30 Seconds of Fame
In 1984, when I was a Freshman in college, I wrote an amazing term paper on the birth of Cable Television. I got an A. I really did my homework on that one, contacting all the big players in the business at the time -- MTV, ESPN and CNN. It was so good, I used the same exact paper again as a Sophomore and Junior. I think I got an A on those too. Why waste a good thing, right? I was green before green. Well, little did I know at the time that cable TV would be responsible for putting food on the table for my wife and kids. Little did I know at the time that I would actually have a wife and kids. After working for eight years in local TV, I spent the next 17 years working behind-the-scenes for the top cable sports networks in all of the land. Talk about dreaming the impossible dream. Unfortunately that dream came to a crashing halt a year-and-a-half ago, but yesterday I made my triumphant return to cable TV in a much different role -- in front of the camera. I was on air...