Word: nfl
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...less than two years after arriving at CBS to replace CEO Jordan and move into his office suite. Karmazin's business strategy has been bluntly effective: pay top dollar for what he calls "oceanfront property"--prime stations in major markets, celebrities like Stern and Imus, the rights to the NFL--and then look to recoup the money by slashing administrative and staffing costs and running the tightest of ships...
Dockery played cornerback for the championship-winning 1969 New York Jets. But during his NFL career, Dockery says his Ivy League background created more problems than opportunities...
Dockery played halfback and safety for the Crimson and played football with the Jets and the Pittsburgh Steelers until 1974. He said when he first joined the NFL, other players were reluctant to take him seriously...
After the NFL, Dockery became a sports broadcaster at a New York TV station in 1976. During the course of a career that took him to CBS, NBC and then back to CBS, he covered college and professional football as well as the Tour de France and the Olympics. The basics of the profession came to him quickly, Dockery says, thanks to his academic background...
...news came after the Times obtained some 40 hours of videotape of union meetings, filmed by a Florida company for a documentary on the NFL Players Association that was never completed. Besides providing a rare look into the workings of the elite union ? and such backroom deals as dropping the drug cases ? the tapes give the first public confirmation of something players and owners have privately been saying for years: That alcohol abuse is a far bigger problem than illegal drugs in the league. Union assistant executive director Doug Allen is seen on tape noting that there were "a dozen...