Pan Am Games
Okay, so the 2016 Olympics are out, but that isn't stopping the We're World Class Chorus from begging for other opportunities...
The USOC has plans for its sidelined suitors. Committee chief executive officer Jim Scherr will visit Houston this year to discuss its potential to bid for 2008 U.S. Olympic trials and world championships in 2009 and beyond, and Houston businessman George DeMontrond III floated the possibility that Houston will bid for the Pan American Games.
"We need to work on our international appeal, and the way to do that is to aggressively go after events to host so that we can show off the city in an international sports context," said DeMontrond, who chaired Houston's 2012 bid and helped coordinate the 2016 bid along with Mayor Bill White and Astros owner Drayton McLane.
"The Pan Am Games are out there, and it's a major multisport event. I haven't put a pencil to the economics, but it's an intriguing possibility."
Here's a challenge to the vast Bad Sports reading and listening audience: name your favorite Pam Am Games moment.
(As for George using pencils to do his numbers, is Microsoft Excel that hard to learn?)
Posted by Laurence Simon @ 07/27/06 10:33 AM | Technorati | Comments (2)
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