http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey...e-reports?bn=1
go buck wild everyone
http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey...e-reports?bn=1
go buck wild everyone
06-18-09 i was there
How did his ownership involvement with the Phoenix Coyotes go?
Wayne Gretzky has a gambling problem? I remember that whole controversy but they couldn't prove anything, right?
His wife has the gambling problem not him. He was implicated by assocation. His wife and Rick Tocchet.
His agent has shot down the MLSE story.
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They want him as a figurehead for the potential ownership group. Woop-de-doo.
I mean, I guess it'd be cool to have him in a box at some Leafs home games, and giving a few press conferences, but this isn't really Earth-shattering stuff.
- Scott
“Heroism breaks its heart, and idealism its back, on the intransigence of the credulous and the mediocre, manipulated by the cynical and the corrupt.” ~Christopher Hitchens
Posted 2 minutes ago in a Globe article.
“Wayne is often approached about becoming involved in various hockey opportunities,” said Darren Blake, Gretzky’s agent. “At this point in time there is nothing happening involving the purchase of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Wayne has always said that whoever purchases the Maple Leafs is getting a great franchise in a great city.”
I've got no idea how much Gretzky is worth, but you need to a billionaire three or four times over to own the majority of something like MLSE. I wouldn't have though he had quite that much dosh.
I figure he would just be a figurehead with a small part of it.
These rumours have the whiff of a stalled process around them. Putting stuff out there like the Providence rumour, and this, is the sort of thing a seller does when he gets worried.
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.”
The one thing about the Providence rumour is that unless the CRTC changes its rules, they wouldn't even be able to own the TV properties.
I think eventually one of two things happens:
-MLSE drops the price and one of Canada's leading media companies (Bell, Rogers, Shaw) buys the team.
-MLSE takes their shares off the market.
The funny thing is as big as Wayne Gretzky is, its speculated his net worth is likely around $150 million, which is only 10% of the asking price.
Still trying to figure out how this is TFC/MLS News?
Didn't he own a piece of the argos with Bruce McNaul?
Good point made on radio why this is different than Gillette owning the Habs. Quebecers aren't so pro-Canadian.
John Shannon said the same thing. He supposedly broke the story first.
I dont give a flyin fuck who is in charge..stick Ghadaffis corpse in there for all I care, just let us win the fucking cup