‘The most powerful man in sport’ dies

MARK MCCORMACK, once famously described as “the most powerful man in sport”, died in America yesterday, four months after suffering cardiac arrest and falling into a coma from which he never recovered.

The 72-year-old was the founder and head of the International Management Group, the world's best-known sports marketing and promoting agency.

His clients included golfers Tiger Woods and Arnold Palmer, tennis stars Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg the Williams sisters and even the Pope.