Basketball and Its Impact on Inner City Youth with Cal Ramsey and Alan Rosenberg

On Wednesday, March 11, 2009, at 12:00 Noon, I will be hosting my show “The Advocates” on WVOX- 1460 AM. My special guest is Mr. Cal Ramsey, a native of Selma, Alabama as a youth, has been part of the NYC athletic landscape for over fifty years. Since his graduation from NYU in 1959, where he starred in basketball as an All-American, he still holds many team records and was a member of NYU’s Scholastic Honor Society. Because of his excellent career on the hard courts, he has been enshrined in a number of regional sport’s hall of fames. He is even a member of the famed Friar’s Club. After two seasons in the NBA with both the old St. Louis Hawks and the NY Knicks, his basketball career was cut short by a knee injury. He then began work in the NY Public Schools. He has devoted his life to working with the youth of NYC with regards to an emphasis on education and staying-in-school.  Mr. Ramsey has had a three decade career in broadcasting and public relations with the NY Knicks, and has also devoted his considerable energies to NYU’s alumni affairs department.    

Also today we have Alan D. Rosenberg, who will serve as our guest panelist. Alan, who is a native Mount Vernon, graduated from AB Davis/MVHS and New York University. He is a long-time CPA, who has offices in both New York City and Scarsdale and is an avid sports fan and memorabilia collector.  Alan also played basketball for NYU, and has been heavily active in NYU alumni affairs. Mr. Rosenberg has appeared twice before on The Advocates; September 27, 2007 and May 7, 2008. One can access these two shows, which discussed “The Art of Collecting,” and “How Baseball Has Changed, with Ralph Branca,” along with the total archive,