41 Quotes by Paul Swangard

Kobe was seen as this non-controversial, rather worldly good guy. He can rebuild his image, but it's never going to be the same that it was.

The American population is continuing to diversify, and Hispanics have become a very important part of the sports economy,

That's what folks thought Kobe could become. It was such a shock to the system what happened in Colorado.

When you're flipping the channels on a Sunday and see his team on offense with him in the backfield or in the slot, you're going to stop. That awareness and interest is what marketers will covet.

While not unprecedented, it takes us into a potentially new era. It's sort of the last bastion in American sports. We haven't been willing to accept it. I'm not sure if that's right or wrong, it's just not been done.

With all due respect to the Indians, I'm not sure there's an insatiable appetite for Indians programming and nothing else.

To the degree that she reflects the franchise's style and savvy, she is well respected in a male-dominated sports property. That respect goes all the way up through the league's operations. She has established herself as one of the major team executives in all of sports.

Finance 101 will tell you, if you take the value of her figure skating revenue streams and discount it, this is a multimillion-dollar disappointment.

Fans of college football, particularly those who are spending a lot of their dollars, see things less as fans and more as investors. It does beg the question: What point do we damage what was a tradition-based event? I think you can have the best of both worlds.