In its' fifth year, the 2007 David Busta Basketball Tournament and Silent Auction raised a substantial sum of money, bringing our five year total to more than $145,000.

I had the honor of serving on the event's planning committee and to present a check for this year's total of $33,500 to UW-Madison's Waisman Center for stem cell research; that's me on the left in the photo with Dr. Su-Chun Zhang, lead scientist, and Dr. Marsha Seltzer, Waisman Center Director.

As I said in an interview with a local television station that covered the tournament, "It's impossible to be around David Busta and not find his spirit and enthusiasm contagious. We're creating quite a legacy in David's honor."(read more)