He was a kid at the University of North Carolina, a graduate student who, in 1974, like all young grad students before him, thought he knew exactly who he was and exactly where he was going. Television was the dream of many kids, and Jim Lampley wanted to run it.
But a funny thing happened on his way to that coveted private office looking down on the commanding view of Manhattan from the corporate offices of the American Broadcasting Company: He never got there.
