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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

Casinos still hold biggest payday punch

Journal - 10/10/2005
Fights held in major U.S. arenas hit the comeback trail this year, with major cards in Tampa, Chicago, St. Louis and Los Angeles each drawing more than 15,000 fans. But the dominant players for big fights remain Las Vegas’ casino arenas, such as those at the MGM Grand,...

Fighting for its future

Journal - 10/10/2005
The man who once ran boxing at HBO is bent forward in a chair in a Las Vegas meeting room on the eve of the summer’s biggest fight, ready to rumble and thunder and spew, sure as the massive, man-made volcano that goes off every half-hour of every...

Hall chief went from Capitol Hill to Cooperstown

Journal - 08/01/2005
Dale Petroskey likes to joke that, in his previous job, he was responsible for the National Geographic Society’s hall of famers. “Jacques Cousteau, Jane Goodall, people like that,” said Petroskey, who spent 11 years at the society before taking the job as president of the Baseball Hall...

Hall Pass

Journal - 08/01/2005
The executive heading NASCAR’s Hall of Fame project speaks reverently of Cooperstown, N.Y., the idyllic mountain village that is home to the Baseball Hall of Fame. He bows to the historic connections that link the NBA to Springfield, Mass., and the NFL to Canton, Ohio. ...

The mission? Creating magical memories

Journal - 07/18/2005
Reggie Williams was in politics before he joined the Walt Disney World Resort as director of sports development a dozen years ago. So he understands the ebbs and flows of public funding and the shifts in priorities that can make life difficult for a sports commission trying to...
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