David A. F. Sweet

Bill Bartholomay Made a Major-League Impact on the Game He Loved
By David A. F. Sweet
As a young boy during The Great Depression, he met Major League Baseball’s first commissioner, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, at an estate in Wisconsin. A few years ago, he took in MLB’s first game in Australia, played on a cricket field. This February, he chatted with Atlanta Braves players at their new spring training facility in Florida.
The breadth of what Bill Bartholomay — who died at 91 on March 25 — ...

NEW YORK -- Before Bob Bowman explains why he took the top job at Major League Baseball's new-media arm, the sound of a toilet flushing seeps through the cinder-block wall in his tiny office.
It's a long way from corporate behemoth ITT, where Mr. Bowman served as president -- and even enjoyed a private bathroom -- until the company's 1998 acquisition by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc.
The zealous 45-year-old doesn't mind the odd sounds or the cramped surroundings of his dot-com digs....

Despite all the hype about their creativity and an ability to reach television’s largest audience annually, Super Bowl commercials are risky ventures. Are they worth the risk?...

Teams Scoring With In-seat Computer Screens - tribu...

Reflecting Upon Tony Terlato’s Extraordinary Life in Wine
By David A. F. Sweet
Considering we just celebrated the Fourth of July, it’s nice to remember that part of America’s charm is that you can rarely predict what a youngster will end up excelling in as an adult, given the freedom of opportunity here.
Suffice to say a boy born in Brooklyn in 1934 — a year after Prohibition ended — would hardly be thought of as someone who could help transform the wine industry, especially given its long ro...

Ted Leonsis, new owner of the Washington Capitals, recently pondered a question: Should the team's jersey be emblazoned with a screaming eagle or with two hockey sticks suspended over the Capitol building?
Diving onto the Internet, he procured an answer within 24 hours. On a Capitals message board, hundreds of fans voted by a nine-to-one margin to stitch the screaming eagle to jerseys for the 2000-2001 season.
Declan Bolger, the team's senior vice president of business operations, was taken a...

Turow takes law into his own hands

Never before has an Olympics been staged in a market so big and underserved.  That means Olympic sponsors are staring at a rare opportunity to snare Chinese consumers....

Faced With Threats From Rival,
SportsLine Sh...

Owners of a Defunct Hoops Team
Are Still Hit...

The One&Only Palmilla in Los Cabos enchants guests ...

Memories of the Lake Placid Olympics 40 Years Later

By David A. F. Sweet

When I tell people I attended the Miracle of Ice game, they are always somewhat wonderstruck. There were only about 8,500 of us to begin with, after all, and likely far fewer today. To my knowledge, no one’s formed a group on social media publicizing who we are and sharing our memories. To meet someone who happened to watch that never-to-be-forgotten Olympic moment must be like stumbling upon a link to a long-ago era, si...

Web Site Delivers Unique View
From the Sea t...