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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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Tecate's Big Hit
A couple of hours before the headliners entered the ring on a late July evening at Mandalay Bay, a man midway up the lower level rose to urge on Rocky Juarez, a Mexican-American fighter who won a silver medal at the 2000 Olympics, but was well on the way to his third loss in a row. “Con car ...
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In ‘Trading Places’ scenario, each sports executive-educator foun ...
Back when Jim Kahler ran sales and marketing for the Cleveland Cavaliers, he hired an Ohio State professor, Bill Sutton, to consult on research projects. “Someday, I want to be Bill Sutton,” Kahler used to say when they worked together. “Well, someday I want to be you, ...
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Inside the Classroom with...
John McDonough John McDonough was flattered when Northwestern University invited him to lecture and serve on the faculty advisory board in the sports administration master’s program it was launching in its school of continuing education six years ago. &ldquo ...
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Industry vets see teaching as their next challenge
The night school sports marketing class at Columbia University, populated by eight graduate students, six of them already working full time in sports, was early into its review of the week’s homework assignment when the instructor, Tony Ponturo, unlocked his vault. Ponturo, who for 1 ...
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Larkin recalled as one of boxing’s good guys
When boxing promoter Gary Shaw desperately needed a premium cable date to make the finances work on a fight deal he was negotiating, he often would call his friend, Jay Larkin, senior vice president of sports and events at Showtime. “I really need a date in September, Jay,” Shaw would s ...
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High school sports running on empty
Jim Quatromoni was raised in Hull, Mass., a tiny beach town 20 miles south of Boston, where he played on the same high school basketball team that he now coaches. He remembers the way his stomach turned flips when, in the summer before his junior year in 1989, he heard that the town had ...
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Golden Boy says sorry to N.Y. panel over missing filings
Golden Boy Promotions took a mea culpa to the New York State Athletic Commission last week, hoping to reduce, or at least mitigate, the damages from a 90-day suspension stemming from what its attorney called “an innocent mistake.” The commission suspended Golden Boy on July 6 for failin ...
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Judah next up for N.J. boxing franchise
When Zab Judah, former undisputed welterweight champion, stares back at motorists as they roll along the Jersey Turnpike, it’s hard to miss him. Judah’s gleaming, shaved head debuted on about a dozen billboards scattered around northern New Jersey three weeks ago, heralding a return ...
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Fight sites crucial for Showtime’s Super Six
So popular in Germany is Armenian-born boxer Arthur Abraham that he sold out the 14,200-seat O2 World Arena in Berlin for his opening bout in Showtime’s Super Six super middleweight tournament in October. Prone to grand entrances, Abraham turned his ring walk into a ring hover, descend ...
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Life’s lessons
There’s an old story about the tug of an alma mater that goes like this: Paul “Bear” Bryant was a year removed from winning a Southwest Conference championship as coach at Texas A&M when he left to return to his alma mater, Alabama, which had won only four games in the previous thre ...
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