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...never really left.” He might have taken a four-year hiatus from the North Star State for a college degree and a few football games in Harvard Stadium, but Birk joined the National Football League’s (NFL) Minnesota Vikings straight out of college and hasn’t gone anywhere since...
...Birk represents one-half of the Crimson’s representation on active NFL rosters—Isaiah Kacyvenski ’00 is a Seattle Seahawks linebacker—and this success is far from typical for Harvard athletes in any sport...
...Stern brings in the young dudes, it will be up to Stewart to even the scales with women. Sirius appeals to guys because men tend to be early technology adopters and because Sirius has bulked up on pro sports, offering channels for NBA, NFL and NHL games (assuming that hockey returns), and starting in 2007, stock-car racing via NASCAR, which Karmazin lured from XM. Sirius signed Stewart for a bargain $30 million over four years, plus a share of ad sales. It's paid to her company, Martha Stewart Living OmniMedia, in return for a 24-hour women...
...always Mr. Content Is King, and that was a little in conflict with Mel's natural tendency to drive quarterly growth," says a source close to the execs. Karmazin says he was never that tight with a buck if a deal was worth it. "Didn't I get the NFL back on CBS?" he asks. "My focus on cost has been there throughout my career, including today...
...guard at Sirius, Karmazin certainly seemed like a saboteur. "They thought my agenda was to hold back satellite radio," he says of talks he had with Sirius in 2003 about a link with Viacom. What changed his mind? Stern, for one thing, Sirius' deal with the NFL for another, and a lucrative contract to run a publicly traded company for an annual base pay of $1.25 million and 30 million stock options, worth at least $114 million, according to an estimate by Bloomberg...