Monthly Archives: June 2009

Catching Up

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I am back from Las Vegas, tanned but not relaxed. I am tired and jet lagged and glad to be home with my family safe and sound.
 
This week is being spent in preparation for the amateur draft. Our scouts work all year long for this one weekend and they are all in and getting ready for the festivities in Montreal. I won’t be attending the event this year but will have a good handle on what George and Ross hope to get done.
 

Something Special is Happening

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Woman’s professional basketball deserves our support.
 
I have been going to the Mystics games and I am loving the quality of the play and the results I am seeing with our team. We are now 4 and 1 and off to our best start ever. We are playing a really top notch style of play. We have lots of depth. We run the floor; shoot well; and we play with heart and hustle. Attendance is up too. It was wonderful to see more than 10,000 fans in the stands last night. Come on out to a game. It is high quality summer entertainment at a very affordable price. Our team will earn your support and admiration and the young woman who play for the Mystics are role models and special folks. You will be proud. Click here to read about last night’s game.
 

‘It Gets Dark Sometimes”

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Yesterday’s news of Steve Jobs was stunning to me. Having a liver transplant is a major piece of medical technology and is a very serious operation.
 
I had some experience with a friend and an employee named Wendy Marx who ended up having multiple liver transplants. Unfortunately she passed away but her life is celebrated and remembered in a wonderful book written by her brother, Jeffrey Marx. Click here for details.
 
Jeff is best friends with Olympian Carl Lewis and both of them are to be commended for their work in organ donation and for remembering Wendy Marx, a wonderful person and truly a pioneer in helping to raise awareness about the benefits of organ donation and the creation of a real time database that can match up folks.
 
My prayers are with Steve Jobs and his family.

What Happens in Vegas

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Yesterday was a full day.
 
Hit the golf course with friends, partners, sponsors and NHL execs at 7:00 am to get out before it got too hot. At 7:00 am it was close to 90 degrees and when we finished our round it was close to 100 degrees. I hit it pretty good but was truly exhausted by the 15th hole. I honestly believe I drank 6 bottles of water during the round - didn’t perspire at all - and still felt dehydrated. I can’t imagine what that round would have felt like had we had any alcohol. Since I don’t drink, it was not an issue. But I saw some hurting cowboys out on that range. Drinking and playing golf in the desert doesn’t mix - that is for sure.
 

A Good Day

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Thanks to the Washington Times for reminding us all what a good day June 26th, 2004 was for our franchise. We picked up two prospects who are nominated for MVP and the Norris Trophy tonight.  Quite a feat.
 
Wish Alex Ovechkin and Mike Green luck tonight. They both deserve - I believe - to win their respective categories of awards. Alex had a MVP worthy season again and Mike Green did what no D man in the NHL accomplished - ever – during the season.
 
We have a fine young core at the heart of our team. We are blessed.

Vegas Baby, Vegas

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I am in Vegas. It is hot. It is sunny. It is 100 degrees but as they say, ”It is a dry heat”.
 
Vegas is packed. My hotel is a total sell out. My room wasn’t ready upon check-in and my bag got lost but all is well. It is Vegas baby, Vegas. My cell phone doesn’t work either. I am brother from another planet now.
 
Who are all of these people in Vegas? They all look like they have been transplanted from Disney World. They wear shorts, athletic socks, sneakers; and fanny packs. They walk the malls but they don’t go into the stores. They walk the casino halls but they don’t gamble. Lots of people smoke cigarettes here. It is packed. The dining establishments are packed. Doesn’t anyone here know that we are in a recession? :-)