The Mets agreed to terms with their first pick of the first round, power hitting first baseman Ike Davis of Arizona State. It is believed Davis, the son of former Yankees reliever Ron Davis, received in the range of $1.5 million. The deal is pending a physical.
Steve King and I couldn't get connected in time to include his perspective in Tuesday's story about early basketball commitments, but we had a long chat Wednesday. King is uniquely qualified to speak on this subject. His son, Taylor, committed to UCLA shortly before starting ninth grade in 2003. Taylor's commitment didn't last; he ultimately signed with Duke and has since transferred to Villanova.
If we can assume the Pac-10 is the best conference in college basketball this season, then we can also assume the league will send at least five teams to the NCAA tournament next week.
The AP poll's old No. 1 lost on Saturday. Its new No. 1 lost on Tuesday. There's chaos at the top of the college basketball world, but in chaos can be found opportunity.
Sheila Johnson just wanted tennis lessons. That's it. It was a simple request for the 60-year-old former high school teacher who retired after 30 years of instructing students on the finer points of algebra.
In the wake of last week's New Hampshire primary, this is not exactly the best time to call yourself a pollster. Fortunately, when I conduct a college hoops poll, I yield results with zero margin for error. That's because the only person I poll is myself. The answers, therefore, are always correct.
I caught Pittsburgh coach Jamie Dixon on his cell phone as he was riding with his players en route to the airport Wednesday afternoon. I had called, naturally, to get his thoughts on Thursday night's matchup with No. 6 Duke at Madison Square Garden. Apparently, I wasn't the only one. "Everybody's been calling me and talking about it," Dixon said. "For a game in December, it's been unbelievable."
The NCAA tournament is nearly four months away, but thanks to those early season tournaments, we won't have to wait long for some pretty intriguing matchups. In fact, we've already seen some. North Carolina knocked off Arizona State on Sunday. Maryland got the better of Courtney Paris and Oklahoma. LSU and Michigan State will meet this week in the WNIT.
The Mets agreed to terms with their first pick of the first round, power hitting first baseman Ike Davis of Arizona State. It is believed Davis, the son of former Yankees reliever Ron Davis, received in the range of $1.5 million. The deal is pending a physical.
Steve King and I couldn't get connected in time to include his perspective in Tuesday's story about early basketball commitments, but we had a long chat Wednesday. King is uniquely qualified to speak on this subject. His son, Taylor, committed to UCLA shortly before starting ninth grade in 2003. Taylor's commitment didn't last; he ultimately signed with Duke and has since transferred to Villanova.
If we can assume the Pac-10 is the best conference in college basketball this season, then we can also assume the league will send at least five teams to the NCAA tournament next week.
The AP poll's old No. 1 lost on Saturday. Its new No. 1 lost on Tuesday. There's chaos at the top of the college basketball world, but in chaos can be found opportunity.
Sheila Johnson just wanted tennis lessons. That's it. It was a simple request for the 60-year-old former high school teacher who retired after 30 years of instructing students on the finer points of algebra.
In the wake of last week's New Hampshire primary, this is not exactly the best time to call yourself a pollster. Fortunately, when I conduct a college hoops poll, I yield results with zero margin for error. That's because the only person I poll is myself. The answers, therefore, are always correct.
I caught Pittsburgh coach Jamie Dixon on his cell phone as he was riding with his players en route to the airport Wednesday afternoon. I had called, naturally, to get his thoughts on Thursday night's matchup with No. 6 Duke at Madison Square Garden. Apparently, I wasn't the only one. "Everybody's been calling me and talking about it," Dixon said. "For a game in December, it's been unbelievable."
The NCAA tournament is nearly four months away, but thanks to those early season tournaments, we won't have to wait long for some pretty intriguing matchups. In fact, we've already seen some. North Carolina knocked off Arizona State on Sunday. Maryland got the better of Courtney Paris and Oklahoma. LSU and Michigan State will meet this week in the WNIT.
The sun devil painted on the 50-yard line of Arizona State's field is presumably supposed to be menacing, a dark figure with a sharp pitchfork and the intent to use it. But upon closer examination he's more cartoonish, a mischievous-looking guy who's not as tough as he's trying to look. Until last Saturday the same seemed to be true of the real-life Sun Devils, whose perfect record appeared to be mostly a product of a schedule that was softer than a featherbed. But after Arizona State's 31-20 victory over No. 21 California, it's hard to dismiss the Sun Devils as just a desert mirage.
His career has spanned from Seattle to Coral Gables, Fla., and includes six other points in between. But the well-traveled Dennis Erickson believes he's finally found the final stop of his coaching career at Arizona State.
The country needs "authentic leadership," the wife of NFL athlete-turned-Army Ranger Pat Tillman said Wednesday in her first public comments since her husband was cut down by friendly fire.
Surprising fossils dug up in Africa are creating messy kinks in the iconic straight line of human evolution with its knuckle-dragging ape and briefcase-carrying man
Recent economic data may point to a cooling housing market and some investors are already dashing for the exits, according to a news report published Wednesday.
The following is the final part of a transcript of the final debate between President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry held Wednesday night at Arizona State University.
Like ice cream and coffee before them, cornflakes and puffed oats are getting an upscale makeover. Cereality, a startup based in Boulder, Colo., is betting that consumer nostalgia for Cheerios and ...
A new twist on an emerging theory says the sun was born amid massive, short-lived stars that sculpted our solar system with intense radiation and violent explosions that may have affected the origin of life.
Scientists have learned the composition of the mysterious sphere-shaped objects scattered across the crater floor at Meridiani Planum, the landing site of the Opportunity Mars rover.
It's so obviously a good idea that you have to wonder why nobody thought of it long ago. More and more companies are approaching local universities and asking for customized degree programs aimed a...
Whenever management lingo becomes so pervasive that it creeps into two consecutive FORTUNE cover stories, an exposition is due. And so it goes with "true north."
As an architect, Joe Groff, 33, of Phoenix knows the importance of designing an extra margin of safety into his houses. So it should come as no surprise that he and his wife Susan, 39, both graduat...
As the 4,000 attendees of a recent Austin job fair (see the photo) clearly know, the surest way to secure employment in the worst job market in eight years is to figure out which companies are hiri...
April is the cruelest month for tens of thousands of anxious high school seniors. Each day they go to the mailbox looking for responses from the colleges of their choice, either in a thick envelope...
AS THE SERVICE SECTOR continues to outshine manufacturing, as tomorrow's technology replaces today's, U.S. cities are fast learning to adapt. Some have emerged from the process as veritable boomtow...
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