The 60th anniversary issue of Sports Illustrated, on newsstands now, highlights some of the most memorable moments in athletics over the past six decades, including the founding of ESPN by Bill Rasmussen, 1954 graduate of DePauw University. After being fired by the World Hockey Association's Hartford Whalers in 1978, Rasmussen came up with an idea that seemed crazy to many others at the time: to create a round-the-clock cable sports network.
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