The trip turned into a working vacation. Bennett arranged a tryout with Bobby Beathard, general manager of the San Diego Chargers, who sent him back to Australia with an instructional video. Bennett found an Americanrules football league where he could practice punting in the face of rushing linemen.The two players connected almost immediately at the start of Lions training camp. If anyone could relate to the rookie, even one who is 67 and 330 pounds, it was LaRose, whose father was deported at an early age. He was raised by a single mother on welfare in a family where drug addiction was widespread..

The Oakland A's have selected a stadium site in Fremont that would allow them to escape the baseballunfriendly mess that was made of the Coliseum to accommodate the Raiders. The 49ers are considering two football stadium sites, one on the Great America parking lot in Santa Clara and the other a toxic waste site at Hunters Point in San Francisco. A's owner Lewis Wolff wants a n