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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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He held the small, torn scrap of paper at a distance, tilting it to catch the light from an overcast winter afternoon. Marvin Miller came upon the note a month earlier, while arranging boxes in a hall closet. A sheet to ...
Tags: People and Pop Culture
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When Sandy Sandoval was contemplating who to recommend for the cover of EA Sports’ new “Fight Night Champion” boxing release, the first choice was an obvious one. The brightest star in boxing, Manny Pacquiao, is under contract to appear exclusively in games produced by EA. Sandoval opted instead t ...
Tecate pours it on for Pacquiao-Mosley
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UFC records to topple in Toronto
The ever effusive president of the UFC, Dana White, often said he feared that promoting a mixed martial arts event in a baseball or football stadium would be like selling tickets to watch two ants fight on the top of a matchbox. Score one for the ants. NEWSCOM The ...
Power of the ring
The largest World Series ring on earth has a secret. Conceived by owner Jeffrey Loria in the afterglow of the Florida Marlins’ unlikely World Series victory in 2003, with a baseball-shaped top fronted by a leaping fish, the ring sparkles from the cut of 228 white diamonds, one rare teal diamond, 13 ...
Tags: Franchises
CBS drawn to Pacquiao
Manny Pacquiao will fight Shane Mosley in a pay-per-view bout on Showtime.
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Golden Boy hires global TV sales exec
Golden Boy Promotions will launch an international television sales department under its Ring TV brand this week, hiring NASCAR’s former director of international broadcasting to run it. The Los Angeles-based boxing company, owned in principal by Oscar De La Hoya, will work to secure international ...
Tags: Media, Marketing and Sponsorship
UFC tries again for N.Y. sanction
The owners of the UFC and their often blustery CEO, Dana White, will join the president of Madison Square Garden Sports and others in New York on Thursday at a press conference to discuss the economic windfall that a mixed martial arts event would deliver to the cash-strapped state — were it not one ...
MLL plots relocation, expansion
Major League Lacrosse is moving its Toronto franchise to nearby Hamilton and soon will vote to add two new markets — Columbus, Ohio, and the Carolinas, most likely Charlotte. The two new teams would begin play in 2012 if they’re approved at the league’s next board of managers meeting on Jan. 21. A ...
PRCA seeks deeper ties with core fans
When the head of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association announced last month that the sanctioning body's Super Bowl, the Wrangler National Finals, would be leaving ESPN for a network seen in about two-thirds as many homes, it raised eyebrows in western business circles. "I don't want to ...
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