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Imperial Beach family barely escapes death
If you're thinking about the same incident that I am, it was early 90'S, maybe'90-'91 at a hotel in Mission Valley that had problems with the heaters in a bunch of room, something like half of them. But if I remember correctly, it was only 1 person killed and it wasn't a rowing team, but a either a gymnastics or volleyball team. At this point, I can't remember which hotel, but I remember at the time that it was someplace we knew friends had stayed at when visiting SD.— January 16, 2013 9:02 a.m.
Opera conductor takes on Dos Equis guy in Daughter of the Regiment (1 of 3)
Come on Garrett. Show a little love for the man. His name is Jonathan Goldsmith. My personal favorite: When in Rome, they do as he does.— January 16, 2013 8:41 a.m.
State investigating Bridgepoint
Co-founded by Gore. He and a partner bought what was originallya Canadian cable news station with the intention of turning it into a liberal news channel. It was originally planned to be a sort of you tube type cable channel, with viewers helping create content in the form of programming "pods" no greater than 8 minutes in length. They brought in a former MTV exec about 3 yrs ago to revamp the channel. They had been trying to unload it at least as far back as 2007, when Google was in talks with them to buy it.— January 16, 2013 8:28 a.m.
Seau suffered from disease caused by hits
This is a pretty good article on Seau from a few months ago. I can say at the time,it certainly opened my eyes quite a bit. Despite the fact it is from the UT, I would recommend everyone read it if they already haven't: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/oct/21/bitter…— January 11, 2013 8:35 a.m.
Seau suffered from disease caused by hits
Junior Seau played in the NFL for 20 yrs, not 12. The first 13 were with the Chargers, followed by 3 at Miami and 4 with the New England Patriots.. Most published accounts list his earnings as a player during those years at around the $30 million level. So using your figure, Seau made an additional $627 million or so in endorsements. That seems an unbelievable number to me. Please cite your source.— January 10, 2013 10:21 a.m.
Subsidized sports: Arizona asininity
Yes, you did. However, upon closer examination, you'll find my above comment was: A - in reply to Burwell and B - written just under 12 hours before your mea maxima culpa. BTW, I wasn't looking for your mea maxima culpa but rather simply, as I have said, pointing out and correcting a factual error and supplying addition information. No reply was expected nor needed.— January 2, 2013 10:51 a.m.
Subsidized sports: Arizona asininity
Don Bauder, I made a simple comment that your timeline on the Coyotes moving to Glendale was wrong. I knew this from having spent a fair amount of time in the Phoenix area over the last 20+ yrs. It wasn't something that was "left out" from the Bloomberg article, you just got it wrong and I was pointing that out, as I said, from personal knowledge. Perhaps you would have been wiser not to proclaimed my "narrative" contradictory to the Bloomberg article, when it actually said the same thing I did, without first revisiting the article.Or perhaps you could have just been a little more accurate in the first place. It was a really silly error that gives a completely different slant to your article than using the correct timeline would have. For example, "Glendale completed it's romancing of the Phoenix Coyotes from Phoenix, where they have played since their move from Winnipeg in 1996, to Glendale, when the arena's construction broke ground on April 3, 2002." gives a completely different feel than "Glendale wooed the team from Phoenix in 1996 with the promise of the new arena". Not to mention, the former is at least accurate. But then again, you're the journalist, not me. Just my opinion. Opinions vary.— January 2, 2013 10:45 a.m.
Subsidized sports: Arizona asininity
Burwell, I have no disagreement with Don Bauder on the asininity of Glendale and their involvement with the Coyotes. In fact, I think it was a losing proposition bringing them in from the start. But that's a whole different story. Where Don's version of "history" is factually incorrect is his reference that Glendale wooed the team from Phoenix in 1996 with the promise of the new arena. They didn't. They played 7 1/2 seasons in Phoenix before moving to Glendale, AFTER the arena was built, as was pointed out in the Bloomberg article that Don Bauder referred to.The history of the former WHL Winnepeg Jets, their relocation to Phoenix and Jerry Colangelo's involvement in getting them there has been well documented. Colangelo and Betman are good friends and Bettman had told Colangelo in the earlier '90's that he would have a hockey team to add to his empire. From a Feb. 11, 1995, Toronto Star story titled "Phoenix awaits Canadian NHL flop: "The question is only when and how - whether it's two or three years, and whether it's through expansion or relocation," Jerry Colangelo told The Star's Chris Young, adding that he has been approached quietly by Phoenix-area investors interested in bringing NHL hockey here. Glendale may have been trying to get the team since at least 1999, but in 1999 and 200o, the Coyotes ownership was looking at Scottsdale. On September 30, 1998, Coyotes team officials gave a presentation in an abandoned department store in the soon to be demolished Los Arcos Mall. They included artists' renderings of the proposed $600 million redevelopment project at Los Arcos Mall. With demolition providing the backdrop, it was a contrast in what the Coyotes hoped the area will become by 2001 and what was on that day. On May18, 1999 Scottsdale voters approved a stadium district by a 2-1 ratio. Forming the district was the first step in rebuilding the aging Los Arcos Mall area as a hockey-entertainment complex anchored by an 18,000-seat Phoenix Coyotes arena. http://hockey.ballparks.com/NHL/PhoenixCoyotes/ar… As I said, I agree with Don Bauder in his view of Glendale's recent actions. However, again, some of his "facts" involving the relocation of the Jets/Coyotes are incorrect.— January 1, 2013 8:46 p.m.
Subsidized sports: Arizona asininity
I'm not sure what you mean when you say my narrative of what happened contradicts what Bloomberg said.The Bloomberg article didn't say that Glendale wooed the team from Phoenix in 1996 with the promise of the new arena. It specifically said the Coyotes relocated to Phoenix in 1996 and that the city of Glendale lured the team there in 2003 when they issued the bonds to finance the arena. Bloomberg's article actually contradicts what you wrote, not what I wrote. If you prefer not to use another part of the story because the quote doesn't fit with your theme, since your the writer, that's your choice of course. That did give me a good chuckle though, in as much that something that was good enough for Bloomberg to use wasn't good enough for you to use, but to each their own. As for all these blogs are condensed, I have no idea what that means. You wrote something that was factually incorrect. The facts are the facts and what you wrote is contradictory to them. I don't see how any "condensing" of this blog has anything to do with that.— January 1, 2013 1:23 p.m.
Subsidized sports: Arizona asininity
Don Bauder I don't disagree with the premise of your article. IMO , all things considered, it would have been cheaper to just let the NHL take the team and move it, That said however, part of your article is factually incorrect. Glendale didn't woo the team from Phoenix in 1996. The former Winnipeg Jets didn't even begin playing in Phoenix in until 1996 at which time they played in the old America West Arena, which at the time was a good basketball arena, but an absolutely horrible hockey arena. There was never a discussion at that time involving Glendale. The group that bought the team wanted to move it to Minnesota. It was Jerry Colangelo who talked them into moving the team to phoenix and playing in what was the America West Arena. Talks with Glendale didn't begin until 2001, when the group that purchased the team from the previous Canadian owners resold the team to another local ownership group. Prior to the sale, almost 3 years were spent trying to negotiate a deal to build a new arena in Scottsdale, just south of downtown,at the site of a former mall. The funding for the new Glendale arena was approved in late 2001 and the team remained in Phoenix until completion of a new arena. Again, they weren't "wooed: to Glendale with "the promise of the new arena". They played in Phoenix until the new arena was completed. You also apparently missed this statement in the article you cited: “If you look back to 2009, they were a perfectly normal city,” said Neene Jenkins, an AllianceBernstein analyst in New York. The company oversees about $32 billion in municipal securities and bought debt offered in Glendale’s latest sale. “It’s a bigger issue than just the arena. The risk, coupled with recessionary factors, has really hit Glendale.”— January 1, 2013 8:44 a.m.