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There's embarrassment and shame in this admission, but you need to know: We forgot about Woody Sauldsberry.
He was the NBA's Rookie of the Year in 1958, just the second black man to win the award. He played for four NBA teams and later the Harlem Globetrotters. Retirement wasn't always easy. Diabetes claimed one of his legs and had its sights set on the other. When Sauldsberry died last year in Baltimore, there was no obituary in the next day's newspaper and no old highlights aired on that night's SportsCenter. We forgot about him, but Earl Monroe and filmmaker Dan Klores didn't. We're fortunate for that.
Sauldsberry is one of many characters who give life to Black Magic, a new film that revives a lost slice of history, examining the civil rights movement through the eyes of the basketball players and coaches from historically black colleges and universities.
Business-Plan Contests Become 'American Idol Meets Trump'
In 2005, Julie Tucker Legrand and Jennifer Elias were running low on cash for their fledgling trivia-game business. So the San Francisco entrepreneurs devised what turned out to be a winning plan. They spent several weeks revising the business plan they had written for their company, SmartsCo., and entered the 50-page document in the Make Mine A Million $ Business competition hosted by Count Me In, a New York nonprofit that provides resources for female entrepreneurs. Making it to the finals in Long Beach, Calif. -- where they gave a three-minute pitch to judges and an audience -- they took home the top prize: a $45,000 loan from Count Me In and a $10,000 credit line from American Express Co. "It's like American Idol meets Trump," says Ms. Tucker Legrand. Business-plan competitions, long an academic ritual to help business-school students develop ideas and pitch investors, are becoming an increasingly popular way for business owners and would-be entrepreneurs to raise extra cash while honing their business strategy.
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