Nitro: The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapse of Ted Turner's WCW

by Guy Evans

Furthermore, Bischoff reported regularly to a superior - the President of Turner Sports (and, by proxy, WCW) - Dr. Harvey Schiller. Inside the corporate offices, Schiller, an athletic, 6-foot-4 renaissance man of sorts, responded almost always to ‘The Doc’ (sometimes ‘Dr. Schiller’, a former subordinate reveals, but never simply ‘Harvey’). His resume read like the bullet points of a screenplay; indeed, it was hard not to respect a man who served in Vietnam as a war pilot, earned a PhD in chemistry, taught at the Air Force Academy, ran the SEC conference, oversaw the United States Olympic Committee, and completed marathons in his spare time. As one author breathlessly described his exploits, “think Indiana Jones....James Bond...still, you have not reached Dr. Harvey Schiller. Simply, he is the most interesting man alive.” Perhaps Dos Equis were also paying attention.