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A Kansas judge last week sentenced Scott Roeder to life in prison without possibility of parole for 50 years. Roeder murdered Dr. George Tiller last May. Dr. Tiller, one of the few physicians in America who performed late-term abortions, was killed at his church.
Because Roeder is 52, the 50-year wait to be eligible for parole essentially means he'll spend the rest of his life in prison. That's the maximum allowed under Kansas law.
Roeder didn't deny murdering Dr. Tiller. He said he did it to protect unborn children. His supporters said the judge should have made him eligible for parole after just 25 years because Roeder was acting on behalf of the unborn and because he never had been in trouble with the law before.
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You can usually find Brad Kennedy fixing cars at his auto repair shop in Fluvanna County, but now he's revisiting the place here he became a hero.
In February, Kennedy was out test driving a customer's car on Sclaters Ford Road when he spotted a vehicle on fire. "As I looked down in the woods I could see the tail end of the car sitting there," he said.
An 83-year-old Reece Belk ran off the road and got trapped under tree branches as his car caught on fire. Witnessing such a horrific site Kennedy knew he had to act fast.
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Arum, one of boxing's most powerful promoters, still hustling
Story Highlights
Bob Arum, who turns 81 on Saturday, is the most powerful promoter in boxing
Arum, who promotes Manny Pacquiao, also promoted 25 of Muhammad Ali's fights
Since coming into boxing, Arum has become a figure both revered and reviled
They call it The Lab, though the chilly, fireproof vault tucked into the back of an undistinguished one-story building in a North Las Vegas office park looks nothing like a laboratory. Beyond the locked doors, past the two guards and inside the dustless room that requires a punch-in code and a thumbprint scan for entry, are tapes of every event Bob Arum has promoted: more than 40 years of history sealed in a cramped 450 square feet.
For Arum, who turns 81 on Saturday, the same day Manny Pacquiao will face Juan Manuel Marquez for the fourth time at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, every fight evokes a memory -- and, usually, a story. For starters, there's Muhammad Ali versus George Chuvalo in 1966, the first fight Arum promoted. Jim Brown introduced Arum to Ali, and it wasn't long before the Hall of Fame running back asked Arum for a favor: Put me in the ring with the champ. I can take him.
Arum knew Brown was tough. He had heard the stories. Brown had beaten up Cookie Gilchrist, the 6-foot-3, 251-pound AFL fullback. He had flattened John Wooten, the 6-2, 230-pound NFL guard. Make the fight with Ali, Brown said, and we'll all make a fortune.
"So I went to talk to Ali," Arum recalls. "He says, 'Jim wants to do what? Bring him here.' So I took him to Hyde Park in London, where Ali used to run. Ali said, 'Jimmy, here's what we're going to do: You hit me as hard as you can.' So Brown starts swinging and swinging, and he can't hit him. He's swinging wildly and not even coming close. This goes on for, like, 30 seconds. Then Ali hits him with this quick one-two to his face. Jimmy just stops and says, 'OK, I get the point.'"
Bob Arum has been making his own point -- often just as forcefully as Ali -- in boxing and beyond for the past 46 years. He has promoted champions such as George Foreman, Marvin Hagler and Floyd Mayweather Jr. And while many of his former rivals are either dead or out of the game, Arum has shown no sign of slowing down. Through three marriages, the accidental death of a son and bitter battles with such competitors as Don King and Oscar De La Hoya, he has maintained a singular focus.
He is arguably the most powerful promoter in boxing, with 50 fighters in his stable, including eight world champions. He gives marching orders to Manny Pacquiao and is considered by many to be the biggest obstacle to a potential $180 million superfight between Pacquiao and Arum's former client, Mayweather. Unapologetically abrasive, combative, a veteran of countless lawsuits, feuds and government investigations, the man who famously said, "Yesterday I was lying. Today I'm telling the truth" -- a haunting quote Arum says he made in jest after a few too many drinks with reporters -- he has, through it all, stayed true to his own kind of integrity while continuously reinventing the role of the promoter.
On the steel shelves of The Lab, meanwhile, Arum's more than 9,000 fights are mixed in with a handful of other events he has promoted. Few are as memorable as Evel Knievel's 1974 attempt to jump Idaho's Snake River Canyon. Arum didn't like Knievel much. "Mean guy," Arum says. "He once told me, 'There are three things I hate in the world: New Yorkers, lawyers and Jews. And you're all three.'"
That didn't stop Knievel from hiring Arum to promote his jump. And what an event it was. More than 250 newspapers and magazines sent writers or photographers to Twin Falls that week; the event was broadcast on closed circuit and later on tape delay on Wide World of Sports. B-list celebrities from Suzy Chafee to Margaux Hemingway to Michael Ford, son of President Gerald Ford, poured into town. Arum brought in crazy acts such as Mr. TNT, who blew himself up in a box filled with dynamite. ("Great career choice," Arum says.) He enlisted the Flying Wallendas to walk a tightrope across the canyon.
Everything was going great until the day before Knievel's jump, when vendors abruptly raised the price of beer. The crowd of more than 15,000 that had gathered near the canyon's rim became unruly. Stands were looted, and people charged the television trucks. Alarmed, Arum assigned two Native Americans working on his staff to serve as scouts -- yes, scouts -- to bring back reports of what was going on in the crowd.
As the unrest increased, so did Arum's uneasiness. Finally, at 3 a.m., Arum had seen enough. He went into one of the trailers organizers had parked on the site and, he says, snorted a small packet of cocaine. When he emerged, he says, he ordered his security staff, already armed with handguns, to shoot into the crowd. "Thank God they didn't listen to me," says Arum. "My life might have turned out totally different."
Of course, different is just the word to describe Arum's life. This is a man, after all, who felt the need to be smuggled out of Germany and into Switzerland after the Ali-Richard Dunn fight in Munich in 1976 to avoid a lawsuit. This is a man who says he once partied with Ali in Mexico and watched as the boxer took six women up to his room while Arum took one. A few hours later, Arum says, Ali's adviser, John Ali, came to his door and said Muhammad wanted his girl, too. This, finally, is a man who married his second wife, Sybil, because he read Shogun and "decided I wanted to marry a Japanese broad."
There are those who love Arum, such as the family of late former super featherweight champion Genaro Hernández, who are forever grateful to Arum for paying the boxer's medical bills while he battled cancer. And there are those who loathe Arum, such as De La Hoya, his former fighter turned rival, who has been going to war with Arum over fighters since founding his own company in 2002. They have such a contentious working relationship that they haven't seriously co-promoted a fight since Hatton-Pacquiao in 2009. In declining an interview about Arum, De La Hoya refers to him as "a senile old man."
Arum has taken it all in stride. Now his mind, like his vault, is a treasure trove of memories -- some inspiring and some embarrassing, some thrilling and some tragic, but no amount of memories is enough to quell the drive that still keeps him going after so many decades.
In 1966, Ali went to England to defend his title against Brian London. When we got there, Herbert [Muhammad, Ali's manager] said to me, 'Bob, we met this rich Muslim in Pakistan. He has this beautiful daughter, and he wants me to bring Ali to the house for her to meet him. There could be a lot of business stuff talked about there, so I want you to come along. So Ali, Herbert and I set out on a Sunday to go to this man's house.
As soon as we got there, I realized this guy was full of s---. He lived in this small house in a lower-class neighborhood. No way he had money. And his daughter was no beauty, either. But Ali, he didn't miss a beat. He went in there and played the piano, he flirted with the daughter, he goofed around with the family.
We were there for three hours, and Ali didn't complain once. I remember thinking to myself, How would you have reacted?
Robert Morris Arum was not born into boxing. In fact, into his 30s, he had never watched a fight. Baseball was his game. Growing up in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, packed into the top floor of a three-bedroom duplex with his parents, two sisters, an aunt and an uncle, Bob was a fixture at nearby Ebbets Field, paying 10 cents for a bleacher seat at countless Dodgers doubleheaders.
He stayed close to home for college, attending NYU, where politics and the law first attracted him. A superior student, Arum was elected president of the student body as a senior and was accepted by Harvard and Yale law schools. His girlfriend at the time was from Massachusetts, so he packed up and moved to Boston. At Harvard, Arum developed a taste for tax law. His third year he won the award for the top tax and evidence student in his class, and when he graduated in 1956, he was recruited by Barrett, Cohen, Knapp and Smith, a small Wall Street firm that specialized in tax and corporate law. There Arum became a close friend of Vince Broderick's, one of the firm's general counsels.
In 1961 Broderick got a job with the U.S. Attorney's office and took Arum along with him. Arum quickly rose to head of the tax division, handling most of the major civil and criminal litigation. One of his cases was against a promoter named Roy Cohn, who in 1962 was promoting Floyd Patterson's heavyweight title defense against Sonny Liston. Cohn, Arum learned, was trying to cut a deal with Patterson under which Cohn would take the fighter's purse, put it in a bank in Europe and then pay Patterson in installments over 17 years. Arum initiated a seizure of all the fight's proceeds, from the live gate to the closed-circuit revenues. For more than a year he immersed himself in boxing, becoming an expert on the sport's various and often murky revenue streams.
But working for the Justice Department wasn't all Arum wanted out of life. In 1963 he was prosecuting a group of mortgage brokers who had been indicted for tax evasion and, desperate to cut a deal, came to him claiming the money was going to various banks for political contributions. After months of investigation, Arum finally traced the corruption back to Floyd Cramer, the president of the Washington Heights Savings and Loan Association and the mastermind of the crime. Arum persuaded a grand jury to indict. A few hours later Cramer committed suicide.
The incident shook Arum to the core. "[Cramer] was guilty of all this stuff, but deep down I believed he was a good guy," says Arum. "I asked myself, What kind of person causes another man to take his own life? I was ashamed. I knew then that I wasn't cut out to be a prosecutor."
In 1965, Arum moved back to Wall Street, taking a job with the prestigious firm Phillip, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim and Ballon. In his first few months he reconnected with Lester Malitz, a television executive whom Arum had met during the Patterson-Liston investigation. Malitz was promoting a heavyweight fight between George Chuvalo and Ernie Terrell in Toronto and hired Arum to represent him. In the weeks leading up to the event, Malitz confided to Arum that they were doing terribly selling the closed-circuit broadcast. Arum says he offered up a suggestion: Why not get a black commentator?
"You have to remember, in 1965 there had never been a black guy on a national network as a commentator," says Arum. "It would open up a different market and create a buzz around the event. First I went to Willie Mays. He didn't want to do it. I had a friend, Ken Malloy, who had steered Jim Brown to Syracuse, and he told me Jim would be interested. Without meeting him, we hired him to do the telecast for $500."
The decision to hire Brown was a success -- and yielded an unexpected result. After the fight Brown suggested that Arum get into boxing full time. "I wasn't interested," says Arum. "I told him there was only one guy who mattered, Cassius Clay, and he was tied up." No he isn't, Brown insisted. I'll introduce you. Arum didn't think of the conversation again until six weeks later, when Brown called and said he was flying to New York City to meet with Ali and his manager. Would Arum like to join them?
In a ballroom at the Hilton, Arum made his pitch: In Ali's previous deals, he says, the fighter had gotten only 30 percent of the profits. Arum promised to get him 50 percent and to generate more revenue than anyone Ali had ever worked with. When the meeting was over, Muhammad asked Arum to fly to Chicago and meet with his father, Elijiah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam. "When I got there, [Elijah] started talking about white devils, spaceships and all that s---," says Arum. "He went on for like 15 minutes. Then he snapped back and would talk business again. He wanted to know my background. I never felt any anti-Semitism from Elijiah. Anti-white, yeah. But those guys didn't know the difference between an Italian and a Jew."
With Elijah Muhammad's approval, Arum promoted Ali's next fight. He signed Terrell to face Ali in Chicago in 1966. Tickets sold quickly. Closed-circuit sales soared. Everything was going well until weeks before the fight, when Ali announced he would refuse induction into the Army at the height of the Vietnam War, uttering the now famous lines, "I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong" and "No Viet Cong ever called me n-----."
Ali's words didn't play well in Chicago. Newspaper columnists urged the Illinois State Athletic Commission to ban Ali. Politicians and veterans groups opposed the fight. Unable to raise money, Arum moved the bout to Toronto, replacing Terrell with Canada's George Chuvalo and financing the entire promotion on his Diner's Club card. The fight generated $180,000. Arum made just enough to pay his expenses. "But," he says, smiling, "that fight got me started in the business."
I did this fight in 1978 between Mate Parlov and John Conteh in Belgrade. A few weeks before the fight there was a decree from the U.S. government that there could be no more cigarette ads on television. So I went into the dressing rooms and told both camps that if they wanted to put a sponsor on their trunks, it couldn't be a cigarette logo. But Conteh, he was a wise guy. He came out of the dressing room with these Marlboro decals all over his trunks. First thing I think is, F---, CBS is going to cut the signal. So I jump into the ring and I start ripping that s--- off of Conteh.
Now the fight starts, and it's close, but the decision goes to Parlov. Afterward the Yugoslav government had this big party on a boat in the Danube. On the way there word gets out that Conteh's family, particularly his mother, blamed me for his losing the fight and that they were going to throw me overboard. I didn't think much of it, but the government took it seriously and had these two little speedboats with soldiers follow the boat after we took off. Fortunately for me the Contehs were big drinkers, and the cruise didn't start until one in the morning. By the time we got out into the water they were drunk and passed out.
Working with Ali gave Arum a taste for promoting, and Arum's determination and his understanding of revenue streams made him effective. He continued to promote Ali's fights -- 25 in all -- but gradually branched out. In 1968, Arum took Jimmy Ellis to Sweden to fight Patterson. Ellis was the new WBA heavyweight champion. Patterson's career was winding down, and the bout was supposed to be a soft touch for Ellis. It wasn't.
"Patterson was beating the s--- out of Ellis," says Arum. "I don't think Ellis won a round. During the fight Chris Dundee, who was close with Ellis, came over to me and started talking about a rematch. Now, there were no judges, just the referee, who had come over from the U.S. And at the end of the fight he raises Ellis's hand in victory. Everyone went nuts. At the hotel later I asked the referee [Harold Valen], 'Are you f------ crazy?' He said, 'Bob, who brought me over?' I said I did. He said, 'Well, you promote Jimmy Ellis. What was I supposed to do?'"
Arum loved promoting fights abroad. Italy, Germany, Indonesia -- in all, Arum has promoted bouts in 100 cities in 22 foreign countries, none more controversial than South Africa. In 1979, while the country was still under apartheid, Arum and hotel magnate Sol Kerzner promoted a heavyweight fight in Pretoria between white South African Gerrie Coetzee and John Tate of the U.S., who was black. Arum was vilified for doing business in such an unsavory country. "Bob never respected the whole Civil Rights movement," says Rev. Al Sharpton, a frequent combatant of Arum in the 1970's. "He didn't understand the war he was dealing with or how going there would be viewed. Here we have Muhammad Ali's promoter going to South Africa. I mean, are you kidding me?"
According to Kerzner, an irate Jesse Jackson flew from South Africa to the U.S. to put pressure on Tate not to fight. While Jackson was en route, Arum says, he moved Tate's flight up and got him out of the U.S. before Jackson could land. "They probably passed each other in the air," says Arum.
Arum admits that he was "motivated by my pocketbook"; Arum's company, Top Rank, was struggling financially, and the stadium in Pretoria seated 86,000 paying customers. But once in South Africa, Arum saw just how deep the racial divide was. He insists now that his presence had a positive impact. Shortly after arriving in the country Arum told the press that the sports minister had informed him that the stadium would be integrated. When the government denied it, Arum says, he erupted, saying he would honor his contract for Tate-Coetzee but would never hold a fight in South Africa again. A few days later the government relented, integrating the stadium.
"After the fight the board of directors at this [South African] racetrack invited my wife and me to come to the track," says Arum. "Before the first three races they gave me tips, and every tip they gave me won. After about an hour they came to me and said, 'Bob, you have to do us a favor. You have to demand the tracks be integrated.' See, they had a good-sized Indian population living in South Africa. Some of them were wealthy horse owners whom the track wanted to attract. So I called a press conference and demanded that the track be integrated. I raised hell. About two weeks later, it was.
"It was one of the greatest experiences of my life."
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Breaking: Derek Roy underwent shoulder surgery and will be out until November.
Marc-Andre Gragnani signed a two-way contract with the Hurricanes. He will not be an NHL regular next year, which is a real shame. But the Canes have tons of dept with their offensive blueliners so they don't need another one.
Wojtek Wolski has signed with the Capitals. An analysis on that move will be up shortly.
Niklas Hagman and Tim Stapleton have each signed to play next season in the KHL. The NHL is slowly eliminating "mid-level" money. You either make several million, or the NHL minimum. So those players who maybe deserve $1.5 million are only getting offers below $1 million. Meanwhile, the KHL is willing to go to that higher number. So the Hagman types are getting squeezed out of the league. A very broad generalization to make based on these two players, but a theory that makes sense to me and something I'll be paying attention to.
Not one Canadian team is on Rick Nash's "list". My Canadian brethren - how do you feel about that? Any change in attitude regarding his donning of the red and white jersey in Sochi? Or he's so good, you don't care? Generating discussion, not stirring up trouble.
Myself, I'm a little curious as to why he would not want to play on a Canadian team. I think Edmonton would be a blast. I think Vancouver would be a Cup favorite. I think Toronto would make him a cult hero. I think Ottawa would also be a blast with the potential of playing with Spezza.
Nash played hockey in London and Toronto. I've lived in Stratford, Guelph, London, Markham, Oshawa, Toronto and now Pickering (in that order). And I've got to say - my favorite place to live of those seven cities is London. So how he could experience that great city and have no desire to return to Canada for his profession is beyond me. Any insight?
Good on Chris Neil for jumping on getting an extension ASAP. He knew where he wanted to play and so he made certain he will stay there by signing before the season begins. Three years at just under $2 million per year.
Another three-year extension, this one to Teddy Purcell who cashes in a big way. Three years at $13.5 million will ensure that he gets the ice time of an elite player. Wow, $4.5 million per year. I don't doubt that he'll earn it – I think he'll be worth it. But signing to that based on one great year was pretty ballsy. Then again, $4.5 million for a proven 65 points and potential for more, plus reliable health sure beats what Colorado did for David Jones.
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Purcell – 65 and 51 points the last two seasons, 162 games, will be 27 this fall. $4.5 million. Was a restricted free agent.
Jones – 37 and 45 points the last two seasons, 149 games, will be 28 this fall, $4 million. Would have been an unrestricted free agent.
The Blues have signed Jamie Langenbrunner to a contract. The last two seasons combined he had 56 points.
The Devils have signed Krys Barch. He'll replace Eric Boulton's 51 games and 115 PIM. In fact, Barch also played 51 games last year … and posted 114 PIM. Can't get a better match than that!
The Blues traded BJ Crombeen to the Lightning. Crombeen is a proven 150 PIM player, but missed half of last season with a broken scapula. He'll replace Steve Downie's role, but with better defensive acumen.
A minor thing, a goalie coach, and normally not something a fantasy owner pays a lot of attention to, but Sean Burke re-signing as goalie coach with the Coyotes is huge for Mike Smith owners. He's coming off a 38-win season that will continue now as long as he's healthy.
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Rollie1967 said:
The whole idea of a player waving his no trade-and then picking the teams disgusts me, if you want to waive that clause for your benefit-then you should have no say as to where you go.
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jacques oeuf said:
It can't be taxes - Calgary and Edmonton residents actually have better taxes than every team on that list and SJ, NYR and Boston are among the worst cities in the league.
notoriousjim said:
I have seen mike green at clubs a whole bunch of times, and aside from a few people, they just assume they are just random rich guys (DC is full of 25-35 year old lawyers making big money). The same level of celibrity exsists in all of the other US NHL cities. They even get as much air time as they do in other cities (local news in baltimore covers the caps as much as the DC papers do, and both are very little).
The reality is that even in Detroit there are not that many die hard fans (have you seen the stands the past 5 years). You can excape the celebrity rather easily as a hockey player in the USA. If you are not throwing your money around then no one will notice you, and for a lot of guys that is a good thing.
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Ive never lived in an NHL city, and I have no favourite NHL team. My favourite team has always been Team Canada, and I love Canadian players no matter what city they happen to play in at any given time during their NHL career. Gretzky and Sakic (and now E Staal Toews and Eberle) were my favourites, and i cheer for those players and hope they win Stanley Cups, no matter what NHL team they happen to play for. The one constant with my fav's is that they all play for Canada when the time comes to do so. I cheered for the Oilers, then Kings, then briefly the Blues before Gretz finished his career in the Big Apple making me a NYR fan for those final years.
"beyond stupid" wasnt referring to you personally dobber - sorry if it came across that way... I was referring to the idea that Canadians should even CONSIDER resenting Nash for not having a Canadian team on his list. Not meant as a slight against you, although i still do think its ridiculous to even think that way.
I read ramblings every day, but rarely comment. i think the only reason i commented here is because I was offended at the insinuation that Canadians should even consider disowning Canadian players for their choices on where to play. Maybe by explaining my love for Team Canada (i know we all hove love for TC) over any NHL team helps you understand where i was coming from. It simply doesnt matter what city they play in.. if they are Canadian we should love them.
again, my apologies if you took my comments personally. Beyond Stupid and Ridiculous were meant to be directed at the IDEA that some might be upset about no Canadian Teams on the list. Yes i could have clarified and worded that differently, so again, sorry. As my opinion below states, i do believe it would be beyond stupid and ridiculous for a Canadian hockey fan to feel that way, and if they did feel that way with Nash, it would be hypocritical unless they felt the same way about every other Canadian playing on a long term deal in the USA.
thanks for all the work you do for us fantasy junkies, and sorry again for offending you and not clarifying.
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Detroit: Nash will not be a bigger star than Datsyuk or Zetterberg. Detroit has won a championship recently. Even if he goes there, there will still be more Yzerman/Lidstrom/Dats/Z/Howe nameplated chestwear in the stands than any Nash gear.
NY Rangers: They have big-name Brad Richards and a goalie named "King" Lundqvist. He wouldn't be the main man there.
Pittsburgh... ugh, Crosby.
Philly... ugh, Giroux.
San Jose... ugh, Thornton & Marleau.
None of these hockey cities would adopt Nash as their #1 player.
Hence, no spotlight.
And c'mon... Nash was NOT a spotlight with Team Canada.
The team was under the spotlight, sure... but not Nash individually.
The spotlight is ONE light.
In OTT, MON, TOR, WPG, EDM... Nash would be their best, most veteran player.
Vancouver is still seeking their cup and that's too much pressure.
Only Calgary is a good Canadian fit for him, IMO, and they are going nowhere.
It's a spotlight thing... has nothing to do with Canada... just looks that way to somebody who hasn't looked deep enough.
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Just trying to balance out Canadian bias of this site. It's a natural bias so no worries and as an American I love me some Dobber Hockey. Keep up the great work!
SeaDawg said:
Except San Jose, those are all hockey crazy towns and Nash would definitely be in the spotlight in those towns. If he didn't want to be in the spotlight, he'd stay in Columbus or ask to go to teams like Tampa, Florida, Nashville, St. Louis, New Jersey, Anaheim, Carolina, etc.
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SeaDawg said:
Also, I don't recall the exact list of teams Nash would be willing to play for, but some of those US teams are hockey crazy cities and he definitely would be in the spotlight in those cities, just as much as in Ottawa, Vancouver, and Edmonton (notice how I did not include Montreal or Toronto because the spotlight in those cities can't be compared to ANY other city).
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Some people don't like the spotlight. They'd prefer to fade into the background and are at their best when they can play and not be a focus. That's probably the thing for Nash... he doesn't want to be the focal point any longer.
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Dunnder said:
The NHL city a guy plays in is temporary, their Canadian blood is forever. Playing IN Canada and playing FOR Canada are 2 completely different things.
Should we ban Jordan Staal from TC too, since he only wanted to play in Carolina??
I didnt see Crosby reject his long term extension so that he could go into free agency next year and have a chance to play in Canada.. Brad Richards shunned TO last year, so all of CANADA should reject them too? Those scenarios are no different - guys choosing where they want to play.
Players choosing where they want to play doesnt make them less Canadian if they choose a US city. It makes them smart, cause the taxes are lower, and the US teams in most cases are more willing to spend in an effort to win.
Toews, E Staal, Doughty, Keith, Stamkos... the list of elite Canadians goes on... All signed long term in the USA, so I guess we should ban them from representing Canada in the future too?
Next you'll be telling us to disown Weber, cause he is going to end up in Phi or NYR.
Great site Dobber, but dont be ridiculous and make comments designed to have your readers resent or disrespect Canadian players because of their choices on where to play in the NHL.
Beyond stupid.
SeaDawg said:
Then again, if I was already a multi-millionaire, maybe I'd feel differently. When we are talking about that kind of money, most of us can't say how we'd honestly react unless we were put in the same situation.
That said, I think Nash would have taken his game to a new level playing with Spezza in Ottawa.
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I just hope he flourishes with the extra ice time and doesn't get crushed by the weight of his wallet.
I hope this makes him the 3rd wheel in the Stamkos-St.Louis love affair and continues to get top line and PP minutes.


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MERCED — The Merced County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously adopted the county's $462 million proposed 2013-14 budget one that reflected steady growth and recovery, but still posed a challenging deficit.
Though the proposed budget projected a $2 million increase in local revenues, County Executive Officer Jim Brown said the county's expenses still exceed its revenues. There's a $5 million shortfall, Brown said.
"We're not out of the woods yet," Brown said. "There's still many challenges ahead," including health care reform funding.
Despite those challenges, Chairwoman and District 4 Supervisor Deidre Kelsey said the additional income made this budget one of the most promising she's seen in a while.
"I felt that the budget proposed was more encouraging than the ones I've seen in recent years," Kelsey said. "There's a few promising things on the radar screen property values have increased and we've received additional dollars to pay for certain mandated programs."
Brown said the $5 million gap can be closed by using one-time funding or implementing further reductions. District 2 Supervisor Hub Walsh said $5 million is too much to make up in 12 months.
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Kelsey said the county has enough reserves to make up the $5 million deficit it's money they put away during the good years for a rainy day. The general fund has a subtotal of $18.5 million in reserves, according to county documents.
"We just need to decide whether we will allocate that or not," she said.
The budget is comprised of $352 million in general funds, which is up $12 million from last year. The county's overall budget is up $30 million.
Brown said that growth can be linked to several factors the Atwater-Merced expressway project, a correctional budget increase, and higher contributions to employee retirement plans.
The Human Services Agency's new regional call center, which Brown called "a major effort," added $5.6 million in funding and 42 new county positions.
Those factors were not a part of last year's budget.
The public safety budget, which covers corrections and probation, projected a $2.7 million increase. One of the contributing factors was the board-approved video system for the Public Defender's office.
Brown said the final budget, due for adoption in August, could include several changes because of uncertainties such as health care reform and the costs of Assembly Bill 109, the state's prison realignment law.
The state slightly increased its basic allocation for the AB 109 program, from about $842.9 million in 2012-13 to $998.9 million.
For Merced County, that means a jump in funding from $5.2 million to $6.1 million.
District 1 Supervisor John Pedrozo asked if the county will continue employee furloughs, which are set to expire at the end of the calendar year.
"Are we going to go back out and get input from the different departments and our employees on the furloughs and looking into continuing furloughs?" Pedrozo said.
Brown said it's unclear if furloughs will continue as current labor agreements run through June 2014. However, he said many employees voiced their support of ongoing furloughs, and he is willing to have that conversation.
The proposed budget is a "temporary operating plan" and doesn't include all departments, Brown said, and the final budget may include further reductions.
The final budget is set for adoption Aug. 27. The new fiscal year starts July 1.
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Neighborhoods: Lowry Hill, Calhoun Isles
Unimpressed – The architectural design and aesthetic appeal of 20.21 are very in line with other Wolfgang restaurants (Spago, red seven) but, unfortunately, that's where the dining experience ends. The menu is limited and isn't kept up to date online. The tables are very small and obtaining a window seat is next to impossible even if requested a week in advance. While the staff is accommodating and friendly, the service is incredibly slow and not at all fluid. I should not have to wait 20 minutes to get two drinks and 40 min to have food served. On top of that, the food is subpar excepting the Spoon, cube&cherry dessert, which is phenomenal. I would go back solely for that dessert, with different staff and provided the dessert is still available.
Restaurant celebrates modernity, fusion and design. – This Wolfgang Puck restaurant located at the Walker celebrates modernity, fusion and design. Located in the eyes of the Walker Art Center, this Asian-fusion Wolfgang Puck restaurant overlooks the center of the city. Through the great, high-design windows--or eyes of the robot, some say--diners can glimpse the tops of the Basilica, the glistening Minneapolis skyscrapers and the cherry on top of the spoon in the famous Sculpture Garden below. A bar offers art gallery-goers and happy hour crowds martinis and small plates--like the restaurant's raved-about potstickers--while dinner diners nosh on entrees like Hong Kong salmon and Korean short ribs as chefs in the bustling, open kitchen move together like clockwork, preparing modern and artful dishes.
Amazing, World Class Experience, I feel proud to live in the Twin Cities! – Food is delicate, superb, gorgeous in presentation - delicious. This is a top-notch restaurant, that can fully recommend to out of town guests. Fabulous!
pretty tasty food, but way overpriced and not such great ambience – The food is pretty good. However, it's not meaningfully better than the food at the Rainbow or the Seafood Palace on Nicollet ave (in fact, it might be worse). I have had whole fish at those places that were at least as tasty, and certainly about half the price. (the decor and service at those places is also kind of better.) Service was ok. Nice guy, but a bit inattentive. Didn't really care though, since i was with great company. Window is very cool, but not big enough to afford everyone in the restaurant a great view. I had a great view, so i can't complain, but it would be worth waiting for a different table if you weren't near it, since the alternative is a stark white wall. That leads me to what I really don't understand about the place: the decor. The place screams corporate cafeteria. The carpet is ugly. The chairs are like from a waiting room at an airport, and the splotches of color are just sort of cheesy and out of place. also, the lighting is totally underwhelming, especially given some of the architectural interest in the room (plus, the bar is lit up with basic rope lighting which can be bought at lowes for like $3/yard. The ceiling is also very low. It's an awkward space. For it to be as expensive as it is, and for it to be in such a highly regarded museum, which itself is something of an architectural and design marvel, i found the decor to be completely unimpressive (and somewhat disappointing) and without charm or character. Certainly not the decor of a place with $30+ entrees. This is especially troubling since most of its competition are beautiful spaces (e.g., cosmos, chambers kitchen, la belle vie across the street). One other thing -- the kitchen is totally exposed, which normally is cool, but here just resulted in it making the room very hot and imparting a sort of fried food smell. I think this restaurant has some potential, since the food is pretty tasty, but I think they need to rethink it a bit.
One of the TOP Minneapolis Restaurants – I have eaten here several times, for both romantic occasions with my wife and business meals. They always exceed my expectations. Fantastic food and service that is the best in the twin cities. I have eaten almost every entree on the menu although it does change and my favorite (Miso Sake Butterfish) is now some other type of fish. With the ButterFish it is quite possibly one of my favorite all time meals. So if you see it, get it. This is one of the only restaurants that I have ever tipped the waiters 30% because I felt like we had our own personal server even though he had a couple other tables. The chefs in town could learn a lot from Wolfgang on how to run a restaurant. This restaurant is in my top 2 in town, right there with 112. The desserts are also to die for so make sure you leave room. I have tried them all but my favorite is the tres leches, which is always the first dessert I try at a restaurant if they have it. Theirs may be my favorite in the world.
About 50% overpriced – Given the quality of the food we had, I would say this is about 50% overpriced ($150 for 2, before tip and with one beer). The steak tasted watery, potatoes gratin were missing their blue cheese flavor and creme brulee was average. Add to that a fried smell from the kitchen and I wasn't overly impressed; the view would also be much better if they took the time to keep the glass clean.
Overpriced and overrated – At the suggestion of the waiter, we ordered 2 appetizers and a dinner entree to share (just two of us for dinner) to "experience the flavors of the restaurant". Not only were the appetizers and entree expensive, they were very small in size. We spent over a $100 for dinner only to walk away hungry...we find this ridiculous. Service was fine, the downtown...more like the Basilica view was also overrated. There are much better options in and around town.
20.21: Overpriced, awful service – I have been to 20.21 three times: for appetizers, dinner, and brunch. Each time has been more disappointing. The food is OK but the service is atrocious. The last time I went with four friends, we left cash and split the rest on 2 credit cards. They incorrectly billed the ENTIRE amount to one card even though the slip I signed said they only charged 1/4 of the bill. I didn't see their error until I double checked my bill statement and then it took two calls to their manager before it was fixed (and no offer of a special discount for the next trip, which most restaurants would do). The time before that, they forgot to return my credit card I had to track down our waiter to find it. If you go here, save your receipts until the final charge appears on your account! Instead of 20.21, head across the street to La Belle Vie - they have amazing food, amazing service, and a bar menu for those that don't want to splurge.
Hiring issues? – What is happening at this restaurant? The food used to be exciting, maybe the lack of change is growing old? It seems as though they either have new management monthly or they do not have any management? We used to visit every couple of weeks, but Wolfgang has warn out his charm with us. The potstickers are no better than any chinese take out, and much pricier, the spring rolls equally bland. There are some great entrees, but the whole experience is just not consistent. Good Luck!
What happened to 20.21 – We truly enjoyed this fine addition the the Minneapolis food scene back in it's hay day, great space and view, the Puck dining experience, and exceptional service...however, we left this Friday evening wondering if we would indeed be back. Sure, perhaps the food is the same, I say not as appealing now as the menu has become stayed..and yes the room is still loud..thats OK we grew to overlook that chaos..but tonights dinner service was way out the waters by any standard.
Our server seemed completely indifferent as to our what we were expecting..and soon found wishing for...knowledge, grace, charm, and PROPER service, rather than the automated coldness that we recieved. We still hark back to your opening days..you had a fine staff on hand. One gentleman server in particular...Dennis, was outstanding..and made each experience the most it could possibly be..without fail. So we ask you Wolfgang, fully realizing that one component enhances the other, please bring back your service professionals and standards and utilize the others in perhaps your mall/airport settings. Perfectly executed dinner service may even cause one to believe that this room is worth a visit.
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