Wednesday, Jul. 16, 2008

Rank Our Picks

From brilliant trades and shrewd marketing ideas to referee scandals and Spygate, we've listed our picks for the best and worst sports executives. See the results below, from a scale of 1 (the absolute worst) to 100 (sporting genius).

Rank
Name
Sport
Avg. Rating
Total Votes

1
Lew Perkins
College Sports
80
3,022

2
Sir Alex Ferguson
Soccer
74
3,412

3
John Henry
Baseball
65
2,424

4
Danny Ainge
Basketball
65
2,079

5
Jerry Reese
Football
64
1,648

6
Naser Shahalemi
Basketball
64
1,459

7
Robert Kraft
Football
60
1,638

8
Roger Goodell
Football
57
1,770

9
Richard Scudamore
Soccer
57
1,315

10
Randy Bernard
Bull Riding
57
998

11
Jerry Colangelo
Basketball
53
1,228

12
Bob Bowman
Sports Media
52
1,022

13
Massimo Moratti
Football
50
1,112

14
Don Garber
Soccer
50
984

15
Carolyn Bivens
Golf
50
887

16
Lalit Kumar Lodi
Cricket
50
783

17
Sergi Kushchenko
Basketball
50
783

18
Roman Abramovich
Soccer
49
1,891

19
Tim Finchem
Golf
48
1,119

20
Larry Scott
Tennis
41
1,081

21
David Stern
Basketball
39
3,165

22
Sam Zell
Baseball
38
1,611

23
Julio Grondona
Soccer
38
906

24
Irvin Khoza
Soccer
36
844

25
Gary Bettman
Hockey
35
1,416

26
Tom Hicks & George Gillett
Soccer
35
1,323

27
Max Mosley
Racing
34
2,199

28
Hank Steinbrenner
Baseball
29
2,219

29
Donald Sterling
Basketball
29
1,234

30
Clayton Bennett
Basketball
28
2,387

31
Bug Selig
Baseball
28
1,772

32
Liu Peng
Olympics
28
1,522

33
Matt Millen
Football
22
2,132

34
James Dolan
Basketball
21
2,375

35
Ricardo Teixera
Soccer
12
7,943