{"id":1121,"date":"2013-03-06T22:02:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T03:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/03\/06\/50-most-powerful-people-in-sports\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T20:08:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T01:08:45","slug":"50-most-powerful-people-in-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/50-most-powerful-people-in-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;50 Most Powerful People in Sports&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5869\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cindy-davis-SI.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5869\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5869 lazyload\" title=\"cindy-davis-SI\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cindy-davis-SI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"288\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 310px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 310\/288;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cindy Davis and Rory McIlroy at a recent press conference to announce his contract with Nike. (Photo: Matthew Lewis\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cindy Davis, a 1984 Furman graduate and president of Nike Golf, has been named to <em>Sports Illustrated<\/em> magazine\u2019s \u201c50 Most Powerful People in Sports.\u201d According to <em>SI<\/em>, the \u201cpower that runs sports isn&#8217;t physical, despite all those power hitters and power forwards, power plays and power alleys.\u201d\u00a0 The list is \u201cdominated by power lunchers, not powerlifters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The top 50 includes NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, NBA commissioner David Stern and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.\u00a0 Davis was one of only three women to make the list.<\/p>\n<p>Davis, who majored in economics at Furman and played on the women\u2019s golf team, was named president of Nike Golf in 2008.\u00a0 She was a three-time All-American for the Lady Paladins and finished second in the 1983 NCAA women\u2019s golf tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining Nike, Davis served as senior vice president at the Golf Channel and has held various senior management level positions at The Arnold Palmer Golf Company.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/main\/photos\/1303\/50-most-powerful-people-in-sports\/46\/\">Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cindy Davis, a 1984 Furman graduate and president of Nike Golf, has been named to <em>Sports Illustrated<\/em> magazine\u2019s \u201c50 Most Powerful People in Sports.\u201d The top 50 includes NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, NBA commissioner David Stern and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.\u00a0 Davis, who majored in economics at Furman and played on the women\u2019s golf team,\u00a0was one of only three women to make the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,46,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-economics","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}