My Friend Bill Walton - Kevin Stacom Kevin Stacom, Sports Analyst

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Earlier on Monday, I was preparing an analysis of what was widely purported to be a “historic” agreement between the Power 5 Conferences and the NCAA. It’s a very complex topic involving a lot of legal and business machinations and eventual uncertainties yet to be realized. The “agreement” reads more like a preliminary term sheet that leaves more questions than it answers.

 

In the midst of this internal mental debate of what might be informative for the average fan versus trying to avoid the rabbit hole of legal case law pertaining to antitrust issues, I decided I was going to give an old friend, Bill Walton, a call to potentially add some perspective and levity to a stultifyingly dry subject. I was literally minutes away from making the call when I received a text from a friend informing me that Bill had just passed away earlier today.

             


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