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D’Alessandro: NBA’s Newest Oligarch is “NBA Dumb,” And Everyone Seems Cool...
It’s not necessarily surprising, the combination of gawking curiosity and giddy suck-uppery with which not-so-faintly sketchy oligarch and new Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov has been greeted in the...
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Pay Mickey: Rangers Declare Voluntary Bankruptcy, Reveal Extent of...
I have pretty much gotten all the what’s-the-deal-with-owners ranting out of my system by this point, but the Texas Rangers’ voluntary declaration of bankruptcy today is a nice reminder that...
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Annals of Oligarch Outreach: Nets’ Billionaire-In-Chief Seeks To Tap S.N.O.B....
I burned a lot of pixels a few months back puzzling over the adulation that greeted the stateside arrival of shady Russian oligarch turned Avery Johnson-hiring, Travis Outlaw-overpaying shady Russian...
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“We Gave You The Beatles And This Is How You Repay Us:” Liverpool Fans Begin...
(if they wanna get nitpicky about it, we gave them Chrissie Hynde and Rich Hall, too) I don’t get a lot of emails from readers of the Wall Street Journal’s Daily Fix — the freelance gig at which I...
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Say It Ain’t So, Joad: The Wrigleyvillebillies Can’t Pay Off the Farm
(Pictured: The Ricketts family on Sunday, watching the Cubs lose in St. Louis, 3-2.) I expect this will sound familiar. An over-valued property is sold to a family who can’t afford it. They drown in...
View Article04/21/21 SHOW 47 : Coming To An Understanding With The Pesky Media Group
? So I got a call from CSTB business affairs late Sunday night letting me know the company had sold a majority share to the PESKY MEDIA GROUP, which was very exciting to me as I grew up a very big fan...
View Article10/20/21 Show 73 : The Celebrity Accountant
this week’s episode tackles the thorny subject of Volkswagon’s 2020 three-part series of television commercials for the Atlas Cross Sport (21 mpg city, 24 mpg highway). The ad agency tapped Paul...
View Article12/08/21 Show 80 : A Reversal Of Reversal Of Fortune
Episode number 80 of this show marks the 13th anniversary of the alleged passing of Newport, R.I. socialite Martha “Sunny” Von Bülow. I say “alleged” because this week’s special guest, music...
View Article04/06/22 SHOW 97 : IF YOU CAN’T TAKE THE HEAT, STAY OUT OF MY NEW INVESTOR’S...
A very wise man in the financial sector once coined the phrase “grow or die” and since I am not a fan of dying, I am pleased to announced a ten percent share in this show has now been acquired by ATL...
View Article07/20/22 Show 112 : Snap Me (Im)perfect
? The cover of the new issue of Time Magazine declares “INTO THE METAVERSE : The Next Digital Era Will Change Everything”, to which I can only say I sure as fuck hope so because the current digital era...
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