unclevlad Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 Holy incineration, Batman! The Athletic has a story today on the Coyotes' failure in Arizona. They basically attribute it to Alex Meruelo, the owner, almost entirely. Quote On the “Burns and Gambo” radio show, he corrected one of the show’s hosts, insisting he was still the owner of the team, which was now simply “inactive.” He said he merely sent “players and hockey operations to Utah.” In the meeting with staff the next day, he told employees, who were worried about their jobs, that he refused to go down as the guy who lost the Coyotes. In a news conference with Bettman on Friday, the commissioner interjected on multiple occasions, jumping in to “translate” when Meruelo blurted out “I don’t like the media.” At one point, Bettman grabbed Meruelo’s arm to stop him from talking. Quote In August 2020, reports surfaced that he failed to pay players signing bonuses. Gutierrez blamed it on their lack of experience owning a sports franchise. As more vendors and employees began cropping up with complaints about unpaid invoices and strongarm tactics, it became clear that it was a feature of Meruelo’s business practices, not a bug. Gutierrez is Meruelo's right hand man. They ran construction companies. They have suppliers and employees there. Quote At a company draft party in the summer of 2021, he unexpectedly took the microphone, telling the crowd the team would leave Glendale and build a new facility in Tempe. Executives in attendance, including Gutierrez, grew visibly uncomfortable at his bombastic speech given the team’s fragile relationship with Glendale and the corporate partners in the audience. Sounds like the Oakland A's owner. Lots of other bits and pieces. He basically was better at burning bridges than trying to build them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 The first round of the Snooker World Championships is complete, the round of 32. And half of the top 16 seeds have been knocked out. It has happened before since it moved to a 32 man field but not this decade. One of the fallen is the current champion Luca Bercel so there will be a new champion regardless. But two other former champions Mark Selby and Mark Williams are out. Williams is one of the class of 1992 players which includes Ronnie O'Sullivan and John Higgins both of whom were the last to have their matches and are through to the next round. O'Sullivan is on for the Triple Crown in one season and was on imperious form dispatching his opponent 10-1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted Thursday at 01:28 PM Report Share Posted Thursday at 01:28 PM The quarter finals of the World snooker threw up quite a surprise with Ronnie O'Sullivan, Judd Trump and John Higgins all defeated. They hold 12 World Championships between them. The only previous winner of the World Championship who is in the semi finals is Stuart Bingham. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted Thursday at 09:34 PM Report Share Posted Thursday at 09:34 PM Peter Oosterhuis who was a former British golfer and commentator has died at the age of 75 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/articles/crgynvde7vlo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted 2 hours ago Report Share Posted 2 hours ago Jhonatan Narvaez of INEOS Grenadiers wins stage 1 of the 2024 Giro d'Italia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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