When you're in a tournament, that's what you're looking to do?

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.

I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.