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Hornets To New Orleans: Suck It Up!

With Louisiana and the city of New Orleans slowly recovering from the devastating effects of last year’s Hurricane Katrina, you’d think this might be a good time for a local sports franchise to do something magnanimous. Maybe something like giving free tickets to those people displaced by the storm and resulting floods or a charity ball game. Apparently, though, the New Orleans Hornets have a much different definition of magnanimous: The other day, a lawyer for Hornets owner George Shinn basically told a group of prospective local investors that the team would move if the city didn’t come through on an agreement to build a practice facility next to New Orleans Arena.

So, let’s get this straight, city agrees to build practice facility, then said city is practically wiped off the face of the earth by a monster hurricane and everyone has to be relocated to Houston or Detroit or some other God foresaken place, and now you’re going to hold their feet to the fire on this measly little thing? Nice move. In other Hornets news, Shinn has asked for an exemption from slavery laws so he can import child laborers from Southeast Asia to stoke the boiler fires of his ocean-going yacht.

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