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Byline: Jeff Miller DALLAS _ The NCAA's new academic performance rates released publicly Monday are primarily aimed at improving classroom performances in major college football, men's basketball and baseball. In […]

Byline: Jeff Miller MIAMI _ Oh yeah, Matt Leinart's coming back next season. And Oklahoma was coming back Tuesday, too. No chance, right? No way, huh? No reason, certainly. Not […]

Byline: Jeff Miller LOS ANGELES _ By the end of the work week and the beginning of the game, after seeing him swivel and slice and shimmy through the defense […]

Byline: Jeff Miller LOS ANGELES _ These teams suddenly were separated not by six poll spots or six points but by just 9 yards. Twenty-seven feet of a football field […]

Byline: Jeff Miller ANAHEIM, Calif. _ There's no one else to suspend and no more injuries to rally around, and the Rangers and A's are off the remaining schedule. The […]

Byline: Jeff Miller ANAHEIM, Calif. _ He was asked about jitters, naturally, but Chone Figgins has been here before, right? In the playoffs. On the field. With the Angels. Well, […]

Byline: Jeff Miller ANAHEIM, Calif. _ He was asked about jitters, naturally, but Chone Figgins has been here before, right? In the playoffs. On the field. With the Angels. Well, […]

Byline: Jeff Miller WEST POINT, N.Y. _ Army's storied Michie Stadium became an unlikely setting Saturday for what might become the turning point in TCU's season. TCU crisis have come […]

Byline: Jeff Miller SAN FRANCISCO _ Nine innings of huffing and puffing behind them, seven games of destiny control in front of them, the Dodgers emerged Sunday feeling drained but […]

Byline: Jeff Miller STANFORD, Calif. _ So were you worried? Uneasy? Doubting? More importantly, were they? "I was walking around with a smile on my face," USC's Matt Leinart said. […]

Byline: Jeff Miller SAN DIEGO _ His team had netted 36 inches passing in the first half and turned the ball over four times total, and he was being badgered […]

Byline: Jeff Miller PASADENA, Calif. _ Could have been a steamroller, a school bus or a Mardi Gras parade. Could have been all three stacked up and capped by the […]

Byline: Jeff Miller ATHENS _ U.S. softball coach Mike Candrea rose from a crouch on the third step of the dugout, hugged his assistants, then calmly walked toward the pitching […]

Byline: Jeff Miller ATHENS _ OK, so it's hasn't really worked out. The International Softball Federation changed some rules two years ago in what was called an effort to add […]

Byline: Jeff Miller The NCAA last spring added more bark to its goal of making major college scholarship athletes more academically accountable. Now there's the matter of establishing the actual […]

Byline: Jeff Miller SANTA ANA, Calif. _ So now the Los Angeles Dodgers have done something. It's just that they haven't done the thing. Paul LoDuca, Guillermo Mota and Juan […]

Byline: Jeff Miller DALLAS, Texas _ Former Wylie High School football standout Christopher Ross will plead no contest to involuntary manslaughter in the death of a fellow student at Fort […]

Byline: Jeff Miller DALLAS _ The 15-month makeover of the United States Olympic Committee's hierarchy was completed Monday with the introduction of a trimmed-down board of directors chaired by Peter […]

Byline: Jeff Miller WASHINGTON _ Those wishing to pay their respects to Ronald Reagan in Washington this week should come early and prepare for long lines and security checks. A […]

Byline: Jeff Miller MINNEAPOLIS _ Shaquille O'Neal hustled for an early put-back basket Saturday, then rushed down to block a layup by a driving Darrick Martin. Minutes later, another easy […]

Byline: Jeff Miller WASHINGTON _ Charles Kowalchuk was standing on the plaza of the National World War II Memorial on Friday when a woman tapped his arm and reached out […]

Byline: Jeff Miller SAN ANTONIO _ He isn't a face from the Lakers' Mount Rushmore of Hall of Famers; he's more like a pebble in the other team's shoe. Not […]

Byline: Jeff Miller LOS ANGELES _ He didn't take out any of the Spurs at the ACLs like he did in Game 3. Nor did he swat away San Antonio […]

Byline: Jeff Miller KELOWNA, British Columbia _ Twenty-year-old winger Randall Gelech led the Western Hockey League's Kelowna Rockets in scoring this season and stands 6-1, 195 pounds before he adds […]

Byline: Jeff Miller and Mike Heika DALLAS _ Debate about the role of violent play in hockey is older than the NHL itself. It resurfaced this year after a fist-fest […]

Byline: Jeff Miller DALLAS _ Four-time NHL goals leader Teemu Selanne had a different definition of March madness. The Colorado winger saw 11 fellow players and even one coach suspended […]

Byline: Jeff Miller SAN ANTONIO _ Sometimes you have to flip the binoculars around and squint into the tiny images to see the big picture. This morning _ with this […]

Byline: Jeff Miller LOS ANGELES _ The Houston Rockets had nearly three days to prepare for their most significant game. They then were beaten by a man who had barely […]

Byline: Jeff Miller HOUSTON _ The four future Hall of Famers played another playoff game Friday night, so you know what that means, right? Sure, another one of living bronze […]

Byline: Jeff Miller LOS ANGELES _ The Bruins met the No. 1 team in college basketball Saturday, and they have the bumps to prove it. And afterward ... they slumped, […]

Byline: Jeff Miller PHILADELPHIA _ They overcame a three-game losing streak. A loss to Houston. A loss to Atlanta. A single playoff victory all-time. A 1-15 record only two seasons […]

Byline: Jeff Miller MIAMI _ Pass the soap, please, for today we shower together. All of us, in a giant tub, under a cleansing cascade so powerful it might as […]

Byline: Jeff Miller NASHVILLE, Tenn. _ At a time when NCAA Division I-A schools are seriously looking at five years of eligibility for football players, the winds of reform blew […]

Byline: Jeff Miller MIAMI _ His team had won nine of its 10 games and just drilled Georgia by 24 points, and Buzz Peterson was buzzing with I-feel-good. 'The guys […]

Byline: Jeff Miller NASHVILLE, Tenn. _ In the coming year before his group reconvenes in Grapevine, NCAA president Myles Brand said the measures and reforms that he supports amount to […]

Byline: Jeff Miller NASHVILLE, Tenn. _ NCAA Division I members were informed Sunday of some details of the "incentives-disincentives" program that could go into effect this fall, the last portion […]

Byline: Jeff Miller MIAMI _ Steve Spurrier failed as a person, not as a profession. The idea that his two unsteady years in Washington _ OK, two disastrous years _ […]

Byline: Jeff Miller NEW ORLEANS _ They stood arm-in-arm, thrust their index fingers toward the ceiling and beat their chests as obviously as they beat their opponent. And over all […]

Byline: Jeff Miller NEW ORLEANS _ Presented now are two actual quotes produced in advance of Sunday's Sugar Bowl: 'We took a team picture,' Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said, 'and […]

Byline: Jeff Miller NEW ORLEANS _ Say you don't like USC. For whatever reason. Don't like the Southern California cool. Don't like that the quarterback was described in one newspaper […]

Byline: Jeff Miller DALLAS _ Eli Manning on Friday gave Mississippi football fans their first victory in a major bowl since his father accomplished the feat 24 years ago, and […]

Byline: Jeff Miller PASADENA, Calif. _ One team in the Rose Bowl is supremely confident because of its place in the polls, excited by the high stakes involved and feeling […]

Byline: Jeff Miller PASADENA, Calif. _ Out here, at the end of the Earth, where they have drive-through bistros and ice skating rinks on the beach and a movie star […]

Byline: Jeff Miller PASADENA, Calif. _ How in the name of everything holy in Florida and football did this happen? How did one of the best college wide receivers end […]

Byline: Jeff Miller DALLAS _ Friday's SBC Cotton Bowl Classic will at least temporarily close the curtain on a 35-year run for America's first family of college quarterbacking. Thirty-five years […]

Byline: Jeff Miller MIAMI _ Sorry, no games on Sunday. College football is taking one last deep breath before finishing this season with the subtlety and pace of a fireworks […]

Byline: Jeff Miller MIAMI _ We're talking about a determent here. That's all. Just a slap on the wrist, with a little forced ATM withdrawal to make sure Joe Horn […]

Byline: Jeff Miller MIAMI _ He has spent so much of his life under the lights, on a court so illuminated it shines right back, brightness bouncing in every direction. […]

Byline: Jeff Miller MIAMI _ Set the Sun (Bowl). DOA the GMAC (Bowl). Forget the Alamo (Bowl). Gone, gone and gone. All of them, from the New Orleans Bowl to […]

Byline: Jeff Miller MIAMI _ Stop the moaning. Enough already. There's a 'we' in whine and an 'us' in cuss, and if this doesn't end the whole group should be […]