Things have been kind of slow on the sports firings front. With no real sports being played, who’s firing people?
Answer: the Chicago Bulls, who just fired Gar Forman as their general manager.
Archive for April 13th, 2020
Firings watch.
Monday, April 13th, 2020“What you gonna do when you get out of jail?…” part 14
Monday, April 13th, 2020Taking a break from planes today. Let’s go back in history. Way back. To the beginning.
First, the dinosaurs came. Then they died off and turned into oil. Then the Arabs got all the oil and started driving around in Mercedes-Benzes.
Bonus video #1: “Birth of an Oilfield”. Once again, not to be confused with “Birth of a Nation”.
This was produced by George Pal.
Bonus video #2: a promo film for the 1964 World’s Fair, with Lowell Thomas. Thing that pushes my button: he talks with Robert Moses.
Obit watch: April 13, 2020.
Monday, April 13th, 2020Both of these are by way of Lawrence, originator of the Clown Unicycle Update.
Tarvaris Jackson, former NFL quarterback.
Anthony Causi, sports photographer for the New York Post. He sounds like a really good guy:
“He was a New Yorker,” said Jason Zillo, the Yankees’ vice president of communications and media relations. “Anthony was passionate, he grinded, he cared and was caring, and he wore his heart on his sleeve. And it was a huge heart. I don’t know how it fit on his sleeve. People gravitated towards him, but he had an edge to him and he never wanted to have the second-best photo of the day.”
Balancing that edge, bolstering that heart, was an innate generosity that Causi expressed most regularly with his work tools. Without prompting or requests, he typically took photos of co-workers and competitors in addition to his work subjects, offering them to folks for their personal collections. Causi’s uncle Joe Causi, an on-air personality for WCBS-FM Radio, said his nephew would often take photos pro bono at area Little League events.
“Anthony was kind, thoughtful and one of the best at what he did,” the Rangers said in a statement.
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