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Bill King

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

Where the teens are

This is the first in an occasional series in which SportsBusiness Journal will study demographic trends among sports fans, from the youth of teenage years to fans older than 50. Other parts will appear later in the year. Troll the pages...

Why no union in NASCAR?

While some drivers on NASCAR’s top circuit occasionally gripe about their lack of formal input on the setting of race schedules and their lack of a pension plan, they’ve shown no indication that they’re inclined to move toward unionization any time soon....

Minding their business

Standing at the center of the museum at Hendrick Motorsports during the team’s media day, an array of stock car drivers surround you, like stages of a time line. Agent Cary Agajanian (right) of ...

Brand shares NCAA vision

When Myles Brand accepted the job as president of the NCAA three years ago, it signaled a shift in the way the nation’s universities view the role of the NCAA. Brand’s predecessors all came from the athletic corners of university campuses....

Promoter gets his shot at ‘Rocky’

When Sylvester Stallone phoned Lou DiBella a few months ago to ask about using the sights and sounds of the second Bernard Hopkins vs. Jermaine Taylor fight as a backdrop for the sixth installment of the “Rocky” series, the chat turned into a trade of jokes and jabs....

Race For Recruits

WhenTommie Frazier visited the University of Nebraska on a football recruiting tripin the winter of 1992, he was wowed by the expanse of a 30,000-square-footweight room and the sprawl of a $3 million indoor practice field that put theCornhuskers a decade ahead of most programs. ...