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1974 World Football League season

Key: PC = voted on by players and coaches of the WFL; TSN = selection by The Sporting News

2006 College Football All-America Team

The 2006 College Football All-America Team is composed of the following All-American Teams: Associated Press, Football Writers Association of America, American Football Coaches Association, Walter Camp Foundation, The Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Pro Football Weekly, CBS Sports, ESPN, College Football News, Rivals.com, and Scout.com.

2008 College Football All-America Team

The 2008 College Football All-America Team is composed of the following All-American first teams: American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), Associated Press (AP), Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), Walter Camp Football Foundation, The Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Pro Football Weekly, ESPN, CBS Sports, College Football News, Rivals.com, and Scout.com.

Greg Rhodes

A member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), Rhodes has twice won one of the organization's top awards: The Sporting News-SABR Baseball Research Award, which recognizes outstanding baseball research in areas other than history and biography.

Hal McRae

Selected a three-time All-Star, he hit over .300 six times for the Royals and was named Designated Hitter of the Year three times both by The Sporting News and the Associated Press.

James Enright

After retiring in 1964 from a refereeing career that saw him officiate the 1954 NCAA tournament Final Four and the 1948 and 1952 Olympic basketball qualifying tournaments, Enright resumed a career he had abandoned for refereeing in 1930 and covered basketball and baseball for such publications as The Sporting News and the Chicago Evening American.

Javin Hunter

In football, he was a first team Parade prep All-American, USA Today second-team All-American, rated 34th best player nationally by The Sporting News and 37th best player by Chicago Sun-Times.

Jim Wacker

After the season, Wacker was named as National Coach of the Year by ESPN, the UPI, and The Sporting News.

Rubén Marino Navarro

That season he was voted a first team all-star and MVP of the league by The Sporting News.


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Ernest Lanigan

During a two-year convalescene in the Adirondack Mountains, he continued his baseball stat gathering for The Sporting News, as he had during his banking career, and began inventing new statistics.

Fantasy Sports Writers Association

The current FSWA Board of Directors consists of: Pierre Becquey (ESPN, Ryan Bonini (KFFL), Scott Engel (RotoExperts), Michael Fabiano (NFL.com), Paul Forrester (Sprts Illustrated), Brandon Funston (Yahoo!), John T. Georgopoulos (Sports Grumblings), Kelly Grogan, Mike Harmon (FOX), Peter Madden (CBS), Lenny Pappano (Draft Sharks), Brad Pinkerton (The Sporting News), Peter Schoenke (RotoWire), Ron Shandler (Baseball HQ) and Brett Vandermark (RotoWorld).

Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery

Franklin Gritts, Cherokee artist and art director of the Sporting News.

Wally Gilbert

In September 1954, Roscoe McGowen in The Sporting News selected Gilbert over Billy Cox and Joe Stripp as the third baseman on his All-Time Dodgers team.