A year ago this time, with the SEC coming off its fifth straight national championship, my colleague Andy Staples compiled some interesting data that confirmed one of the primary reasons behind the league's recent dominance: The wealth of elite defensive prospects in its backyard. Andy noted that a staggering 43 percent of NFL defensive linemen hailed from a cluster of 10 Southeastern states representing just 22 percent of the general population.
There are college football fans. And then there are University of Alabama football fans.
Billionaire businessman Bob Johnson has chosen Liberia for his latest venture, the country's first top class hotel.
Businessman Bob Johnson is extending his empire onto the African continent with a gleaming new "first" class hotel in Liberia.
Billionaire businessman Bob Johnson has chosen Liberia for his latest venture, the country's first top class hotel.
When BET launched 30 years ago, they were the only kid that looked like them on the block.
The Golden State Warriors have retained Galatioto Sports Partners to sell the franchise, the team announced in a press release this morning.
We can imagine how the late Bob Johnson might have consoled his troops after the Penguins were humiliated 5-0 by the Red Wings in Game 5. "You can lose three games and still win the series," he'd have reminded them.
Thousands of turtle hatchlings begin their journey into the sea from the Puerto Arista sea turtle sanctuary in Mexico.
In the end, it's probably self-defeating to play the "If he's in, then HE should be in" Hall of Fame Game. It's fun to play, no doubt, and it allows us Frank White fans to unleash all sorts of moral indignation because his career is virtually IDENTICAL to that of Bill Mazeroski*, and yet Maz is in the Hall while Frank never even got close. There's something unfair about it all.
Bob Johnson was close to his aunt growing up. But when she learned he was gay, she began making hurtful comments; eventually, they drifted apart. Then Johnson, 43, was diagnosed with colon cancer. Relatives flocked to his side -- except for his aunt.
Sen. Hillary Clinton on Saturday will officially suspend her campaign for the presidency and "express her support for Senator Obama and party unity," her campaign said Wednesday.
CNN's Candy Crowley talks about Sen. Clinton's plans to suspend her campaign and what she might do next.
Like many successful business owners, Bob Johnson, founder and CEO of Johnson Insurance & Financial in McKinney, Texas, was hungry for juicy tax breaks. He found some - more than $200,000 in just three years - in an unlikely place: the old-fashioned defined-benefit pension plan.
BET founder and Hillary Clinton supporter Bob Johnson speaks in Columbia, South Carolina, about Sens. Clinton and Obama.
The founder and former CEO of Black Entertainment Television apologized Thursday to Sen. Barack Obama for what appeared to be veiled comments this week regarding the Democratic presidential hopeful's acknowledged drug use as a teenager.
Sen. Barack Obama asks his supporters not to attack his opponents.
Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both called for an end to a bitter fight in a racially charged debate that has roiled the Democratic presidential contest over the last few days.
They've been tussling since they first tossed their hats in the ring -- about health care, the war in Iraq, each other's breadth of experience.
Sen. Hillary Clinton comments on Barack Obama, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement.
CNN's Tony Harris talks with commentator Roland Martin about what race has to do with the Democratic nomination.
Former President Clinton on Monday complained about attacks from Sen. Barack Obama on Sen. Hillary Clinton in the latest back-and-forth bickering between the two rival Democratic presidential campaigns.
The war of words about race between Clinton and Obama could cause the internal crack-up the party fears
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake and multiple aftershocks shook the south San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday morning.
"My obit's already written," says Bob Johnson. "I can read it to you right now." He puts down his silverware. "Bob Johnson, the founder of BET, died yesterday. He was the first black billionaire, b...
WHEN I SOLD BET to Viacom," says Bob Johnson (a $3 billion transaction, of which Johnson's personal cut was $1.6 billion), "I started asking myself, 'What is your second act? What do you want to do...
Fortune: Book Reviewupdated: Mon Mar 22 2004 00:01:00
The rags-to-riches rise of the nation's first black billionaire is a great story no matter how you tell it. And The Billion Dollar BET (John Wiley & Sons, $24.95), by Forbes senior editor Brett Pul...
Union Pacific Railroad has long known that many of its 48,000 employees--mostly middle-aged men--are overweight. That can be a dangerous problem for people who ply the rails. So 16 years ago the Om...
Bob Johnson knows cable, there's no doubt about that. He started 21 years ago with nothing but borrowed money and an original idea--a cable channel for black viewers--and created one of the most va...
When his company launched its 401(k) plan almost 11 years ago, Bob Johnson saw an irresistible deal. "I invested the maximum 15% from the start," says Johnson, a 59-year-old salesman for Wace, a Ch...
Bob Johnson has hit as many golf balls in the past five days as he's hit in his entire 2 1/2 years of playing the game. But as he stands on the practice tee at John Jacobs' Practical Golf School in...
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