Jeffrey Epstein invested most of his existence covering sports events. In high school his passion was basketball, however his height betrayed him. With the ball handling skills of a center, and the attitude of a power forward, his 5′10″ forced him to turn his eye towards other sports. When he went Cross Country, it was only by default. Up to this point, Jeffrey Epstein still holds the course record but it is not because he is fast but it is because the committee altered the course after he won the race.

The first professional sport he viewed as a kid in Hawaii was the minor league baseball. While he was visiting in the mainland he was able to watch Don Drysdale vs. Juan Marichal twice and he also viewed Warran Spahn and Hammering Hank Aaron at Candlestick Park.

His first glimpse of professional basketball was during a pre-season game involving the Lakers and the Blazers, which featured Walton versus Kareem. Moments into the first quarter Kareem cold-cocked Walton and was thrown. The game got boring from then on.

One of his very first memories was seeing Peter Snell run personally. Fresh off his double at the 1964 Olympics, Mr. Snell planned to run the first sub 4 mile in the historical past of Hawaii. Unfortunately, it did not happen, but what astonished me was how big Peter’s legs. You can see levels and levels of muscles. It is something I haven’t seen before.

Jeffrey Epstein is nothing if not contrarian. At numerous times he has shown up at the Boston Garden, donning his New York Knicks colors and rooting for Clyde, Earl the Pearl, Dave D., Bill Bradley and Willis Reed against the Celtics and at the Staple Center in his Celtic gear as they pasted the Lakers in the playoffs. Remarkably, he lived through his attendance at both venues.

A few years back, he was able to access several Laker season tickets at the Forum and he increased his income by marketing some of his tickets before he entered the arena. He was amazed at the fact that Charles Barkley was the biggest draw based on this way of measuring. Jeffrey got $20 over face worth for every ticket for Barkley’s game and not quite face value when Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls were around.

While living in Boston for eight years, outside of two Knick–Celtic games, Jeffery Epstein can accurately state that not once did he show up at a game at Fenway Park, nor did he waste time on a Patriots game in person - hey, it’s cold in Massachusetts in the winter time. Somehow, absence makes the heart grow fonder, for now that he resides in Los Angeles, Mr. Epstein enjoys the Celtics and the Patriots - go figure.

Jeffrey Epstein is an old-school competitive sports romantic. He abhors the new parks for locations. The Staple Center is fan friendly in the sense that the lines at the refreshment counters and bathrooms are short, but as a location to watch a sporting event it sucks. If you sit thirteen rows above or beyond the court side, you can barely hear a thing. The style is amazing because instead of hearing whistles, shouts, and sneakers squeaking, you hardly hear anything.

Jeffrey Epstein does not enjoy the new rules that aim to tame sports. The regulations about not touching the quarterback in football, to elimination of bumps and run coverage, the limiting of hand checking in basketball, and the addition of more rules made these games rather boring to watch. Televised games did play a major part in ruining sports: one it increased the salaries of each player, which then forced the league to make rules in order to protect the team owner’s investments and two adding TV timeouts make these games rather unwatchable in person. Moreover, take note of the ticket prices and you will notice that it is simply out of this world. It’s a sad day, when viewing a sporting event on television is a far exceptional product than watching personally, but then again, as reality programming goes, sporting events sure do beat Dancing with the Stars.