Ron Lang pays tribute to O'Hara & Bright and Discusses:

-  How he first met Mike O'Hara in '56 after O'Hara got out of the service and played in a tournament with him, the Selznick & O'Hara rivalry where he and Mike Bright were just side shows to Selznick & O'Hara when they played one another,  how honored Lang was when the O'Hara family asked him to speak at O'Hara's wake, some memorable  O'Hara stories, and what he learned from him as a competitor,  O'Hara's strengths  and weaknesses as a player, and  what an amazing father he was, stories about Mike Bright, including one from the '64 Olympics and the back set shoots he set him in Tokyo, Japan,  the tragic diving  accident in which  Bright  dove too deep and came up too fast and got the "bends" and became partially paralyzed, what an outstanding  athlete Bright  was as a basketball player, as well as a paddle boarder, including the fact he won the 32 mile Catalina to Manhattan Beach paddle board race on multiple occasions.

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