Run to Win

Frank McCourt just bought the operating rights to the Los Angelos Marathon from Divine Racing Management. He is already shaking things up, moving the date of the race up from Sunday, March 1^st to President’s Day on Monday, February 16^th for the 2009 running of the race.

As the owner of the Dodgers, McCourt plans on providing all of the financial backing for the race. I think that this makes 2010 a prime year to run the LA Marathon, after McCourt has had an opportunity to get his feet wet and figure out what makes marathons work and makes his sophomore debut into the marathon management scene.

The city council unanimously approved the transfer. Said Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in a statement earlier today: “Frank McCourt has proven himself a great steward of one of our city’s crown jewels, the Dodgers, and I have great expectations for what he will do with the LA Marathon.”

Any of you readers planning on running next February? If so, let me know so I can look for your names in the results after the race.

(Associated Press)

A couple of years ago, I wrote about how Tom Brady signed a new contract with the Patriots and extended his terms through 2010. After signing Randy Moss this weekend, it has come out that Tom Brady restructured that contract in order to give the Patriots enough cap room to assume Moss’s former contract from the Raiders before resigning him to a one year deal. Since a lot of people are searching my site for information about Tom Brady’s contract, I thought I would provide what details are currently public.
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The city of Anaheim lost their court case against the Los Angelos Angels of Anaheim when a jury concluded that the Angels can use whatever name they want as long as the word Anaheim was in it.
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The NFL has reached a preliminary deal to bring an NFL team back to Los Angelos. They were originally going to put the new expansion team there, but no terms could be agreed upon so Houston made out instead. Commissioner Paul Tagliabue will not say when the team may go there or which team that may be, but hopes to have the details ironed out before March.

Personally, I don’t see it ever happening.