NFL Loses Good Football Man With Davis' Death
Yes, he had his faults. And, yes, there are still questions about how he finagled ownership of the Oakland Raiders, but Al Davis was a football man turned owner.
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Yes, he had his faults. And, yes, there are still questions about how he finagled ownership of the Oakland Raiders, but Al Davis was a football man turned owner.
What is clear is that, no matter the successor, there will be a void. There was no owner who was more involved in the day-to-day decisions of the club than Al Davis.
He modernized the passing game. He made marketing a part of being an owner. He hired minorities to be coaches when other owners refused. Al Davis was, in short, a brilliant man.
In a brief statement the company said Jobs died Wednesday. He had been battling pancreatic cancer.
Apple Inc. and the family of Steve Jobs were not saying what caused the death of the company's founder. However, medical experts said that the liver transplant he had two years ago was probably a sign that his cancer had returned.
t's well known that the secret to Apple Inc.'s meteoric success in the world of consumer technology was the vision, leadership and creativity of Steve Jobs. What's less talked about is what drove Jobs, who died Wednesday at 56.
From his earliest days with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs was a half step ahead of the rest of us.
While Steve Jobs had no formal schooling in engineering, he pushed the envelope many times when it came to product design. He's listed as the inventor or co-inventor on more than 300 U.S. patents, but other times the results of his work weren't always pretty.
It's difficult to overstate how dramatically Steve Jobs reshaped how we interact with computers. But what's not as well-known is how Jobs' successes arose from his previous failures.
One of the most legendary businessmen in American history, Steve Jobs turned three separate industries on their head in the 35 years he was involved in the technology industry.
There are few, if any, corners of the tech world that Steve Jobs' vision and breakthroughs have not touched.
If there were an epitaph that perfectly describes Steve Jobs' life on earth, it is one that he helped craft himself for the iconic "Think Different" Apple advertising campaign.
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