STOCK WATCH: Fast-Glance Week in Review

Feb. 18, 2008 | Dick's Stock Watch provides a fast-glance review of the past week in the world of sports, charting whose stock is up and whose is down.

STOCK UP
•Ryan Newman won his first Daytona 500 winner, edging out Kurt Busch.

•Connecticut men's basketball team has won nine straight games after beating South Florida in a real nail-biter.

•Dwight Howard won the slam dunk contest during All-Star weekend.

•The Hawks picked up guard Mike Bibby from the Sacramento Kings.

•Kelly Pavlik beat Jermain Taylor again.

STOCK DOWN

•The Kelvin Sampson story is a sad one. I simply ask why make illegal phone calls, did he really gain a major advantage?

•I am tired of the Roger Clemens-Brian McNamee soap opera.

•Buffalo Bills wide receiver Roscoe Parrish was charged with a DUI.

Dick Vitale coached the Pistons and the University of Detroit before broadcasting ESPN's first college basketball game in December 1979. Send him a question for possible use on ESPNEWS.