Awards & Honors
The Ross Greenburg File: The Career
Born: February 7, 1955 (70) in San Antonio; grew up in Mamaroneck, N.Y.
Champions 2025: Former HBO leader Ross Greenburg’s path to icon status in sports TV
Growing up across the woods from the 14th fairway at Westchester, N.Y.’s famed Winged Foot Golf Club in the 1960s, Ross Greenburg made the course his afterschool playground, sneaking on at No. 14, playing a four-hole loop, and then cutting back through the trees to make it home in time for dinner.
In Ross Greenburg’s Own Words: On Mike Tyson
The day before Buster Douglas’s shocking knockout of Mike Tyson in the Tokyo Dome, Greenburg visited both fighters in their hotel rooms to gather final insights heading into the fight. He had no inkling of what was coming.
Greenburg excelled at finding the compelling story, and hiring the right talent to tell it
Ross Greenburg’s eye for on-air talent became apparent not long after he started at HBO.
‘Do You Believe In Miracles’ was an instant sell to Walt Disney Pictures
Two months before HBO debuted “61*,” it aired the hourlong “Do You Believe in Miracles,” a documentary on the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team. While making it, Ross Greenburg secured the life rights of Herb Brooks, the coach whose story he thought could be the fulcrum of a film.
Champions 2025: Quotes from Ross Greenburg and his peers
Champions 2025: Quotes from Ross Greenburg and his peers
Trust factor from AD Danny White to the UT chancellor and board shows results, in revenue and on-field success
It’s rare to pull a fast one in college athletics these days.
How Tennessee AD Danny White turned Rocky Top into a college sports business behemoth
There’s a harmony echoing over the Smoky Mountains these days.
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We’ve not seen the concept that works. It doesn’t mean we won’t consider opportunities if there are opportunities for mutual benefit -- those would pique our interest. But the notion of just jumping into something because there’s a pot of money there seems an uninformed direction.-- SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey, on potential plans to work with private equity in the future.
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