Bench Rebound

Peter Fox will be remembered by many as ESPN’s Founding Executive Producer. The good news is that we should prepare to be entertained and informed when his book ESPN The Early Years is published.

This unique insider’s book “celebrates” the early days before they flipped the 24 hour sports switch at the Entertainment Sports Programing Network.

Today, as Editor in Chief of SportsEDTV, Fox assists athletes, coaches and parents, encouraging them to “learn, win and celebrate.”

He believes that anyone can in fact learn to be their own champion.

So, there’s good news at SportsEDTV for benchwarmers---past and present---as Fox, an incredibly successful golf coach, sports educator, writer and editor has---over the years--- adopted a positive way to keep score.

Was he a benchwarmer? Well, not in those early years as he, along with Founding Father Bill Rasmussen, strung the cable that would become ESPN.

“In those days I was producing some of the highest profile television sports in our history,” Fox said.

This ended (politics, personalities, buy outs, power struggles) and the day came when Fox was sent to the bench to produce shows like NFL Arm Wrestling Championships from Las Vegas.

Today as he writes the early untold history of ESPN, he continues to write, edit and promote sports, fun and fitness, all the while looking back and seeing that arm wrestling assignment during his final landing with ESPN not on a bench but on a springboard.