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Dave Bing made a name for himself as an NBA legend, a successful businessman, and a bold politician. Read more about his amazing life in Dave Bing: A Life of Challenge. Read more from Dave Bing: A Life of Challenge by Drew Sharp.
Now, 45 years later, those memories were revived as I read HK’s first biography, Dave Bing: A Life of Challenge. Detroit, starting the summer before the riots, becomes a prominent character in the story of Bing’s rise to greatness in the NBA and in the business world, and the city continues to shape and be shaped by Bing as he now works to rebuild Detroit as its mayor. A native of Detroit, Sharp paints a panoramic picture of Bing’s life against the backdrop of the racial strife of the ’60s, ...
The Detroit that first welcomed Bing in the fall of 1966 after the Pistons tabbed him with the second overall selection in that year’s NBA draft was a smoldering powder keg. Bing wasn’t fearful of police harassment during his early times in Detroit, but he wasn’t naïve enough to think that it couldn’t happen if he found himself in the wrong situation at the wrong time (i.e., a situation that could lead to a wrong interpretation by law enforcement). Bing and his family didn’t leave their ...
The imminent threat of bankruptcy gave Bing license to demand dramatic cutbacks, especially in the city’s pension and health care commitments to city employees. Bing’s team scheduled the speech for the Northwest Activities Center, a community outreach center on Seven Mile Road, not far from the Sherwood Forest area of Detroit. Woodward Avenue, the city’s primary artery cutting a north–south swath through the city, represents the eastern border of Sherwood Forest and its neighbor, Palmer ...
The race was very important because it was the selection race for the World Cross Country Championships. Being Welsh, he had no need to run the English National, because he would automatically be selected to run for Wales in the World Cross. Indeed, as a Welshman he would normally not even have been eligible to run in the English National; his national race was the Welsh Championships, which he won a record number of times, However, in 1981 the rules allowed him to join an English club, ...
**Fox and the UFC announced a seven-year TV rights deal worth approximately $90 million annually. **Two U.K. female beach volleyball players will sell advertising space on the backside of their bikini bottoms for the 2012 London Olympics. Sports Authority’s biggest competitor, Dick’s Sporting Goods, owns the naming rights to Denver’s MLS stadium.
3) top the Bloomberg Businessweek/Horrow Sports Ventures 2012 Power 100 ranking of the most powerful professional athletes in the U.S. To determine who the 100 most powerful athletes are on- and off-the-field going into 2012, Bloomberg Businessweek teamed up with Rick Horrow, host of Bloomberg TV “Sportfolio,” and CEO of Horrow Sports Ventures; CSE, a leading integrated marketing agency that created the Power 100 list for the third consecutive year using proprietary methodology; and the ...
Bud Selig’s decision to move the MLB regular season’s final day from a Sunday to mid-week was a solid success, at least judging by Nielsen ratings. According to SportsBusiness Daily, combined total viewership for ESPN, ESPN2 and MLB Network last Wednesday night pulled a strong 2.8 overnight, including a 4.4 for the final hour of the games. ESPN drew its biggest Wednesday night overnight rating ever with its Red Sox-Orioles broadcast and coverage of the Yankees-Rays final innings, which ...
For the second straight year, the most powerful athlete in sports is a quarterback. Only this year, that quarterback is Drew Brees, not Peyton Manning. Boosted by a record-setting season, Brees finished first overall in the 2012 Bloomberg BusinessWeek Horrow Sports Ventures Power 100.
Back in the old days, we used to go to gas stations to inflate the big activity balls. The air compressors that top off automobile and bicycle tires can also inflate insanely huge activity balls. Before the ball is fully inflated, the cumbersome outer cover tends to flop around the ball and can be difficult for one person to control.
