banging his head on a New York subway in 1980. He persevered when a man promised to cut out his tongue for saying the Dodgers "stunk" on Los Angeles radio in...

  Tags: CAREER, ESPN, MSNBC, NFL

• Little League beckons Baker

  - 2007-08-17

  How's this for a curveball? Last year, Dusty Baker was the Chicago Cubs' manager -- now he's calling Little Leaguers. "It's just part of life," says Baker, who'll work with Brent Musburger and Orel Hershiser on ABC/ESPN's Little League World Series coverage, which starts Friday. "I...

  Tags: ABC Inc., CAREER, ESPN, Games

• Colts reportedly ink Freeney to 72 million-dollar deal

  - 2007-07-13

  LOS ANGELES, United States AFP — The Super Bowl champion Indianapolis Colts have reportedly inked Dwight Freeney to a 72 million-dollar deal that makes him the highest paid defensive player in National Football League history. ESPN.com reported Friday that the three-time Pro Bowl defensive end agreed to the six-year...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, CAREER, Colts, ESPN

• Sports briefs

  - 2007-06-29

  Hockey HALL HONOREES: The Hockey Hall of Fame is set to welcome one of its finest classes ever. Mark Messier, Ron Francis, Al MacInnis and Scott Stevens will go in as players this fall, while NHL executive Jim Gregory will enter as a builder. ...

  Tags: CAREER, ESPN, Harassment, NHL