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With music mogul Jay Z watching from the side of the room, his first client with Roc Nation Sports inked the fifth deal in baseball history to top the $200 million mark.
”Today isn’t about me. It’s about him,” Jay Z said as he declined interview requests.
Cano and his negotiating team spoke glowingly of working with the Mariners and Seattle general manager Jack Zduriencik. But Cano felt the Yankees lacked in their efforts to keep him.
Asked if he ever thought he’d leave New York, Cano said, ”Honestly, no.” Later, Cano said he never felt the Yankees wanted him back.
”I didn’t feel respect. I didn’t get respect from them and I didn’t see any effort,” Cano said.
The Yankees’ top offer was $175 million over seven years. Cano said he didn’t want to go through the contract process in his mid-to-late 30s. Seattle’s willingness to push the contract out to 10 years — and the whopping monetary commitment — sealed the agreement.
Cano’s representative, Brodie Van Wagenen of CAA Baseball, said an agreement was reached last Thursday night when the sides met for three hours after Cano, Jay Z and his negotiating team flew out to Seattle for the final meetings.
Seattle was one of three teams Cano was considering. Wagenen didn’t identify them.
”It started early in the free agency period. We had multiple conversations, multiple meetings, lots of trips back and forth cross country, ultimately I think we had four trips in a span of 12 days before we finally reached an agreement,” Van Wagenen said.
Cano had spent his entire career with the Yankees. The five-time All-Star played in 160 games last season and hit .314 with 27 homers and 107 RBIs. Cano posted a .899 on-base plus slugging percentage and finished fifth in American League MVP voting.
He was New York’s most feared hitter for the past several years, and the loss of a middle infielder who bats .300 and hits 30 homers stings. Cano posted a .899 on-base plus slugging percentage last season and finished fifth in American League MVP voting.
Only the two deals signed by Alex Rodriguez – first with Texas and then the Yankees – and Joey Votto’s contract with Cincinnati were worth more. Albert Pujols also signed a $240 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels. Cano will make $24 million per season from 2014-23 and the contract includes bonuses for awards. It’...
All parties agree the contract numbers could seem inflated on the backside of the contract. But the Mariners feel they are getting a bargain to start. They celebrated the signing with a highlight package from Cano’s career set to Jay Z’s ”Show Me What You Got,” and had a small gathering for fans where ”Hello Cano” shir...
Cano’s been one of the most durable players in baseball for the past seven seasons, missing only 14 out of 1,120 games since the start of the 2007 season. He’s a career .309 hitter who has averaged 24 homers and 97 RBIs per season.
Cano will be the anchor for a lineup that’s lacked consistency at the plate most of the past decade. Seattle made other additions at the winter meetings to support Cano, agreeing to a one-year deal with Corey Hart and acquiring Logan Morrison in a trade with the Miami Marlins. Those deals could be finalized as early as...
It’s the second straight offseason Seattle has made a massive financial commitment after giving a $175 million, seven-year deal to ace Felix Hernandez last winter. Seattle has the room to make significant cash commitments because the only major contracts on the books for 2014 are for Hernandez and Hisashi Iwakuma, and ...
Hernandez and Cano talked by phone with the Mariners ace giving a strong recruiting pitch even if Seattle is far from the New York spotlight.
”If I am his teammate right now, I’m some kind of pumped,” Zduriencik said.
In early December 2011, Nelson Civic Choir and Viva Nelson performed Handel’s seminal work, Messiah, at Nelson School of Music. This Documentary follows the Choir’s rehearsal period leading up to the performances, and features exclusive interviews with several members of the Civic Choir.
Director Daniel Kendrick teamed up with Conductor and Musical Director Pete Rainey to bring you this insightful, humorous and moving film about a treasured Nelson Choir that was established over 100 years ago.
ASHBURN, Va. (AP) – The Washington Redskins have moved quickly in their pursuit of Mike Shanahan. The former Denver Broncos coach flew to Washington on owner Dan Snyder’s plane hours after the team fired Jim Zorn.
Shanahan landed at Dulles International Airport near Redskins Park in mid-afternoon and was driven away in a limousine.
Shanahan is the team’s top choice to replace Zorn, who was dismissed in the pre-dawn hours a day after Washington completed a 4-12 season with a 23-20 loss at San Diego.
Despite rhetoric to the contrary, this tax cut would help only the wealthiest Americans and harm everyone else.
Article created by the the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
“Money to get power, and power to guard the money,” was the motto of the powerful Medici family in 16th century Florence. It is getting to be a successful modern political strategy for some of America’s wealthiest families today.
A new report by Public Citizen and United for a Fair Economy shows how 18 of these families, including the Walton family of Wal-Mart fame, spent millions of dollars to push for the repeal of the estate tax. The estate tax is paid by wealthy heirs when they receive inherited wealth. Using trade associations and influent...
In the next month or so, the White House and Republican leaders are hoping to permanently get rid of the estate tax. About 99.7 percent of Americans are not rich enough to be affected by the estate tax. The existing exemptions will allow their heirs to get whatever is left to them without paying any taxes.
Proponents of repeal have gone to great lengths to convince people that the estate tax is a threat to small businesses and farms. The story of people having to sell the family farm to pay the tax was getting fairly good play until Pulitzer-Prize winning New York Times reporter David Cay Johnston found that there were n...
The Republicans even came up with a scary-sounding name for the estate tax that became widely used: the “death tax” – it sounds ghoulish, like something out of a Stephen King novel.
Getting rid of the estate tax is consistent with the overall thrust of President Bush’s “ownership society,” which is one in which the rules are tilted ever more favorably towards owners, especially the big ones. One goal seems to be to rewrite the tax code so that owners of wealth do not pay taxes on the income that t...
Many people think that such changes don’t affect them if they are not rich. But since the government does not stop spending money (the Iraq War has cost about $300 billion so far) the result of these changes is that people who get their income from labor rather than ownership – the overwhelming majority of Americans – ...
A few months ago, the repeal of the estate tax looked like it would pass Congress. But the anger over rising gasoline prices in the face of record oil company profits has begun to hurt President Bush. Coming on the heels of a succession of scandals and a deeply unpopular war, the gasoline controversy has driven Bush’s ...
Do the Republicans really want to add another trillion dollars to the future U.S. national debt in an election year, just so a handful of rich families can pass even more wealth to their children? Only if they can do it when no one is looking.
As soon as crews began creating a 1-acre wetland in east Loveland, the frogs hopped in to a new home.
With native grasses and plants, the butterflies and birds followed.
That is what Jim Tolstrup, executive director of High Plains Environmental Center, hoped and planned would happen.
The nonprofit environmental center, smack in the middle of Lovelands fastest-growing mixed development, is in the midst of building a wetlands ecology garden just behind Range View offices in Centerra.
With the help of volunteers, Tolstrup is returning an acre of land to its native state as an example to developers and residents.
Across the acre is an array from wetlands to berms that Tolstrup describes as high and dry.
Also across the acre is a matching slate of native plants, providing habitat and showing what naturally grows in what soil and moisture conditions.
It teaches people the value of and how to use native plants, and the relationship between wildlife and sustaining our native butterflies, said Tolstrup.
Having the native plants is essential to that.
Many of the native plants were salvaged from a nearby field developer McWhinney is transforming into an apartment complex on the west side of Rocky Mountain Avenue across from Medical Center of the Rockies.
College students turned out last October to help High Plains staff dig up and save those native plants.
Other native plants sprouted in greenhouses at the environmental center.
When finished, the garden with its plants and viewing boardwalk will cost about $22,000.
A $3,000 grant covered a portion of the project, but the rest is community donations. An anonymous donor pledged $3 for every $1 donated by the community.
The center needs another $1,400 in donations to complete the project.
By next spring, everything should be finished and native wildflowers blooming.
But although it is only 80 percent complete, the ecology garden is open to everyone to view its native beauty.
In any case,Cohen’s a well known perma-bull, so don’t even bother with boring questions about where the market is heading (up! up! and away!). Instead ask her whether she thought Michael Milken was a hunk when she was working at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Why does she still live in Queens? What was Cornell like in the six...
Introducing the Point72 Advisory Board.
The ladies of Morpeth Inner Wheel have had two celebrations recently.
On Thursday, May 5, it was time for the birthday tea, which was held at Morpeth Rugby Club.
Many other Inner Wheel clubs in the area came to join the group for its 66th anniversary celebration.
After a lovely afternoon tea, Mrs Margaret Dodds gave a most entertaining talk about the history of the Tyne Cinema, Newcastle’s beautiful independent cinema.
The Tyne Cinema is home for some of the world’s best films.
Margaret is a voluntary and enthusiastic guide.
The club hopes to take a tour of the renovated cinema in the near future.
As Her Majesty the Queen was celebrating her official birthday last month, the club also decided to have a little celebration at its June meeting.
All the lady members arrived at the Waterford Hotel in the royal colours and everyone looked resplendent in their tiaras and jewels. However, unfortunately, there were no real diamonds.
After the meal members enjoyed a fun raffle and an hilarious game of Play Your Cards Right, with questions appertaining to the Queen and her family, as well as her horses and her dogs.
Morpeth Inner Wheel President Suzanne Hamnett thanked all members for their support throughout her year and announced that we had not only been able to give cheques to her chosen charity Canine Partners, but also to the Great North Air Ambulance Service, the Cumbrian Flood Appeal and many charities abroad.
The ladies of Morpeth Inner Wheel now look forward to the hand-over dinner in July.
Inner Wheel is an all-female organisation, which aims to promote true friendship, encourage the ideals of personal service and foster international understanding.
Clubs meet regularly and have a full and varied programme through which friendships are built. Visiting other clubs and joining in their activities broadens the opportunity to make new friends. Local clubs all have corresponding Rotary groups.
At halftime of game two of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals in May, ESPN analyst Bill Simmons voiced a strange theory about why LeBron James, the best player in the NBA, had played poorly in the first half. LeBron’s Heat were down 1-0 in the series to the Pacers, and even though Miami led at halftime, LeBron had strug...
Now, it is probably worth pointing out that this makes no sense. LeBron James was going for his third consecutive NBA title, his team was behind in a critical series, and he had to carry aging, injured teammates on his back. Of all the things on his mind at that moment, a Ping-Pong ball coming up Cleveland was rather f...
And yet: I got what Simmons was saying. Because I had been thinking the same thing. And that’s because I wasn’t thinking like a professional athlete; I was thinking like a fan. I can’t comprehend what it’s like to play in the NBA Finals, or to have to memorize thousands of inbounds plays, or to find the open man on the...
This phenomenon only got more pronounced in the NBA Finals, when people seemed to stop paying attention to the games entirely. LeBron James was, with an undermanned army of teammates, fighting for a championship against a historically entertaining San Antonio Spurs team, but no one wanted to talk about that. They wante...
The games? The games were simply results, fungible, prone to the whims of luck and chance and human unpredictability. Since Moneyball, the sports world has gone wonky; all that matters now is what you can control, the process. It used to be that talk and analysis were the pregame, the preparation for game action. Sudde...
Professional sports, like most human endeavors, has two types of people: insiders and outsiders. The insiders are the ones who play the game, or coach the game, or scout the game. The outsiders are the rest of us. Fans. Executives. Fantasy-sports players. Journalists. For decades, we have watched that inner circle of “...
But the flip side of being made to feel so much like outsiders is the creeping suspicion that you may actually be more expert than the experts, less clouded by their traditions and reflexive delusions. As fans, we may have perspective they can never have; they’re fish who don’t know they’re in water. Thanks to much mor...
But this can sometimes make the games themselves a little less fun to watch, and it’s our own fault. As we become more obsessed with data downloads, some of the greatest sports moments start to seem less like feats of heroism and more like statistical outliers. (After all, in the long run, everything is a small sample ...
And the imperious data geeks among us are only getting more power. As in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street, the success of data-driven executives, like the Houston Rockets’ Daryl Morey and the Chicago Cubs’ Theo Epstein, has given us a cult of the general manager to replace, or at least supplement, the hero worship of ...
Thus: The central event of the basketball calendar became not the NBA Finals that LeBron James lost but the free-agency sweepstakes that the Cleveland Cavaliers won. And it’s true in other sports, too: It’s been years since the Super Bowl felt as significant as the draft—even when we didn’t have a Johnny Manziel bad-bo...
*This article appears in the July 28, 2014 issue of New York Magazine.
A man raises his arm in a Nazi salute in response to heckling from leftists at a protest gathering the day after a fatal stabbing by migrant suspects triggered large protests in the city of Chemnitz in eastern Germany.
Hundreds of right-wing demonstrators took to the streets in the eastern German city of Chemnitz to demand that foreigners leave the country following the arrest of two migrants in a fatal stabbing incident.
The protesters — some masked and thrusting Hitler salutes — chanted "Close the borders!" and carried signs that read "Stop the asylum flood."
"This is our city!" they also chanted.
Left-wing counterprotesters demanded "Nazis out!"
The dueling sides hurled pyrotechnics and other objects at each other Monday night, causing several injuries, as a police tried to keep them separated, according to Deutsche Welle.
Police and media reports estimated that there were about 1,000 anti-immigrant protesters and about an equal number of counterprotesters.
The protest followed a slightly smaller gathering of right-wing protesters in the city on Sunday.
On Sunday, police reported "a series of injuries including a Bulgarian man who was threatened, two Afghan teenagers who were attacked and another person who was followed," Handelsblatt Global reports.
The incident that triggered the protests stems from the arrest on Sunday of two apparent migrants, a 23-year-old Syrian man and a 22-year-old Iraq, in the death of a 35-year-old carpenter identified as Daniel H., who succumbed to multiple stab wounds following the attack. Two other men were reportedly seriously injured...
Police said the knife attack involved "several people of different nationalities," and occurred on the sidelines of the city's annual street festival.
The suspects stabbed the victim several times "with no justifiable reason," prosecutors said, according to Deutsche Welle.
The Associated Press notes that in Chemnitz, a city of 246,000 that is situated in the former East Germany, "almost a quarter of the voters supported the far-right Alternative for Germany party" during last year's elections.
Deutsche Welle reports that Monday night's protests "began calmly enough, as a heavy police presence kept the two sides apart and the groups confined themselves to jeering at each other beneath the gaze of Chemnitz's colossal Karl Marx monument. But by around 9 p.m., when the demonstrations began to move, six people we...
Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose fragile coalition government nearly came apart last month over the issue of asylum-seekers, responded to the violence as well as video posted to social media that showed some protesters who appeared to target individuals due to their ethnicity.
Merkel's office issued a statement condemning violence after the initial attack and protest on Sunday.
"What was seen yesterday in parts of Chemnitz and what was recorded on video has no place in our country," spokesman Steffen Seibert told reporters in Berlin.
"People ganging up, chasing people who look different from them or who come from elsewhere ... is something we won't tolerate," he said. "This has no place in our cities, and I can say for the German government that we condemn this in the sharpest possible manner."
The AP reports that Germany's Central Council of Jews also condemned the violence, saying it is a "civic duty to stand against the right-mob."
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bernard Madoff was in a "love triangle" involving one of five former employees who are about to go on trial for helping him run his multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, prosecutors said.
Madoff pleaded guilty in March 2009 to running a fraud of up to $65 billion at his investment firm and is serving a 150-year prison sentence.
While Madoff said he acted alone, prosecutors have since charged 13 individuals in connection with the fraud. Five of them - two women and three men - are set to go on trial in federal court in New York on October 7.

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