Awards & Honors

In the days before the October 2003 owners meeting in Chicago, NFL Chief Operating Officer Roger Goodell called Browns CEO Carmen Policy with a request for help.

It was the day after Christmas in 1978 and Ed DeBartolo Sr.’s secretary called Carmen Policy with a request: Come to the office tomorrow to meet the boss. Arrive at 5:30 a.m., before there would be witnesses.

Family: Wife, Gail; five children: Dr. James F. Policy, pediatric orthopedic surgeon practice and adjunct professor at Stanford Medical School; Daniel A. Policy, attorney and business consultant; Edward R. Policy, Green Bay Packers president and CEO; Kerry Policy Groth, works in hospitality and spec...

Students who took Glenn Wong’s sports law classes at the University of Massachusetts and Arizona State University speak of his stern countenance and a Socratic method of teaching that they often feared but came to appreciate.

Rick Burton scribbled on a notepad, flanked to his right by Jim Boeheim. The pair sat in front of a U-shaped configuration of desks with about 20 Syracuse University students focused on them, the setting sun flinging an orange September evening splash into the fourth-floor classroom.

Education: Syracuse University (1980), B.S., communications (broadcast journalism); Marquette University (1991), MBA (marketing)

Jeff Price was coming off a seven-year stretch as president of SI Digital and then The Sporting News when he turned to Glenn Wong for career advice.

Koby Altman, president of basketball operations, Cleveland Cavaliers

Education: Brandeis University, B.A., economics and sociology (1974); participated in basketball and track; Boston College Law School, J.D. (1977)

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