Goodenow was Eagleson's deputy and was set to replace Eagleson at the end of the year. But he was not Eagleson's man - he had been chosen by a search committee. A former labor lawyer from Detroit, he was a straight-shooter whose loyalty was to the players.
I waited more than an hour before Goodenow finally appeared and escorted me to a vacant office. He turned on the light and put his left forefinger up to his lips.
'We've got to talk like this,' he said, his voice a near whisper.
I thought he was joking.
'I don't know who I can trust around here and who I can't,' he said. 'I get mail that ends up missing and then reappears, or it's opened before I even get to see it. Faxes that are read. Al doesn't want me around here but he has to put up with me. You wrote me a letter asking me for some things, remember?'