Books by Bert Randolph Sugar

Bert Randolph Sugar is one of the most recognizable personalities in sports, with his trademark fedora and cigar, he is a fixture at race tracks and boxing matches. A former advertising executive at McCann-Erickson and J. Walter Thompson, Sugar left the world of advertising after a brawl with a fellow ad exec landed him in the pages of the NY Times and Advertising Age. Sugar became a sportswriter, and a damn good one at that. Bert was the editor of Ring Magazine and founder of Boxing Illustrated. Bert writes monthly for Street Smith's Sport's Business, Smoke Magazine (the back page) and Keeneland Magazine where he frequently writes about horse racing. Bert has been the Kentucky Derby announcer for Fox TV and has attended the races in the triple crown the last 25 years. Bert is a graduate of Harvard and University of Michigan Law School. Bert lives in Chappaqua, NY. Cornell Richardson is the former lending officer at Chemical Bank where he was the primary lending officer to the entertainment and sports industries-including many of those in the horse racing industry. Currently, he is working with renown TV director and documentarian Bud Greenspan on a documentary on "The History of African-American Jockeys" for ESPN as well as co-authoring a book entitled, "The Ladies Wore Silks--The History of Women in Thoroughbred Racing." Cornell lives in New York City.