High-wire act

A band of hunters push legal 'gray area' on dove hunt — and officials come calling

2001 Hurricanes cream of BCS champions crop

Is 2001 Miami the best BCS champ? What about 2004 USC? Where do the 2001 Oklahoma and 1998 Tennessee teams fit in? Mark Schlabach ranks the 10 BCS champions.

Team preview: Oklahoma State

Blue Ribbon Yearbook previews the 2005 college football season, exclusively on Insider.

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Akin, Boomer take Retriever Series

Chris Akin and Boomer obviously have a connection. All week long organizers of the Super Retriever Series have said that the courses set up in this contest are supposed to test the bond between handler and retriever.

Boomer captures first gold

Boomer, a 4-year-old black Labrador retriever, captured the first gold medal of the 2003 Games as he and his handler, Chris Akin of Jonesboro, Ark., finished with 34 points, handily beating three other dogs, including the past two gold medallists.

Windy start to Retriever Trials

Dana Giovanello of Cabot, Ark. and his 6-year-old yellow lab Windy turned in the top performance in the opening round of the Retriever Trials.

A Windy day at Retriever Trials

Dana Giovanello of Cabot, Ark., watched his 6-year-old yellow Labrador, Windy, complete the best run in the history of the Great Outdoor Games

Chris Akin

N.C. team leads Retrievers

Rankin is a relative newcomer to retriever trials, but the 3-year-old yellow Labrador retriever played the part of a cagey veteran in Tuesday's Retriever Trial preliminary round.

Round 1 upends Retriever field

The Games already are serving up athletes and setting others down. After the first round of the Retriever Trial, the last two years' gold medalists have barely survived, an alternate is one of the top dogs and the favorite is going home.

Golden finish at SRS

Golden finish at 'brutal' La. event

Tennessee team wins SRS

Tennessee team wins SRS, Games berth

Q&A: A golden retriever team

Chris Akin and Boomer the black Lab are the No. 1 seeds for the Retriever Trial heading into the Great Outdoor Games.

Jackson's Achilles finally golden

J. Paul Jackson finally feels vindicated. Jackson and Achilles won the gold medal Wednesday in the Retriever Trial, silencing the team's biggest critic on whether they were good enough to do it. Never mind that Jackson is his own biggest critic.

Tenn. retriever team wins gold

MADISON, Wis. — J. Paul Jackson didn't give his Labrador retriever its name, but he helped the canine live up to it during Wednesday's final round in the retriever trials of the ESPN Great Outdoor Games presented by Dodge.