1974, Madison Square Garden. College Basketball. Lifting attendance from 800 to 10,000. My first success as a “promoter.”

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If you’re nimble and able to think on your feet, sometimes you can turn a bad situation into something great, which is how our agency, Sports Etcetera, was started. An unlikely tale, but a solid example of turning lemons into lemonade.

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My trials and tribulations at the NBA, struggling with a job for which I was not yet qualified. Not an easy circumstance with which to contend.

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“A home without books is like a room without windows.” —Horace Mann. And yet, no one buys or read books anymore. Men especially so. Let’s talk about it.

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Here I discuss the growing importance of dogs. Adoptions are up. Dependence is up. Business is up. For some, canines are more important than people, especially these days.

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It’s 1965 and your host, Bill Goldstein, is a college freshman. One Sunday morning he gets a surprise phone call. By the end of the call, his view on life and how to set priorities had been changed forever.

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The one and only Muhammad Ali, the Bayonne Bleeder Chuck Wepner, and my own broken jaw. Lesson learned … don’t mix business with pleasure.

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Which category of workers are the richest in the world? Sales people, that’s who. And with good reason. They do the hardest work. Selling ain’t no fun. Anybody who tells you they like to sell is BS’ing. Still, selling is a necessity. A skill we all employ every day, for better or worse, even though we may not realize it.

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Do others object, as I do, when teams and cities expropriate the names and championships from the teams that they replaced? Is Los Angeles known for its “lakes?” Do its citizens have a history of having to “dodge” anything? Has its principal professional basketball team actually won all those championships they brag about? Would the Baltimore Ravens be better off had they become the Baltimore Browns? The answers are no, no, no and no.

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