Today's rock stars are:
The University of Florida basketball team
"They're rock stars on this campus now, as they should be," athletic director Jeremy Foley said, sitting in his office in Gainesville on a mid-February afternoon.
Baltimore Sun
NASCAR's top drivers
"And there's also the chance to associate with the sport's top drivers, who have reached a rock-star status of sorts in the 2000s. "
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Atlanta Journal-Constitutions tempers the rock star metaphor with the qualifier "of sorts." From the looks of current NASCAR leaders Mark Martin and Jeff Burton, the only athletes older than actual vintage rock stars are NASCAR drivers.
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