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How does “The Seattle Clippers” Sound?
By Dan Walker on May 30, 2014


I guess when you have as much money as Sterling, the amount isn’t that significant but there’s no way the Clippers – which Sterling paid $12.5 million for in 1981 – would be worth $2 billion under normal circumstances. This is a team few people outside LA even thought of before this happened. The Clippers have never won an NBA championship or even made it to the Western Conference finals. To imagine that the Sterlings would make out like bandits on the sale and that the team may well end up in Seattle all because a private personal conversation was recorded and leaked is something you couldn’t make up.

All we have to do now is find that sensible person to explain to the rest of us why all of this makes sense.
DPW
May 30, 2014
* An exception may be when Al Davis moved the Oakland Raiders to Los Angeles in 1982 then back to Oakland in 1995. I personally resented the moves because I was a Raiders fan and moved from the Bay Area to LA in 1995, just in time to see them leave.
I know I said I didn’t want to hear about the Sterling story until it was completely resolved but sports have always been a part of my life and this progression of events is unprecedented.
I just came across this unique take on racial discrimination, where a white police officer was passed over for promotion by a less-qualified Hispanic: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/05/30/white-police-lieutenant-awarded-1-35-million-in-racial-discrimination-lawsuit/
I have to comment on this:
President Obama just accepted Eric Shinski’s resignation as head of the VA. Anyone familiar with VA hospitals can’t be surprised to hear that they are less than well-run and less than corruption-free. Shinseki stated that he made the mistake of trusting the VA officials who falsified patient wait times for the purposes of obtaining their bonuses. I don’t think that’s unreasonable, however detached from reality. Shinseki’s resignation isn’t much of a consolation to the families of the veterans who died while waiting for health care that never came or came too late. Unless Sinsheki was given information about the falsified information and did nothing about it, I’m not even sure he should have resigned. I think charges should be brought upon every VA official who reported the false patient wait times since lives and people’s health were on the line. The issue is two-fold: the falsified records (the result of corruption and greed) and the poor-to-nonexistent health care that fails ailing veterans (not enough personnel). You have to wonder how many complaints by patients and their families (and possibly VA employees) never got to the people who needed to see them. The good thing about the the exposed corruption is the President and Congress have now made the long-overdue systemic overhauls of the VA hospital system a priority. What’s yet to see is how much it will cost.
Another good reading!