Yesterday the Miami-Dade County commission cast two separate votes, the first came back, 9-4, and the second was 10-3. As not only a sports business junkie, but a quasi fan of the Marlins, I have been following this saga for some time.
My first reaction was, “I’ll believe it when I see it.” However, it seems [...]
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Marlins' ballpark vote passes
Jets/Giants Consider Giving Naming Rights of New Stadium to a Company with Nazi Ties
“Allianz, the front-runner to secure the new stadium’s naming rights, is an insurance and financial services company founded in Berlin in 1890 that moved to Munich in 1949 and had ties to Nazi Germany. Its CEO at the time, Kurt Schmitt, was Adolf Hitler’s economics minister. It was the insurer of the Auschwitz death camp’s [...]
