Adrian Gonzalez would have been in the last year of his contract in 2011, but the Padres were not going to meet Gonzalez ’ s open market value especially with Jeff Moorad ’ s purchase of the Padres from John Moores not completing until around 2013.

In 2010, the Beavers were sold to Jeff Moorad, principal owner of the San Diego Padres.

In reaction Jeff Moorad announced he would sell the team if a location within the San Diego area could not be found.

Late in the 2004 baseball season, Colangelo sold his controlling interest in the Arizona Diamondbacks to a group of investors led by Jeff Moorad.

* 1997 Jeff Moorad, former agent and partial owner of the San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks, contracted the disease in 1997.

For many years Steinberg and Jeff Moorad had a sports agency partnership ( Steinberg, Moorad & Dunn or " SMD ").

* Greg Genske: Successor in sports agency formerly run by Jeff Moorad ( baseball ) and Leigh Steinberg ( football ).

* Jeff Moorad: Former baseball agent and former partner of Leigh Steinberg, now baseball executive and part-owner of San Diego Padres.

Originally led by entrepreneurial agents Leigh Steinberg and Jeff Moorad.

He is currently in the process of incrementally selling his share to a group of 12 investors, headed by Jeff Moorad ( former sports agent and CEO of the Arizona Diamondbacks ).

In 2010, the franchise was purchased by San Diego Padres principal owner Jeff Moorad, after the Portland City Council chose to build a new soccer-only facility over a proposed joint-use baseball and soccer stadium.

Johnson severed ties with NFL agents Michael Huegue and Jeff Moorad before hiring sports attorney Don West, Jr. to negotiate Johnson's rookie contract with the Texans.

Professional football players include former Miami Dolphins quarterback Jay Fiedler, linebacker Reggie Williams, three-time Pro Bowler Nick Lowery, quarterback Jeff Kemp, and Tennessee Titans tight end Casey Cramer.

MacKaye went on to found Embrace with former members of The Faith, the obscure Egg Hunt with Jeff Nelson and later Fugazi and The Evens, as well as collaborating on Pailhead.

* 1948 – Jeff Kennett, Australian former politician

From England, two former guitarists with the Yardbirds, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, moved on to form key acts in the genre, The Jeff Beck Group and Led Zeppelin respectively.

His cousins, Martin and Jeff Crowe, are former New Zealand cricket captains.

He played in school, and his cousins Martin Crowe and Jeff Crowe are former Black Caps Captains.

According to a 20-page search warrant affidavit signed by IRS Special Agent Jeff Novitzky, Grimsley told investigators he obtained amphetamines, anabolic steroids and human growth hormone from someone recommended to him by former Yankees trainer Brian McNamee.

* Jeff Mallett, former president and chief operating officer, Yahoo!

On November 8, 2008 former Yankees Scott Brosius, Paul O ' Neill, David Cone and Jeff Nelson, all members of the 1998 World Series championship team, joined 60 children from two Bronx based youth groups Youth Force 2020 and the ACE Mentor Program in ceremoniously digging up home plate, the pitcher's mound pitching plate ( rubber ) and the surrounding dirt of both areas and transporting them to comparable areas of new Yankee Stadium.

Pearl Jam, which featured former Mother Love Bone members Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard, had released its debut album Ten in August 1991, a month before Nevermind, but album sales only picked up a year later.

Wells ' War of the Worlds, devised and produced by former David Essex producer Jeff Wayne.

Chet Atkins, noted country musician and former record company executive, appeared on the show many times, as have singer-songwriters Mark Knopfler ( lead guitarist and frontman of the bands Dire Straits and the Notting Hillbillies ) and Jeff Lang.

In 1999, the company hired former assistant attorney general Anne Bingaman, married to Democratic New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman, as a Washington lobbyist, paying her $ 2. 5 million between January and June 1999 to try to block licensing of an AT & T, MCI, and Sprint consortium cable from the U. S. to Japan.

* Jeff Torborg ( born 1941 ), former professional baseball player and manager.

On December 28, 2004, head coach Jeff Bzdelik was fired from the organization and replaced by interim coach, former Los Angeles Laker player and Los Angeles Sparks head coach Michael Cooper.

A week later, the Jazz hired former Jazz player Jeff Hornacek as an assistant coach.

On Fox Sports Ohio, Jeff Rimer serves as the television play-by-play announcer alongside former CBJ radio analyst Bill Davidge, who joined Rimer in 2009-10 replacing previous analyst Danny Gare.

* Jeff Bostic, a former American football Offensive lineman player for National Football League for the Washington Redskins, born in Greensboro, graduated from Ben L. Smith High School.

* Jeff Davis, ( American football ) ( born 1960 ), former NFL football player ( Tampa Bay Buccaneers ), member of Clemson's 1981 national championship team, attended Dudley High School.

* Jeff Malone, American former professional basketball player

* Jeff Kubenka, former Major League Baseball pitcher

The ensemble consists of Jeff Salkin himself in addition to former Nasdaq President Alfred Berkeley and former Nasdaq Vice President Maribel Aber acting as moderators and interviewers.

* 1955 – Jeff Stelling, English sports television presenter

By March 1947, the NCS had 112 members, including Bud Fisher ( Mutt and Jeff ), Don Flowers ( Glamor Girls ), Bob Kane ( Batman ), Fred Lasswell ( Barney Google and Snuffy Smith ), George Lichty ( Grin and Bear It ), Zack Mosley ( The Adventures of Smilin ' Jack ), Alex Raymond ( Rip Kirby ), Cliff Sterrett ( Polly and Her Pals ) and Chic Young ( Blondie ), plus editorial cartoonists Reg Manning and Fred O. Seibel and sports cartoonist Willard Mullin.

The program is hosted by Canadian sports broadcaster Jeff Marek.

Piedmont is home to a number of notable individuals in the political, business, sports, and academic communities, including: ex-Major League Baseball player Dave McCarty ; ex-National Football League player Bubba Paris, San Francisco 49ers ; ex-National Football League player Bill Romanowski ; Ambassador to Australia Jeff Bleich ; Peter Docter, director of Pixar's Monsters, Inc. and Up and co-writer of WALL-E ; Billie Joe Armstrong of the rock band Green Day ; Eric Whitaker, GC of Tesla Motors ; Thomas Horn, actor ; and Dr. George Rutherford, State Health Officer. Also Dipper and Mabel Pines from the Disney Channel show " Gravity Falls " was born here.

* Jeff Sagarin, statistician for sports, contributor to USA Today

* In the field of sports, Rider graduates include: Jack Armstrong, 1990 Major League Baseball ( MLB ) All-Star and World Champion ; Al Downing, 1967 MLB All-Star and Strikout Champion, and 1971 MLB Comeback Player of the Year ; Jeff Kunkel, professional baseball player ; Caroline Lind, MBA, Olympic Gold Medal rower at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing ; Digger Phelps, ESPN college basketball analyst and former Notre Dame Fighting Irish basketball coach ; Bobby Smith, National Soccer Hall of Fame member ; and Jason Thompson, basketball player in the NBA.

It is currently hosted by Beverly Thomson and Marci Ien, with Jeff Hutcheson presenting the weather forecast and sports.

Notable professional sports players from Delta are Jeff Francis ( MLB ), Justin Morneau ( MLB ), Brent Seabrook ( NHL ), Troy Brouwer ( NHL ) and Mitch Berger ( NFL ).

World and National Championship-winning motorcycling greats such as Kenny Roberts and Jeff Ward, whose respective sports at the time were road-racing and motocross, participated in the races.

EA Sports ' early motto was If it's in the game, it's in the game, later changed to " It's in the game " This tag line, strategized by Don Transeth, written by Jeff Odiorne and Michael Wilde, and delivered by the voice of EA Sports, Andrew Anthony, has become a cultural rallying cry throughout the sports universe.

* Jeff Stelling, sports journalist.

* Jeff Stelling, British sports journalist, sport television presenter and gameshow host

* Jeff Leyland-( 2004 – 2006, sports )

* Jeff Pearlman, American writer, best known for his work on sports.

CTV's morning show Canada AM's weather and sports man, Jeff Hutcheson currently lives in Fenwick.

Like Mutt and Jeff, Barney Google started out on the sports page.

These include sports reporter Stephen Quartermain, film reviewer Lawrie Zion and Hollywood correspondent Jeff Stilson.

Jeff Sagarin is an American sports statistician well known for his development of a methodology for ranking and rating sports teams in a variety of sports.

Kenneth Howes and Jeff Crompton were tasked with doing a complete redesign in 1956, with the goal of producing a dedicated sports car aimed principally at the US market.

Other drivers to suffer fatal injuries at the speedway are John Nemechek in a Camping World Truck Race on March 16, 1997, and Jeff Clinton who died in a Grand Am sports car event at the track in March 2002.