Ithaca College Athletics

Media executive Barry Mendelson '65 has been involved with sports for over 30 years. After a year as a production assistant with ABC Sports, he embarked on a career that has included posts as radio announcer for the National Football League's New York Giants and New York Jets; vice president of the National Basketball Association's Boston Celtics; director of radio, television, and advertising for the Los Angeles Forum (now Staples Center), the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers, and the National Hockey League's Los Angeles Kings; general manager and executive vice president of the NBA's New Orleans Jazz; and executive vice president for sports, music, and variety programming at Madison Square Garden. Today he is president of the Mendelson Entertainment Group, producing sports television shows including "Beyond the Glory" for the Fox Sports Network.