SALT LAKE CITY – The future of the Goodwill Games was uncertain before the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Now media giant AOL Time Warner, which inherited the multisport ...

Ted Turner is letting his money-losing Goodwill Games die, despite vows to keep his pet project alive at all costs. The parent of the Olympic-styled event yesterday pulled the plug on the Goodwill ...

If you were around Seattle in 1990 — or watching Turner Broadcasting channels anywhere in America — you may remember the "Goodwill Games." Created out of the tumult of the Cold War, the event brought ...

ATLANTA, Dec. 20. MEDIA mogul Ted Turner and Turner Sports delivered the long-anticipated coup de grace today to the ailing Goodwill Games, the international multisport event organized by Turner in ...

Seattle hosted the second Goodwill Games in July and August of 1990. Thousands of athletes from nearly a hundred countries competed at local venues, including the UW, the Tacoma Dome and Weyerhaeuser ...

The Goodwill Games were born in 1985 out of Ted Turner’s desire to restore international sporting harmony after successive superpower Olympic boycotts in 1980 and 1984. Soon followed by the stunning ...