NBC Sports chief talks Yale, Olympics
In 1965, Dick Ebersol ’69 was a freshman in Timothy Dwight College. Just two years later, he was working at ABC Sports under Roone Arledge, oftentimes called the father of American sports television.
In the same building in which he had once (rarely) attended class, Ebersol shared stories about his career as a sports television producer — which started while he was an undergraduate at Yale — at the 2008 Kiphuth Fellowship Public Lecture in Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall on Thursday afternoon.
Ebersol stressed the importance of dedication in order to succeed in his line...
