A lawyer for LOUIS ANGELOS, the son of Orioles owner PETER ANGELOS, said that the attorney appointed to represent the "incapacitated family patriarch should be disqualified because of conflicts of interest." A letter Louis Angelos’ attorney wrote to the judge in the case said that BENJAMIN ROSENBERG, who represents Peter Angelos, has "'an extreme and uncontrolled animus' toward his client’s law firm." Louis Angelos has been "running the law firm in the several years since his father has been incapacitated by illness" (BALTIMORE SUN, 11/28).
NAMES: The parents of late Stanford soccer player KATIE MEYER have “filed a wrongful-death lawsuit” against the school. The complaint, filed Wednesday in Santa Clara County Superior Court, “names several university administrators” and alleges that a disciplinary letter sent to Meyer on Feb. 28 was a "form of 'institutional bullying' and caused distress that 'impulsively led her to suicide.'" The five-page letter addressed an August 2021 incident in which she “allegedly spilled coffee on a football player while riding her bike.” Meyer “believed that he had sexually assaulted a freshman teammate of hers.” Stanford has "not reviewed the lawsuit” but is “familiar with its allegations and described them in a news statement as ‘false and misleading’” (L.A. TIMES, 11/26)....Former USMNT players LANDON DONOVAN and DAMARCUS BEASLEY and former USWNT player LAUREN CHENEY HOLIDAY will be inducted to the National Soccer HOF on May 6 (AP, 11/26)....Baseball HOFer MARIANO RIVERA in a lawsuit claims his investment group pitching the United International Baseball League, a new professional league in Southeast Asia, is “at peril of never reaching Opening Day” (N.Y. POST, 11/26).
IN MEMORY: Charlotte sports radio host GERRY VAILLANCOURT, often known by the moniker “Gerry V,” died Sunday in Charlotte at 72. The cause of death was a "heart condition that Vaillancourt had been diagnosed with 25 years ago." Vaillancourt "worked in the Charlotte media market for decades, starting in the late 1980s." He was a "mainstay on the Hornets’ TV and radio broadcasts from 1990-2002" while also “hosting sports talk radio shows on several local stations.” Vaillancourt moved to New Orleans when the Hornets did but "returned to Charlotte in 2017, hosting a local sports radio talk show" (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 11/27).
