Word: owner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Columbia Pictures, things better go with Coke. That was the message in the memo sent to employees in Burbank, Calif., and New York last week by Studio Chairman Frank Price. He told executives that Columbia's new owner, the Coca-Cola Co. of Atlanta, which bought the film and entertainment firm last winter for some $820 million, would not take kindly to finding telltale signs of products like 7-Up and Pepsi-Cola on studio property...
...Orleans Defensive End and convicted Cocaine Dealer Don Reese sold his story to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, depicting widespread drug abuse in the N.F.L. and implicating ex-Saints Teammate Chuck Muncie, now with the San Diego Chargers. Cocaine "controls and corrupts the game" was Reese's chilling theme. Chargers Owner Gene Klein said he could not see how a man who rushed for 19 touchdowns, as Muncie did last season, could possibly be on anything. Shortly thereafter Muncie checked into a detoxification center, confessing "a small problem with alcohol, cocaine and marijuana...
...renowned for being his. He became "an American folk hero," a characterization he embraces, as a once successful, twice beaten and now retired yachtsman in the America's Cup, scarcely a sporting event to figure in barroom betting. He has also been a regional billboard magnate, the owner of a newly thriving but previously cellar-dwelling baseball team and a somewhat more reliable basketball team, and the licensee of a non-network-aflfiliated UHF television station in Atlanta, TV's 17th largest market...
Nobody objected in 1976, when the new owner of the At lanta Braves, a baseball team above which mediocrity loomed like a mountain crag, climbed aboard an ostrich before one game and galloped around the infield. It couldn't have hurt and it might have helped; if the ostrich could not actually execute the double play, neither could the Braves, and it was always possible that the bird would swallow the ball...
...ostrich disappeared from history, but the owner, the renowned yachtsman and orator Ted Turner, stayed in view. In a gallant gesture, intended to divert the attention of paying customers from the inept foolery of his athletes, he challenged Tug McGraw of the Philadelphia Phillies to a match race in which each of them would push a baseball around the bases with his nose. Turner won, though he lost a good deal of skin from his face when he skidded in the dirt...