Taking Care of Business: College Hoopers Who Minded Biz On and Off Court

Here are hard-working individuals who meant business in more ways than just on the basketball hardwood:

ALEX AKOSI, Saint Michael's VT
Nigeria born and U.S. bred, the Senior Vice President and General Manager of MTV Africa built one of the fastest-growing international outposts of the farthest-reaching cable channel in the world. Featured on the cover of Forbes magazine in June, 2007. . . . Averaged 4.2 points and 5.2 rebounds per game from 1994-95 through 1997-98. He was tri-captain his senior year after Saint Michael's won the Northeast-10 Conference championship the previous season.

DR. BOB ALBO, California
Chief physician for the Oakland Raiders and Golden State Warriors. Worked his way through medical school performing magic and has written 11 volumes on the subject (3000 pages). His magic collection is the single largest private collection in the world. . . . Averaged 8 ppg and 6.3 rpg from 1951-52 through 1953-54 under coach Nibs Price. Posted career highs of 12 ppg and 9.2 rpg as senior captain. He was also Cal's starting catcher and team captain in baseball.

NOLAN ARCHIBALD, Weber State
President and Chief Executive Officer of Black & Decker. He was on the Board of Directors of ITT. . . . Named to National Junior College Athletic Association All-American second team in 1966 when he averaged 25.3 points per game for Dixie College (Utah). The 6-5, 195-pound forward averaged 15.2 ppg and 9 rpg as a junior at Weber State and 11.9 ppg and 7.1 rpg as a senior. Named to second five on All-Big Sky Conference all-star team in 1967-68.

LEN ARMATO, Pacific
Former agent for acclaimed NBA centers Shaquille O'Neal and Hakeem Olajuwon. . . . Leading scorer for Pacific in 1974-75 (12.8 ppg) when he was an All-Pacific Coast Athletic Association first-team selection. Paced the PCAA in assists in 1974 (6.8 apg) and 1975 (5.9 apg). The 6-0, 165-pounder transferred to UOP after his freshman year with Southern California.

JESSE ARNELLE, Penn State
Founding partner of San Francisco-based Arnelle & Hastie, one of the first minority-owned national corporate law firms in America. The four-year football letterman and one of the finest ends ever to play for the Nittany Lions is vice president of his alma mater's board of trustees. . . . The 6-5, 220-pounder averaged 20.2 points per game in 10 NCAA Tournament games in 1952, 1954 and 1955 and was the leading scorer for Penn State's only Final Four team (21.1 ppg in 1954). Arnelle, a two-time NCAA Tournament all-regional selection (1954 and 1955), remains the school's all-time leader in scoring (2,138 points) and rebounding (1,238) after pacing the Nittany Lions in those two categories all four varsity seasons. He had 15 games of 30 or more points and still holds the school mark for most rebounds in a single game (27 at Temple as a senior). Arnelle averaged 4.7 points per game in one season in the NBA (1955-56 with Fort Wayne).

JOHN ARRILLAGA, Stanford
Transforming fruit orchards, real-estate tycoon worth $2.5 billion became one of largest commercial landowners in Silicon Valley, ranking No. 339 on the Forbes 400 list of richest people in America in 2020. . . . All-AAWU first-team selection averaged a team-high 14.2 ppg in 1959-60 under coach Howie Dallmar.

C. DAVID BAKER, UC Irvine
Former mayor of Irvine became commissioner of the Arena Football League in November, 1996. He played professionally in Europe before graduating from Pepperdine University School of Law, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Law Review. . . . The 6-8, 220-pound post player from 1972-75 is the Anteaters' all-time leading rebounder (926) and second-leading scorer (1,601 points). UCI competed in the NCAA Division II Tournament West Regional his freshman and senior seasons. He grabbed a career-high 21 rebounds against Chicago State his freshman year.

RICHARD T. "DICK" BAKER, Ohio State
Managing partner and CEO of major accounting firm Ernst and Ernst for 13 years, starting in 1964. Member of Accounting Hall of Fame served on the board of directors of such major enterprises as General Electric, Anheuser-Busch and Hershey Foods. . . . Three-year letterman was Ohio State's second-leading scorer as a starting senior forward for a team that finished runner-up to Oregon in the first NCAA Tournament in 1939. He scored a game-high 25 points for the Buckeyes in their tourney opener, a 64-52 victory over Wake Forest.

CARL BARGER, Shippensburg (Pa.)
Prominent attorney in Pittsburgh led a coalition that purchased the Pirates in 1986. President and chief operating officer of the franchise for almost four years before accepting a similar position with the expansion Florida Marlins. Barger, who also became a minority owner and joined the board of directors of Wayne Huizenga's Blockbuster Entertainment, died at the 1992 major league baseball owners meeting in Louisville when an aneurysm ruptured in his abdomen. . . . Starting guard for Shippensburg's team in the early 1950s. His dorm room eventually became the school's sports information office.

TODD BEAMER, Wheaton (Ill.)
The Oracle Corp account manager was traveling from New Jersey to California on United Airlines Flight 93 for a business meeting on September 11, 2001, when he helped lead a takeover by passengers from terrorists, forcing the plane down in Pennsylvania countryside about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. They were credited with foiling hijackers bent on crashing the Boeing 757 into a second target in Washington, D.C., possibly the Capitol or the White House. Beamer recited the 23rd Psalm with a GTE/Verizon supervisor over the plane's in-flight telephone before getting her to promise she would call his family. "I don't think we're going to get out of this thing," he told her. "I'm going to have to go out on faith." The phone line was still open when the operator heard him say: "Are you guys ready? Let's roll." . . . Beamer collected 24 points and 12 rebounds as a sophomore guard for Wheaton in 1988-89.

JOHN BELK, Davidson
Noted retailer (president of Belk Brothers Co. and Belk Stores Services, Inc.) is former mayor of Charlotte. He is listed in Who's Who in America. . . . Davidson's basketball arena and men's MVP award are both named for him. The four-year starter was senior co-captain of the Wildcats' 1942-43 squad that compiled an 18-6 record and defeated North Carolina, N.C. State, Clemson and South Carolina.

DICK BOUSHKA, St. Louis
In 1963, at the age of 29, he was named president of Vickers Petroleum Corporation. Boushka was involved in real estate development when he became the ninth president of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. But in December 2002, he pleaded guilty in federal court in Wichita, Kan., to defrauding a bank of more than $17 million. . . . His career average of 19.2 points per game is best in school history (minimum of three seasons). SLU career from 1951-52 through 1954-55 included a 38-point outing against Alabama as a junior. He participated in the 1952 NCAA Tournament as a freshman before becoming a three-time All-Missouri Valley Conference first-team selection and 1955 NBA draft choice by the Minneapolis Lakers. Upon graduation, Boushka earned a gold medal while playing for the 1956 U.S. Olympic team in Melbourne, Australia.

CLOYCE BOX, West Texas A&M
After graduating from Baylor Law School, he joined the New York-based George A. Fuller Construction Company and eventually became its Chairman and CEO. He founded the Oklahoma Cement Company and formed an oil and gas company called OKC - later known as Box Energy Corp - before his estate became insolvent. Owned the original Southfork Ranch of Dynasty fame. . . . Pro Bowl end with the Detroit Lions in the early 1950s after playing with twin brother for West Texas' undefeated Border Conference hoops championship 10 years earlier.

TOMMY BOYER, Arkansas
Owner and CEO of Amarillo, Tex.-based Micro Images, which became the largest Eastman Kodak document imaging systems broker and re-seller in the U.S., after setting standard as only sales manager in the history of Kodak to exceed sales goals for 26 consecutive years. President and founder of Princeton Associates, a healthcare consulting and executive search organization. Chair of the Arkansas Business Hall of Fame Board. Steering committee co-chairman of his alma mater's $1 billion fund-raising campaign for the 21st Century. . . . Averaged 15.2 ppg and 4.2 rpg for the Razorbacks form 1960-61 through 1962-63. Two-time All-SWC selection led the nation in free-throw percentage as junior and senior.

AVERY BRUNDAGE, Illinois
AAU president in the 1930s before becoming president of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972. Competed in the decathlon and pentathlon in the 1912 Olympic Games. . . . Basketball letterman with the Illini in 1907-08.

GREG BUNCH, Cal State Fullerton
Executive with Direct TV, moving there in 1998 from ESPN. He worked himself up in the cable sports business, starting as a door-to-door cable service salesman. . . . PCAA player of the year as a sophomore forward in 1975-76 when he averaged 16 ppg and 8.8 rpg for the Titans.

DR. RALPH J. BUNCHE, UCLA
U.S. government official and United Nations diplomat became the first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in government and international relations at Harvard (1934) before teaching political science at Howard University until entering government service in 1941. The U.S. State Department named its main library for the late envoy in 1997. He worked under the joint chiefs of staff and was a chief research analyst in the Office of Strategic Services. The first African-American to be a division head in the Department of State (1945), he entered the United Nations in 1946 as director of the Trusteeship Division. Bunche, the first black person to win the Nobel Peace Prize, became principal secretary to the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine in December, 1947, and acting mediator soon thereafter in the aftermath of the assassination of the first mediator (Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden). Bunche was awarded the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his deft handling of the armistice negotiations leading to the Arab-Israeli truce. In 1945, Bunche said he was "obsessed with a burning desire to excel in everything I undertake," and moved by "a calculated and deliberate interest to prove to (whites) that I am, despite their race, their equal if not their superior in intellect, ability, knowledge, and general savoir-faire." He served as U.N. undersecretary general from 1955 until his retirement due to poor health shortly before his death in 1971. . . . Born in Detroit and reared by his grandmother in Los Angeles, he graduated from UCLA in 1927 with a degree in political science after writing for the school newspaper, winning oratorical contests, serving as sports editor of the yearbook, and earning letters as a guard for three Southern California Conference champions. Legendary Bruins coach John Wooden acknowledges that Bunche, named UCLA's Alumnus of the Year in 1949, was instrumental in helping recruit New York native Lew Alcindor to his alma mater.

WAYNE CALLOWAY, Wake Forest
Former Chairman of the Board and CEO of PepsiCo earned $1 million in salary and a $2 million bonus in 1994 before retiring after contracting cancer. . . . The business administration major scored 29 points in 15 games for the Demon Deacons in 1957-58 as a 6-1, 180-pound guard. "One of the unique aspects of being on a team is that you clearly learn to share responsibility and share the credit," Calloway says. "You find out that there is definitely a reason for working together. In today's business world, you discover this in a hurry. You only get so far by yourself. It is when you, as a manager, have the ability to relate to people and have them all marching together that you can make things happen."

TOM CHESTNUT, Princeton
Former executive with SportsChannel New York (subsequently Fox SportsNet) served as President and COO of the Cleveland Cavaliers the first half of the 1990s before accepting a similar position with the Philadelphia 76ers. . . . Averaged 3.9 ppg in 25 varsity contests from 1966-67 through 1968-69. The 6-4, 205-pounder was Princeton's fourth-leading scorer as a senior when averaging 6.4 ppg and shooting 57.4% from the floor in half a season.

VINNIE COHEN, Syracuse
Partner in a law firm, Hogan and Hartson, in Washington, D.C. . . . Averaged 19.7 points per game from 1954-55 through 1956-57. Ranked 16th in the nation in scoring as a senior with 24.2 ppg. Converse second-team All-American guard averaged 19 points in three NCAA Tournament games in 1957. Selected in the third round of the 1957 NBA draft by the Syracuse Nationals (23rd pick overall).

DALE COMEY, Connecticut
Former Executive Vice President of ITT, a conglomerate with global sales in excess of $23 billion specializing in diversified products and services in three areas--financial and business, manufactured products and Sheraton Hotels. He earned more than $1 million per year before retiring. . . . Comey averaged nine points per game in three varsity seasons after leading the school's freshman team in scoring (16 ppg). The 5-9, 150-pound guard was an All-Yankee Conference second-team selection as a senior when he scored 17 points in a 77-71 defeat to West Virginia in the first round of the 1963 NCAA Tournament.

DR. DENTON COOLEY, Texas
World famous heart surgeon in Houston has performed well in excess of 20,000 open-heart operations. "I've always had the opinion that my training in athletics equipped me for a life in medicine," Dr. Cooley said, "and particularly in surgery because there's so much of the physical part involved. Surgery is a specialty in which a person must have vigor and a healthy body to perform at his peak. It requires a certain amount of physical training as well as mental training. In surgery, operations are accomplished by teams. As in athletics, a strong individual effort is possible only with the support of a good team. The morale of the team must be maintained by the captain. And these are the things individuals learn in a program of competitive sports. We learn to accept defeat but not to be satisfied with defeat; that there is no alternative for winning. Extra effort and determination and hard work and practice are what lead to accomplishment and victory." . . . He was a three-year letterman (1938-39 through 1940-41) on Texas teams combining for a 51-21 record. The 6-3 Cooley saw action in both of the Longhorns' games in the inaugural NCAA Tournament in 1939 after they captured the Southwest Conference championship. Named the 32nd most influential student-athlete in 2006 when the NCAA celebrated its centennial anniversary.

KERY DAVIS, Dartmouth
Senior Vice President for Sports Programming/Home Box Office brokered deals with premium prizefighters including Roy Jones Jr. . . . Teammate of former Harvard coach Peter Roby averaged 3.7 ppg as a sophomore in 1976-77 and 0.8 ppg as a junior.

McKINLEY "DEACON" DAVIS, Iowa
National sales director with Primerica/A Member of Citigroup after serving as executive director of athletics at Northern Illinois. . . . Four-year starter averaged 10.5 ppg from 1951-52 through 1954-55. The 6-2, 175-pound forward led Iowa in scoring as a sophomore (14.9 ppg). He averaged 10.4 ppg and 5.4 rpg for the fourth-place team in the 1955 NCAA playoffs. The Hawkeyes' captain came out of college with a contract to play with the Harlem Globetrotters.

R. HAL DEAN, Grinnell (Iowa)
Former Chairman of Ralston Purina Company. . . . Played basketball for Grinnell when it was a member of the Missouri Valley Conference. In 1936-37, he was named to the second five on the All-MVC team and finished fifth in league scoring with an average of 7.5 points per game. The next season, he was again named to the All-MVC second five and finished 16th in conference scoring with an average of 6.5 ppg. The Spalding Official Guide described him as a "sparkplug" and "one of the Midland's best guards."

LaROY DOSS, St. Mary's
Chairman and president of the Ford Lincoln Mercury Minority Dealers Association was named one of the top 100 U.S. black businessmen by Black Enterprise magazine in 1978. Doss was the first African American to serve on his alma mater's Board of Trustees. . . . Averaged 14.8 ppg and 9.2 rpg in three seasons, leading the squad in rebounding as a sophomore and in scoring as a junior and senior. Second-team All-WCAC as a sophomore and junior and first five pick as a senior when the Gaels made their initial NCAA playoff appearance. Finished third on the school's career scoring list with 1,139 points.

DR. CHARLES RICHARD DREW, Amherst (Mass.)
Surgeon was a pioneer in the development of blood banks for Allied Forces during World War II. Although his life was cut short at 45 by an automobile accident, he distinguished himself through outstanding achievements in science, medicine and education. As the first director of the American Red Cross Blood Bank, Drew encouraged public awareness that blood banks do not need to be segregated by race. His medical education began during the Great Depression at McGill University School of Medicine in Quebec. Although Drew worked as a waiter while a student at McGill, he graduated second in his class of 137. . . . The inventor of plasma was one of the first African-American players for a predominantly white institution. He was an All-American football player who served as athletics director at Morgan State College.

CHUCK DUNLAP, Rockhurst (Mo.)
Prominent executive in international oil and gas circles as CEO, president and director of Houston-based Pasadena Refining System, Inc., from 2005 through 2008 and subsequent similar position with Denver-based TransMontaigne Partners L.P. . . . Teammate of eventual Saint Louis coach Rich Grawer averaged 1.4 ppg in 1962-63 and 1963-64.

BERNIE EBBERS, Mississippi College
Parlayed an investment in a Mississippi motel into a telecommunications empire. Co-founded WorldCom and served as CEO. In 1999, the charismatic businessman with folksy demeanor was No. 174 on Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans with an estimated net worth of $1.4 billion. Among his assets were Canada's largest cattle ranch, vast swaths of timberland in the Southeast and stake in a Georgia yacht builder. Convicted of fraud and conspiracy as a result of WorldCom's false financial reporting (sentenced to 25-year prison term in summer of 2005; served just over half of sentence before release in December 2019 because of deteriorating health and dying a couple of months later). The WorldCom scandal was, until the Madoff schemes came to light in 2008, the largest accounting scandal in U.S. history ($11 billion). In 1999, Ebbers announced that MCI WorldCom would acquire its rival, Sprint Communications, for more than $115 billion. This transaction, however, was abandoned after U.S. and European antitrust regulators raised objections. . . . The 6-4 Ebbers was on scholarship at MC in the mid-1960s. "My job is to bring people in who do have specific skills and then rely on them," he told the New York Times while interviewed on his 130-foot yacht. "I'm the coach (his first job at high school level after graduating). I'm not the point guard who shoots the ball."

DR. PAUL ALLEN EBERT, Ohio State
Director of the American College of Surgeons since 1986. Nationally-recognized authority on children's thoracic and cardiovascular surgery is listed in Who's Who in America. . . . Earned All-American recognition by averaging more than 20 points per game each of his three varsity seasons (1951-52 through 1953-54). All-Big Ten Conference choice each year finished his career as the school's all-time scoring leader. He had a 40-point game against Michigan as a sophomore when he was second in the Big Ten in scoring (20.1 ppg). Ebert, a three-time MVP for the Buckeyes, posted even higher scoring averages as a junior (21.7) and senior (23.5). Selected by the Milwaukee Hawks in the 1954 NBA draft after they had chosen LSU All-American Bob Pettit.

KENNY EDMONDS, East Carolina
Editor-Publisher of The Carolina Times, a historic black newspaper based in Durham. . . . Averaged 3.2 ppg from 1972-73 through 1974-75.

DR. HARRY F. EDWARDS, San Jose State
Nationally-known liberal sociologist and special consultant for the San Francisco 49ers. . . . The 6-8, 240-pound center averaged 10 ppg and 5.9 rpg in three seasons of varsity basketball from 1961-62 through 1963-64. He was the Spartans' second-leading scorer (10.2) and rebounder (5.8) as a senior.

CLIFF EHRLICH, Brown
Senior Vice-President of the Marriott Corporation is listed in Who's Who in America. . . . The 6-4, 200-pound forward was a three-year letterman (1957-58 through 1959-60). He led Brown in scoring as a junior with 13.9 points per game and was named to the second five on the All-Ivy League team.

GILBERT "GIB" FORD, Texas
President/CEO/Chairman of Converse from 1986 to 1996. . . . The 6-4, 190-pound guard-forward averaged 7.6 ppg and 5.9 rpg in three varsity seasons from 1951-52 through 1953-54. Leading rebounder (7.8 rpg) and third-leading scorer (9.8 ppg) as a junior. Earned a spot on the 1956 U.S. Olympic team as a member of the Armed Forces All-Stars while serving in the Air Force. Excerpt from school guide: "A natural athlete and keen competitor, he is the key man in the attack."

CHET FORTE, Columbia
Former director of Monday Night Football on ABC Television. Nine-time Emmy Award winner also produced or directed Olympic Games, World Series and Indianapolis 500 before a gambling addiction cost him almost $4 million and led to a guilty plea to fraud and tax evasion charges. Forte, who last bet in April 1988, became host of a San Diego radio show and returned to the NFL in 1994 to direct several games on NBC. . . . The 5-9, 145-pound guard averaged 24.8 points per game in three varsity seasons (1954-55 through 1956-57). Named college player of the year by UPI as a senior when he was the nation's fifth-leading scorer (28.9 ppg) and ranked sixth in free-throw shooting (85.2 percent). Selected in the seventh round of the 1957 NBA draft by the Cincinnati Royals.

RANDY FRANKEL, Hofstra
After selling his Wall Street security firm for a reported $6.3 billion, he was a managing partner with Goldman Sachs before venture capitalist/financier went to become minority owner of the MLB's Tampa Bay Rays. He is also a real estate investor and owner of wineries, restaurants, gyms, country clubs and has stake in a few Europe sports franchises. . . . Frankel played in six basketball games for Hofstra's 1976 NCAA playoff squad.

CHET GIERMAK, William & Mary
Served as President and CEO of Eriez Magnetics until his retirement in 2003. He spent 43 years in the magnetic, vibratory and metal detection solutions industry with Eriez. During his tenure, Giermak led the company from 40 employees and $1.8 million annual sales to 480 employees and $70 million in sales. . . . All-American as a senior averaged 18.3 ppg from 1946-47 through 1949-50.

JAMES ROBERT GLADDEN, Long Island
First African American elected as a fellow in the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. . . . Basketball letterman in 1933 and 1934.

MURRAY GOODMAN, Lehigh
President of The Goodman Company, which developed commercial and industrial buildings and motor inns throughout the U.S. He became his alma mater's most generous living donor, with lifetime commitments of more than $20 million. . . . Captain of Lehigh's basketball squad as a senior in 1947-48.

STEDMAN GRAHAM, Hardin-Simmons (Tex.)
Longtime beau of TV personality Oprah Winfrey is president of a marketing and consulting firm with offices in Chicago and Washington, D.C. He founded Athletes Against Drugs in 1985 and was a regular columnist for Inside Sports magazine. Overcoming the "Mr. Oprah" label was a small portion of the eight-year "inner struggle" to discover himself outlined in his book titled You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success (Simon & Schuster/1997 release). . . . The 6-6, 200-pound forward averaged 10.7 points and 7.4 rebounds per game in his three-year varsity career (41-35 record), averaging 12.3 ppg and 10 rpg as a junior in 1972-73, and 15.2 ppg and 8.5 rpg as a senior in 1973-74. He played his freshman season in junior college for Weatherford (Tex.). Graham dabbled briefly in modeling and played professional basketball in Europe before conceding the NBA was out of his reach.

EARL G. "BUTCH" GRAVES JR., Yale
Son of one of the nation's most prominent and well-connected African-American executives. His father is the Founder, Publisher and CEO of Black Enterprise, the 300,000-circulation monthly magazine that had its advertising revenue increase from $8.7 million in 1986 to $22 million 10 years later, and author of the 1997 release How to Succeed in Business Wihtout Being White. Butch oversees Black Enterprise, his father's personal investments and the book tour. . . . Two-time All-Ivy League first-team selection led the Ivy in scoring in conference competition each of his last three seasons (19.9 ppg in 1981-82, 22.1 ppg in 1982-83 and 23.6 ppg in 1983-84). The 6-3, 200-pounder played briefly with the Cleveland Cavaliers after being a third-round draft choice of the Philadelphia 76ers.

J. WILLIAM GRIMES, West Virginia Wesleyan College
Former President & CEO of ESPN made the fateful decision in the mid-1980s to turn the tables on the cable companies that carried the network. Rather than paying them five cents per subscriber, ESPN asked them to pay for the right. The plan succeeded and, within a few years, the network was generating a profit. . . . Steady four-year basketball player was senior captain in 1962-63, finishing his career with 941 points, 246 rebounds and 129 assists. He averaged a career-high 16.8 ppg as a junior.

LeROY "LEE" J. GUITTAR, Columbia
Newspaper executive at Hearst Corporation and former publisher of the San Francisco Examiner (succeeded William Randolph Hearst III), The Denver Post, Dallas Times Herald, plus president of USA Today and Detroit Free Press. His final journalism article was published in the Examiner about the 1999 John F. Kennedy Jr. plane crash in which he drew upon his own experiences as a licensed pilot commuting summer weekends from New York City to Martha's Vineyard. . . . Averaged 3.1 ppg from 1950-51 through 1952-53, appearing in NCAA playoffs as a sophomore.

DR. HAROLD HALBROOK, Evansville
Heart surgeon at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis performed the first heart transplant in Indiana in 1982, marking the first ever heart transplant operation in a private hospital. . . . He was a senior class president on the 1959 team winning the first of Evansville's five NCAA College Division national championships. On the '59 national titlist, he played in 11 games and collected nine points and seven rebounds.

JAY HANDLAN, Washington & Lee (Va.)
Chairman of one of the nation's largest technical staffing services firms--H.L. Yoh Company in Philadelphia. . . . Holds school records for single-season scoring average (26.2 ppg in 1950-51) and career scoring average (21.3 ppg). Attempted an NCAA-record 71 field-goal attempts when he scored 66 points in a game against Furman.

JOHN "JACK" HARRINGTON, Boston College
Executive Director and Trustee of the Yawkey Foundation and Boston Red Sox CEO sold the team to a consortium led by former Florida Marlins owner John Henry in January 2002 for $660 million, which doubled the previous record price for a pro baseball franchise. Navy SEAL created the New England Sports Network, which was one of the first successful cable channels. . . . Three-year letterman was senior captain in 1957-58 when averaging 12.5 ppg and 5.9 rpg. He contributed 9.9 ppg and 7.3 rpg the previous season and just under 10 ppg as a sophomore. Harrington collected 7 points and 7 rebounds in BC's NCAA playoff debut, an 86-63 defeat against Maryland in the 1958 East Regional.

BILL HARRISON, North Carolina
CEO of Chase Manhattan in New York. . . . Played in two games for the Tar Heels under coach Dean Smith as a sophomore in 1963-64.

DR. LAWRENCE HATCHETT, Marquette
Director of Southern Illinois Urology, based in Marion, after serving as the Director of The Bladder Control Center of Tallahassee, Fla., for 10 years. . . . Averaged 2 ppg with Marquette from 1977-78 through 1980-81. Scored four points in three minutes of 73-48 victory over Pacific in first round of 1979 NCAA playoffs before contributing a field goal in six minutes of opening-round loss to Villanova the next year. Received medical diploma from the University of Chicago.

WILLIAM "BUCKY" HATCHETT, Rutgers
Served as an executive with RCA. . . . The Scarlet Knights' first 1,000-point scorer averaged 18.3 ppg as a sophomore in 1947-48 and 17.2 ppg as a junior in 1948-49. He also earned letters in track and football.

JAMIE HOROWITZ, Amherst (Mass.)
President of Fox Sports National Networks previously held similar management and program development duties with ESPN prior to a stint as Senior VP/General Manager of NBC News' Today morning show. . . . Scored 49 points in 22 games in 1994-95 and 1995-96.

EDWIN HUBBLE, Chicago
Individual for whom the Hubble Telescope is named. He showed that galaxies besides our own existed in the universe and that it is expanding, findings that formed the cornerstone of the Big Bang Theory. . . . Hubble, who also competed in track & field, helped lead Chicago to a 12-0 basketball record and the school's third straight Big Ten title in 1908-09. He earned his doctorate in 1917.

BRUCE HULSE, Cornell
International supermodel after taken under wing of famed photographer Bruce Weber. High-end fashion ads enabled Hulse to become known as "the Calvin Klein man." His kiss-and-tell memoir ("Sex, Love and Fashion") included describing romantic relationships with SI swimsuit cover girls Elle Macpherson and Paulina Porizkova. . . . Hulse averaged 2.5 ppg and 2 rpg in 1971-72.

JOHN HUMMER, Princeton
Venture capitalist is co-founding Partner of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Served as a director of start-up and public software companies and currently serves on the board of Employease, IMX (Industrywide Mortgage Exchange), NTE (National Transportation Exchange) and Starmine. . . . Two-time All-Ivy League first-team selection averaged 15.4 ppg during his career with the Tigers. First-round draft choice of the Buffalo Braves in 1970 (15th pick overall). His nephew, Ian, played for Princeton.

MAT ISHBIA, Michigan State
Chairman, President and CEO of Pontiac-Mich.-based United Wholesale Mortgage, the second-largest mortgage lender in the U.S. He took the company public in September of 2020 and its value increased to in excess of $16 billion, making him one of the 25 richest people in the country. He received the distinction of ringing the bell on the New York Stock Exchange on the first day of trading. Committed to donating an individual record $32 million to his alma mater's athletic department in 2021. . . . Walk-on guard collected 28 points, 12 rebounds and 13 assists in 48 games from 1999-00 through 2001-02 under coach Tom Izzo. Played one minute in 2000 NCAA playoff championship contest (missed lone field-goal attempt) before playing one minute in Final Four the next year.

LEVI JACKSON, Yale
Longtime executive with General Motors Corporation in Detroit was the first African American to play football for Yale. Jackson, who ran for a 59-yard touchdown on the fourth play in his first game in 1946, became the first freshman ever to win the Bulger Lowe Award, given annually to the outstanding football player in New England. He lettered in football four years and was captain as a senior in 1949. . . . Jackson scored 58 points in 42 varsity basketball games from 1947-48 through 1949-50.

MANNIE JACKSON, Illinois
Senior vice president, Honeywell, Inc., head of International and Home Building Control unit. The owner of the Harlem Globetrotters, a team he played for after graduating from Illinois, is the ultimate success rags-to-riches saga. Jackson was born in a boxcar in East St. Louis. . . . Three-year starter averaged 11.1 points per game in 1957-58, 13.6 in 1958-59 and 16.4 in 1959-60. Named to second five on UPI All-Big Ten team as a senior after finishing 10th in the league in scoring. Had 32-point game against Iowa as a senior captain. Finished Illini career as fourth-leading scorer in school history with 922 points. Excerpt from school guide: "A spring-legged jump shooter played forward his first year before being shifted to guard. Quick hands and an excellent eye for the basket."

MICHAEL JACKSON, Georgetown
Former assistant to Turner Sports President Harvey Schiller became Nike's General Manager of Basketball/Greater China and Global Business Development. Served as president of Yankees-Nets, a media partnership between two of New York's major pro franchises. . . . All-Big East Conference third-team selection each of his last three seasons averaged 9.8 ppg and 5.1 apg from 1982-83 through 1985-86.

DR. DAVID JONES, Mercer
Chief of Pediatric Cardiology at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. Supervises 20 doctors, more than 100 employees, and oversees in excess of 800 surgeries per year. . . . Four-year letterman and two-year starter captained the Bears his junior and senior seasons. He averaged 4.7 points and 4.4 rebounds per game from 1970-71 through 1973-74. Known as the consummate role player, Jones helped Mercer make the transition from Division II to Division I status his junior year. "The greatest thing coach (Dwayne) Morrison taught me was how to take charges," Jones said. "I was always drawing those fouls."

LARRY JONES, Oklahoma City
Founded Feed the Children, a non-profit ministry that provides relief for poverty and disaster victims worldwide, after previously serving as a pastor of a United Methodist Church and as an evangelist. He and his wife, Frances, host a syndicated national television show for their $100 million, Oklahoma City-based charity organization. Country singers such as Garth Brooks, Vince Gill, Randy Travis and Reba McEntire are particularly empathetic, Jones believes, because many of them have known hard times themselves. "By far, the majority of them have not forgotten where they came from." . . . Starting guard averaged 14.7 points per game from 1959-60 through 1961-62 under coach Abe Lemons. The 5-11 Jones led OCU in scoring as a senior with 20.7 ppg, finishing 61st in the nation.

VERNON JORDAN, DePauw (Ind.)
Powerful, well-connected lawyer was one of Washington's most important power brokers. Former president of the National Urban League and United Negro College Fund was a confidant of President Bill Clinton. Jordan made headlines in 1998 in connection with allegations that Clinton, while carrying on a sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, obstructed justice by asking him to find Lewinsky a job in exchange for her silence about the affair. Jordan, who was shot by a white supremacist in 1980, joined the boards of many of the nation's biggest corporations--including Xerox, American Express and Dow Jones. . . . Member of DePauw's reserve basketball squad in the mid-1950s.

TOM KIVISTO, Kansas
Oilman in Tulsa, founder of the fifth-largest privately held company in the U.S. in 2007, promised to donate $12 million to renovate his alma mater's football stadium. He was fired as president and CEO in 2008 from SemGroup LP, the energy company based primarily on the delivery of crude oil he founded eight years previously. The firm filed for bankruptcy earlier that year because of $2.4 billion in debts stemming from bad gambles in the oil futures market. Former FBI director Louis J. Freeh was appointed by a bankruptcy court to sort out petition documents claiming that Kivisto owed the company $290 million in trading losses through his personal trading company. Kivisto earned $42.5 million in salary, bonuses and other compensation in the year leading up to the bankruptcy filing. . . . Captain of the Jayhawks' 1974 Final Four team when he was an All-Big Eight Conference first-team selection and set a school single-game record with 18 assists against Nebraska. He scored more than 50 points in three Illinois high school games in 1969-70 after his brother, Bob, tallied 52 in 1965 under their father/coach (Ernie Kivisto).

DAVID KOCH, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The far-left's favorite boogieman depicted as a mix of Scrooge and Satan is actually the leading patron of the arts in the U.S. Philanthropist has given more than $1 billion to cancer research, museums and other charitable causes. Executive vice president of Wichita-based Koch Industries, a conglomerate focusing on transporting and processing oil and natural gas, is America's second-largest privately-held company. One of the 10 wealthiest persons in the world, he bought Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' Fifth Avenue apartment in the mid-1990s before moving out 10 years later. Libertarian Party's VP candidate in 1980 survived with charred lungs while 21 people on board died of smoke inhalation on US Airways Flight 1493 in 1991 when it crashed into a SkyWest commuter plane an air-traffic controller erroneously directed onto an active runway at LA International Airport. . . . David, a 6-5 center who averaged 21.5 ppg and 11.8 rpg in 1960-61 and 1961-62, was an All-New England first-team selection as a senior when his 41-point outing stood as a school single-game scoring record for 47 years. Brother Bill was a reserve center for MIT. Another brother, Charles, has Wichita State's home arena named after him.

BILL KRETZER, North Carolina State
Chief executive of yarn maker Unifi Corporation from 1985 until retiring in 1999. The textile company had 6,000 employees. When he assumed control, firm had annual sales of $216 million. In his final year running the day-to-day operations of the company, Unifi's sales were $1.4 billion. . . . The 6-7 center from Springfield, N.J., averaged 7.3 ppg and 5.2 rpg for the Wolfpack from 1965-66 through 1967-68. In one of the most famous games in ACC Tournament history, he held the ball for more than 13 minutes in N.C. State's 12-10 semifinal victory over 10th-ranked Duke in a pre-shot clock game in 1968.

BILL LAURIE, Memphis State
Former high school basketball coach breeds and trains horses at Crown Center Farms, south of Columbia, Mo. He and his wife, Nancy, are Walmart heirs. They purchased the NHL St. Louis Blues and Kiel Center for an estimated $100 million in September 1999 after failing to buy the NBA Denver Nuggets, NHL Colorado Avalanche and their new Pepsi Center Arena earlier in the year. They also failed in their attempt to purchase the NBA Vancouver Grizzlies and move them to St. Louis. Nancy is the daughter of the late Bud Walton and niece of the late Sam Walton, the brothers who founded Wal-Mart. . . . Laurie, reared in Versailles, Mo., was a 5-10 guard who averaged 3.9 points per game for the Memphis State team that lost to UCLA in the 1973 NCAA Tournament final when Bruins All-American center Bill Walton hit 21 of 22 field-goal attempts.

JOHN J. LEE JR., Yale
Business executive and philanthropist. President and CEO of Barber Oil Corporation, Philbro Resource Corporation and Tosco Corporation (multi-billion-dollar energy company) before moving to the Hexcel Corporation. In the 1990s, he led a campaign that raised $1.75 billion for his alma mater. Yale honored him with the Yale Medal, its highest alumni award, in 1989 and the Yale Distinguished Alumni award in 1993. . . . Three-time All-Ivy League first-team forward averaged 20.3 ppg from 1955-56 through 1957-58. Scored a team-high 25 points in a 90-74 first-round loss against eventual champion North Carolina in the 1957 NCAA playoffs. Third-round choice in the 1958 NBA draft by the New York Knicks (19th pick overall); three selections ahead of Wayne Embry and 17 before Don Ohl. In 1996, the area where Yale conducted basketball, volleyball and gymnastics competition was renamed the John L. Lee Amphitheater.

RICH LEVIN, UCLA
MLB's senior VP of public relations for a quarter century under four commissioners until retiring in 2010 previously was a sportswriter with the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. Vietnam veteran joined the commissioner's office in 1985 under Peter Ueberroth after writing a book with him and working as his assistant press secretary at the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee. . . . Averaged 1.7 ppg from 1962-63 through 1964-65 under coach John Wooden. Levin missed all three of his Final Four field-goal attempts for the Bruins' first two national titlists (1964 final against Duke, 1965 national semifinal against Wichita and 1965 final against Michigan).

RIC LEWIS, Dartmouth
Property tycoon behind Tristan Capital Partners, a British investment firm. He ranked first in the Powerlist 2019, an annual list of the UK's most influential people with African or Afro-Caribbean heritage. . . . The 6-8 Lewis played for the Big Green in 1982-83 and 1983-84.

MATT LYNETT, Manhattan
President of Wells Fargo Bank-Metro Denver from 2001 to 2006 was named chief executive of Young Americans Center for Financial Education in the spring of 2007. . . . Averaged 6.4 ppg from 1968-69 through 1970-71.

TOM MacMAHON, St. Peter's
CEO of Laboratory Corporation of America, a company with approximately 23,000 employees and annual revenue of $2.9 billion in 2003. Known as LabCorp, the company is a national leader in clinical testing. . . . MacMahon was fourth in scoring for St. Peter's 1968 NIT team, averaging 13.5 ppg. Finishing with 902 career points, he was a teammate of Elnardo Webster (school's leader in career scoring and rebounding average) and former Peacocks coach Bob Leckie.

JOHN MACZUZAK, Pittsburgh
President and Chief Operating Officer of National Steel Corporation, one of the five largest integrated steel producers in North America. . . . Averaged 3 ppg and 3.2 rpg from 1959-60 through 1961-62. The 6-5, 250-pound defensive tackle played in one game with the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs in 1964 after being their 22nd-round draft choice the previous year. Eventual indusstrialist was a ninth-round pick by the NFL's San Francisco 49ers in 1963.

LARRY K. MAHANEY, Maine
Sales for Webber Oil, one of the top 20 privately-owned corporations in New England, increased from $19 million in 1969 when he was elected president to $224 million in 1990. Webber distributes gasoline to approximately 150 outlets (over half of them company-owned) and has more than 80,000 retail heating oil and propane gas customers. . . . Three-year letterman captained the basketball team as a senior in 1950-51 when he averaged 12.1 ppg, finishing his career with a 6.1-point scoring average. Following a stint in the U.S. Air Force, he served his alma mater as an assistant coach in football and basketball while completing his master's degree.

BOB MALOTT, Kansas
Chairman and CEO of Chicago-based FMC Corporation for two decades prior to retiring in 1991. . . . Averaged 1.4 ppg as freshman forward in 1943-44 with KU, where his father was Chancellor, before enlisting in U.S. Navy and serving on an electronics repair ship during World War II.

HARVEY MASON JR., Arizona
Six-time Grammy Award-winning songwriter/music producer (with Beyonce, Chris Brown, Jennifer Hudson and Justin Timberlake) was elected as chairman of The Recording Academy in June of 2019. Mason served as executive producer on the film More Than a Game - a documentary featuring NBA star LeBron James. Son of noted jazz drummer is one-half of the hit-making production team "The Underdogs," whose past work includes films such as Dreamgirls, The Help, Pitch Perfect 2 and blockbuster hit Straight Outta Compton. . . . The 6-3 Mason averaged 3.9 ppg and connected on 42.4% of his three-point field-goal attempts from 1986-87 through 1989-90 under coach Lute Olson. His Final Four teammates in 1988 included Sean Elliott, Steve Kerr and eventual MLB outfielder Kenny Lofton.

CRAIG MATEER, Florida State
Founded a valet parking company that he eventually transformed into Bags Inc., an airport parking and airline-baggage business headquartered in Orlando. Operating in more than 250 cities across the U.S., Canada and Europe, the business generates in excess of $150 million in revenue annually with him as CEO. . . . Averaged 1.3 ppg and 1.3 apg in 1985-86 and 1986-87.

CHARLES McAFEE, Nebraska
Considered the most important African-American architect in the U.S. . . . Scored three points in four basketball games for the Huskers in 1956-57.

BOB McGUIRE, Iona
Former Chairman and CEO of Pinkerton's Inc. and former President of Kroll Associates, Inc., an international corporate investigations and security consulting firm. Lawyer served as Police Commissioner, the youngest in New York City's history, from 1978 (when he was 41) through 1983 under Mayor Ed Koch. Mr. McGuire was appointed Special Master by a county district attorney to oversee the Gambino family's exit from the garment industry. . . . Averaged 2.1 ppg and 1.5 rpg for the Gaels in the late 1950s.

MIGUEL McKELVEY, Colorado College/Oregon
Raised in a five-mother commune, he cofounded communal office rental firm WeWork (subsequently known as The We Company) six years before becoming a billionaire in 2016. His paper work plummeted following spectacular flameout of company's IPO in 2019. The embattled shared work space startup, which McKelvey left in summer of 2020, leased office space and then rented it out in more than 100 cities. He is a vegan whose unorthodox management culture prohibited employees from expensing meals that included meat. . . . McKelvey collected four points, two rebounds and two assists in 14 games with the Ducks in 1995-96 and 1996-97 under coach Jerry Green after 6-8 center averaged 2.5 ppg and 1.7 rpg for Colorado College in 1992-93 and 1993-94.

PAT McKENZIE, Saint John's (Minn.)
Team physician for the Green Bay Packers. . . . Starting point guard for Saint John's 1979 NAIA Tournament team.

CHARLEY MENCEL, Minnesota
Retired as the CEO and president of Caterpillar Paving Products. . . . His career scoring total of 1,391 points from 1951-52 through 1954-55 stood as a school record for 23 years. He was an All-American who averaged 15.9 points per game in his four-year career. Selected by the Minneapolis Lakers in the 1955 NBA draft.

DAVID MILLER, Southern Methodist
Co-founder and managing partner of Texas-based Encap Investments LP, which is one of the largest private equity firms in the world. He and his wife, Carolyn, have given SMU more than $100 million, including the largest single gift in the school's history ($50 million). Moody Coliseum's basketball court is named for him in recognition of the couple's $20 million in donations expand and renovate the arena. . . . Miller, a 6-8 center, averaged 9.1 ppg and 5.8 rpg from 1969-70 through 1971-72.

STEVE MILLS, Princeton
President of Sports Team Operations/Madison Square Garden oversees the operational and business dealings for the "World's Most Famous Arena." Mills climbed the ladder of the NBA's executive ranks for 16 years, going from account executive to the commissioner's office where he helped develop the idea for the "Dream Team." . . . Three-year letterman from 1978-79 through 1980-81 played under legendary coach Pete Carril. Mills scored a team-high 16 points in a 60-51 first-round defeat against BYU in the 1981 East Regional.

MATT MINOFF, Yale
Director of Israel's Playing for Peace program, an international initiative founded in 2001 that focuses on grass roots peace-building. . . . The 6-6 Minoff averaged 6.3 ppg and 4.5 rpg from 2000-01 through 2003-04.

MIKE MITCHELL, Notre Dame
President of Nestles USA before becoming CEO of Dreyer's in May 2009. . . . Averaged 3.6 ppg and 1.9 apg from 1978-79 through 1981-82 under coach Digger Phelps. Freshman was in regular rotation for 1979 Mideast Regional runner-up.

MIKE MORAN, Nebraska-Omaha
Director of media and public affairs for the U.S. Olympic Committee for many years. . . . Member of UNO's basketball team for a short period in the mid-1960s.

MICHAEL F. MULLEN, Fairfield
In January 1987, he was appointed a Judge of the Court of Claims by New York Governor Mario M. Cuomo and for 20 years sat in the Supreme Court, Suffolk County. He was described by the New York Post as "a fair, no-nonsense, scholarly jurist who doesn't like cases to drag on." . . . Collected 18 points and 10 rebounds in seven games in 1958-59.

GEORGE MUNROE, Dartmouth
He had a 29-year career as an executive with Phelps Dodge Corp., including vice president in 1962, president/director in 1966, CEO in 1969 and chair/CEO from 1975-87. Phelps Dodge is a Fortune 500 company and the nation's leading copper producer. Munroe, who served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific during World War II, was a trustee and chairman of the Finance Committee of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. . . . The 6-0 forward was an All-American as a junior. He was the leading scorer for runner-up in 1942 NCAA Tournament (22-4 record) and averaged 12.6 points in seven NCAA Tournament games from 1941 through 1943.

ALBERT "AB" NICHOLAS, Wisconsin
Financier was philanthropist inducted into the Wisconsin Business Hall of Fame. His investment fund topped the Standard & Poor's 500 Index by an average of two percentage points annually for 40 years. . . . Two-time All-Big Ten Conference selection was an All-American as senior in 1951-52. His alma mater named the Kohl Center basketball floor in his honor.

AL NUNESS, Minnesota
Worked for three Fortune 500 companies as well as serving as the director of ticket sales for the Minnesota Timberwolves in their infancy. Director of sales and marketing for Buddy, Inc., before becoming V-P of Sports Sales for Jostens. . . . Junior college transfer was an All-Big Ten Conference second-team selection in 1968-69 when the guard averaged 16.4 ppg as team MVP. He was the Gophers' first-ever African-American assistant coach.

DAVID PACKARD, Stanford
Co-founder of computer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard was Deputy Secretary of Defense in the first Nixon administration. Packard and partner William Hewlett founded their company in 1938 with $538 and eventually grew the business into a $31 billion high-tech organization. . . . The 6-4 electrical engineering major was a letterman for Stanford's 1931-32 basketball squad.

DAVID PALACIO, Texas Western
Executive vice president of EMI Latin, which is affiliated with Capitol Records in Hollywood, Calif. . . . Backup guard for Texas Western's 1966 NCAA championship team scored a season-high four points against Loyola (La.). Contributed a second-half field goal when the Miners erased a 16-point halftime deficit to win in overtime at New Mexico, 67-64. In their next outing, he chipped in with another basket in a 69-67 triumph over Arizona State. Palacio averaged 7.9 points and 3.5 rebounds per game the next season as a junior.

JAY PICCOLA, Roanoke (Va.)
President of PUMA (USA), one of the largest sports attire companies in the world. . . . Three-time College Division All-American was the leading scorer (16.2) and second-leading rebounder (8.3 rpg) as a sophomore forward for the Maroons' 1972 national championship team. The 6-5 Piccola averaged 15.7 ppg during his four-year career.

LARRY RAFFERTY, Fairfield
Founder and CEO of Cohane Rafferty Securities, LLC, an investment bank specializing in the mortgage banking and financial institutions industry. The business was sold to Lehman Brothers in 2001. . . . Stags captain was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers in 16th round (109th pick overall) in 1965 NBA draft. Averaged 10 ppg and 5 rpg in 1962-63 and 10.2 ppg and 4.4 rpg in 1966-67.

BOB REUM, Yale
Chairman, President and CEO of Amsted Industries Corporation, an employee-owned industrial conglomerate in the railroad, vehicular and construction markets. Also was Houston-based Waste Management's non-exclusive chairman and served as President and CEO of The Interlake Corporation, which was sold to British multinational group Gkn plc in 1999. . . . Averaged 3.5 ppg for the Bulldogs from 1961-62 through 1963-64.

MIKE RICHARDSON, Portland State
Founder of Dark Horse Comics, which became the largest privately-owned comic-book publisher in North America and is recognized as the world's leading publisher of licensed comics material. In 1992, he established his own film-making company (Dark Horse Entertainment). In 1994, the company produced The Mask starring actor Jim Carey followed several months later by TimeCop with Jean Claude Van Damme. Both films topping the box-office charts featured characters created by Richardson. Dark Horse Entertainment subsequently produced more than 30 films and television projects. In 2007, Richardson was a Primetime Emmy for producing Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Projects for HBO. . . . The 6-9 Richardson averaged 3.9 ppg and 3.5 rpg in 1975-76 as a teammate of Freeman Williams, who went on to become an All-American the next two seasons.

JACKIE ROBINSON, UNLV
CEO of H3 Enterprises, which is dedicated to the Hip Hop culture and lifestyle. Formerly served as Chairman and CEO of RLLW, Inc., a franchisee of 73 Pizza Hut restaurants. Also spent 20 years as Chairman and CEO of Robinson, Loyd & Associates, the largest administrator of federal tax credit programs in Nevada for all major casinos while later serving as an executive at the Aladdin Hote & Casino. . . . Averaged 11.4 ppg and 6.1 rpg from 1973-74 through 1977-78. He led the Rebels in rebounding in 1975-76 before failing to play for their 1977 Final Four squad while redshirting because of an ankle operation.

JOHN W. "JACK" ROGERS, Miami (Ohio)
Retired chairman and CEO of United Parcel Service (UPS) lived in Ft. Myers, Fla. . . . Earned basketball letter as a 6-1 junior guard in 1953-54 when he collected 38 points and 25 rebounds in 14 games. Sketch in school guide: "Came back for another try after being skipped his sophomore season, and to (Coach Bill) Rohr that spells desire. Still the sharpshooter that made him College Corner's high scorer for three years, he has developed more of the hungry drive that Rohr demands." The College Corner gym had one goal in Indiana and one in Ohio.

JOHN W. ROGERS JR., Princeton
The No. 1 black money manager in the U.S. parlayed a serious childhood hobby into a money management empire. He seldom strays from his conservative investment strategy: buy undervalued small- to medium-size company stocks with long-term potential. In 1983, the son of a judge founded one of the country's first minority-owned investment advisory firms, Ariel Capital Management, in his Chicago hometown. He is chairman and CEO. The motto of his newsletter hawking hot investing tips, the Patient Investor, was "Slow and Steady Wins the Race." . . . The 6-0, 185-pound guard averaged 3.6 ppg in 23 varsity contests from 1977-78 through 1979-80. His first varsity start was a 66-61 five-overtime victory over Cornell as a junior. In his next game, he scored 20 points against Brown. Captained Princeton's team as a senior. Rogers, an economics major, carried copies of business magazines with him to away games and would call his broker from stadium pay phones. He flew to the West Coast to appear on the Wheel of Fortune game show, winning $8,600 in prizes that he immediately handed over to his broker.

F. SHERWOOD ROWLAND, Ohio Wesleyan
Shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1995 for his work in researching ozone depletion in the atmosphere. One of the world's most influential environmental experts splits his time as foreign secretary of the National Academy of Sciences and professor of chemistry at UC Irvine. . . . Attended college in his hometown of Delaware, Ohio, after graduating from high school in 1943 a few weeks before his 16th birthday. Wrote Rowland in an autobiography: "During these war years, only 30 or 40 civilian males were on campus, plus about 200 naval officer trainees and 1,000 women. With so few men available, I played on the university basketball and baseball teams (forward averaged 6.2 ppg in 1946-47 and 10.2 ppg in 1947-48), and wrote much of the sports page for the university newspaper. I enlisted in a Navy program to train radar operators. I served in several Midwestern Naval Separation Centers, as the 10 million Americans who had preceded me into the military were returned to civilian life. A major amount of this Navy time was devoted to competitive athletics for the Navy base teams, and I emerged after 14 months as a non-commissioned officer with a rating of Specialist (Athletics) 3rd class. My interest in competitive athletics also continued unabated in graduate school. Because of the atypical structure of its undergraduate college system, the University of Chicago, unlike almost all other American universities, permitted graduate students to compete in intercollegiate athletics. During my first graduate year, I played both basketball and baseball for the university team." Rowland was the team's leading rebounder as a senior.

GEORGE SELLA, Princeton
Former President, CEO and Chairman of American Cyanamid, a major chemical company. . . . Averaged 7.8 ppg in three varsity seasons from 1947-48 through 1949-50. The 5-10, 187-pounder was named to the first five on the All-Ivy League team as a junior and senior. Excerpt from school guide: "One of the greatest all-around performers in Princeton athletic history, George captained Princeton's football team from his halfback position and at season's close figured conspicuously in All-American and All-Eastern selections. The speed and know-how George displays on the football field is also in evidence on the basketball court."

BILL SEXTON, Saint John's (Minn.)
Former owner and partner of Old Northwest Agents, an insurance brokerage firm in Minneapolis. Alma mater's arena is named after the part-minority owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves. . . . Holds the Saint John's single-game scoring record with 49 points.

WILLIAM E. SEXTON, Alabama
Self-made businessman is founder of Sexton, Inc., a family investment company engaged in private equity, real estate and venture capital. . . . Lettered for the Crimson Tide in 1953 and 1954, playing under coach Johnny Dee. He was captain as a senior.

EDDIE SHELDRAKE, UCLA
Restauranteur is largest holder of Kentucky Fried Chicken and Anaheim-based Polly's Pies franchises in the country. He operated as many as 15 KFCs and 13 Polly's in Southern California. Opened the first Polly's Pie Restaurant in 1968 with his brother. . . . Swingman was a starter with the Bruins in 1949-50 and 1950-51 for coach John Wooden. All-PCC South selection as a senior when he averaged 10.4 ppg and was team captain. Scored 11 points in UCLA's first-ever NCAA Tournament game (73-59 setback against Bradley in 1950) before scoring a team-high 21 points in an 83-62 loss to Brigham Young in the Western Regional third-place contest.

CECIL J. "PETE" SILAS, Georgia Tech
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Phillips Petroleum Company. . . . The 6-6, 180-pound forward led the Yellow Jackets in scoring each of his four varsity seasons (11.7 points per game in 1950-51, 17.1 ppg in 1951-52, 13.7 ppg in 1952-53 as an All-SEC first-team selection and 17 ppg in 1953-54). He set school records at the time for points in a game (39 against Furman) and in a season (393 as a junior). Silas also grabbed 24 rebounds in the Furman game in a season he led the Yellow Jackets in rebounding with 13.7 per game. Member of gold-medal winning U.S. Pan American Games team in 1955 while serving in the Armed Forces. Silas was selected by the Minneapolis Lakers in the 1953 NBA draft.

KAY SLAYDEN, Auburn
Became President and CEO of PGA Tour Properties in 1982. . . . Averaged 9.2 ppg and 4.7 rpg from 1953-54 through 1955-56.

JIM SORENSEN, Sierra Pacific (Calif.)
Overcame dyslexia and the poverty of his Idaho/Northern California childhood to become one of the world's leading inventors, entrepreneurs and philanthropists. He created an array of medical innovations transforming patient care in hospitals and clinics throughout the world. Some of his pioneering inventions included the disposable surgical mask, non-invasive plastic venous catheters, blood recycling and infusion systems, novel anti-clotting solutions and the first real-time computerized heart monitoring systems. When he died in January 2008, he was Utah's richest man with Forbes magazine pegging his worth at $4.5 billion (68th on worldwide list). He donated his entire personal fortune to charity. . . . Attended Sierra Community College near Sacramento on basketball scholarship in 1940 before serving on a Mormon mission in New England in 1942 and involvement in World War II in the U.S. Maritime Service.

MARK STEINBERG, Illinois
Sports agent primarily representing golfers including Tiger Woods. . . . Walk-on played seven games for the Illini in 1988-89 before team reached the Final Four.

GARY STOKAN, North Carolina State
Marketed Chick-fil-A Kickoff, the attention-getting annual college football opener. . . . Collected 12 points and 20 assists in 19 games in 1975-76 and 1976-77 under coach Norm Sloan.

BOB STRAUSS, Duke
Heir to Pep Boys national auto parts supply chain and husband of Zorro TV actress Eugenia Paul. . . . Played three games in 1950-51 as teammate of Blue Devils All-American Dick Groat.

BILL STURGILL, Kentucky
Coal magnate, who owned the largest coal auger in the world at one time with a seven-foot blade, pioneered strip mining and reclaiming techniques often criticized by environmentalists. He was also a prominent figure in the horse and tobacco industry and served in Gov. John Y. Brown Jr.'s administration as secretary of a combined Agriculture and Energy Cabinet. . . . Averaged 2.4 ppg in 1944-45 (NCAA playoff participant) and 1945-46 (NIT champion) under coach Adolph Rupp. Chairman of the UK board of trustees for 10 years was instrumental in bringing Rick Pitino to the Wildcats.

BARRY F. SULLIVAN, Georgetown
Career banker retired as chairman of the First Chicago Corporation before returning to his hometown to serve as New York's deputy mayor for finance and economic development from 1992 to 1994. He worked at Chase Manhattan Bank for 24 years, earning distinction as the youngest Executive Vice President in the bank's history in 1972. . . . Averaged 16.1 ppg each season for the Hoyas in 1950-51 and 1951-52 before leaving school for military service.

PAUL TAGLIABUE, Georgetown
NFL commissioner from October, 1989, to July, 2006. Pete Rozell's successor strengthened revenue sharing and there were no players' strikes or lockouts during his tenure. . . . The 6-5 forward averaged 11.4 ppg and 9 rpg in three varsity seasons from 1959-60 through 1961-62. Led the Hoyas in rebounding as a sophomore (8.9 rpg) and junior (8.2 rpg) and was their second-leading rebounder as a senior captain. . . . Sketch in school guide: "One of the toughest competitors ever to wear the Blue and Gray. At his best when the going gets toughest. Fierce rebounder, an excellent shooter and a tireless performer. President of his class."

MARK TARNER, Eastern Illinois
The Willy Wonka of college hoopdom is President of South Bend Chocolate Company in Indiana. First big break for his company with 15 Midwest stores came making chocolates under a license from Notre Dame with its first three products named Domer, Rockne and Nuts for ND. . . . Scored eight points in 11 games for EIU in the Panthers' inaugural season at NCAA Division I level in 1981-82.

RICH TARRANT, Saint Michael's (Vt.)
Founder and chairman of IDX Systems Corporation, a firm providing payroll and claims processing for physicians that had nearly 5,000 employees nationwide and reported revenues of approximately $460 million. In 2005, IDX was purchased by General Electric for $1.2 billion. Entrepreneur was the Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from the state of Vermont in 2006, but lost the election to Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist. . . . AP All-American as a senior in 1964-65 posted highest three-year point total in school history (1,762). Holds numerous school single-season and career scoring records, including points per game in a season (28 ppg in 1963-64) and a career (25.2). Selected by the Boston Celtics in fourth round of the 1965 NBA draft (35th pick overall).

RON TERWILLIGER, Navy
From 1986 until 2008, he was the CEO of Trammell Crow Residential, the largest developer of multi-family housing in the United States. Habitat of Humanity International received a $100 million gift from the Atlanta philanthropist in 2009, helping 60,000 families access improved housing conditions. . . . As a freshman at George Washington in 1958-59, his athletic career was interrupted when diagnosed with a displacement of vertebra in his back. Transferring to the Naval Academy, he averaged 13.5 ppg and 4.6 rpg from 1960-61 through 1962-63, leading the Midshipmen in scoring his last two seasons. He played under coach Ben Carnevale before serving several years on a nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine. As a senior, one of his hoop teammates was Roger Staubach, the Heisman Trophy winner who became a six-time Pro Bowl quarterback with the Dallas Cowboys before starting a commercial real estate business he sold in 2008 for $613 million. Terwilliger was owner of the Atlanta Dream when it was a WNBA expansion franchise.

FRANKLIN THOMAS, Columbia
President of the Ford Foundation from 1979 until 1996 was listed in Who's Who in America. He was on the board of directors of Citicorp/Citibank, CBS and AT&T. Became chairman of the board of the September 11th Fund. . . . Thomas, Columbia's all-time leading rebounder (1,022 in 71 games from 1953-54 through 1955-56), averaged a school-record 16.3 rpg as a junior. The 6-4, 205-pounder led the Lions in rebounding all three of his varsity seasons, finishing his career with averages of 14.2 rpg and 11.5 ppg. He was a second-team All-Ivy League selection as a senior.

JIM THORDSEN, St. Joseph's (Ind.)
Member of the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce. Part of the Board of Directors and President-Founder of the Sports and Recreation Committee. After his retirement as a player in 1983, he founded his own sports marketing and public relations agency. . . . The first Puerto Rican named to a Little All-American team averaged 20.5 ppg and 9 rpg from 1971-72 through 1974-75. Played in two Olympics with the Puerto Rican National Team.

MONROE TROUT, Harvard
Considered among the trading elite on Chicago's volatile commodity markets. According to the New York Times, his Trout Trading Company earned profits in 69 of 79 consecutive months, an outstanding ratio. . . . He set a school record for season field-goal shooting (65.9 percent) as a sophomore in 1981-82. The 6-9 center averaged 10 and 10.6 points per game in his sophomore and junior seasons, respectively, before slipping to 3.4 ppg as a senior.

CHARLES TUCKER, Western Michigan
Powerful Michigan-based sports agent has had clients such as Mark Aguirre, Carl Banks, Cornelius Bennett, Magic Johnson, Glen Rice, Glenn Robinson, Steve Smith, Isiah Thomas, Thurman Thomas, Lorenzo White and Kevin Willis. Tucker, who earned a doctorate in clinical psychology, stumbled upon the agent career when Johnson chose to make himself available for the NBA draft after his sophomore year at Michigan State and asked Tucker to represent him. . . . The 6-1, 190-pound guard earned a letter with the Broncos as a junior in 1966-67 when he averaged 3.7 points per game and was scoreless in three games as a senior.

BOBBY TUDOR, Rice
Managing Director and Head of Goldman Sachs' Southwest Region, supervising professionals in the Houston and Dallas offices, before becoming a Partner of the firm in 1998. He subsequently moved to London and assumed responsibility for all industry groups in investment banking in Europe. Retiring in 2006 after a 20-year career with Goldman Sachs, he became the Chairman and CEO of Tudor, Pickering & Co. LLC, a boutique energy investment and merchant banking firm. The business enterprise he co-founded merged with a larger investment banking company to create an operation with $12 billion in investments under management. . . . Teammate of Ricky Pierce averaged 9.3 ppg and 2.8 rpg from 1978-79 through 1981-82. Tudor led the Owls in free-throw percentage as a junior and assists plus steals as a senior.

SEAN TUOHY, Mississippi
Fast-food millionaire owned over 80 Taco Bell, KFC and Long John Silver restaurants. White adoptive father of African-American Michael Oher, an offensive tackle who also attended Ole Miss and became an NFL first-round draft choice of the Baltimore Ravens in 2009 plus the subject of the movie "The Blind Side" starring Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw (highest-grossing sports film of all time at more than $300 million). . . . Two-time All-SEC selection paced the league in assists all four seasons from 1978-79 through 1981-82. Twice led the Rebels in free-throw percentage (as a sophomore and senior).

JIMMY TURNER, Baylor
Owner of share of the Texas Rangers had national success story spearheading the No. 1 privately-owned bottling company in the U.S. As the line expanded, his wife came up with the name Deja Blue, which quickly became the No. 1 bottled water in Texas. He also served as chairman of Dean Foods. . . . All-SWC second-team selection averaged 17.5 ppg and 3 rpg in 1965-66 and 1966-67.

HAL UPLINGER, Long Island
Gained notoriety as the television producer for Bob Geldolf's "Live Aids Concert." The California television and marketing executive also served as the executive director of the World Games, a sort of Olympics for non-Olympic sports. . . . Averaged 8.3 ppg in 20 games as a starter for the 1950-51 LIU squad. Scored a game-high 26 points for Los Angeles City College in the 1950 NJCAA Tournament final when that school captured the title. Played one season (1953-54) in the NBA with Baltimore under his LIU coach (Clair Bee). Excerpt from LIU guide: "Works like a beaver under the backboards, utilizing his 6-4 frame in a way that belies his placid appearance."

TINKHAM VEALE II, Case Western Reserve (Ohio)
Founder and chairman of five separate corporations donated the funds to build his alma mater's state-of-the-art recreation complex. He also breeds thoroughbred racehorses in partnerships with several farms. . . . Earned three letters in basketball.

LLOYD WARD, Michigan State
He was President/Central Division Frito-Lay, Inc. before becoming President and Chairman of Maytag Appliance. After leaving Maytag in November 2000, he became the first African-American to head the U.S. Olympic Committee before stepping down from that position in March 2003. . . . The 5-10, 165-pound guard averaged 4.8 points per game in three varsity seasons (1967-68 through 1969-70) with the Spartans. He was their sixth-leading scorer as a senior with an average of 7.3 ppg.

TOM WATJEN, Virginia Military
Managing Director of Morgan Stanley from 1987 to 1994 and life insurer Unum Group CFO/President and CEO/Chairman of the Board of Directors from 1994 to 2017. He reportedly received $13.94 million in pay in 2008 from the Chattanooga-based company, which posted a record-high profit of $931.4 million in 2016. . . . The 6-6 Watjen averaged 1.6 ppg and 1.3 rpg in 1973-74 and 1974-75.

JIMMY WESTON, St. John's
One-time police detective owned several restaurants, but none more popular than the smoky, jazz-jumping joint named after him on 54th Street in Manhattan. The saloon, opened in 1967 and closed in the late 1980s, would be frequented by the likes of Frank Sinatra, George Steinbrenner, Muhammad Ali and Tony Bennett. . . . Teammate of All-American Dick McGuire averaged 4.1 ppg in 1947-48.

KENNY WOLFE, Harvard
Producer for ABC's Monday Night Football. . . . The 6-2, 165-pound guard was an honorable mention All-Ivy League pick as a senior in 1973-74 when he finished as the team's third-leading scorer with 9.8 points per game. The previous season, he led the league in free-throw shooting in conference competition (93.5 percent). Wolfe, a teammate of sports announcer James Brown, averaged seven points per game in his three-year varsity career.

BOB WOOLF, Boston College
Pioneering Boston-based negotiator for famous athletes and entertainers including Larry Bird, Jim Craig, Julius Erving, Mark Fidrych, Doug Flutie, Darrell Griffith, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Ken Harrelson, John Havlicek, Rocket Ismail, Bernard King, Larry King, Meadowlark Lemon (Harlem Globetrotter), Joe Montana, Thurman Munson, Robert Parish, Jim Plunkett, Derek Sanderson, Byron Scott, Ruben Sierra, Vinny Testaverde and Carl Yastrzemski plus recording group New Kids on the Block. Woolf was a young lawyer in 1965 when Earl Wilson, a Red Sox pitcher, asked him to handle his off-field activities, including endorsement contracts. Woolf, acknowledged as the nation's first sports attorney, generally took a standard 5% commission from the contracts he negotiated. . . . Woolf averaged 2.4 ppg in 1945-46 and 2.1 ppg in 1947-48.

GERALD ZORNOW, Rochester (N.Y.)
President and Chairman of the Board of the Eastman Kodak Company from 1970 to 1977. . . . Three-sport letter winner graduated in 1937.

MILITARY SERVICES/INTELLIGENCE AGENCY PERSONNEL

ROBERT B. ADAMS, Canisius
Served in the U.S. Army for 31 years, retiring with the rank of Major General, before he was appointed Commissioner of the New York State Office of General Services by Governor Mario Cuomo. Listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who of American Business Leaders. . . . Third-leading scorer (9.2 points per game) as a senior for Canisius' first NCAA Tournament team in 1955.

BOB AMES, La Salle
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency's Office of Analysis of the Near East and South Asia in 1983 when he was killed in Beirut. A truck loaded with TNT on a suicide mission rammed into the facility where Ames was staying while serving as a liaison trying to allay contacts among the Lebanese, Syrians and Israelis in hopes of calming the escalating discord. . . . Backup forward for La Salle's 1954 NCAA titlist and 1955 national runner-up in his sophomore and junior seasons.

MERT BAXTER, Nevada
Army General was in charge of San Francisco Presidio. He had a distinguished military career in Korea, Vietnam and Germany. . . . Baxter was a four-year letterman (1950-53) who led the Wolf Pack in scoring as a sophomore and junior.

JOHN CARRELL, Mount St. Mary's (Md.)
Agent-in-Charge for the U.S. Secret Service in New Orleans. . . . Scored 1,008 points in his four-year career with the Mountaineers from 1962-63 through 1965-66.

BOB DELANEY, Jersey City State
Undercover agent for the state police infiltrated the New jersey mob before becoming an NBA referee. ESPN planned a movie about his life. . . . Captain of basketball team in 1971-72.

JOHN DICK, Oregon
Retired with the rank of Admiral after 32 years of service in the U.S. Navy. Commanded the aircraft carrier Saratoga for two years and served as chief of staff for all carrier forces in the Western Pacific. . . . Starting junior forward for the first NCAA Tournament champion in 1939 when he led the Ducks in scoring in three playoff games, including a game-high 15 points in the final against Ohio State. NCAA consensus first-team All-American the next season when he paced the Pacific Coast Conference Northern Division in scoring with 183 points in 16 games.

JOSEPH GARCIA, Pittsburgh
Entered FBI duty in March 1942 with assignments in San Antonio, El Paso, New Orleans, Washington DC, Cleveland, Lima (Peru), Havana (Cuba) and Mexico City. Stationed in Mexico for 16 years. After his retirement, he became president of Tupperware of Latin America for four years. . . . Basketball letterman with Pitt from 1936 through 1938.

THOMAS J. HAMILTON, Navy
Rear admiral was executive officer of the famous carrier Enterprise and then commanded the escort carrier Savo Island at the end of World War II. . . . Three-year letterman was senior captain of Navy's 15-2 basketball team in 1926-27. Also competed for the academy's undefeated national championship football squad in 1926, kicking the game-tying point that gave Navy a 21-21 come-from-behind tie with Army before the largest crowd ever to watch a football game (110,000 at Soldier's Field in Chicago). Named the 88th most influential student-athlete in 2006 when the NCAA celebrated its centennial anniversary.

BRUCE HARRIS, Tennessee Tech
Four-star general in the U.S. Army. . . . Averaged 6.8 points and 6.8 rebounds per game for the Golden Eagles as a senior in 1954-55.

HARRY HILL, Navy
In September, 1943, during World War II in the South Pacific theater, he became Commander Amphibious Group Two, and in that capacity participated in the capture of Tarawa, and later in operations against the Gilberts, Marshalls, Marianas, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. He relieved the Commander Fifth Amphibious Force at Okinawa in April 1945, and commanded the support operations of that force until that island was secured at the end of June. A destroyer named after the admiral was decommissioned in May, 1998. . . . Navy's first All-American (first-team selection by the Helms Foundation in 1911 when team went 10-1).

REAR ADMIRAL EDWARD "NED" HOGAN, Navy
Commanding Officer of the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk after serving in similar capacity of USS Kawishiwi. Previously had three combat tours during the Vietnam War. . . . Averaged 4.3 ppg and 4.6 rpg from 1951-52 through 1953-54. Appeared in NCAA playoffs as a junior and senior, scoring a total of 15 points in 1954 East Regional victories against Connecticut and Cornell before tallying seven in defeat against eventual national titlist La Salle.

GEN. JIM JONES, Georgetown
Four-star general was designated in mid-August 1999 to serve as the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps. His military decorations include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star, Legion of Merit, and the Bronze Star, among others. . . . The 6-4 reserve frontcourter collected four points and six rebounds in five games for the Hoyas in 1963-64.

E. HENRY "HANK" KNOCHE, Colorado/Washington & Jefferson (Pa.)
Deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1976 under President-to-be George Bush. . . . Led the Mountain States (Big Seven) Conference in scoring in 1945-46 with a 16.4-points-per-game average before transferring from Colorado to Washington & Jefferson to play for a 16-4 team with two of his brothers. The father of former American University coach Chris Knoche reputedly was the first player selected in the NBA's first college draft in 1947 by the Pittsburgh Ironmen although the league (actually called the Basketball Association of America at the time) doesn't have any official draft records prior to 1949.

WILLIAM P. LAWRENCE, Navy
Vice Admiral was awarded the Silver Star and Distinguished Service Medal. In 1958, he became the first naval aviator to fly twice the speed of sound in a Navy aircraft (the F8U-3 Crusader III). While Commanding Officer of Fighter Squadron 143, he was shot down over North Vietnam in June 1967 and held as a POW until March 1973. During his imprisonment, Lawrence composed a poem entitled "Oh Tennessee, My Tennessee," which was designated by the state legislature as the official poem of the State of Tennessee. . . . Basketball letterman at the naval academy in 1949.

DICK LINTHICUM, UCLA
After eight years in the movie industry, he served 10 years in the U.S. Navy throughout the Pacific, then 16 years with the Central Intelligence Agency before retiring as USNR Commander. He was awarded the CIA Certificate of Merit as he ended his distinguished career of serving his country in many parts of the world. . . . A 1931 and 1932 All-American, the first in any sport at UCLA, Linthicum was Bruins captain in 1932 and leader in Southern Division scoring in the Pacific Coast Conference over a three-year period. The forward was twice All-Southern Division forward and once All-PCC.

JOHN McDAVID, Army
Brigadier General was assigned as chief of communications and electronics for Strategic Air Command in May 1957. . . . Basketball letterman in 1938 and 1939 with teams combining for 25-4 record.

JIM McINTOSH, Villanova
FBI agent principally working with Philadelphia division conducted drug seminars for athletes. . . . Averaged 5.5 ppg and 5 rpg from 1966-67 through 1968-69 under coach Jack Kraft.

PHIL McNIFF, George Washington
Head of FBI's Tampa field office while working with agency for 30 years. In 1980, he became "fixer" as right-hand man for New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. . . . McNiff averaged 7.3 ppg in 1947-48 and 1948-49 with GWU after serving in U.S. Navy during WWII.

MIKE McRANEY, Mississippi State
Served as chief of information at the Pentagon before retiring from the U.S. Air Force as a brigadier general. . . . He lettered in basketball as a sophomore and junior (1956-57 and 1957-58), averaging 1.2 points per game in his three-year varsity career.

JAY MILLER, Notre Dame
Served as a FBI agent for 30 years before dying of a heart attack in spring of 2001 in Tempe, Ariz. . . . The 6-5 Miller averaged 13 ppg and 8.9 rpg from 1962-63 through 1964-65. He was a senior teammate of eventual MLB pitcher Ron Reed when they were the top two scorers for Irish NCAA tourney team in 1965.

ADMIRAL MIKE MULLEN, Navy
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Obama Administration. In controversial battles within the Pentagon, Mullen was an activist taking unprecedented stands on matters of military doctrine - emphasizing troops over weapons systems and counterinsurgency over the use of overwhelming force. . . . Played basketball for the plebes in 1964-65 but never competed at the varsity level.

JEFF NOVITZKY, San Jose State
IRS Special Agent was erstwhile Eliot Ness of the steroids age before becoming VP of Athlete Health and Performance for the UFC. Novitzky was central figure in the biggest probe regarding baseball wrongdoing since Chicago "Black Sox" scandal in 1919. He unearthed evidence a grand jury utilized to bust MLB career home run leader Barry Bonds. His anti-doping work cost sprinter Marion Jones five Olympic medals and sullied reputation of cyclist Lance Armstrong. Assigned to the performance-enhancing drugs case following a tip, Novitzky commenced going through BALCO's trash (collecting drug samples and financial records) in September 2002. . . . The 6-7 Novitzky collected four points and two rebounds in two games in 1989-90 under coach Stan Morrison. Juco recruit's career was hampered by injuries.

DENNY O'SHEA, Holy Cross
Spent his career as a special agent for the FBI in Broward County (Fla.). In 2013, he received the French Foreign Legion Medal of Honor for serving in Europe during WWII. O'Shea was under General Patton's command and survived the Battle of the Bulge. . . . Member of back-to-back Final Four teams in 1947 and 1948.

ED PETERSEN, Jersey City State
Head of the FBI in Newark, N.J., for many years before becoming director of security for major league baseball in 1997. . . . Captain of his college alma mater's basketball squad in the mid-1960s.

CHUCK RICHARDS, Army/Syracuse
FBI special agent for 27 years, relocating to Charlotte in 1970. In the mid-1980s, he was part of a 10-man unit advising pro and college athletes how to stay out of trouble. . . . The 6-9 Richards averaged 15 ppg and 9.4 rpg in 11 games as Army sophomore in 1961-62 before transferring to SU, where he averaged 18.4 ppg and 9.1 rpg in 1963-64 and 1964-65 as a teammate of All-American Dave Bing and eventual all-time winningest Orange coach Jim Boeheim.

SELDON SLEDD, Austin Peay State
Senior agent in FBI office in Hopkinsville, Ky., in spring of 2000 when he retired. . . . Led the Governors in scoring and rebounding in 1964-65 with 15.4 ppg and 10.5 rpg.

LeROY SUDDATH Jr., Auburn
Major General, a West Point roommate of Norman Schwarzkopf, gave the first memorial at funeral of leader of coalition ground offensive in Operation Desert Storm. . . . Collected two points and nine rebounds in 11 basketball games for the Tigers in 1950-51.

WALLY WOJDAKOWSKI, Army
Commander of the U.S. military's airborne-and-infantry school at Fort Benning, Ga. "The highlight of my career is combat," Wojdakowski said. "I do what soldiers do. I had the privilege of doing that twice in Iraq, in Desert Storm and again in Iraqi Freedom." . . . Averaged 2.5 ppg and 1.9 rpg under coach Bob Knight in 1969-70 and 1970-71.