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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

Leagues fear DVR-to-Internet link

Confident as they are that their advertiser-driven television model will hold up to the threat of en masse commercial-skipping, sports properties say they are troubled by another aspect of DVR technology: the likelihood that fans will use it to transmit games. The Federal Communications Commission recently granted...

Will rise of DVRs change sports TV?

James Marsh is a displaced Pittsburgh Steelers fan, a stock analyst whose job has taken him away from the team of his childhood. A father of four, Marsh says it’s difficult to break away from the family for three hours in the middle of a Sunday afternoon to...

Open-wheel racing stuck in the pits

Staking out a place as the dominant car owner coming out of qualifying for this year’s Indy 500, Michael Andretti holds out a glimmer of hope for the brand of U.S. auto racing he was raised in. When the Pettys and Allisons were running stock cars in...

Crapshoot or jackpot?

F rom the other side of the Atlantic, the head of Sportingbet, a London-based Internet sports book that took a billion dollars in wagers from U.S. residents in the last year, is perplexed by the ...

Different parks, different places

The exterior of Petco Park, new home to the San Diego Padres, is a soft and natural mix of yellows, reds and tans, inspired by the signature cliffs of nearby Torrey Pines and made of sandstone tile imported from India. Citizens Bank Park,...