Sodboy13

https://www.dailyfaceoff.com/bettman-on-arizona-coyotes-issues-nothing-to-see-here/

"Kev-Dog from Glendale, you're up next on 'Who Ya Crappin'?'" Also, yep, they "human error" forgot to pay taxes for 17 months, with accruing interest and penalties, which is a bit ironic because the Coyotes have spent a quarter-century accruing penalties but basically no interest.

Houston needs someone to buy the team, because Tilman Fertitta doesn't want to do it, per Elliotte Friedman. So they need an owner who's willing to be the secondary tenant in an NBA-owned arena, probably seeking out a deal to get their own rink somewhere else in the Houston metro to maximize control and revenue. In other words, Houston ends up looking a lot like Phoenix circa 1996. No one from Kansas City has expressed interest, unless I've missed something. No one in the league is particularly interested in Québec City. Where else do they go?

I know nothing about the guy's municipal management or politics, nor do I care to, but Kevin Phelps is pretty clearly not the brand of rube the Coyotes and NHL had such good luck with previously in Glendale.

You seem to be greatly overestimating the number of people who still care. A decade of this drama combined with total on-ice irrelevance for the last 5+ years has encouraged people to take their attention elsewhere. The Coyotes at this point are mostly a morbid curiosity for weirdos like me to poke at every now and again. Most of the cities you list got over their teams leaving just fine, too. We all "miss" the Expos and Whalers in a romanticized sort of way, but I wouldn't imagine more than a couple thousand people in Hartford or Montreal "season ticket deposit" miss them.

Tune in next week, when vendor bills come due again.

The person who wrote this statement was definitely wearing a hot dog suit.

This timing is way too good to be coincidental.

The city of Glendale has previously informed the Coyotes their presence is no longer welcome or needed after June 30, 2022.

I still think Bettman pulls the gang together for one last job (ing dot com arena,) but I also think it's plausible that all the owners who are still around from the last time the league had to buy the Coyotes may decide it's time for them to find a new lackey and thank Gary for his 30 years of service. TV money's locked in for a few years and Houston is a bigger media market than Phoenix, anyway, assuming Tilman Fertitta's alleged house of cards doesn't collapse in the interim. We may be past the point of the NHL feeling like it needs a team in the desert.

Gary Bettman has 12 days to shake down his other 31 owners for $1.3 million in back taxes owed by the Coyotes, or Glendale's going to lock them out of the arena. Shouldn't be a problem for them to cover it if they want to, but what an embarrassment. We're entering USFL territory now. Might be the league's house team again by the Olympic break.

Good news - this league is about to bring you eight of them.

Having screwed up at ESPN, worn out his welcome at Fox, and gotten dumped by Clay Travis in favor of something called a "Buck Sexton," Jason Whitlock has landed a job at Glenn Beck's The Blaze. Welcome home, Ruckus.

The AHL had some Reel Line Mints news today, announcing the divisions will be a 9-team Pacific, 7 in the Central, 8 in the Atlantic, and 7 in the North for 2021-22. They also announced they will finally achieve a league-wide standard of a 72-game season... for 2022-23. For next season, the special snowflakes in the Pacific get a 68-game schedule, while each team in the rest of the league gets to choose how many games it would like to play; either 72 or 76. This means that the Central Division will have three teams playing 76 games and the other four playing 72, so if you liked points percentage before, hoo-boy, what a treat! If the NHL is a garage league, the AHL is an attic-above-the-garage league.

My vague understanding of the CFL-XFL partnership is that it's cost efficient for two leagues to run out of one operational structure, especially after both bled out during the pandemic. I would guess that you'll still see Canadian football played in Canada, and American football in America, and never the twain shall meet. Getting regulation-size CFL fields in the States was just one of the logistical stumbling blocks last time around.

If they can't shell out for "usfl dot com," I don't think they're going to be able to sustain eight professional teams for a full season.

It's a big jump from running televised scrimmages out of San Antonio to running an actual competitive league that's supposed to draw fans in multiple cities. To get that up and running in nine friggin' months seems impossible. This seems as doomed as every other USFL reboot that's been attempted over the past two decades. EDIT: What's that logo font, Verdana Extra Bold? That bodes well.

Gonna take all of these newly-unaffiliated minor league identities and group them together for ironic sales on a site I'll call "The Clunk Room."

Home opener for the Red Stars is tonight, and it looks like there will be a new home kit unveiled along with it. I trust this club to come up with another winner, but the Elevated kit is going to be tough to match or beat.

Oh my Gord, this is glorious.

I've bought in. I definitely get seven dollars' worth of use out of this website, and there's no way I contribute seven dollars' worth of content to it, so I view this as a solid investment.

This manages to look both overdone and unfinished. Like a rough sketch crammed full of ideas that accidentally got sent to print. It's The Homer as a baseball logo. There are a multitude of ways to create an "old-timey" baseball look without also making it look like something a guy from the local ad agency put together on a 3-martini lunch for $20 and a carton of Chesterfields, because it's an era when the main use of a team logo is on letterhead. Madison's only saving grace here is that Beloit is still intent on coming up with something worse, for now. EDIT: Just saw the tertiary, which is the secondary ringed by ill-rendered sausages, and I'm somehow angrier.

So that's what happens when the MLB cuts off support. Bodes well for the new system!