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 |