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NEW YORK - Dick Ebersol, an industry giant who helped launch "Saturday Night Live" and built the network into the home of the Olympics over the past two decades, has resigned as NBC Sports Group chairman.
I had a long run and loved every bit of it," Ebersol, 63, said in a phone interview with the AP on Thursday.
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Adam Kreisel, the popular chef at the former Globe Cafe by Moonlight in Salt Lake City, former executive chef at Sundance Resort and former personal chef to NBC Sports CEO Dick Ebersol, has teamed with Tony Caputo's Market & Deli in downtown Salt Lake to launch Tipica, a traditional Italian restaurant specializing in pastas and risottos on May 1. Semolina used to make the pasta will be milled to order using air-cooled machines whose low temperatures don't remove important nutrients, so items such as riboflavin and thiamine won't have to be added back in, Caputo said.
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What to say about Super Bowl XLIII?
I: If you have a Super Bowl, you can't do any better than NBC- TV's Al Michaels and John Madden. There is very little they miss. They have a ton of experience. They work well together. Michaels has been good for Madden. If NBC chief Dick Ebersol is trying to fall asleep Saturday night before this game, he is not losing sleep worrying about Michaels and Madden.
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In the same vein as the Pittsburgh Pirates' signing of Indian pitchers Rinku Singh and Dinesh Kumar Patel, the baseball blog Bugs & Cranks has "reported" that the Pirates have signed a contract with Iraq's Muntadhar al-Zaidi. If his name didn't strike a bell at first, he's the journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush during a news conference in Baghdad in December. Meanwhile, the SportsBusiness Daily has posted its updated list of the 50 most influential people in the sports business. The top five are: 1. George Bodenheimer, president of ESPN/ABC Sports, 2. Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys, 3. David Stern, NBA commissioner, 4. Roger Goodell, NFL commissioner, and 5. Dick Ebersol, chairman of NBC Universal Sports and Olympics.
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Turin, Italy After nearly an hour of persuasive argument, Shani Davis and Chad Hedrick almost had you going. They nearly had you convinced that their Winter Games-eclipsing feud, the juiciest all- American Olympic rumble since Tonya vs. Nancy, was part media creation, part natural outgrowth of competitive tension and almost all fiction.
But at the last possible moment Tuesday night, the U.S. speedskaters once and for all proved they basically view each other as the Boston Red Sox regard the New York Yankees, as NBC boss Dick Ebersol views "American Idol," as the Montagues felt about the Capulets. There is deep and genuine contempt between these guys, which is fine as long as they are able to channel it toward more constructive means.
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NBC Sports chief Dick Ebersol told reporters Wednesday during a conference call about how Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band decided to be the halftime act for Super Bowl XLIII.
Springsteen and his band will play for about 12 minutes Sunday night during the NBC telecast of the game.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Travelers who pay a premium for the convenience of charter air travel could unknowingly end up on a flight operated without direct federal oversight.
That fact - along with an effort to change it - is central to a lawsuit filed by NBC Sports executive Dick Ebersol and actress Susan St. James over the 2004 crash that killed their teenage son.
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Whoa! Appropriate enough on the eve of a big horse race, don't you think?
Whoa, because something apparently got into the hay NBC's Dick Ebersol is eating.
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Garfield" creator Jim Davis 62
TV producer Dick Ebersol 60
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Quote Chinas new to the world in terms of any level of openness. Its really a whole new thing for them. I clearly see in the seven years that weve been in business with them, I clearly see change. I think its a whole kind of learning experience for them. _______ DICK EBERSOL Chairman, NBC Universal Sports On the challenges in covering the Beijing Olympics, and dealing with the Chinese government
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