Jon Lansner, now the Register's veteran business columnist, was a member of the 1973 New York City high school championship bowling team.In 1979, as a sportswriter, he covered college basketball's Final Four (the year Magic Johnson played Larry Bird) and the 7th game of the World Series (Pittsburgh beat Baltimore).
He once had a 40-year, adjustable-rate mortgage with negative amortization -- in 1989!