A pioneer in promoting sports
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The sporting community in Abu Dhabi yesterday mourned the death of the President, His Highness Shaikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, a pioneer in promoting and setting up
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By Ingrid Stegemoeller, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Sep.
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Decades before Bill Veeck's penchant for publicity or Charlie Finley's flair-to-be-different attitude or George Steinbrenner's rants or Jerry Jones's sideline visits . . . there was George Preston Marshall.
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The Great One hit town yesterday and he sure was welcome. He made it feel a bit more like winter. Wayne Gretzky was a pretty fair player in his day, and his time as an executive have been equally well spent.
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Robert Gamez was packing for Hawaii a few weeks ago when the telephone rang. It was Mike Milthorpe, the tournament director from the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, offering him a sponsorâs exemption.
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A member of the audience gives his take on the show and host.
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If you read the recent excerpt of "Namath" in Sports Illustrated and were put off by the apparent focus on the iconic Broadway Joe's personal life, be comforted in the knowledge that Mark Kriegel's 441-page biography includes plenty of football, too. The book is exhaustively researched and includes telling anecdotes from Beaver Falls, Pa., to Tuscaloosa, Ala., to New York.
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When the NBA began sending its players to the Olympics in 1992, one of the league&#39;s goals was to spread basketball around the globe. Clearly, the idea worked.
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Private sports coaching is on the rise and may now offer video analysis, nutritional advice and biomechanical assessments.
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OVER the last four decades, even the casual sports fan could usually name the accepted world heavyweight champion, beginning with boxing&#39;s golden era of Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier and George
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Yet another player joins the MRAP race.
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The month of August was rife with arrogance, malfeasance and criminality in professional sports, but all is not lost for cynical fans seeking a new start.
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A Ken Burns documentary reveals a champ whose individualism ignited his rise--and his downfall
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The venerable Sporting News is one of the few media investments that is actually paying off for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
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When NBC first called Bob Neumeier, he was asked if he'd be willing to work on Olympics wrestling and rowing coverage in Athens. &quot;I was flattered and grateful for the opportunity,&quot; he said. He was willing to learn the nuances of those sports at the Olympic level and start mastering the pronunciation of hundreds of new names.
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Famed as much for his self-promotion as his negotiating skills, the bouffant-haired businessman has set his sights on the world of board games.
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A rising player in the organic foods industry.