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Jamie LaMunyon: Serial Bad Owner More on Jamie LaMunyon, owner of the Montgomery Maulers in the National Indoor Football League, who fired the entire roster of her team after they made mention that they probably wouldn’t be to keen on suiting up is they didn't get paid. Apparently, the league should have seen it coming. What is happening with her Alabama franchise is eerily similar to what happened to her former franchise, the Oklahoma Crude based in Enid, Oklahoma. Reporter Matt Palmer covered the team in its final season, before an abrupt move to Rome, Georgia, and heard the players gripes and complaints first hand. He gives his view in a column from the Enid News & Eagle - LaMunyon’s Situation No Surprise (Enid News & Eagle)  
Thursday, April 27, 2006 Well, that was yesterday. Today, baseball's second in command is sayings Commissioner Bud Selig will likely pick a new owner for the Washington Nationals in a few days, and to expect a fast-track sale of the team, probably by June. Eight groups have bid for the Nationals, which have been owned by the other 29 teams since 2002 when they were still the Montreal Expos. - MLB: No owner yet (Washington Times) - MLB Official Expects Nats To Be Sold By June 15 (MSNBC)
Football Owner Fires Team...The Entire Team... Not exactly a textbook case of how to handle a labor dispute by Jamie LaMunyon, owner of the Montgomery Maulers of the National Indoor Football League. She didn't like her players demanding back wages, so, she's fired the entire team. The mass firings came after four players held a news conference threatening to not travel to a road game unless they were paid. LaMunyon says she'll field replacement players for the next game in Osceola, Florida, tomorrow, and if a player wasn't paid, she's sorry, but, ``that happens everywhere.'' - Maulers Axed: Owner Replacing Team (Montgomery Advertiser)
Friday, April 21, 2006 It comes to an end with teammate Julio Franco becoming the oldest player in major league history to hit a home run in a Mets rally win over the San Diego Padres. The 47 year old slugger toped the previous record owner Athletics pitcher Jack Quinn, who was 46 years, 357 days old when he homered on June 27, 1930. Franco already was the oldest player to hit a grand slam, a pinch-hit homer and have a multihomer game. And the Frank Robinson got his 1,000th win as a manager, thanks to Nick Johnson hitting a pair of homers in the Washington Nationals' 10-4 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. The 70 year old is 1,000-1,095 in 16 seasons of managing, with stints in Cleveland, San Francisco, Baltimore and his current run with the Montreal-Washington franchise. He is the 53rd manager to reach the milestone. - Pedro Wins 200th Game (Berkshire Eagle) - Franco, At 47, Becomes Oldest Player To Hit Home Run As Mets Win (San Jose Mercury News) - Nats Give Robinson 1,000th Victory (Washington Times)
Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - Albert Pujols Is Becoming Vaguely Ludicrous (Deadspin) - The DH May Keep Aaron's 755 Safe For Now (All-Baseball.com) - Aaron's Ultimate Challenger May Be A Natural (New York Times) - Hank Aaron, Albert Pujols, Alex Rodriguez & Barry Bonds (Wikipedia)
Sunday, April 16, 2006 Being able to own a professional sports franchise has to be one of the coolest things in the world, and Allen has two of them. But after purchasing the Portland trailblazers in 1988, it has becoming painfully apparent that his NBA team isn’t returning to is glory days, and is going to continue to lose money. Allen told The Oregonian newspaper in Los Angeles on Friday night that he has come to terms with selling the trailblazers and relieving himself of the burden of losing millions of dollars each year in futile efforts to keep his team afloat. The team has the worst record in the NBA this season, and is stuck with one of the worst contract situations with its home, the Rose Garden. While billionaire owners are always crying foul when it come to wanting public funds to help build facilities for their private franchises, the tactic seemed to work for Allen’s NFL franchise, the defending NFC Champs the Seattle Seahawks. There was already plenty of heat from fans and financial trouble for Allen to deal with already in his sports ventures. He announced the official hunt for a buyer for The Sporting News magazine and syndicated radio network in February, which has suffered its share of problems with generating revenue and being dealt a mighty blow by the United States Department of Justice after agreeing in January to a $7.2 million settlement after being accused of promoting Internet gambling by taking advertisements for online casinos abroad. Former Trail Blazers guard Terry Porter is currently the head of an Paul Allen-esque effort to round up potential investors interested in buying the team and the Rose Garden, in a effort to save the franchise and keep it in Oregon. Minus the billions in personal assets, of course. - Porter trying to assemble group to buy Trail Blazers (Yahoo! News) - Sporting News Is Formally Seeking a Buyer (New York Times) - All Bets Are Off, Online Anyway (Wired News)
Thursday, April 06, 2006 While NASCAR does get criticism for its southern roots mixed with moonshining and for fans displaying numerous flags of the Confederacy from the American Civil War, Dateline has seen its far share of criticism from a history of doctoring results of product tests and exposes. - NASCAR: Dateline NBC's Plan 'Outrageous' (Forbes)
More Black Athletes Earning Diplomas At NCAA Division I Schools Black athletes were at least 15 percent more likely to graduate if they entered college in 1998 instead of 1984, according to the report by the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport. Female black athletes remain more successful than their male counterparts, graduating 73 percent of the time compared with 54 percent for men. The same is true of whites, with 73 percent of women graduating and 66 percent of men. Graduation success for all whites still outpaced black athletes 66 percent to 52 percent, according to federal graduation rates cited in the study. - Study: Black Athlete Graduation Rises (Forbes)
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