Archive for January 20th, 2022

Sort of a firings watch.

Thursday, January 20th, 2022

I covered the firing of Kevin Ollie as men’s basketball coach at the University of Connecticut when it happened.

Now…

An independent arbitrator has ruled that UConn improperly fired former men’s basketball coach Kevin Ollie and must pay him more than $11 million, Ollie’s lawyer said Thursday.

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Irvings ruled that Ollie is due $11,157,032.95 within next 10 business days, Parenteau said.

Interestingly, though, those recruiting violations did pan out:

UConn was placed on probation for two years and Ollie was sanctioned individually for those violations, which occurred between 2013 and 2018.

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Parenteau and co-counsel William Madsen had argued that UConn failed to meet its burden under an agreement between the school and the American Association of University Professors, of which Ollie is a member. That agreement required a showing of serious misconduct in order to fire an employee for “just cause” and also affords Ollie other union protections.
The school had argued that Ollie’s transgressions were serious and that his individual contract superseded those union protections.

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Obit watch: January 20, 2022.

Thursday, January 20th, 2022

Hardy Kruger (also billed as Hardy Krüger). Sloppy obit from THR.

His character in “The Flight of the Phoenix” was not a German solider or a Nazi baddie, and that movie came out in 1965, not 1975. But he was excellent in it. (Noted: Criterion is releasing it on blu-ray in March. Affiliate link.)

Edited to add: THR corrected their obit shortly after I posted this. It no longer refers to Kruger’s character in “Phoenix” as a German solider, and has the correct date for the movie.

Edited to add 2: NYT obit, which was not up when I first posted.

He was also good in “Barry Lyndon”. I’ve seen “The Wild Geese”, but cut up for TV a long time ago, and I’d like to watch it again.

Carol Speed. Credits include “The Mack” and “Disco Godfather”.

Ron Franklin, fomer ESPN announcer.

Franklin worked at ESPN from 1987 through 2011. He was fired after reportedly saying, off-air, to sideline reporter Jeanine Edwards, “Listen to me, sweet baby, let me tell you something …” When she told him not to talk to her like that, he responded, “Okay, then listen to me asshole.”

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The time has come around again.

Thursday, January 20th, 2022

Namely: Happy National Buy an AK Day!

Classic Firearms appears to have a few AK pattern rifles in 7.62×39 in stock, if you’re looking. (I don’t get any kickback from those people.)

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