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	Jerry Colangelo
		Colangelo had been granted an expansion team by the NBA when he went to Phoenix.
		Colangelo lost a flip of the coin in 1972 to draft Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
		Colangelo, who is good friends with boxing promoter Bob Arum, has also tried to bring boxing to Arizona, and was on of the persons behind the building of the Dodge Theater[?] there.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/je/Jerry_Colangelo.html (537 words)

	SUNS: Jerry Colangelo Bio
		Colangelo also was the key element in facilitating the move of the NHL’s Winnipeg Jets to the Valley of the Sun to become the Phoenix Coyotes.
		Colangelo was also the chair of the committee that welcomed Toronto and Vancouver to the NBA and chair of the relocation committee charged with the Charlotte Hornets move to New Orleans.
		Colangelo quickly moved on a new arena for the Suns and in April 1989 the city of Phoenix approved the concept of a new, state-of-the-art arena in downtown that would house the team.
	www.nba.com /suns/news/jerry_colangelo_bio.html (1695 words)

	USA Basketball: Bio: Jerry Colangelo
		Colangelo, who has been the face of the NBA Phoenix Suns franchise since their inaugural season in 1968, recently unveiled a plan for the Suns future that included the sale of the team for an NBA record $401 million.
		Colangelo will remain as CEO and Chairman until the sale of the team is complete in June 2007, and then will retain the title of chairman for at least another five years beyond that.
		Colangelo also was the key element in facilitating the move of the NHL’s Winnipeg Jets to the Valley of the Sun in 1996, where they became the Phoenix Coyotes.
	www.usabasketball.com /biosmen/jerry_colangelo_bio.html (1634 words)

	InsideHoops.com - Jerry Colangelo Named Managing Director Of USA Basketball Men's Senior National Team Program
		Colangelo's involvement with the NBA included a position on the founding operating committee for the WNBA, where he helped successfully advance women's professional basketball in the U.S. The Phoenix Mercury were one of the WNBA's inaugural teams in 1997, setting a league attendance record in their first season.
		Colangelo was also responsible for bringing the MLB Arizona Diamondbacks to Phoenix in 1998 and in facilitating the move of the NHL Winnipeg Jets to the Valley of the Sun in 1996, where they became the Phoenix Coyotes.
		Colangelo was named by the Arizona Republic as the Most Influential Sports figure in the state of Arizona for the 20th Century and by the Phoenix Business Journal as the top business person in the Valley for the past five years.
	www.insidehoops.com /colangelo-usa-042705.shtml (1083 words)

	phoenixnewtimes.com - News - Colangelo Gets His (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Colangelo's selling out his sole control of the D-Backs and Monday's announcement of his plans to sell the Phoenix Suns raise serious questions beyond the world of sports, the most important of which is the future development of downtown Phoenix.
		The fact that Jerry Colangelo, the most powerful businessman in the city, sold his controlling financial interest in the Arizona Diamondbacks is a historic event that must not go unheralded.
		Colangelo's oft-stated baseball business plan held that if a winning team were put on the field, the fans would come in droves even in lean years.
	www.phoenixnewtimes.com /Issues/2004-03-11/news/dougherty_full.html (1733 words)

	NBA.com Colangelo to Chair NBA Board of Governors
		Colangelo has been in the NBA for 36 years, beginning in Chicago where he held positions as marketing director, scout and assistant to the president during his tenure with the Bulls.
		Colangelo, who authored the book "How You Play the Game," has captured an unprecedented four NBA Executive of the Year awards and on two separate occasions served as head coach, including 1969-70 when he assumed the reins in midseason and led the Suns to their first playoff appearance.
		Colangelo's sports involvement is not restricted to basketball as he is also the managing general partner of the newly crowned 2001 National League champion Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball.
	newyorkliberty.com /news/colangelo_011024.html (380 words)

	CBC Sports Online: Newsmaker: Bryan Colangelo
		Jerry Colangelo is a legend in Arizona — first general manager of the Phoenix Suns in 1968, hall of famer, owner of the club, the man who brought Major League Baseball to "the Valley," and on and on.
		Colangelo is, after all, the guy who traded a younger, less dominant Steve Nash, to Dallas for Martin Muursepp and Bubba Wells, at the 1998 draft.
		Colangelo was basically giving up on the season to clear cap room for free agency that coming summer, one that would bring back guard Steve Nash (destined for league MVP) and his new backcourt mate Quentin Richardson.
	www.cbc.ca /sports/columns/newsmakers/colangelo_bryan.html (1080 words)

	D'backs force out Colangelo \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		Colangelo, the chief executive officer of a team that made major-league history by winning the Series four years after its inception, fell victim Friday to a new ownership group with a quick trigger finger.
		Colangelo received an eight-year contract to remain as CEO at that time, but the move greatly diminished his authority and in the end proved unsatisfactory to all involved.
		Colangelo said internal scuttlebutt was that he would stay not even a year in the new arrangement.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/33312 (947 words)

	CANOE -- SLAM! Sports - Columnists - Ulmer: Son set to rise to challenge
		Colangelo becomes the new president and general manager of the Raptors today because of a trip to the desert taken when his father was 38.
		In Phoenix, Jerry Colangelo, who helped build baseball's Arizona Diamondbacks into a World Series champion, who worked his way into the Basketball Hall of Fame, who pretty well founded the WNBA and signed the first Iron Curtain player, is no more famous than the Pope.
		In 2002, Colangelo was the butt of jokes as the GM whose trades made contenders of New Jersey, Detroit and Boston.
	slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Columnists/Ulmer/2006/02/28/1466282-sun.html (739 words)

	Fact Sheet
		Jerry Colangelo’s impact on Arizona has been so profound that the Arizona Republic named him the Most Influential Sports Figure in Arizona for the 20th Century, and the The Phoenix Business Journal named him the top businessman in the Valley for the last five years.
		Jerry Colangelo, Phoenix Suns Charities, The Diamondbacks and the Phoenix Mercury have made generous contributions to Arizona’s three state universities.
		Colangelo is heading the effort to fund innovative clinical trials from the UA Children’s Research Center for children in the valley.
	www.abor.asu.edu /1_the_regents/news_releases/factshts/colangelo.html (478 words)

	Jerry Colangelo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Colangelo lost a flip of the coin in 1969 to draft Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
		In December of that year, Colangelo was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
		In the Summer of 2005, Colangelo was named the sole director of USA Basketball.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jerry_Colangelo (863 words)

	SportingNews.com - Your expert source for Former Suns GM Colangelo joins Raptors
		Colangelo was introduced a day after he resigned as general manager and president of the Phoenix Suns -- a team in which his father, Jerry Colangelo, is chairman and chief executive.
		Jerry is supposed to remain chairman and CEO until the sale is complete after the 2006-07 season.
		In Toronto, Colangelo joins Wayne Embry, a longtime friend of the Colangelo family and a senior adviser to Richard Peddie, who is president of the company that owns the Raptors and NHL Maple Leafs.
	www.sportingnews.com /nba/articles/20060228/712735-p.html (669 words)

	Jerry Colangelo: His franchise vision - Christian Business
		Jerry Colangelo is the Chairman and CEO of the Phoenix Suns, the Arizona Diamondbacks, the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury, and The Arena Football League's Arizona Rattlers.
		Colangelo chose the former, and immediately packed up 9 suitcases, his wife and three kids, and with only $300 in his pocket, headed to the American Southwest.
		Jerry Colangelo ahs come a long way from his boyhood in Chicago, and he's learned a lot along the way.
	www.businessreform.com /Resource.php?ResourceID=4357 (1452 words)

	Jerry Colangelo named Team USA director - ShamSports.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Colangelo, the chairman and CEO of the Phoenix Suns, was named to the newly created position of managing director of USA Basketball.
		Colangelo's first selection of players and coaches will be for the team that is expected to compete in the 2006 FIBA World Championships from August 19-September 3 in Saitamo, Japan.
		Colangelo, who has been the face of the Suns' franchise since their inaugural season in 1968, also was responsible for bringing Major League Baseball to Phoenix with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 1998.
	www.shamsports.com /forums/showthread.php?t=101 (569 words)

	Colangelo led scoring revival
		Colangelo showed 1960s and 1970s videos of free-flowing games and presented his ideas to get rid of the defensive guidelines that confused fans and coaches, shorten the backcourt violation from 10 seconds to seven (they settled on eight), legalize zones for the first time in 50 years and add a defensive three-second call.
		Jerry Colangelo is nothing more than a well dressed theif with a great PR machine.
		While Colangelo was stealing over $400M from AZ taxpayers, the public schools were becoming among the worst in the nation.
	www.azcentral.com /sports/suns/articles/1031nbaprejerry1031.html (1197 words)

	SUNS: Jerry Colangelo
		Colangelo’s impact on the sports scene in Phoenix has been so great that the Arizona Republic named him the Most Influential Sports Figure in the state of Arizona for the 20th century and The Phoenix Business Journal voted him the top businessperson in the Valley for the last five years.
		Colangelo was also the chair of the committee that welcomed Toronto and Vancouver to the NBA.
		He is currently Chairman of the Board of the Council of Leadership Education and Collaboration for a New Century, is vice president of the Phoenix Downtown Partnership and was a leader in the establishment of Employers Against Domestic Violence.
	www.nba.com /suns/news/bio_jcolangelo.html (1469 words)

	phoenixnewtimes.com - News - Please, It's About Time!
		The canonization of Jerry Colangelo as the savior of Phoenix will continue this week as the local media stumble over themselves to heap accolades on him as he's inducted September 10 into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
		Cheering on the taxpayer fleecing is Jerry's propaganda mill, the Arizona Republic.
		Colangelo's economic fiasco with the Diamondbacks demonstrates perfectly that just because someone knows sports doesn't necessarily mean he understands much else.
	www.phoenixnewtimes.com /issues/2004-09-09/dougherty.html (951 words)

	Amazon.ca: How You Play the Game: Lessons for Life from the Billion-Dollar Business of Sports: Books: Jerry ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Colangelo and Sherman have neatly meshed the highlights of Colangelo's 30 years in the sports world with useful business advice to create one of the better books in the sports/business genre.
		Jerry Colangelo is a brilliant individual who has not only changed the view of sports with his amazing inovations but also his efforts on creating a more enjoyable sports industry.
		However, since Colangelo is not a man who has had a great impact on the world, I found the many detailed accounts of his various experiences tedious at times and for the most part unnecessary to the story.
	www.amazon.ca /How-You-Play-Game-Billion-Dollar/dp/081440488X (1070 words)

	ESPN.com - Dick Vitale - Colangelo needs Coach K for Team USA
		I was glad to hear that Hall of Famer Jerry Colangelo has been selected to be the head of USA Basketball.
		Colangelo, the chairman and CEO of the Phoenix Suns, was appointed as the new managing director of the USA Basketball men's national team – and that, my friends, is phenomenal news.
		Colangelo will have the responsibility of choosing the U.S. men's national team, replacing a selection committee that chose recent teams featuring NBA stars.
	espn.go.com /dickvitale/vcolumn050428-Colangelo-CoachK-TeamUSA.html (439 words)

	roadtripnation.com :: interviews :: jerry colangelo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Are you going to sit in a corner and coil up and be miserable for the rest of your life?” Not one to despair, Jerry was driven to obtain a profession in sports.
		With hard work and a few risky decisions, Jerry accomplished his goal, and by the age of twenty-eight, Jerry earned his way to the general manager of the Phoenix Suns; the youngest general manager in the history of sports.
		Jerry’s success and strong character have much to do with his challenging background, and he is quick to recognize and give credit to this.
	www.roadtripnation.com /interviews/show/327 (392 words)

	Jerry Colangelo - BR Bullpen
		Jerry Colangelo was team president and lead owner of the expansion Arizona Diamondbacks when they began play in 1998.
		Colangelo and GM Joe Garagiola repeatedly cited the players' character as a primary motivator in signing the players.
		Colangelo also worked with the city of Phoenix on the contruction of Bank One Ballpark.
	www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Jerry_Colangelo (195 words)

	USATODAY.com - The man who made it happen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		JERRY COLANGELO STANDS at the side of the Arizona Diamondbacks' clubhouse Sunday night, choosing not to be in the heart of the drama, but wanting to be a spectator, enjoying the immensity of it all.
		Colangelo is the Arizona Diamondbacks, and he has developed an extraordinary, unique bond with his players that separates him from every other owner in the game.
		Colangelo came to Phoenix in 1968 with his wife, three kids, six suitcases and $200 in his wallet.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/bbw/2001-10-31/2001-10-31-colangelo.htm (3342 words)

	Phoenix Suns, Chris Bosh, National Basketball Association, Toronto Raptors - CBS SportsLine.com
		Colangelo resigned Monday and is expected to join the Toronto Raptors as president and general manager Tuesday.
		Colangelo was the NBA's 2005 executive of the year after the Suns' retooled roster won a league-high 62 games.
		Jerry Colangelo sold the club to a group led by Sarver, but will remain chairman and CEO until the sale is complete after the 2006-07 season.
	cbs.sportsline.com /nba/story/9271780/rss (529 words)

	JERRY COLANGELO
		Under Colangelo's guidance, the Suns have built a reputation as one of the most successful and admired franchises in all of sports.
		In 1996, Colangelo was ranked as the 20th most powerful person in sports by The Sporting News, and has been named most influential businessperson in the Valley of the Sun for the third-straight year by The Arizona Business Journal.
		Colangelo currently serves on the NBA's Board of Governors, the NBA Finance Committee and the league's Long Range Planning Committee.
	www.neco.org /awards/recipients/jerrycolangelo.html (747 words)

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