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Article: He gets in the game with sports tabloid.(SportsBusiness Journal publisher Richard Weiss)
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- Business North Carolina
- Article date:
- December 1, 1998
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Richard Weiss had spent four years criss-crossing Europe as managing director of The Wall Street Journal's European edition when he made a promise to his wife, Susan, in 1995. She was expecting twins, so Weiss assured her he'd be home the six weeks before the babies were due.
His daughters were born six weeks and one day early in Leuven, Belgium, where the Weisses were living. "I was in Warsaw, Poland, on the last day of my last business trip, which made me real popular," Weiss, 40, quips.
The Greensboro native has been closer to home the past year after taking the helm as publisher of the new SportsBusiness Journal, produced by Street & Smith's, a ...