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Ultimately, however, it all comes down to Step 4: passion. Consider The Half Nelsons, composed of the Nelson brothers (guitarist Brett C. Nelson ’06, guitarist/singer Erik R. Nelson ’03), bassist Blake Stone ’06, and drummer Alejandro L. Acevedo ’05. While the two Nelsons have been playing music together for a long time, the band as it stands came together last semester...
Last year, the internet gambling industry grossed $4 billion. Young people are particularly susceptible to developing an online gambling addiction, said gambling expert and Whittier Law School Professor I. Nelson Rose...
...foreign languages is not lost on Ronzone's peers. "He can't speak any language at all," laughs John Hammond, the Pistons' vice president of basketball operations. "Yet he travels to these obscure places and builds lasting relationships with all kinds of people. It's amazing." Adds Donn Nelson, the president of basketball operations for the Dallas Mavericks and one of Ronzone's old friends: "Tony's success is a tribute to his personality. He's just--I guess the word is unembarrassable...
...Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, he became the first head coach of the Saudi national team. "It was right after the Gulf War in '91, so I hesitated," he recalls. "Then the prince offered to triple my salary." At the 1994 Goodwill Games in Russia he ran into Donn Nelson. "I couldn't believe how many people Tony knew and how much knowledge he had accumulated about international players," says Nelson. "I told him, you've got an incredible niche. You've got to bring this...
After a few more years in the Arabian sun, Ronzone joined the Dallas Mavericks in 1997 and based himself in China, where he and Nelson nudged the Chinese government into letting the Mavs sign 7-ft. 1-in. Wang Zhizhi (paving the way for Yao Ming's arrival in the U.S.). In 2001, Ronzone was poached by the Pistons, who, never having drafted an international player, gave him carte blanche to travel. After years of frequent-flying, though, Ronzone discovered he could cut back. "If I'm going to three normal countries--say, Italy, Spain and France--I now have...