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What others are saying …
Published March 11, 2013“He brought this broad vision of marketing, and more than anybody, he may have been the one that started this movement from conference to conference that we still have going on today. He saw the opportunity to expand the conference. He even looked with exciting eyes toward Texas. He was hoping to get Texas A&M and Texas into the SEC. Can you imagine what that would have done to the market? We now have some of what he saw many years ago.” VINCE DOOLEY Former University of Georgia coach and at...
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An American Original
Published March 11, 2013 by Tripp MickleTHE CHAMPIONS ...in a series of profiles of the 2013 class of The Champions: ...inson about Harvey Schiller and the 2013 class of Champions of Sports Business. ...more schools would allow it to create a football championship.
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Assessing the icons
Published March 11, 2013If you look at that, that was the beginning of a championship season.
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The Dell Executive Tree
Published March 04, 2013■ Ray Clark, founder of The Marketing Arm ■ Phil de Picciotto, Octagon president ■ Steve Disson, figure skating impresario ■ Mark Dowley, longtime sports and entertainment agency chief ■ Peter Farnsworth, former NBA senior vice president, business development ■ Sara Fornaciari, former executive director of the WTA Players Association ■ Fred Fried, Team Services co-founder ■ Steve Horowitz, Inner Circle Sports partner ■ Jeff Knapple, naming-rights pioneer ■ Ross Levinsohn, former Yahoo interim...
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Donald Dell: Ace Agent
Published March 04, 2013 by Terry Lefton...in a series of profiles of the 2013 class of The Champions: ...m Stinson about Donald Dell and the 2013 class of Champions of Sports Business. ...gated,” said Benton, now CEO of the Junior Tennis Champions Center in College Park, Md. “He gave other people...
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Donald Dell: Dell: Up close and personal
Published March 04, 2013■ What kind of politician would you have been? “I would love to have been in politics. My wife hates it. She always tells me that we never would have stayed married if I had gotten into politics. Today, I don’t really like the direction it’s taken. Everything is bought and sold for access. And the first question any potential candidate gets now is, Can you raise money?” ■ Regrets … “When I was young, I was late a lot for meetings. That pissed people off. You can always find a reason you w...
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Rosa Gatti: Trailblazer
Published February 25, 2013 by John Ourand...in a series of profiles of the 2013 class of The Champions: ...om Stinson about Rosa Gatti and the 2013 class of Champions of Sports Business.
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After nearly 33 years guiding ESPN’s message, Gatti bids farewell this week
Published February 25, 2013The press release announcing Gatti’s 1980 hiring at ESPN included then President Chet Simmons saying, “Rosa Gatti has been extremely successful in a field of endeavor heretofore male dominated.” Editor's note: This story is revised from the print edition. More than a year ago, when George Bodenheimer told Rosa Gatti about his plans to step down as ESPN’s president, Gatti had a quick response. “I said, ‘Geo...
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From The Office Of The President
Published February 25, 2013“Everybody that Rosa met was just captivated by her. She established some really good contacts despite the fact that she thought she would be just run out of town at first. She was a talented and a competent person, and her personality just fit with what we were trying to do. She was a can-do person from the get-go. She took care of things. She would tell people that she would do something, and she would do it. A lot of people don’t do that in the PR business. I can’t imagine where the time h...
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Tough as nails
Published February 18, 2013 by Michael SmithWhat about when the SEC moved the football championship game from Birmingham, Ala. ...in a series of profiles of the 2013 class of The Champions: ...om Stinson about Roy Kramer and the 2013 class of Champions of Sports Business. ...st divisions and setting the stage for a football championship game. The championship game, the first of its kind, drew plenty of sk... ...he end of the SEC’s chances of winning a national championship,” Kramer said.
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Kramer ‘a master puppeteer’ in dealing with TV networks
Published February 18, 2013 by Michael Smith...same time, ABC had the rights to the SEC football championship game for two more years. ...But it was the only way they could get a national championship game in place.
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Roy Kramer: Behind the curtain …
Published February 18, 2013Kramer got the idea to move the SEC’s football championship game from Birmingham, Ala.
