February 7, 2007
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O.J. on Book Furor: ‘I got paid’
O.J. Simpson is speaking
out on his controversial “con­
fessional'' tome, "If I Did It."
Sim pson, who was ac­
quitted in the murders of his
e x -w ife N ico le and her
friend Ron Goldm an, ex­
plained to a Florida new s­
paper that he told Judith
Regan, the would-be pub­
lisher o f the canceled vol­
um e, “ I hope this book
never comes out."
“It made it look too much
like an admission of guilt,”
Simpson said to the Palm
O. J. S im p s o n
Beach Post. "I wasn’t happy
with the hypothetical para­
graphs. A ghostwriter wrote
the whole thing, and I O K 'd
it. But there were a lot of
inaccuracies about the case
and about how I would have
done things. But I figure I’d
let it go since I didn't kill
anyone.”
Was he surprised that the
public was so outraged by
news of the book?
"I don't care," Simpson
told the paper. “ I go, paid just
the same.”
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Portland Trail Blazer owner Paul Allen could own the Rose Garden Arena once more with plans to
re-purchase the arena from a group o f creditors who got control o f the venue through bankruptcy.
Rose Garden Buy Back
Repurchase seen as good for Blazers
(AP) — Portland Trail Blazers
owner Paul Allen said Friday he
plans to repurchase the Rose Gar­
den Arena, the home of the NBA
team, after he gave up ownership in
bankruptcy proceedings in 2004.
In a statement, Allen said his
holding company, Vulcan Inc., has
signed a letter of intent with Port­
land Arena Management LLC to
acquire the Rose Garden through
an affiliate of Vulcan. The sale price
was not disclosed.
The announcem ent appeared
to end speculation that the Blaz­
ers and the arena would be sold
as a package, as V ulcan officials
had said was possible last year.
They had estim ated last Febru­
ary the team could lose more than
$100 million over three years —
calling the split ow nership of the
arena and the team a "broken fi­
nancial model."
Allen said the team was suffer­
ing serious financial problems last
year as the Blazers were wrapping taken a positive step forward. As­
up one of the worst seasons in suming this deal gets finalized, it
franchise history, finishing with the will be a major milestone which
will strengthen the long-term fi­
NBA s worst record, 21-61.
The talk of a sale had gone so far nancial health o f the Trail Blaz­
last year that former Trail Blazer ers," Allen said in the statement.
The announcement was wel­
Terry Porterand Mark Wattles, w ho
founded the Hollywood Video comed by Thomas Luther, chair­
chain in Oregon, had expressed man of Portland Arena Manage­
ment, who said in the release that
interest in buying the team.
Allen, the billionaire co-founder the deal will "ensure that the Trail
o f Microsoft Corp., built the Rose Blazers will remain in Portland.”
"The team has long been an in­
Garden without public money. But
when the team's sister company, tegral part of the community, and
Oregon Arena Corp., declared bank­ we believe this resolution benefits
ruptcy in 2004. Allen chose to give all interested parties," Luther said.
Mayor Tom Potter also said the
up ownership rather than continue
agreement
was a strong signal "the
to pay interest on construction debt.
Blazers
will
remain an important part
He handed over control of the arena
of
Portland
in the future."
on Jan. 1,2005.
NBA
Commissioner
David Stem
The loss o f the arena cost the
Trail Blazers revenue from luxury thanked the Blazers and the arena
suites and other arena sources, company for their efforts, saying
made worse by declining ticket "the ultimate winners here are the
fans of the Portland Trail Blazers
sales.
"With this letterof intent, we've and the City of Portland."
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