Newsday · Jul 14, 2016
How Jon Ledecky plans to make the Islanders a 'world-class organization'
New York Islanders partner Jon Ledecky speaks with the media during a press conference at Nassau Coliseum on October 22, 2014 in Uniondale. Photo Credit: Getty Images / Bruce BennettIt should come as no surprise that Jon Ledecky was at ease and in his element on Wednesday as he met with three tables’ worth of journalists over lunch at the 21 Club in Manhattan.
The Islanders’ new co-owner once was a potential aspiring sportswriter himself, passing up a Fred Russell-Grantland Rice Scholarship to Vanderbilt before settling for Harvard and a career in business that seems to have turned out well for him.
Still, he continued to cover sports for the Crimson, Harvard’s newspaper, as an undergraduate.