Topic: Peter Ueberroth

AP News | 2009-11-03 19:17:26
Red, white and who? 100 days from Vancouver, USOC still looking for right kind of leader

The leaders of the U.S. Olympic Committee are going through the kind of year that won't look good on their resumes. They're taking the blame for Chicago's failed, $70 million run at hosting the 2016 Summer Games — a bid that ...

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AP News | 2009-01-18 20:03:04
Riding with Rosa: Ueberroth remembers his day with an American crusader

There were a million people at the Martin Luther King Day parade in Atlanta in 1986, several hundred of whom still have a picture of Peter Ueberroth somewhere in their scrapbooks. Many of them probably didn't know who the white guy in the white Cadillac was on that ...

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AP News | 2008-10-11 20:14:22
Ueberroth says USOC deserves every penny it gets, and pitches Chicago as best candidate

Peter Ueberroth took a swipe at international officials critical of the money the U.S. Olympic Committee receives, setting up some possibly uncomfortable moments for the Chicago group trying to land the 2016 Games. "Who pays the bill for the world Olympic movement?" Ueberroth said Saturday ...

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AP News | 2008-10-03 06:07:55
It's in the game: USOC replaces Ueberroth with former leader of EA Sports parent

The U.S. Olympic Committee is replacing a name most sports fans know — Peter Ueberroth — with one of the architects of the games most sports fans know — EA Sports. Larry Probst, a longtime executive at the company that makes some of the nation's most ...

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