Richard O'Connor was a high school basketball All-American and co-captain and star player at Duke. He's been a president at the Nielsen Company, a consultant to the Dallas Mavericks and Detroit Pistons, a real estate entrepreneur, a magazine owner, publisher, and editor, and an award-winning journalist who has written for over twenty-five publications, including GQ, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and The New York Times. This is his fifth book.