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Posts tagged as “Athletics”

Denied: The full Bellotti

5/22/2010: Normally when you make a request to the Oregon DOJ for public records, you get a reply from DOJ Attorney Michael Kron, the DOJ’s Government Transparency Czar.  So when I asked for the full report on the Bellotti investigation, I was a little surprised to get a denial from…

Athletic antitrust

5/10/2010: David Moltz and Doug Lederman of Insidehighered.com write on the US DOJ anti-trust investigation of the NCAA and what it might mean for college athletes. Also see Libby Sanders in the Chronicle, here. Currently the NCAA acts as a hiring cartel to prevent athletes bargaining for a better deal…

Goodbye Kilkenny

4/27/2010: Lariviere leaves no doubt who is in charge. From Ron Bellamy in the RG: Lariviere said that at times he re-directed Kilkenny when he felt that the search was heading in a direction with which he wasn’t comfortable. “Not that Pat was promoting a particular person, but a name…

New Coach?

4/16/2010: Wondering how Pat Kilkenny’s search for a new basketball coach is going? Me neither. But I was curious about how sports columnists are tracking his movements. Turns out it’s public info, and on the web: Here’s the link for his tail number: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N228PK

Arena Reserve Fund

4/8/2010: 2 years ago, when Frohnmayer and Kilkenny were selling the Legislature on the arena bonds and they didn’t believe the ridiculous revenue predictions, Frohnmayer said UO would create a special reserve fund to cover shortfalls by adding a $1 surcharge to all athletic tickets. So what’s the balance up…

A small

problem with Lariviere’s plan to use new donations to the athletic department to fund Bellotti’s payoff, from Lewis and Clark Tax Law Professor Jack Bogdanski. The IRS says “You cannot deduct contributions to specific individuals, … “. That rule will approximately double the cost to the donors of the buyout.…