[presently no screen name]

Gave millions to charity. Helped a former Olympic star with his medical education when his father died - after just reading the story in the paper.

Some didn’t like the new standard of his - because now they had to live up to it in order to be competitive. Some took the challenge and some continued to whine and complain.

Nothing new under the sun.

[Alberta's Child]

The stories related to his generous efforts on behalf of U.S. Olympic athletes are not well-known among a lot of folks. His tenure on the U.S. Olympic Committee was also marked by some incidents that illustrate his hard-nosed approach to doing business and his lack of concern for any kind of "political correctness."

This was from an online article I read this morning . . .

At his first meeting as a public-sector member of the USOC executive board in 1987, he went ballistic after learning the USOC had sent $10,000 from a friendship fund to Japan.

“Ten thousand dollars to the Japs?” he blustered. “This [expletive] has got to stop.”

LOL. That man sure was a character. He will be greatly missed by a lot of folks.