{"id":2580,"date":"2013-03-07T14:14:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T19:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/03\/07\/50-most-powerful-people-in-sports-2\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T20:08:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T01:08:40","slug":"50-most-powerful-people-in-sports-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/50-most-powerful-people-in-sports-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A power player in the world of sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cindy Davis, a 1984 Furman graduate and president of Nike Golf, has been named to\u00a0<em>Sports Illustrated<\/em>\u00a0magazine\u2019s \u201c50 Most Powerful People in Sports.\u201d According to\u00a0<em>SI<\/em>, the \u201cpower that runs sports isn\u2019t 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\u00a0Sports Illustrated\u00a0magazine\u2019s \u201c50 Most Powerful People in Sports.\u201d According to\u00a0SI, the \u201cpower that runs sports isn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":2581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580","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=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}