The Next Pac-10 Commissioner

Larry Scott, Chairman and CEO of the Women's Tennis Association, has been chosen to replace Tom Hansen as Pac-10 Commissioner beginning on July 1, 2009.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=4012974

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/pac10/0-7-209/New-commish-Scott-energized-for-Pac-10-s-challenges.html

If you read the second link (a blog by ESPN.com's Ted Miller) the reference to Sisyphean means "a legendary king of Corinth condemned eternally to repeat the cycle of rolling a heavy rock up a hill in Hades only to have it roll down again as it nears the top." I had to look it up in the dictionary.

If you choose to skip the links, what you really need to know is that L.A. Daily News Sportswriter Scott Wolf reports that Scott was the Pac-10's fourth choice and that Scott "...believe(s) the Pac-10's bowl arrangements and television contracts can be improved in terms of increasing revenue and exposure, particularly in football and basketball."

According to the ESPN story, the other reported candidates included Sandy Alderson, outgoing CEO of the San Diego Padres and former executive vice president for Major League Baseball operations; and Greg Shaheen, the NCAA's senior vice president of basketball and business strategies, who turned down the job in January, according to the Sports Business Journal. According to Scott Wolf, former Stanford athletic director Ted Leland, was at one time a front runner for the job.