Major League Soccer Executives

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Paul Allen, Oscar De La Hoya, Drew Carey, Lamar Hunt, Philip Anschutz, Alexi Lalas, Robert Kraft, Oliver Luck, Don Garber, Thomas Rongen, John Kluge, John Doyle, Jorge Vergara, Doug Logan, Nick Sakiewicz, Jonathan Kraft, Ivan Gazidis, Kevin Payne, Lewis Wolff, Eddie Austin, Sunil Gulati, Dave Checketts, Dean Howes, Joe Roth, Peter Wilt, Alfonso Mondelo, Russell Findlay, Doug Hamilton, Curt Johnson, Dave Kasper, Jamey Rootes. Excerpt: Oscar De La Hoya (born February 4, 1973 in East Los Angeles, California) is a retired Mexican American boxer. Nicknamed "The Golden Boy," De La Hoya won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games shortly after graduating from Garfield High School. De La Hoya comes from a boxing family. His grandfather Vicente, father Joel Sr., and brother Joel Jr. were all boxers. De La Hoya was The Ring's "Fighter of the Year" in 1995 and Ring Magazine's top-rated Pound for Pound fighter in the world in 1997 & 1998. De La Hoya officially announced his retirement from the sport at a press conference held in Los Angeles on April 14, 2009. De La Hoya has defeated 17 world champions and has won 6 world titles in six different weight classes. He has also generated more money than any other boxer in the history of the sport, an estimated $696 million pay-per-view income. De La Hoya founded Golden Boy Promotions, a combat sport promotional firm. He is the first American of Hispanic descent to own a national boxing promotional firm and one of the few boxers to take on promotional responsibilities while still active. De La Hoya's amateur career included 223 wins, 163 by knockout, with only five losses. In 1989, he won the National Golden Gloves title in the bantamweight division. In 1990, at the age of 17, he won the U.S. National Championship at featherweight and was the youngest U.S. boxer at that year's Goo...