12/22/2015 update: I guess this means the defamation lawsuit is off: 12/21/2015: Gormless “Lord Coe” threatens reporter with defamation lawsuit No, it’s not about Diane Dietz: This is apparently not Bird and Bird’s first attempt to shut up Seppelt – the last try was a miserable failure too. No telling why Coe didn’t hire noted…
Posts tagged as “Track and Field Championships”
Online at the Register Guard tonight, and in print tomorrow. There’s no way to adequately summarize this, read it all here. Vin Lananna’s take is ~$800K a year, from 2012 to at least 2021. Lananna also owns a private media company that will be in on the championships. And while Lananna is making…
That’s the word from the RG’s Austin Meek, here: Lananna and his team — TrackTown treasurer Michael Reilly, UO general counsel Kevin Reed and athletic director Rob Mullens — took a step in that direction by meeting face-to-face with a group of reporters and editors at The Register-Guard last week.…
The Manchester Guardian has the news here: The former IAAF president Lamine Diack has admitted to police that he asked Russia for €1.5m to run a political campaign in his native Senegal, according to the French newspaper Le Monde. France’s national office for financial prosecutions is investigating Diack, who stepped…
6/24/2019: At least they’ve stoped claiming they are faculty: https://publicrecords.uoregon.edu/content/contracts-and-compensation-2 Requester: Berkowitz, Steve Organization: USA Today Initial Request Date: 06/17/2019 Status: Awaiting Payment from Requester Request Completion Date: Pursuant to the applicable open-records law(s), I am requesting copies of the following: The current contract for head football coach, including all…
11/26/2015:
The BBC has the latest from the IAAF headquarters – in Monaco, of course. Apparently the IAAF will replace his Nike money by paying Coe a salary, in an effort to reduce the IAAF’s longstanding system of bribes, kickbacks, and side deals:
The British press is now asking why public money was spent on lobbying the IAAF members to elect Coe. And British MP Damian Colin’s parliamentary hearings will be on Dec 2. Report here:
11/9/2015: That’s the report in the Daily Mail, here: The Swedish athletics officials so incensed by the decision to award the 2021 World Athletics Championships to Eugene in Oregon have vowed to ‘go back to the process’ if allegations of bribery are proven against former president Lamine Diack and other officials…
Update: UO’s public records office has been sitting on the RG’s request for documents about the championship bidding process since June 15. PR log here: 4/16/2015 update: IAAF sells 2021 Track Championships to Eugene w/o public bidding The BBC has the surprising news here: The 2021 World Athletics Championships will be…
The NYT has the big story, here: FIFA Officials Arrested on Corruption Charges; Face Extradition to U.S. An investigation yielded charges against at least 10 current and former officials. The charges include wire fraud, racketeering and money laundering that involved bids for World Cups as well as marketing and broadcast…
9/25/2014: Another $35M to $100M for sports pork, bribes?
The jocks don’t even have the goddam common decency to give the academic side a reach-around, and pay off the Matt Court land and Jaqua tutoring first. Chris Hansen has the report in the RG on the latest duck-pork, here:
12/20/2015 – to be updated. The promise of $40M in Oregon public money to support IAAF championship: Video of Lananna and Track Town supporters making their bid presentation for 2019 to Lamine Diack and the IAAF. Kitzhaber promising “as much as $40M dollars to support your championships”: Some emails regarding that promise: UO’s…