Quote of the Day
"I have lots of other ways to get input and interaction; this one just ran its course. I just feel that e-mail has lost its initial reason for being. It used to be a one-on-one way to communicate. Now it’s more about spam and push marketing and anonymous communications."-- Wizards and Capitals Owner Ted Leonsis, on plans to drop the e-mail accounts he has associated with the two teams on Aug. 1. (WASHINGTONPOST.com, 7/17)
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Rocket Man
People question whether Knicks letting Lin go was a basketball or money decision
The Knicks last night “cut ties” with G Jeremy Lin, “ending a brief, spectacular and now-bittersweet love affair between” Lin and an adoring fan base, according to Howard Beck of the N.Y. TIMES. Lin will play next season for the Rockets, who “signed him to a three-year, $25.1 million offer sheet that the Knicks chose not to match.” The Knicks’ “most popular player in more than a decade, who rose from obscurity, saved their season and became a global sensation, is gone.” Now comes “the inevitable backlash from an embittered fan base that is suspicious of the Knicks’ motives and already disdainful” of team Owner James Dolan’s leadership. As the news of Lin’s i ...
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