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Isiah Thomas & MSG Officials are Found Guilty, Thomas Scores Moral Victory

Posted by Thomas the Terrible on October 2, 2007

The rumors were true, Isiah Thomas & Madison Square Garden were found guilty of sexual harassment earlier today, but something isn’t quite right…

“In an end to a salacious three-week trial, a jury ordered the owners of the New York Knicks to pay $11.6 million to a former team executive after finding she endured two years of crude insults and unwanted advances from coach Isiah Thomas.

The jury of four women and three men found that both Thomas and Madison Square Garden had sexually harassed Anucha Browne Sanders. But they also decided that only MSG and Chairman James Dolan should pay punitive damages for the harassment and for firing the plaintiff from her $260,000-a-year job out of spite.

The result: The Garden owes $6 million for condoning a hostile work environment and $2.6 million for retaliation. MSG chairman James Dolan owes $3 million. Thomas is off the hook for any damages, but leaves the case with a tarnished legacy.”

OK, if Isiah Thomas is guilty then why doesn’t he to have to pay? This verdict leads me to believe that Isiah might have been found guilty by association, that or the jury just really loves Thomas. If two people are caught beating up one innocent person the police would charge both of them. The prosecutor would take both to trial not just one. This verdict confuses me. What has Thomas learned other than it’s OK to sexual harass women, because the boss will pay the fine?

“Outside court, a beaming Browne Sanders, 44, insisted her victory was more about sending a message than the money.

“What I did here, I did for every working woman in America,” she said. “And that includes everyone who gets up and goes to work in the morning, everyone working in a corporate environment.”

If this was truly about working women and everyone that works in corporate America, then why not share it with all of us? Saying things like that are nice, but let’s be real, that money is nicer.

“Earlier, Thomas emerged from the federal courthouse in lower Manhattan with his trademark smile, but flashed anger as he reasserted his innocence amid a crush of reporters and cameras.

“I’m extremely disappointed that the jury did not see the facts in this case,” he said. “I will appeal this, and I remain confident in the man that I am and what I stand for and the family that I have.”

Why appeal? You aren’t having to pay a dime. Just retire and live in obscurity like Joe Dumars, oh wait my bad, he’s a great general manager. OK like John Sally, oh wait he’s a host on the successful “Best Damn Sports Show”, OK let think. OK, got it, like Bill Laimbeer, oh damn he’s a championship winning coach in the WNBA with a lot of NBA teams starting to look his way.

“The verdict also amounts to another blemish on the resume of Thomas, a two-time NBA champion whose post-playing career has been marked by one failure after another.

Jurors — who needed roughly two days to decide on the allegations but only about an hour to determine damages — declined to talk about the verdict or how they came to their decision.

In a lawsuit filed last January, Browne Sanders sought $10 million in punitive damages, but the jury was free to deviate from that figure. The verdict also means that the judge will determine and award compensatory damages in the coming weeks.

The harassment verdict was expected after the jury sent a note to the judge Monday indicating that it believed Thomas, the Garden and Dolan sexually harassed Browne Sanders, a married mother of three and former vice president for marketing.

The jurors had heard Browne Sanders testify that Thomas, after arriving as new team president in 2004, routinely addressed her as “bitch” and “ho” in outbursts over marketing commitments. He later did an abrupt about-face, declaring his love and suggesting an “off-site” liaison, she said.

Again I ask the question, why wasn’t Thomas forced to pay anything?

Dolan and a string of other executives also took the witness stand to deny that they tolerated or witnessed sexual harassment. They testified that Browne Sanders was fired because she was incompetent on budget matters, and because she later sought to undermine an internal inquiry into her allegations against Thomas.

At the Knicks training camp in South Carolina on Tuesday, Marbury and other players said it was time for the team to move past the off-court controversy. Thomas was expected to arrive on Wednesday.

“It’s a tough situation and the only thing we can do now is go forward,” Marbury said.

Forward Malik Rose predicted the team would rally behind Dolan and Thomas.

“We all know what kind of guy ‘Mr. D’ is,” he said. “We all know what kind of guy Isiah is and how they treat us. I’m sure all you guys agree this is a first-class organization.”

Oh shit Isiah will be in my state. Guys lock up your wives and daughters quickly! I respect Malik Rose, he’s a great player. However, a first class organization doesn’t find itself in lawsuits, fire a coach after just one year of coaching & employ Isiah Thomas.


Tell me you don’t see the resemblance!

So I profess on this day 10/02/07.

TtT

 

Posted in Anucha Browne Sanders, Isiah Thomas, James Dolan, Kathleen Decker, Larry Brown, NBA, New York Knicks, Sexual-Harassment Case, Sports, guilty, moral victories, yankees suck | 2 Comments »

SEC Beattitudes

Posted by Thomas the Terrible on October 2, 2007

Joel the resident guest writer has written this next piece.

*Blessed be Alabama, for they are stuck in the ‘70′s. Blessed be Alabama fans, keep them patient when a coach goes 11-1 and be with their brown paper sacks, so they not be “holey”, so the money doesn’t fall out on the way to a recruit’s house.

*Blessed be Kentucky and its basketball program, for ensuring that a delusional fan base doesn’t just include Alabama. Blessed be Kentucky for giving us the 50 shots of Ashley Judd during national televised basketball games (bless her indeed)

*Blessed be Arkansas, for thou has taken advantage of the Freedom of Information Act. Blessed be Coach Houston Nutt, for he knows how to recruit and maintain a top notch QB and WR recruit, and he also knows how to call offensive plays (RB left, RB right, RB middle, just like 10 Yard Fight on NES)

*Blessed be South Carolina, for having little to no football tradition, if you consider years of mediocrity tradition. Blessed be Steve Spurrier, for he is part of the Holy Trinity. If you don’t believe him, ask him. Click Clack.

*Blessed be Auburn, for their Gulfstream is filled with gas and ready to get a football coach at the drop of the hat. Blessed be Tuberville, for I have a protective hedge around him. When the chips are down, I bless him with an upset win, and the annual Bama win.

*Blessed be Ole Miss, for while there sports on a whole suck, I have populated “The Grove” with a factory of beautiful young ladies that all can enjoy when visiting Oxford. Blessed be their fan base for thinking Coach O will lead them to 4 wins this year.

*Blessed be Miss. State, for Croom cleaning up a cluster—fu—mess and motivating the players, but having no talent. I will be with him when he gets fired, but not before I give him another upset win (I’m thinking Tennessee or Arkansas).

*Blessed be Tennessee, for mediocrity has set in its football program. Blessed be the basketball season upcoming, for both teams shall at least be in the Elite 8, and make Vol fans forget about the orange colored Stay Puft Marshmallow Man coaching football.

*Blessed be Florida, for being not only the kings of college sports for the moment, but also for drug running and gun toting. Your athletes shall do their best “Tony Montana” impression with the big guns and your fans will watch with mullets feathered.

*Blessed be LSU, for winning the National Championship this year despite the head coach. Blessed be night games at “Death Valley”, for the smell of alcohol and boudin prevail. Blessed be Pokey Chatman, for at least being a cute “sinner”…

*Blessed be Georgia, for having coaches with perfect hair (Richt, Landers) and for giving the Big Least Conference hope that they can win a BCS bowl and having Mountaineer fans bring up your Sugar Bowl loss on a regular basis. Thank you…

*Blessed be Vanderbilt, for we all need, lawyers, accountants, sports agents, wirters, doctors, neurosurgeons, college professors, chemists, physicists, and all around Mensa members.

The Saban one is gold.

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The Florida Gators Continue the Crime Spree.

Posted by Thomas the Terrible on October 2, 2007

The Florida players are really taking this loss Auburn hard. By everyone knows about the “incident” the Gator Mafia might or might not have been involved with. Now a Gator Mafia member has slipped up and gotten himself arrested in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, so much for enforcing a curfew…

“Florida safety Tony Joiner, a starter on the Gators’ defending national champion football team, was arrested by Gainesville Police and charged with burglary on Tuesday, according to the Gainesville Sun.

Joiner is accused of going into an impound lot to retrieve his girlfriend’s car at approximately 4:30 a.m. Tuesday. His girlfriend’s car was being held at Watson’s Towing, the Sun reported, in lieu of a $76 towing bill, according to the police report.”

No girlfriend of Gator shall have to pay any towing bills, that’s stated in Urban Meyer’s 10 Commandments. Of course everyone knows that this business with the girlfriend is code because Joiner was the one making out with Tebo during the ass-raping of Tennessee. I’m surprised a Gunsville Gainesville police officer would even arrest a Gator player. Oh wait they lost to Auburn that explains it, or it’s a setup and this is how King Meyer punishes his players.

“The police report said witnesses saw a man push open the gates of the towing service and drive a car out. As he was trying to close the gates, one of the witnesses confronted the man, who then drove the car back in the lot.

Police arrived and arrested Joiner, who has 17 tackles and an interception for the Gators, who travel to face No. 1 LSU on Saturday night. Florida lost to Auburn last weekend.”

What was Joiner thinking, just beat up the witness, a true Gator Mafia member would have. King Meyer can not be happy right now. Joiner will be punished I’m sure, Meyer will force him to sit out the last 30 seconds of the LSU game, that’ll teach him a lesson about getting caught and kissing prince Tebo in public.

So I profess on this day 10/02/07.

TtT

Posted in Florida Gators, Florida Sucks, Herban Meyer, LSU Tigers, Police, SEC, SEC Coaches, Tennessee Volunteers, Urban Meyer, jorts, mullets, secrets, tony joiner, whiners | 1 Comment »

The Gator Mafia Strikes Again

Posted by Thomas the Terrible on October 2, 2007

*Disclaimer this a parody of a true a story, not all comments are true, I’ve link to the actual story.

How does Urban Meyer shake off his first home loss? By sending the elite Gator AK-47 hit squad out to handle some business, that’s how. Urban might have lost on the field but the streets of Gunsville Gainesville belong to him by Spurrier God.

“Jacksonville Jaguars safety Reggie Nelson and three Florida football players have been questioned about a shooting outside a Gainesville nightclub following the Gators’ loss to Auburn, police said Monday.

Nelson’s agent, Hadley Engelhard, confirmed that Nelson was at The Venue on Saturday night but said he left three hours before the shooting.

“He wasn’t even there,” Engelhard said. “He knows nothing. He’s not a witness. He wasn’t involved in any altercation. It’s much ado about nothing, and it will stay that way if he keeps his trap shut! “

Gainesville police spokesman Sgt. Keith Kameg said Nelson is “not a suspect. He’s just a guy we wanted to talk to and make sure he didn’t see anything. Like the three Gator football players that King Meyer sent to handle business. It makes our job easier and he don’t have to kill anyone, just look the other way”

A number of people who witnessed the shooting told officers Nelson was “around the victims throughout the night, we figured he was fingering them for King Meyer’s plan, and conveniently left before the action took place. That Meyer is one smart dude.” Kameg said.”

“I know my name has been mentioned in the media today concerning an unfortunate incident that took place this weekend in Gainesville,” Nelson said in a statement released by the Jaguars. “I want to make it clear that I was not involved with this incident. I did not furnish any guns though I did clean and load several 9mms and 45s that are kept in what King Urban calls “the other trophy room”.

Kameg said three Florida players also were questioned, but he declined to release their names.

“Their names came up from people in a crowd,” Kameg said. “We wanted to verify some stories, and make sure there are no witnesses that can finger any Gator starters at the scene. If there were then I’m afraid something might happen to them something tragic. I hope everyone listening or reading this understands. We know who you are, and we’re watching you.”

According to police, 28-year-old Corey Smith and 19-year-old Justin Glass were driving in traffic around 2:30 a.m. when a man, wearing a full Gator uniform pads and all, walked up to their car and started shooting.

Smith was shot in the upper body. Glass was shot in the arm. Their conditions were not immediately available Monday, but it is learned that both were wearing Auburn apparel.

Nelson, meanwhile, spoke to the Jaguars about the incident Monday in hopes of setting the record straight. The Jaguars were off Sunday, which allowed Nelson to attend the game in nearby Gainesville.

“Based on the information we have gathered from King Meyer, authorities, Reggie and others, we’re confident that Reggie was not involved in the unfortunate incident, and if he was then like King Meyer says “that’s our problem stay out of my business” Jaguars team spokesman Dan Edwards said. Edwards also stated “The Florida Gators are the best team in this state, college or pro, and if anyone disagrees with him, then you to might have a cap busted in your ass. Go Gators!”

So I profess on this day 10/02/07.

TtT

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Rumor Has it that Isiah Thomas Will be Found Guilty Larry Brown Laughes

Posted by Thomas the Terrible on October 2, 2007

Right now millions of New Yorkers are celebrating. No, they aren’t celebrating the Yankees (who suck) being in the post season, they’re celebrating that finally Isiah Thomas will be fired once the guilty verdict is handed down. Which really sucks for the Knicks since they ordered all those talking Isiah Thomas bobble heads that say “I don’t give a fuck about those white people!” whenever the Knicks make a 3 point shot.

“A jury indicated Monday that it believes New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas and Madison Square Garden committed sexual harassment against a former team executive who brought a $10 million lawsuit that quickly turned into a public relations disaster for the once-proud franchise.

There was no official verdict, but the wording of a note to the judge by the jury — and instructions on a verdict form it was using — suggested it had reached decisions against Thomas and the other defendants, Madison Square Garden and MSG Chairman James Dolan.

The four women and three men on the panel said they reached a decision on eight of the nine questions on the verdict form. They were deadlocked on the other question, which asks whether Thomas should have to pay punitive damages.

The jury was instructed only to address the question on Thomas if it found that he and Madison Square Garden committed harassment against the former executive. Similarly, it was told to answer other remaining questions only if it decided that the defendants retaliated against Anucha Browne Sanders by firing her from her $260,000-a-year job.”

You know who’s fault this is? Dennis Rodman, that’s who. He was a bad influence on Isiah. I think Isiah should pull a Jonathan Lee Riches © and sue Rodman, the Detroit Pistons, Larry Brown, Joseph Enterprises who are the makers of Chia Pet & Kevin Federline, who incidentally won custody of his children that he had with Brittney “Baldy” Spears, for damages that include controlling his thoughts and actions, emotional distress, harassment & putting subliminal messages that are directed to him in the show “Dancing With the Stars”. I think the sum of 4 Quadrillion dollars in pennies is sufficient.

“The note likely means the jury has decided “against the Garden, against Thomas and against Dolan,” said Jerry Reisman, an employment attorney with the Long Island firm Reisman, Peirez and Reisman.

Like many legal observers, Reisman said a verdict against MSG “would be demonstrative of its arrogance in not settling this matter” with Browne Sanders and risking the embarrassment of letting it go to trial.

Browne Sanders’ case presented the Garden as an “Animal House” in sneakers, a place where nepotism, sexism, crude remarks and crass language were part of the culture.

Browne Sanders, a former Northwestern college basketball star, characterized Thomas as a foul-mouthed lout who initially berated her as a “bitch” and a “ho” before his anger gave way to ardor, with Thomas making unwanted advances and encouraging her to visit him “off site.”

Thomas, who was hired in December 2003, followed her to the stand and denied all her allegations. Attorneys for Thomas and the Garden also portrayed Browne Sanders as incompetent and unable to adapt once the NBA great arrived as the Knicks’ president.

“That’s not about sexual harassment,” MSG attorney Ronald Green said in his closing argument. “That’s about team politics.”

You know Mrs. Sanders makes nepotism, sexism, crude remarks & crass language sound like a bad thing. I would love to work there. I’m redoing my resume after I’m done here. I’m still not believing the part about Thomas calling her a bitch and ho continuously, she’s 3 times his size, she could have hurt him.

“In her closing argument, Browne Sanders’ attorney Anne Vladeck made note of Thomas’ charismatic style and incandescent grin.

“There is no question Mr. Thomas can be charming and flash an engaging smile,” she told the jury. “That does not give him the right to treat Browne Sanders like she is his woman.”

The case, from its inception, proved a public relations nightmare for the Knicks and the Garden, with intense coverage of the three-week trial focusing on its tawdriest aspects — star guard Stephon Marbury having sex with an intern outside a strip club, raunchy come-ons from a Marbury cousin to his Garden co-workers, Thomas’ videotaped remarks about the racial dynamics of calling a woman “a bitch.”

His woman? How many men out there reading this call their girlfriends or wives a bitch and a ho? If any you said “I do”, then you should ashamed of yourselves. It’s my job to berate them not yours. You know this whole intern thing is getting old, after all as I detailed in this article here, the intern testified that she willing had sex with Marbury, and quite frankly she seems like a freaky slut.

Now the fun will begin when the Knicks have to fire Thomas, and they will have to fire him. Finding a quality coach this late in the game is impossible, unless they’re prepared to kiss Larry Brown’s ass while tonguing his balls. Thomas had Brown run out of New York after just one year of coaching. Karma sure is a bitch huh?

So I profess on this day 10/02/07.

TtT

Posted in Anucha Browne Sanders, Dennis Rodman, Detroit Pistons, Fines, Isiah Thomas, Jonathan Lee Riches, K-Fed, Kathleen Decker, Larry Brown, NBA, New York Knicks, Sexual-Harassment Case, basketball, fired, guilty, karma, yankees suck | Leave a Comment »