SCOTT DEAN BORAS Owner, president Scott Boras Corp. Born in Sacramento, Nov. 2, 1952 Lives in Newport Coast Baseball's super agent, considered one of most powerful in U.S. sports. Offseason headlines included New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez remaining with team after flirting with free agency. Negotiated details for $275 million,...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - When news broke that Kerry Meier wouldn't quarterback Kansas this season, he knew an advisory hot line was stored among the favorite numbers on his cell phone. Meier's older brother Dylan was subjected to the same predicament at Kansas State. As a...
Kansas backed its way into a BCS bowl. And into a spotlight that has the Jayhawks being doubted all over again. For all they've done and accomplished this season, the Jayhawks find themselves facing yet another moment of proof against Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl. ...
NEW YORK AFP — Chicago's Soldier Field will host the semi-finals and final of the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup, the 12-nation tournament that will run from June 6-24, the regional football federation said. The first round will see three groups of four teams each. First-round matches will be held at...
Two victories shy of his 800th win, Eddie Sutton decided it was time to leave college basketball and let his son coach Oklahoma State. The 70-year-old coach retired yesterday, ending a 36-year career in which he made three trips to the Final Four and became the first coach to...
Like a concerned deity peering down at his uncertain creation, Joe Paterno will be watching this afternoon's Blue-White scrimmage from high above. From his annual press-box perch, on the upper rim of Beaver Stadium, Paterno will get his first serious glimpse of his 41st Penn State team. He...
The nickname -- Granddaddy of Them All -- isn't just some chamber of commerce contrivance. The Rose Bowl has cast a sizable shadow across college football's postseason for the better part of a century, woven not merely into the fabric of a sport but an entire nation's celebration of...
Back when Penn State was an independent, coach Joe Paterno had a philosophy about bowl games: finish as strongly as possible, which meant finding an opponent that was higher ranked. That was also at a time when established coaches such as Paterno had a backroom role in setting up...
In the end, the Bowl Championship Series left no room for argument when it came to the selection of its two at-large teams. BCS guidelines made Ohio State's and Notre Dame's berths automatic -- the Buckeyes' by virtue of their No.4 ranking in the final BCS standings, Notre Dame's...
MIAMI -- No team has ever won three straight AP national titles. Few teams have ever been better equipped to do so than Southern California. USC's stunningly easy 55-19 victory over Oklahoma on Tuesday night in the Orange Bowl gave the Trojans a second straight national...
The Utes finished their best football season in history with a fourth-place finish in the Associated Press' year-end college football poll. USC, which won the mythical national-championship game playing in the Orange Bowl on Tuesday night, finished first in the voting of sports writer and broadcasters, followed by...
Now Auburn knows what it's like to be the odd team out -- a feeling Southern California knew only too well last year. This year, though, the Trojans have no complaints. USC and Oklahoma finished atop the final Bowl Championship Series standings Sunday and will meet...
College football's 3 1/2-month regular season has come down to this: Three critical games. And a couple of critical votes. Unbeaten Southern California, Oklahoma and Auburn sit 1-2-3 in the next-to-last Bowl Championship Series standings, setting up a climactic final weekend that will settle which teams land in the...
Byline: Kevin Schmit Thirty-five years ago, Dale Evans was the starting center for the University of Kansas during one of the most exciting Orange Bowl games of all time. It's a great story, one that'd thrill his Glenbard North players who...
Byline: Lindsey Willhite Daily Herald Sports Writer It's easy to scan the college football landscape and gauge little change. After all, the same old USCs and LSUs and FSUs and Oklahomas and Miamis are positioned to add to their collections of national...
By Michele Himmelberg, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 22--The slogan is everywhere: on billboards, on the backs of buses, even rubber-stamped on the service orders of some Audi drivers: "I am a Mighty Duck." ...
By Danielle Herubin, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 1--Wayne Gretzky was there to drum up some team spirit. Gretzky, dubbed "The Great One" for his stellar hockey career, lectured an auditorium full of Southern California auto...
By Tiffany Montgomery, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 18--ANAHEIM, Calif.--Al Coates picked a heck of a time to start his new job. The Mighty Ducks swept the 2002 Stanley Cup champions, the Detroit Red ...
By Tiffany Montgomery, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 29--Nothing like winning a World Series to boost the popularity of Anaheim Angels T-shirts, jerseys and jackets. Fifteen people a day have been calling the Major League Baseball Club...
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