March 7, 2006 2:56 PM

Armen Keteyian

Armen Keteyian

Armen Keteyian (CBS)

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Armen Keteyian was named CBS News' chief investigative correspondent in February 2006.

Keteyian had been a special features reporter for CBS Sports since 1997, primarily roaming the sidelines during top NFL games and covering the league for "The NFL Today." He contributed to the network's coverage of the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship and Final Four, and hosted and co-wrote CBS Sports' coverage of the Tour de France for the past four years.

Keteyian also was a featured correspondent for HBO Sports' "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel" since 1997. Additionally, Keteyian co-produced and co-wrote "A City on Fire: The Story of the '68 Detroit Tigers," a 2002 documentary aired as part of HBO Sports' "Sports of the 20th Century" series.

Keteyian is the recipient of eight Emmy Awards, including four for CBS Sports, three for coverage of the Tour de France (2002-04) and one for a Super Bowl pre-game piece about NFL quarterbacks and their sons (2005). He also has two Sports Journalism Emmys for "Real Sports" - a report on the financing of the Bank One Ballpark in Arizona (1998) and a story on high school basketball star Amare Stoudemire (2001).

Before that, he was a correspondent for ABC News in New York (1989-97), for which Keteyian reported and wrote more than 400 stories for "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings," "Nightline" and other ABC News broadcasts.

The topics on which he reported included point shaving on the North Carolina State University basketball team; the lack of black quarterbacks in the NFL; the killing of show horses for insurance profit; the rise of unscrupulous player agents in college sports; and the risks and realities of AIDS in sports.

Keteyian won a Women's Sports Foundation Journalism Award for a 1993 ABC News report on the landmark Title IX battle at Brown University. He also won 1993 and 1994 Emmy Awards in Sports Journalism and Overall Achievement for his reporting for ESPN's "Outside the Lines" series.

Prior to joining ABC News, Keteyian was a writer-reporter for Sports Illustrated in New York (1982-89), where he specialized in investigations. While there, he reported on subjects including corruption in college football and basketball, sports gambling in America, point shaving scandals and the widening use of steroids in professional and amateur sports.

Keteyian began his journalism career as a sports and feature writer in San Diego, freelancing for the San Diego Union-Tribune and San Diego Magazine (1980-82) after spending two years at the Times-Advocate in Escondido (1978-80).

He has written or co-written nine books, including New York Times bestsellers "Why You Crying?" (Touchstone, 2004), the autobiography of actor/comedian George Lopez, and Raw Recruits (Pocket Books, 1990). Among his previous books are: "Money Players: Days and Nights Inside the New NBA" (Pocket Books, 1997), a critically acclaimed account of the rise of the NBA under David Stern, and the autobiographies of baseball great Catfish Hunter and Hall of Fame linebacker Mike Singletary.

Keteyian was born in Detroit, Mich. He was graduated cum laude from San Diego State University in 1976 with a bachelor's degree in journalism. Keteyian lives with his wife and two children in New Canaan, Conn.

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by truth-teller-2009 September 27, 2011 7:03 PM EDT
If you didn't read my comments which I posted yesterday at http://www.cbsnews.com/8601-18563_162-20111913-1.html?assetTypeId=30&blogId= then an introduction is explained. I am constantly monitoring the subjects of finance, especially Payday Loans and Overdrafts, because they are so far from the mathematically-TRUE Compound Annual Percentage Rate (CARP). The ARP stated in your article, 476% doesn't seem like a usual Nominal, Simple-Interest Annual Percentage Rate which, unfortunately, is given the acronym "APR," but which, for clarity, I will acronym (SIAPR). The numbers of days are not stated, but most payday loans are for 14 days. So, in order to find the periodic rate for the 14 days, I used the formula (Excel notations): 476%*14/365= 18.25% ... not the usual rate which is from 15% to 35%. The rest on the article mentions a monthly dollar amount without and mathematics to explain. My object is to have the mathematically-TRUE, CAPR used to express an APR. If the SIAPR truly had a 14-day periodic rate of 18.26% for 14 days, then the CAPR would be 7,824.78%, calculated as (Excel compound symbol, ^): (((1+(18.26/100))^(365/14))-1)*100. The Truth in Lending Act allows a tolerance of accuracy of 1/8th of 1 percent (0.125%) in expressing the SIAPR. The CAPR is not merely slightly over one of the tolerance from the SIAPR, it is 58,590 of those 0.125%, calculated as (7824.78%-476%)/0.125%. Now, there is a story.
An Overdraft can make this look like charity. Example: an overdrawn once for a single $10 item, on which there is an overdraft fee of $30 both to be paid within 5 days. The CAPR is 8,920,298,079,412,200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000%, calculated as: (((1+(30/10))^(365/5))-1)*100. What decline did bank suffer from the overdraft. In their bookkeeping they debited the asset, "Cash" and debited the liability, "Owed to Depositors," and the Net Worth was not changed.
A F "Bob" Blair Jr. Thibodaux LA.
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by Lou_Coss September 19, 2011 9:15 PM EDT
Mr. Keteyian
PLEASE remove my address and phone number, before posting here or on any wall.
Thanks
Lou Cossette
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by Lou_Coss September 19, 2011 9:11 PM EDT
Mr. Keteyian
I do understand the point of the segment you did on Pharmacies contributating to drug abuse on 19 Sept. 2011 and I know all about the availability of oxycodone on the street all to well and admitably 'IF' I had the money I would probably be buying it on the street, that certanly has got to be easyer than trying to get it from the Dr.'s
To keep this short and sweet LOL, "Do you intend to do a follw up pertaining to us poor soles who NEED Oxycodone just to exist, and the battel we have to fight to get what LITTLE BIT the Dr. will give us (I finely got one to slip and admit it is the state of Maine that will not let them write a script for any more than the few I do get now.
Justification :
( I have 3 full disabilitys as declaired by the Social Security Admin. in 1995: (1)4 crushed vertebra and no disks left along with 3 or 4 pinched nerves in my neck, (2)3 herniated disks with 4 severly pinched nerves in my lower back, (3)then there is the Arthritis I have in both knees, both hips, both hands, my back, and my neck. Documentation is available if you would like to see it. )
Sincerly
Lou Cossette
Bangor, Maine
loujcs@yahoo.com
207 945-3230
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by jzhawk13 July 21, 2011 11:33 AM EDT
thank you armen Keteyian for covering the nuclear issue. please continue to expose them. There are a lot of concerned mothers and people that are passionate about this. There are so many issues with nuclear. there is no where safe to store the spent fuel rods, they are transporting these on our highways and they are not properly maintaining these plants. thank you so much for your work. please keep it up. And CBS...do more of this on primetime. People need to stand up and get informed. So, thank you for helping to inform the rest of america.
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