Obituary
Chet Simmons, president of ESPN at the cable channel’s 1979 start, died of natural causes Friday in Atlanta at 81. He later was founding commissioner of the now-defunct U.S. Football League. ESPN called Simmons the “founding father of sports television”…
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for starting in 1957 what became ABC Sports. He’s survived by wife, four children and nine grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are being made with Gamble Funeral Service in Savannah, Ga., and a scholarship fund will be set up at the University of Alabama.