Word: phenoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...free agency and oversize payrolls. Staying at the top is next to impossible. "Everybody thinks he's underpaid," sighs Alderson. Owners of other teams, of course, think Alderson is paying too much -- not just for his stars but for minor leaguers. This summer the A's signed high school phenom Todd Van Poppel for $1.2 million...
...Phenom Watch: Freshmen can't play Ivy League football, so highly touted recruit David Morgan is no threat to steal Lazarre-White's QB job. But they can play baseball, and sources say the Bo Jackson-esque Morgan hit a 400-foot home run at an informal Crimson practice last week...
...well over $2 billion last year, when it ranked second only to the Warner Music Group. In the process, Yetnikoff managed to foster some of the most profitable talent ever to reach the music industry, from Michael Jackson and Billy Joel to the Rolling Stones and the pop phenom New Kids on the Block...
...lost her fourth-round Wimbledon match to the No. 1 seeded Steffi Graf. So what? In a sport of whining millionaires, the 14-year-old U.S. phenom was endearing and ebullient in defeat: "I enjoyed being out there with her. I thought she was just great." Love match...
...meter race at the NCAA track and field championships in Durham, N.C. Rainey's time of 2:00.48 was over three seconds faster than her time last June--when she was the NCAA champion in the event--but was over one second-and-a-half behind Wisconsin phenom Suzy Favor. Tennessee's Jasmine Jones nipped Rainey for second place in a time...