Pat Williams

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Author | Speaker | Senior Vice President — NBA's Orlando Magic

Pat Williams is senior vice president of the NBA's Orlando Magic. He has more than 50 years of professional sports experience, has written more than 100 books, including the popular Coach Wooden, Coach Wooden's Greatest Secret, and Character Carved in Stone. Pat has been featured on CBS This Morning, Good Morning America, Fox & Friends, and Mike and Mike as well as in such diverse publications as Sports Illustrated, Reader’s Digest, Good Housekeeping, The Wall Street Journal, and Focus on the Family.

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Character Carved in Stone

Overlooking the Hudson River on the campus of the United States Military Academy at West Point are 12 granite benches, each inscribed with a word repr...

Featured on: Monday, July 15, 2019

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July 10, 2026

Penna Dexter

Judge Hensley’s Win

Eleven years ago, the United States Supreme Court issued the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges decision that brought same sex marriage to every state. This — despite the fact that 31 states had specifical...

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Kerby Anderson

AI Bubble

Is AI investing in a bubble? That is a question that Wall Street and Main Street are asking. Lots of money will be spent on AI. Analysts at J.P. Morgan estimate that up to $5 trillion will be spent by...

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July 9, 2026

Kerby Anderson

Great Relearning Again

Three years ago, I wrote a commentary about the “great relearning.” The phrase was coined by novelist Tom Wolfe who was talking about the hippies of Haight-Ashbury. They decided to toss out lessons ab...

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