"The colleges and universities are hemorrhaging their marquee athletes," said Allen Sack, the director of the sports management program at the University of New Haven.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As dozens of marquee athletes were involved in doping scandals over the past decade, concern about the use of performance-enhancing drugs reached the parents and coaches of high school athletes.
He spent 13 years in the front office as a sales executive before leaving in 2007 to join CAA Sports, which has expanded rapidly over the past several years, signing marquee athletes like Peyton Manning and Derek Jeter.
Despite the validity of Mandelbaum's observations, it is still arguable that no sport in the 20th century offered as many marquee athletes as boxing: Liston, Leonard, Duran, Ali, Dempsey, Marciano, LaMotta.
PAGE B3 Sports FORMER ASSISTANT TO GALEA AVOIDS PRISON TIME Mary Anne Catalano, the former assistant to a Canadian doctor who treated marquee athletes in the United States with controversial procedures that included the use of human growth hormone, was spared prison by a federal court judge in Buffalo.
BUFFALO — The former assistant to a Canadian doctor who treated marquee athletes in the United States for their injuries with controversial procedures that included the use of banned substances like human growth hormone was spared prison on Monday by a federal court judge here.
All those NBC promotions urging viewers to watch marquee athletes like Maurice Greene, Marion Jones, Lenny Krayzelburg, Ian Thorpe or Stacy Dragila would be useless if the come-ons urged: "Join us in Sydney at 4 in the morning!" You simply can't build a broad TV viewership out of Joe Benigno's overnight listeners on WFAN.
In essence, white males are covering a world of professional sports where many of the marquee athletes are African-American.
These marquee athletes are built up so much that they often become more famous than the teams they play for.
Nor do I deride these women for pursuing marquee athletes for the residual fame and glory, and for receiving a complimentary gift basket from Mr. November replete with valuable memorabilia immediately following an evening of sexual activity, as reported in a major news outlet that is definitely not the New York Yankees Official 2014 Media Guide.
