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Feel sorry for Donald Sterling?
I think we should also note how Sterling played the game of making a few relatively small donations in exchange for valuable P.R. The NAACP was about to give Sterling a lifetime achievement award, apparently in exchange for donations totally less than $100K - a paltry sum to someone like Sterling. In San Diego John Moores played a similar game - making some well placed donations for tens millions of dollars. This bought a lot of P.R. which made it much easier for him to receive corporate welfare on the order of hundreds of millions of dollars.— May 2, 2014 7:03 a.m.
Feel sorry for Donald Sterling?
I think the serfdom analogy is more appropriate with the semi-professional sports league known as the NCAA. The NCAA brings in billions of dollars and rewards coaches and member institutions handsomely, but there are a lot of arbitrary rules and restrictions against any player sharing in even a tiny bit of the massive income of the NCAA.— May 2, 2014 6:51 a.m.
Feel sorry for Donald Sterling?
Sterling was originally a lawyer and apparently he does not shy away from litigation. Heck, he probably would have got away with having his racist beliefs if him and his wife hadn't decided to sue V (whatever her name is) several years ago. I would guess that Sterling will probably fight every single part of the penalties in court. This may be in court for years. But I think the important thing is the message and the overall effect. Silver wanted to make clear the NBA wasn't going to allow someone who was clearly a racist to be an owner.— May 1, 2014 3:53 p.m.
SD tech bounceback happened last year
So why is it when QCOM or other high-tech companies need a new building they just build it, but sports teams that generate a tiny fraction of the economic output and tiny fraction of the middle class jobs that high-tech does insist on taxpayer-built facilities? (I'll bet QCOM and other high-tech companies are getting their share of perks too - but just nothing so blatant as getting facilities built by the city).— April 30, 2014 10:35 a.m.
Sterling's racial remarks cause a stir
Well pretty much sarcasm. It would be totally, completely, and absolutely ridiculous for the city and/or county of San Diego to spend hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to build a stadium for an NBA team. Then again, in my opinion it was a bit ridiculous for San Diego to spend the money they spent to build Petco Park.— April 29, 2014 8:16 p.m.
Sterling's racial remarks cause a stir
And the countdown for a campaign for a publicly financed arena to lure the Clippers back to San Diego begins... (ughh)— April 29, 2014 4:32 p.m.
Sterling's racial remarks cause a stir
And the countdown for the V. Stiviano (or whatever her name is) reality show begins....— April 29, 2014 3:25 p.m.
Sterling's racial remarks cause a stir
She's clearly very selfish and willing to do anything to get what she wants or to get back at anyone who she feels wronged her.— April 29, 2014 3:24 p.m.
Sterling's racial remarks cause a stir
NBA is giving Sterling the Death Penalty - or as close to it as they can. I can't say I feel sympathy for Sterling.— April 29, 2014 11:26 a.m.
Sterling's racial remarks cause a stir
Silver DROPPED THE HAMMER. News conference just held. NBA comish Silver just said the audio is genuine. Sterling BANNED FOR LIFE FROM THE NBA. Sterling fined $2.5M Silver urging board of governors to force a sale of the team. .— April 29, 2014 11:22 a.m.