Bill King

Senior writer Bill King is the lead contributor to Sports Business Journal’s In-Depth stories, Special Report coverage and profiles, in addition to covering boxing, MMA and the field of sports business education. He has won numerous national and regional writing awards since joining SBJ in 1998. King brings extensive experience to his work, having spent 12 years at daily newspapers in Florida, where he covered Major League Baseball, the NBA, NFL and major college football. BEATS: Special Projects/Profiles: General assignment; Boxing/UFC: (big-picture stories); Educational programs

Building winners in Gator Nation

Journal - 06/19/2006

When the athletic director at the University of Florida phoned Billy Donovan to ask if he was interested in the head basketball job 10 years ago, Donovan called his mentor, Rick Pitino. “No way,” Pitino told Donovan, who went 35-20 in two years coaching...

Happy to deal with tension that running the Cowboys can bring

Journal - 06/12/2006

Jerry Jones was in a Dallas hotel room, offering a Texas-sized chunk of money to land Deion Sanders for the Cowboys as the football season opened in 1995, when he summoned son Stephen with word that things were getting close. ...

Owning the Canadiens creates ‘a mutual learning process’

Journal - 06/12/2006

The story of George Gillett’s purchase of Canada’s national sporting treasure climaxes like a classic bit of film noir, set in midwinter at a Rocky Mountain ski lodge, where the protagonist and his son end a day on the slopes in an office with a...

After a franchise sale, battling empty-nest syndrome NBA-style

Journal - 06/12/2006

Jerry Colangelo still finds it strange leaving the Phoenix Suns’ headquarters at the end of the day, knowing that the office around the corner from his is empty. Jerry Colangelo (left) remains in Phoenix, but...

From water boy to executive, as his father did before him

Journal - 06/12/2006

There wasn’t room for Bill Bidwill at the table when he started attending NFL owners meetings with his father, Charles, who bought the Chicago Cardinals in 1932. Space was limited, and he was young. Michael Bidwill...

A family decision becomes a family business in Texas

Journal - 06/12/2006

Stooped over and working his way into the back of a stretch limousine, a Texas Rangers cap atop his head, boots on his feet and a business suit in between, Tom Hicks settled in for the ride from midtown Manhattan to Yankee Stadium. ...

For Hunts, a bond forged on the field

Journal - 06/12/2006

Norma Hunt’s eyes still glisten with the preface to tears when she tells the story of Mother’s Day, 1972, when her 7-year-old son went tumbling from a stone urn while playing on the back porch of their Dallas home. ...

Taking different paths, they’ve met at the top of the Blue Jays

Journal - 06/12/2006

Rob Godfrey remembers that it was cold on the day that the Toronto Blue Jays played their first game. And that, because it was cold, he wore a jacket over his Jays uniform. Paul Godfrey (right) became...

After years away, fulfilling a baseball heritage in St. Louis

Journal - 06/12/2006

Like his father, Bill DeWitt III grew up with the baseball business hard-wired into his genetics, but unsure of whether he’d ever get to complete the circuit. Bill DeWitt Jr. (left) and Bill III (center) escort ...

Suns pretend to start from scratch

Journal - 05/15/2006

The brainstorming sessions that led to a sweeping $67 million makeover of the Phoenix Suns’ downtown arena started with the most basic of questions, tendered by Suns chairman Jerry Colangelo, who was taken by what he saw at the recently opened Staples Center. ...

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