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AEG pulls out of L.A. stadium negotiations
Don, I'm glad to see you're doing OK!!!— March 9, 2015 10:27 p.m.
Qualcomm engineers its financial product
Well, in a way I think swell and Visduh are both right. QCOM is a huge employer which adds a LOT to the San Diego economy - many, many more times as much as the Chargers do. And I don't recall QCOM insisting that San Diego taxpayers build any of their many buildings in Sorrento Valley. But Visduh is correct that QCOM has been a major (possibly the biggest) promoter of H1-B Visas. This certainly keep engineering wages lower than they otherwise would be, displace some American workers AND make it more likely that critical technological knowledge will eventually make its' way overseas.— March 9, 2015 10:25 p.m.
Sort of like the results of a fad diet
Yes definitely WHAT you eat matters not just how much. I admit I'm oversimplifying things by just saying eat less and eat healthier. I just think a lot of the diet plan people do the opposite and overcomplicate things because complicated solutions sound impressive and seem like they should be expensive - even if they really don't have much value.— March 7, 2015 1:27 p.m.
Sort of like the results of a fad diet
My theory (admittedly unscientific and based purely on my own gut feel) is this: Losing weight is SIMPLE but HARD. Eat less food. Eat healthier food. Excercise more. Simple. But hard to do. Requires hard work and big changes in eating habits. But many Diet / weight loss plans promote the opposite: making it sound like losing weight is COMPLICATED but EASY. The diet plan promoters promote complex relationships between nutrients, fats, carbs, time of day you eat, when you exercise, etc. I think ultimately it boils down to eat less, eat healthier, excercise more. If a weight loss plan / center helps someone do these things then that's fine. But I think promoting that there is some magic pill or magic plan that works without any effort is highly misleading.— March 6, 2015 6:29 a.m.
Sort of like the results of a fad diet
Get well soon Don!— March 6, 2015 6:19 a.m.
Chargers fan offers backyard for stadium site
I think the Chargers are going to LA and I think that was decided several years ago. The only chance now for the Chargers to stay in San Diego is if the Rams and Raiders BOTH move to LA - so that means the other NFL owners have to favor the Rams and Raiders over the Chargers. However, from my understanding the Spanos family is well liked by other NFL owners, certainly more so than the Davis family. Also it appears there's a lot of stadium talk in St. Louis so the Rams have reasonable chance for a taxpayer-funded stadium there. And the Raiders could potentially move to St Louis if the Rams leave but a stadium is getting built there. The Raiders could also potentially move to San Antonio. I think the only question now is whether the Chargers share a stadium in Carson w/ the Raiders or a stadium in Inglewood w/ the Rams. Or possibly AEG / Farmers comes back into the mix in downtown LA. At any rate, since the NFL has already successfully leveraged the empty LA market to force almost every NFL city's taxpayers to fork over hundreds of millions of dollars for new stadium there is little point in the NFL keeping LA vacant anymore. There will be 2 teams in LA by 2020 and the Chargers will be one of them.— March 3, 2015 5:22 p.m.
Chargers fan offers backyard for stadium site
I listened to about 30 min on XTRA 1360. Seemed most speakers were die hard fans, many of them were season ticket holders. I don't think yesterday will make any difference. If there had been a HUGE turnout then the Raiders and Rams would have been able to point to this as evidence to the other NFL owners that the Chargers should be the ones shut out of L.A.— March 3, 2015 5:15 p.m.
Missing from the Barry Minkow movie
Yes it would be great to hear Don's take on it. So many moving pieces. Having LA vacant has been the best thing the NFL could have ever hoped for over the last 20 years. They have leveraged the opening in LA to demand many billions of dollars from taxpayers and now almost every NFL market has a fairly new (or newly renovated) taxpayer-funded stadium. But the L.A. goose is about out of golden eggs so now the NFL might as well cook that goose. After the events of the last month, I think the Chargers are firmly committed to moving to L.A. and have been for quite some time. The Chargers don't care about convincing San Diego because they've decided a long time ago to move. I think the Chargers are only keeping SD in the mix just in case the Raiders and Rams get first dibs on moving to L.A. I think this is why Fabiani seems OK with the idea of a 2/3 majority ballot initiative - any evidence that the San Diego is resistant to giving corporate welfare to the Chargers will help Spanos argue his case to the other owners about why the Chargers should get to move to L.A. I think Fabiani's recent antics have been done for the benefit of other NFL owners. Fabiani and the Spanos family want to show other NFL owners that the government and citizens of San Diego have committed the unthinkable crime of robbing the wealthy Spanos family of hundreds of dollars of corporate welfare. The NFL owners meeting is in late March. I think a lot depends on which 2 teams the NFL owners "bless" as deserving to go to L.A. and how the stadium arms race between Carson and Inglewood turns out.— February 27, 2015 9:50 a.m.
Missing from the Barry Minkow movie
Perhaps when he is out of prison he will go on the "inspriational" cheaters, liars, and thieves tours to do motivational speaking with Jordan "Wolf of Wall Street" Belfort. Belfort reportedly makes $30K / appearance. Unfortunately in this country white collar crime does pay.— February 27, 2015 4:58 a.m.
Chargers departure could hit U-T where it hurts
So it remains to be seen if this is a bluff. I have to imagine the Chargers/Raiders must have gone to a lot of effort to hide all the behind-the-scenes agreements from the public/press and from the cities of San Diego and Oakland.— February 23, 2015 7:16 a.m.