SMITHFIELD — One of Rhode Island’s leaders in innovation, Allan Tear, took his audience at a Bryant University economic forum Tuesday back to his high school days for a few moments when he tried basketball because he wanted to play sports.
But he was too short and wasn’t good. Rather than sitting on the sidelines of a basketball court for four years, Tear said, he switched gears and began wrestling and became a state champion.
Here in Rhode Island, Tear said, people say too often that the game is basketball and, so, that’s the game to play. But in doing that, Rhode Island would be playing the wrong game, he said; Rhode Island should be playing the game for which it has the right assets.
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