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"Uncle Bill"

My best friend died Saturday. I'm still in a state of shock, as his passing was sudden and unexpected. His wife found him sitting on his...

Gary Cavalli

Jul 8, 2024

Sports Gambling Then and Now; Utah's Old Men; NovaKnicks; Quotes of Note

As we've written in this blog many times, since sports betting was legalized by the Supreme Court in 2018, the industry that was once...

Gary Cavalli

Jul 1, 2024

The Greatest

If you grew up in northern New Jersey and loved baseball, as I did, one of the great debates of the 1950s and '60s focused on the center...

Gary Cavalli

Jun 24, 2024

Family Legacy Lives On

My granddaughter, Cameron Duran, graduated from Stanford yesterday. She's the tenth member of our family to get a Stanford degree. It was...

Gary Cavalli

Jun 17, 2024

Clark's Olympic Snub; Gamblers' Death Threats; Sir Charles Gets It Right

The geniuses who run USA basketball apparently have decided not to put Caitlin Clark on the U.S. women's Olympic team. Clark is the...

Gary Cavalli

Jun 10, 2024

NCAA House Settlement Questions; Bruins Must Pay Calimony; Tara Speaks; 34 for 45

Lots of important questions have arisen in the wake of last week's landmark "House vs. NCAA" settlement, in which the NCAA and Power Five...

Gary Cavalli

Jun 3, 2024

Basketball and Broadcasting Legend Bill Walton Dies

Just a few days after the last TV broadcast of its network and the last event in Pac-12 history, the conference's biggest cheerleader...

Gary Cavalli

May 27, 2024

NCAA Settles for Survival

Battered by a string of legal losses, bruised by its own incompetence and increasing irrelevance, and faced with the very real prospect...

Gary Cavalli

May 27, 2024

Much Ado About Butker; Paye Mines Transfer Portal

Kansas City Chiefs placekicker Harrison Butker ignited a firestorm last week with his commencement speech at Benedictine College, a tiny...

Gary Cavalli

May 20, 2024

Coming to Terms with 75

I turned 75 on Saturday. That sounds very old to me. In the last year or two, so many famous contemporaries of mine have passed away....

Gary Cavalli

May 13, 2024

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Gary Cavalli - league and bowl co-founder, author, speaker

Gary Cavalli, the former Sports Information Director and Associate Athletic Director at Stanford University, was the co-founder and Executive Director of the college football bowl game played in the Bay Area, and previously was co-founder and President of the American Basketball League.

Analysis, opinion and perspective on the major sports headlines of the day

The Inside Track

"Uncle Bill"

Sports Gambling Then and Now; Utah's Old Men; NovaKnicks; Quotes of Note

The Greatest

Family Legacy Lives On

Clark's Olympic Snub; Gamblers' Death Threats; Sir Charles Gets It Right

NCAA House Settlement Questions; Bruins Must Pay Calimony; Tara Speaks; 34 for 45

Basketball and Broadcasting Legend Bill Walton Dies

NCAA Settles for Survival

Much Ado About Butker; Paye Mines Transfer Portal

Coming to Terms with 75

Gary Cavalli - league and bowl co-founder, author, speaker

The Inside Track

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