Champions Of Sports Business

Donna Lopiano

Journal - 03/22/2010

Donna Lopiano, a promising 11-year-old pitcher with a rising fastball and killer curve, was the first pick on draft day at the Mickey Lione Little League fields in Stamford, Conn. She ran off the field with her friends, each of them filled with the excitement...

Tony Ponturo

Journal - 03/22/2010

It was early in the first quarter of Super Bowl XXVI in Minneapolis. The Anheuser-Busch corporate contingent at midfield watched a team of executive minions scurry up the aisle, running as fast as possible with 1992 cell phones that were the size of dumbbells. Sitting...

From the partners

Journal - 03/22/2010

“I think the enduring legacy is less about any one building than the idea that as an architect you could focus on a high-profile building type, the stadium, and develop that into an expertise. So far, that has stood for 30 years, and stood fairly...

Champions: Pioneers & Innovators in Sports Business

Journal - 03/22/2010

SportsBusiness Journal and SportsBusiness Daily honor six industry veterans for their distinguished success in shaping the business of sports. Their passion, commitment and innovative thinking have made them the ones whom others have looked to for leadership and for direction throughout their careers....

Jim Host’s executive tree

Journal - 03/22/2010

Jim Host has played a role in the careers of many executives across the sports industry. The following are among the people who Host either hired, worked with or brought into the fold during his three decades at Host Communications. Executives are listed with...

What they're saying

Journal - 03/22/2010

“I wouldn’t want to get into a debate with her ’cause she’s gonna win.” Pat Summitt, Tennessee women’s basketball coach “She told me once, ‘Julie, you always know in life that you’re doing something good when there...

Neal Pilson

Journal - 03/22/2010

Most people know Neal Pilson as the former president of CBS Sports, where he earned a reputation as a dogged negotiator and strategic thinker during his 13-year tenure through the 1980s and early 1990s. But it’s what Pilson did after being removed from...

What they're saying

Journal - 03/22/2010

“He was really instrumental in launching franchises in Chicago and in Phoenix. He was a key contributor in getting the US Airways Center built. He was a key member of the committee that changed certain rules when our game seemed to be stagnating. He...

Champions: Ron Labinski

Journal - 03/22/2010

The father of sports architecture walks to one end of his front yard, eyeballs the angle, and then slides a few more steps to the right. Yes, this is it. This is the best view. You can see the woods in the back, the...

Jim Host

Journal - 03/22/2010

Jim Host’s pitch for the NCAA to start a corporate sponsorship program was greeted with an enthusiastic response from the executive director at the time, Walter Byers. “Over my dead...

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