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...someone who had unwittingly committed vehicular homicide. "This is the most serious situation and worst situation that I have ever experienced either as a fan of the NBA, a lawyer for the NBA or commissioner of the NBA," the league's boss said Tuesday at a New York press conference. "We take our obligation to our fans in this situation very, very seriously...
That was Stern's task Tuesday, and he performed it with dutiful chagrin. That is not to suggest Stern's melancholy during the hour-long press conference was an act. Stern has a reputation for sincerity. But in running the league for the last 23 years, Stern has learned how to survive the adversity of the business, and he does not believe the NBA will be irreparably harmed by this off-season scandal. "I think that our public, learning what we have done and what we are determined to do, is going to be by and large with...
...press conference, Stern insisted repeatedly that, to his knowledge, Donaghy is simply a "rogue" referee and not part of any widespread fix among officials. The FBI investigation will shed light on that. If Stern is right, that would separate this scandal from the 1919 Chicago Black Sox or the recent steroid allegations that have dogged baseball - in which the cheating appears to have been widespread...
...This is above all the end of a nightmare for these women and this man, whose innocence and good faith is something everyone in Europe, and I say Europe, believes in," Sarkozy told an Elysée press conference just minutes after his presidential plane delivered the Bulgarians back home. "These women and this man have been held against their will for eight years. It was time it ended...
...freedom for the Bulgarians. Still, some effort was made to ensure European officials were associated with Sarkozy's last diplomatic push: the French delegation that flew to Tripoli Sunday included EU External Relations Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner - who was also given the task of making most of the press statements...