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*usual acronym goes here* ------------------------------------ Oh, and Arizona's assistant attorney general just inadvertently gutted his state's open meetings law to justify Glendale's meeting shenanigans.

I've got to say the cynicism in that slogan is breathtaking when you remember the 5 year out clause.

Mr. Wembley, it happened again I...um...HOW?! This deal was so friggin' one-sided that investors were guaranteed to come out ahead I thought. Of course maybe that's why Seattle just blew up. Can Bettman just retire to that city? The yearning for Seattle seems to solely come from him.

Upset that Boise State lack of professional degrees don't get you to the Power 5 table? OK, how does a lack of professional degrees correlate to the fact that Boise State isn't in a 'Power 5' conference? I think you're making up to piss off Lights Out. Boise State has only eight programs which award terminal degrees (PhD or ED) with a ninth one for nursing on the way in August, but it an online course. Heck, even TCU, Baylor and Wake Forest offer more. But it still doesn't answer my question. What does having a lack of professional degrees at a college have to do with the fact that Boise State isn't in a 'Power 5' conference? Because ultimately at the Power 5 level, the schools do share ties beyond athletics. There are research consortia and academic associations. Boise State's status as a community college with a really good football team, nothing else in athletics, and a medium-to-small media market means its paths to Power 5 status are non-existent.

You named your Conference after Bill the Cat. There is no place for you.

But when you have 30 teams as opposed to 6.... Besides, what kind of sick honestly wants to see Columbus and Nashville play 8 times a season?

I have no confirmation to back this up, but I suspect Charlotte's status as a significant air hub played a role in them landing in "the flyover division."

What if I told you that once a Phoenix suburb built a horse racetrack only to understand reason after two years?

I forget, is revenue sharing a zero-sum pool or is it variable based on what revenues are taken in, because if its the former, that's horsecrap.

I guess if Phoenix is a monument to man's arrogance, the suburbs are monuments to man's hubris. At least something could be where Phoenix is without massive irrigation and air conditioning. What's the suburbs' story?

Besides, they'd be forced to divest or fold the team in 3 or so years when the inevitable municipal bankruptcy unfolds.

Concepts are for uniforms and logos that you design. General design is for the unrelenting posting of spam because presumably some dumbarse linked that subforum to a Russian spam server.

That doesn't work for me. It just makes some screwed up link. Remove the "s" from the https part of the URL.

FWIW if for some reason the federal government has to intervene in Glendale then it most decisively becomes our problem.

So....the other carrot was a promise to sort of make Glendale whole when the team moves in 5 years. Out of curiosity, does that obligation vanish if you declare bankruptcy?

FWIW Westgate had its best performance during the lockouts. Probably because visitors weren't pissing their money away on discounted hockey tickets and vending.

Comcast's intrinsic evil joining RSE this morning.

So if we're going the arena league route, which team ends up on ebay only to then be folded by the league because the sale price was a quarter that of an expansion fee? And it doesn't have to be the Coyotes.

So the Coyotes are going to stay until the city implodes and the league is officially adopting the 2000s Arena League business plan and is going to expand to Seattle and Quebec.

He's a firefighter. That's what makes it worse.

In modest defense, the school district of Peoria, Illinois was in talks with Wal Mart to sell the city stadium grounds to Wal Mart for well over a year before anyone else caught wind of it. So councilmembers can be out of the loop a bit.

Clearly you missed "I trust Gary Bettman".

If I wasn't convinced the Zetas were already planning to move in I would be busy finalizing my plans to establish an organized crime ring in Glendale.

Due to possible arrest. You're using your three minutes in 1 second increments.

This is the most "America" thing you could ever see.