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Bill King
Senior writer Bill King writes special projects and covers combat sports and educational programs.
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Reinsdorf values people he knows and trusts05 / 20 / 13When Steve Schanwald was in the intensive care unit of a Chicago hospital, recovering from surgery after a heart attack, one of the first people to call him was Jerry Reinsdorf. He told the Bulls’ executive vice president of business opera... Tags: Events and Attractions |
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Busy times at Golden Boy
The first Golden Boy Promotions fight card that was televised nationally aired nine years ago on HBO Latino, emanating from the Olympic Auditorium, a historic venue that since has been converted into a Korean-American church. Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer was flipping through a stack of old fig ...
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Pacquiao cracks pistachio lineup
Editor's note: This story is revised from the print edition. The 15-second TV spot opens with boxer Manny Pacquiao rhythmically peppering a green speed bag to music. When he unleashes a hard left hand, the bag explodes, spraying hundreds of pistachio nuts into the air. “Manny Pacquiao d ...
HBO’s Hershman keeps his cool
Long before he landed the job as head of HBO Sports, Ken Hershman worked in the securities practice at a Wall Street law firm. Corporate finance didn’t excite him, but the firm was old and the sector was hot. It seemed a comfortable path. The first deal Hershman worked on involved a paper c ...
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Rivalry fuels college hoops
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Election 2012: The sports battleground
Writers David Broughton and Bill King on how political campaigns have spent their money in sports. I n the weeks leading up to the Republican National Convention, viewers in Tampa who tuned in to the Summer Olym ...
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Univision's sports play
The head of America’s latest startup sports network stepped onto the patio of his Miami office, out into the thick air that lingered after a tropical storm. “I’ve been talking too long without a cigarette,” said Juan Carlos Rodriguez, who three months ago left his job as ...
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Key players in Hispanic TV
■ Univision The dominant player in Hispanic media launched a 24-hour sports network in April. While not yet available on Time Warner, Comcast or DirecTV, the channel will make a strong push for broader distribution behind a heavy rotation of Mexican soccer. On the air: Mexican soccer, ...
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Industry Salary Survey
As he tracks back through a decade as head of the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center at the University of Oregon, which annually produces about 20 MBA graduates who specialize in sports, Paul Swangard has little trouble identifying the alumni who went to work for pro franchises. “I can literall ...
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Charter school fund finds its champion
Andre Agassi sat at the front of a first-grade class at a recently opened Philadelphia charter school, asking as many questions as he answered. How are you going to make yourself better? How many of you think you are going to college? Where? ...
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NBC bringing boxing back to network TV
NBC will bring pro boxing back to network television as part of a two-year extension of the “Fight Night” series that has aired on NBC Sports Network this year, taking another swing at a sport that last appeared on terrestrial television in 2004 and hasn’t run there consistently si ...
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