Football
Hearn has been chairman of the football league club Leyton Orient since 1995. Prior to Hearn's takeover the club was facing a financial disaster due to the collapse of the then chairman Tony Wood's coffee business in Rwanda at the time of the Rwandan Genocide. Hearn's intervention and financial input assured the club's future. Although Hearn has been successful in stabilising the club financially his tenure has overseen the club's longest run in the bottom division (the fourth tier) of the Football League since its creation (in 1958).
At the culmination of the 2005–06 season, Orient earned promotion to the third tier of English league football (League One), this being their first automatic promotion since the 1969–70 season.
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—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
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