David Coleman at his home in Berkshire after a short illness. David Coleman David Robert Coleman OBE (26 April 1926 – 21 December 2013) was a British sports commentator and TV presenter who worked for the BBC for 46 years. He covered eleven Summer Olympic Games from 1960 to 2000 and six football World Cups. Coleman presented some of the BBC's leading sporting programmes, including "Grandstand" and "Sportsnight", and was the host of "A Question of Sport" for 18 years. He retired from the BBC in 2000. Later that year he became the first broadcaster to receive the Olympic Order award, in
David Coleman (education) Board in October 2012. Coleman was in the 2013 Time 100, "Time" magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. The encomium was announced in the magazine in an article written by former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, a prominent supporter of the Common Core State Standards. Coleman was also honoured by NewSchools Venture Fund, which invests in charter schools, as one of its "Change Agents of the Year for 2012". David Coleman (education) David Coleman (born 1969) is the ninth president of the College Board, a not-for-profit organization that is best known for designing the SAT