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Sunday will be a groundbreaking day in the annals of North American sports  As far as I’ve been able to determine, Sunday will be the first day on which all four/five major professional sports leagues have played regular season or playoff games on the same day.  So far as I can tell, there have never been games that count in MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL and MLS all on the same day.  Thanks to Bud Selig, who seems to think that baseball has somehow become a winter sport, the World Series is being pushed further and further into the football season.  The NBA season kicked off this week and the NHL has been playing games for the last couple of weeks.  The MLS playoffs start this weekend, but you knew that.

Add in college football and the CFL for our friends up north, which has a game this Sunday and you have a full complement of sports. Oh, and just to be inclusive, there is a PGA tournament for those pros still trying to get their tour card and the WTA is holding its year-end championship in Doha, Qatar.

If you are a sports fan, outside the Olympics, you will never have more variety than this weekend

The McCourt divorce is going to be the gift that keeps on giving this season.  Already, 700 pages of documents have been dumped on Los Angeles Superior Court, and the fight is just beginning.  We’re talking about preliminary motions here; we haven’t even gotten to any of the really good stuff.

So far, Jamie has demanded to be reinstated as CEO of the Dodgers and to be restored to her $2 million per year salary.  She has also demanded spousal compensation of $487,634 per month, which would be reduced to $320,967 if she were reinstated as CEO.  What, $2 million a year isn’t enough for you?  Although if you read here, you can see why it might not be.

Frank today charged Jamie with having an affair with none other than the bodyguard and charging the Dodgers for their little romantic tryst in Israel and France.  Rather tawdry and common of Jamie to hook up with the bodyguard, don’t you think.  Surely she could have done better than that.

Phoneix, your long nightmare appears to be over.  Jerry Moyes has agreed to sell the Coyotes to the NHL.  While the deal must still be approved by the bankruptcy court judge, that would seem to be mostly formality at this point since the deal was struck under his guidance, or shall we say stern warnings and nasty stares and other signs of what exactly he wanted to have happen.  All of this was going on in and around a Monday bankruptcy court session called to get his honor’s guidance on how to make the NHL’s bid acceptable to the court.  After much lawyer work and billing, I think that was achieved and the NHL has committed to fund the interim losses while the deal makes its way through the court system.

The league is moving on to find a buyer for the club, with its priority being to keep the club in Phoenix, however misguided a notion that may be.  Bettman and the other owners may not have liked Jim Balsillie but he was right about one thing – this team needs to move to Canada, and Hamilton is the logical place.  If New York can support three teams, and Los Angeles can support two, there is no reason Greater Toronto can’t support two.

Marcus Jordan is an 18 year old college freshman basketball player at UCF, formerly referred to by its proper name: the University of Central Florida.  When Marcus was being recruited by the UCF coaches he was promised that he could wear a particular shoe when he played for the Knights.  What was so special about a shoe that it elicited a promise during recruiting wars – it was a Nike Air Jordan, and yes, Marcus is the son of that Jordan.

There is a must read story in the New York Times today catching up with former Florida State defensive back Myron Rolle, who put the NFL on hold to accept a Rhodes Scholarship and a year at Oxford.  All too often we hear coaches, athletic directors and university presidents talk about student athletes and it’s a myth.  In this particular case, it’s no myth and his story should be an inspiring one to young kids everywhere to know that you really can combine academics and athletics at a high level for each.

The NFL is holding its annual regular season game at London’s Wembley Stadium Sunday. This year features the New England Patriots playing the Tampa Bay Bucs, who are owned by the Glazer family, owners of the English Premier League and European Champion League’s defending champion Manchester United.  Speaking at a conference while in town for the game, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell made his annual announcement that the NFL would eventually put a franchise in London.

I don’t think there is any doubt that the league would eventually like to put a team in London, right after it puts a team in Los Angeles, Toronto, Monterrey Mexico, Vancouver and perhaps Mexico City.  All North American cities currently without franchises, some with ready-made stadiums, and all much more convenient than London.  The key word in Goodell’s speech was “ultimately.”  That is a timetable for the sometime in the next twenty to fifty years, which is about how long I think it may be before a franchise relocates to London.

On the flip side, Patriots owner Bob Kraft expressed once again his interest in owning a Premier League team. However, he wisely tempered his enthusiasm for the EPL saying that he had no interest in buying a club until the league adopts a salary cap. Since there has been some talk but no movement on that front in recent years, I think Mr. Kraft has a wait on his hands. Enjoy American football Bob – you’ve got a good thing going.

This is a non-political blog and while I have strong political views and am very active in politics, I have not used this blog to discuss those views or issues, save the joy I felt, and still feel, with the election of President Obama.  However, I am breaking that stance for a moment and if you don’t want to read anything political feel free to skip this although I really hope you don’t.  This post is really all about you and your economic well being.  

We don’t know where the $700 billion dollars is because the system was initially designed to make sure that we didn’t know. When Secretary Paulson first put this money out into the banks, he didn’t ask for ‘what are you going to do with it.’ He didn’t put any restrictions on it. He didn’t put any tabs on where it was going to go. In other words, he didn’t ask…

Los Angeles Dodgers fans better enjoy the memory of this year’s run to the NLCS.  It may be the last time the team gets there for a while if what has happened to other team’s whose owners went through bitter divorces are any indication.  Dodgers’ owners Frank and Jamie McCourt are estranged and in the process of a not very pleasant divorce.  Today, it was revealed that Frank has fired Jamie from her position as CEO of the Dodgers.  The exact timing of the termination is a bit unclear, but Jamie’s response is not.  Her lawyer’s comments to the L.A. Times when asked about the termination can be summed up in four words, words that Dodgers’ fans don’t really want to hear, “see you in court.”

Tiger Woods stands atop the sports world’s under forty year old business people, according to Fortune’s Forty Under Forty list, unless you consider Twitter, which is being used constantly to comic effect, by athletes everywhere, a member of the sports world.  Tiger ranked 6th on the list, the founders of Twitter checked in at five.  James Murdoch, Rupert’s son and heir to the Fox kingdom is 3, but being heir to News Corp has never been a comfortable position and whether James is in favor this week is hard to tell.  It does pay to be family, however, as James came in second on the list of highest paid (Tiger, Jay-Z excluded as they were not salaried) with a cool $10.1 million.