Four alums minding their business in sports By Mary Dieter
For all their entertainment value, sports can be big business. Austin Brown ’07, a sports agent who has helped negotiate more than $2.6 billion in free-agent deals, can tell you that. So can Bill Rasmussen ’54, founder of ESPN. Sports also can be a labor of love. So says Dianna Minnick Boyce ’88, an uber-volunteer who occasionally gets paid for her work. Or, as in the case of Watchen Nyanue ’05, a marketer for the WNBA team Chicago Sky, they can grow on you. Here are the stories of these four DePauw alumni, who made sports their business:
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