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Dec 26, 2011 · 8:55 am
Christmas with Malcolm Hardee: police blowjobs and The Tunnel Palladium
A couple of days ago, I blogged about Digger Dave's memories of his late friend Malcolm Hardee, the late 'godfather of alternative comedy'. He mentioned "the Great Christmas Can Can Tour of London's East End pubs" by The Greatest Show on Legs, the act Malcolm performed in. This was only one of The Greatest Show on Legs' pub-crawling performances.
Malcolm wrote about them – and how he started his infamous comedy club The Tunnel Palladium – in his 1996 autobiography I Stole Freddie Mercury's Birthday Cake…
Malcolm drowned in 2005.
Back in 1983, The Greatest Show on Legs got fed up with touring and we split up as a full-time act, though we're still going. We're a bit like the folk group Fairport Convention. We keep having reunions. But when we stopped being The Greatest Show on Legs full-time, I started The Tunnel Palladium, an early alternative comedy venue. It all started by accident.
Every year we did two Greatest Show on Legs Pub Crawls. We selected four or five local South East London pubs where we'd go and give a show for free. We did one Pub Crawl in the Winter, round Christmas; and one in the summer.
One of these pubs we picked was The Mitre in a very rough area of Greenwich, about 50 yards from the southern exit of the Blackwall Tunnel under the Thames. Our show there was on a Sunday night and we couldn't give it for free because the landlord insisted it was part of his Licence that he had to charge something to get in. So I think he charged £2.
When we did our show, The Mitre was packed: about 300 people were in there watching us.
The Mitre was split into two bars. The Greatest Show on Legs performed in one bar and, in the other bar, there was a stag night for the local constabulary. It wasn't just a stag night. They had strippers who performed full sex.
They were giving blowjobs and wiping the result on the beer mats and all that sort of stuff. I went into this other bar and was sitting next to a copper who thought I was part of the stag night crowd. In front of me was a stripper sucking this bloke's knob and I said to this copper:
"Oh," he said: "That's alright. He's getting married tomorrow".
After that night, I spoke to this very woman we'd been watching. She said she recognised me because she used to go out with my mate Dexie Doug Davies and it came back to me in a flash. I remembered their relationship and I remembered Dexie Doug complaining that this woman Frances wouldn't go the whole way but spent 90% of her waking hours giving him blow jobs. (I've heard other complaints about other relationships, but they were the exact opposite.)
So there was Frances all these years later putting her considerable skills to good use and presumably getting paid for it.
It was a very odd experience. Two different audiences. A lot of trendy Lefties watching The Greatest Show on Legs in one bar. And, in the other bar, a load of coppers being serviced by strippers.
The next Sunday, I went back and there was a Heavy Metal band on with about four people in the audience and they were just friends of the band. I said:
"Last week, when we were here, there were 300 people. What's going on?"
So the person who was rock promoter there, Steve Black, suggested I run a Sunday comedy club at The Mitre.
I named it The Tunnel because it was next to the Blackwall Tunnel.
Strangely enough, the landlord had 'tunnel vision'.
But that was just an odd coincidence.
Martin Potter, who had helped us on the pilot for OTT and the audition for Game For a Laugh became my partner for our Sunday Night at The Tunnel Palladium shows. We very quickly made some promotional flyers and the club was an instant success.
Our first show was on 8th January 1984
Filed under Comedy, Police, Sex
Tagged as alternative, club, comedy, humor, humour, london, Malcolm hardee, police, pub, public house, stag, tour
Normal for Norfolk – cat wrestling and drinking sheep
Norwich comedian Dan McKee read my recent blog about Steve Coogan's planned film Paul Raymond's Wonderful World of Erotica and my stories of wrestling bouts in the Raymond Revuebar entrance lounge and a cheetah which was trained to strip the underwear off girls with his teeth.
"There used to be an old wrestler up here in Norwich," Dan tells me, "who drank in a very strange pub I frequented called the Ironmongers Arms. He was called 'Bear' and he once told me a story about wrestling in a strip club in what he called 'naughtly Soho' down in London.
"One night, when Bear was halfway through a bout with another wrestler in this club, a 'fucking massive cat' leapt into the ring and, not wanting to break the 'kayfaybe' of the moment, he ended up wrestling the beast for a few minutes before it got bored and walked off."
This does, indeed, sound like the Raymond Revuebar, but the Ironmongers Arms in Norwich appears to be just as bizarre. For starters, Dan tells me it is the only pub in the UK with that name.
"The peculiarities of the old Ironmongers Arms knew no bounds," Dan tells me. "The landlord had no tongue, but he did have a pet jackdaw which hopped around the bar and Friday night entertainment consisted of a young lady singing the hits of Tina Turner. She didn't sing to karaoke tracks but actually sang over the original Tina Turner records on the juke box and she just tried to sing louder than Tina's vocals.
"Then there was the night somebody brought a sheep in for a pint. We asked him why he had come in with a sheep and he replied: Well, I couldn't very well leave it at home.
"As we couldn't fault his logic, we didn't ask any more questions. We always hoped he might come in again, but he never did."
I worked in Norwich for two years. This sounds relatively normal.
(There is more about the sheep mentioned in this blog in a 2013 posting…)
Filed under Comedy
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Painting a New York fart, Tony Blair and Jo Brand
Yesterday, in response to my blog mentioning farteur Mr Methane, Jackie Hunter, former features editor of The Scotsman newspaper, reminded me that early 20th-century artist Maxfield Parrish painted a fart into a mural that now adorns the famous King Cole Bar in New York's St Regis hotel. I have to agree with her that painting a fart is quite an achievement.
Yesterday was a funny old mixture of a day because British comedians are now planning for the Edinburgh Fringe in August. Going to the Fringe, like having a baby, is a nine-month project involving a lot of nausea, pain and uncertain results.
Charlie Chuck phoned me about his planned return to Edinburgh which sounds suitably unusual and the extraordinarily multi-talented Janey Godley, not planning to play the Edinburgh Fringe this year but just about to go to the Adelaide Fringe, told me about two possibilities she has been unexpectedly offered in two totally different media. From Janey, the unexpected comes as no surprise.
In the afternoon, I had to take a friend to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich which, for reasons I can't begin to fathom, is surrounded by a high Grade A security fence which makes it look more like a Stalag Luft Queen Elizabeth II escape-proof prison camp in World War II or a Ministry of Defence site in the Cold War.
In the evening, I went to Vivienne & Martin Soan's monthly Pull The Other One comedy club at the beleaguered and now closed Ivy House pub in Nunhead. The venue was re-opened specially for the night to stage Pull The Other One with this month's headliner Jo Brand.
Vivienne & Martin now have their next six shows arranged but with no definite venue and are looking round, although they would prefer to stay at the warmly ornate and atmospheric mirrored 'golden room' behind the Ivy House bar. One local alternative might be The Old Waiting Room at Peckham Rye Station.
Comedian and novelist Dominic Holland, making his second appearance at Pull The Other One called it "the weirdest gig that exists," which it surely is. The format is about two hours of variety acts and two stand-up comics. Unusually, nowadays, the bizarre variety acts – far be it from me to name-drop Bob Slayer and Holly Burn – are as important to the feel of the shows as the stand-ups.
Afterwards, Dominic told me that his 14-year-old son Tom Holland, recently on stage as Billy Elliot in the West End, is currently in Thailand filming a lead role in major Hollywood blockbuster The Impossible. I thought Dominic was probably 'talking up' this film out of fatherly pride until I looked it up on IMDB Pro and found it is a big-budget tsunami disaster movie "starring Ewan McGregor and Tom Holland" and is one of the "most anticipated films of 2011".
Other shocks of the evening were that the much talked-about cult comedian Dr Brown has got an entirely new character act in which he actually moves and talks semi-coherently. And I heard that legendary 'open spot' act Jimbo – he seems to have been doing open spots as long as Cilla Black has been acting-out the role of ordinary woman next door – is now getting paid gigs, has allegedly changed into a (different) character act and is perhaps going to the Edinburgh Fringe. If he won an award as Best Newcomer at the Fringe it would be very funny and would be a triumph for Brian Damage of Pear Shaped, who has long championed Jimbo and other – even by my standards – very, very bizarre acts.
A very funny night at Pull The Other One ended very entertainingly but totally unsurprisingly with nudity. There were even some calls for The Naked Balloon Dance of fond memory.
Meanwhile, out in the real world, Tunisia continued to stumble around like a blinded meerkat towards potential anarchic chaos and tanks were rolling around Cairo to prevent what threatened to be a popular uprising.
Is it my imagination or have things deteriorated badly in that area since the United Nations, evidently an organisation with no sense of irony, appointed Tony Blair as Middle East Peace Envoy and why is it I never actually see any pictures of him in the Middle East?
Could it be he's just too busy talking to God and this week, according to The Times, signing a six-figure deal to make four speeches for a hedge fund which made around £100 million by betting on the collapse of the Northern Rock bank in the UK?
This was shortly after the Daily Mail reported that he got £300,000 for making one speech for banking giant Goldman Sachs, while he had a £2.5 million deal as "advisor" to JP Morgan, who, according to London's Evening Standard, won a contract to set up an Iraqi bank in the wake of the US-led invasion.
Which gets us back to the subject of Mr Methane and farting around the world and brings up the possibly pertinent question:
What is the difference between being a comedian and taking the piss?
Filed under Comedy, Finance, History, Movies, Politics, Theatre
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The intangible nature of reality and the man with the (second?) biggest bollocks in British showbusiness
Yesterday, I drove up to see a friend in Cromer, on the North Norfolk coast.
Looking further north, from the end of Cromer Pier, she told me there is nothing until you reach the North Pole. And even when you get to the North Pole… there is nothing.
Well, there's something, but you can't quite put your finger on it.
The 'facts' surrounding "godfather of British Alternative Comedy" Malcolm Hardee can be a bit intangible too. The myths are many, various and often surreal. I read the other day that he once kidnapped the singer George Michael, mistaking him for a George Michael lookalike. Where that story came from I have no idea, but Malcolm would have enjoyed it.
On the way back from Cromer, I stopped off at North Walsham in Norfolk, for dinner or supper depending on where you come from. I suppose I could call it a dinner party, except I'm not convinced such things exist except in Islington. But one thing I'm sure of is that also tucking-in was Vivienne Soan, who runs the monthly Pull The Other One comedy club in Nunhead, South London (this month's show headlining Jo Brand has, not unusually, already sold out).
The subject of Malcolm Hardee inevitably cropped up.
Malcolm was renowned for having the biggest bollocks in British showbusness. Although, strictly speaking, we are not talking here of bollocks but of scrotum. In fact, in later years, in rare moments of quiet contemplation, he would admit to me that he only had the second biggest bollocks in British showbusiness, following what he told me was an embarrassing tabletop contest with Jenny Agutter's dad. Whether this is true or not I don't know, but I prefer to think it is.
When Malcolm drowned in Rotherhithe at the end of January 2005, the story which initially circulated was that he had probably fallen out of a small rowing boat into the water late at night while crossing the maybe 8ft of water between his Wibbley Wobbley floating pub and his house boat the Sea Sovereign.
The story was that he died happy, drunk, clutching a bottle of Budweiser and – it was said, depending on which version of the story you heard – he had anything from £50 to £250 in his pocket – winnings from a horse race or a greyhound race that day.
The story about the bottle of beer was confirmed at the Southwark Coroner's Inquest.
According to PC Martin Spirito, when Malcolm's body was found in Greenland Dock, "the male had a bottle of beer clenched in his right hand." Sergeant Roy Dawson, overseeing the dive, said: "The bottle was held in his right hand. It fell from his hand on the ascent."
The Coroner found Malcolm had not fallen into the dock from a rowing boat, as people had assumed and had told each other, but had fallen from the quayside while trying to board the Sea Sovereign. I once fell into a neighbouring dock myself, while helping Malcolm take a vacuum cleaner on board his boat. (Don't ask.)
Yesterday, though, Vivienne Soan told me another story about the money in Malcolm's pocket when he died. She and her husband Martin (who long performed with Malcolm in The Greatest Show on Legs) understood there were no £50-£250 betting winnings in his pocket but there were a very very large number of £1 coins because Malcolm had (not surprisingly, if you knew him) raided his own one-armed bandit machine in the Wibbley Wobbley and put all the coins in his pocket.
The weight of all these coins in his pocket would have weighed him down when he fell into Greenland Dock.
Who knows what is truth and what is myth?
Malcolm's date of death is usually quoted as 31st January 2005. But, in fact, Southwark Coroner John Sampson said at the Inquest: "He was last seen on the quayside outside the Wibbley Wobbley public house at about 6am on Sunday January 30th."
He was not reported missing until January 31st – because it was not uncommon for him to disappear occasionally – and his body was not found and recovered until February 2nd 2005.
So his date of death is usually quoted as January 31st 2005.
More probably it was January 30th 2005.
But, as Malcolm would have said:
"Fuck it… It don't matter, do it? There are people starving in Africa… Not all over… Round the edge – fish."
I would say R.I.P. Malcolm, except that I suspect he would have hated the thought of resting in peace.
Many will be thinking of him on 30th and/or 31st January.
The Malcolm Hardee Awards for comedy are presented annually in August until the year 2017.
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Jan 5, 2011 · 9:21 am
The near-sinking of comedian Malcolm Hardee's birthday party on 5th January 2002
The late comedian Malcolm Hardee was born on 5th January 1950. He used to put on a birthday comedy show. This is an extract from my 2002 diary. Malcolm had recently bought the Wibbley Wobbley floating pub in Greenland Dock, Rotherhithe… He drowned a few feet away from the Wibbley Wobbley in 2005.
SATURDAY 5th JANUARY 2002
Charlie Chuck, advertising man Paul (whom Chuck knows) and I went to the first of two birthday parties which Malcolm Hardee is holding this weekend. It was on his new floating pub The Wibbley Wobbley.
When we arrived, Malcolm was dressed in naval captain's uniform with Russian Convoy medals on his chest. I went to the bow area to say hello to him.
"Go back up to the bar end," he whispered, "We're sinking – I'm not kidding – We're going down."
And, as we walked back up towards the bar, sure enough, I realised we were indeed walking slightly uphill.
We were all eventually evacuated – maybe thirty of us – and someone suggested the problem seemed to be that they were trying to pump the water out underwater via the pump where water enters.
A fire engine turned up. Then two policemen. Then another two policemen. Then another fire engine. Then another two policemen. And another two. It was a good night for criminals in Rotherhithe. The police were unsmiling and uninterested except when they had chats amongst themselves. The firemen were surprisingly fat. How do they get up ladders?
On the quayside, one theory for the slow sinking of the Wibbley Wobbley was that ice in the recent bitterly cold weather had blocked the pump and a build-up of shit in the septic tank was weighing down the vessel at one end.
The Wibbley Wobbley is not yet insured. No surprise there: neither is Malcolm's car; and he has two driving licences under different names.
After about twenty minutes, Malcolm told me: "The Coast Guard have arrived. Straight up, a bloke from the Coast Guard has just just turned up because he heard about it. He seems to be in the mood for a party." We turned and looked at the eight policemen already here. They did not talk to the Coast Guard man.
A well-known comedian was standing next to us with staring eyes, accompanied by a tall dark man who also had brightly staring eyes. Both looked startled at what was happening.
This is no time to be on coke, I thought.
We were eventually allowed back on the ship by the firemen.
Then we were evacuated again and told no-one would be allowed back on again that night.
Then we were let back on board again.
In all, the non-sinking took about 90 minutes.
The eventual explanation was that, indeed, a pipe had got blocked and shit really had built up on board to such an extent that it almost sank the boat and everyone in it.
A simile for many a comedy career, perhaps.
POSTSCRIPTS
Malcolm's friend Deke has continued the tradition of Malcolm's annual birthday party (well it would be annual, wouldn't it?) on the Sunday nearest to 5th January. This year it is this coming Sunday (9th January 2011) from 7.00pm at the Lord Hood pub next to Up The Creek in Greenwich. The event will include performances by Steve Bowditch (ex-Greatest Show on Legs) and a screening of The Tunnel the award-nominated short film about Malcolm's notorious comedy club The Tunnel Palladium. Deke's e-mail is dekedecore@hotmail.com … You can see The Greatest Show on Legs – Martin Soan, Steve Bowditch and Malcolm Hardee – perform their Naked Balloon Dance here.
This year's annual Malcolm Hardee Awards for Comedy will be presented during a special two-hour tribute show at the Edinburgh Fringe – starting at 10.00pm on the evening of Friday 26th August 2011.
There is a Malcolm Hardee Appreciation Society group on Facebook.
Filed under Comedy, Drugs
Tagged as balloon dance, birthday party, Blackwall Tunnel, Britain, british, Charlie Chuck, Coast Guard, cocaine, coke, comedy, comedy careers, comedy club, England, fire brigade, Greatest Show on Legs, Greenland Dock, Greenwich, london, London Docks, Lord Hood, Malcolm hardee, Malcolm Hardee Awards, Martin Soan, Metropolitan Police, naked, Palladium, pub, public house, Rotherhithe, Russian Convoy, Sophia Khan, Steve Bowditch, toilets, Tunnel Palladium, uk, Wibbley Wobbley, Wibbly Wobbly
A funny thing happened at comedian Malcolm Hardee's birthday show in January 1999
The comedian Malcolm Hardee drowned in 2005. His birthday was on 5th January. Every year at his Up The Creek comedy club in Greenwich, he used to put on a show and post-show party on the nearest Sunday to 5th January. This is an extract from my 1999 diary…
SUNDAY 3rd JANUARY 1999
In the evening, I went to Malcolm Hardee's birthday show and party.
Before the show started, we were in the Lord Hood pub next to Up The Creek and, for some reason, I asked him: "Who are those people sitting over there?"
He nodded at one of the group: "That's the stripper I used to go out with."
She was a middle-aged woman.
"She hasn't done it for a while," he added.
Malcolm started his show by saying lots of people in the audience had seen him so many times he was just going to tell the set-up for each of his jokes and they could complete the punch-line… Which they did.
There was an old woman
Who lived in a shoe
She had so many children…
…Her cunt fell off.
What goes in-out, in-out, in-out and smells of piss?…
…The Queen Mother doing the Hokey Cokey.
The first act on was Chris Luby, performing his traditional imitations of Trooping The Colour and wartime spitfires with his mouth. Apparently, on Malcolm's Christmas Eve show, Chris' act had gone badly and, in the middle of his Battle of Britain impression, a heckler had yelled out: "Do a glider!"
Tonight's acts also included The Bastard Son of Tommy Cooper who did a couple of sword-swallowing routines I hadn't seen before. He bent a wire coat-hanger flat, put it down his throat as normal – his head bent back to let the metal go down his throat in a straight line – and then he brought his head 90 degrees forward to its normal position and pulled out the bent coat-hanger. He also put a red neon strip light down his throat while the house lights were dimmed and we could see his throat illuminated through the thin skin.
Charlie Chuck performed as only Charlie Chuck can. A drum kit was destroyed. Then someone I didn't recognise came on and imitated Malcolm as host and, after Boothby Graffoe performed, the stand-in came on again and impersonated Malcolm hosting the show.
Where is Malcolm? I wondered.
So I went to the bar and it turned out he had collapsed by the toilets. I met his mother who said she had thought he was dead: his face had been grey and they had almost called an ambulance. Both she and I were surprised because he hadn't really been drunk earlier. And, as I had seen him paralytically drunk a few months ago, I was especially surprised.
Malcolm told me: "I just went straight down – unconscious. I think someone spiked my drink."
When he returned to the stage to continue the show, he still didn't seem particularly drunk either, so maybe someone did indeed spike his drink.
He took it in his stride – as he takes any unique, bizarre event – as if it's a perfectly normal thing to happen.
If they built a Malcolm Hardee theme park it would be in the style of Magritte and/or Salvador Dali.
Malcolm's friend Deke is holding his annual remembrance celebration of Malcolm this Sunday (9th January 2011) from 7.00pm at the Lord Hood pub next to Up The Creek in Greenwich. The event will include a screening of The Tunnel the award-nominated short film about Malcolm's notorious comedy club The Tunnel Palladium. Deke's e-mail is dekedecore@hotmail.com
Filed under Comedy, Movies
Tagged as bastard son, Battle of Britain, Boothby Graffoe, Charlie Chuck, Chris Luby, comedy club, drink, Greenwich, hokey cokey, Lord Hodd, Magritte, Malcolm hardee, Malcolm Hardee Award, Mickey Finn, pub, public house, Queen Mother, Salvador Dali, spike, stripper, sword swallowiing, Tommy Cooper, Trooping the Colour, Tunnel Palladium, Uncle Peter, Up The Creek
Dec 10, 2010 · 9:44 pm
Britain's got talent in pubs
It's amazing what you can find in an ordinary British pub. Top class levels of musicianship, for example.
I once read an interview in which the brilliant Randy Newman unwisely said, with more than a trace of entirely justified bitterness, that if his name had been Bob Dylan his last album would have sold millions more than it did. Because Dylan had widespread fame and he didn't. It's ironic that Randy Newman, one of the most brilliant writers of songs for sophisticated grown-ups, should have only stumbled on serious mainstream success when he started writing songs for Pixar's animated children's feature films (although he did also write the wonderful theme tune for the equally wonderful US TV series Monk, currently screening in the UK on ITV3 and on the Quest channel).
On Thursday night I went to the Wickham Arms pub in Brockley, South East London, for a second consecutive monthly visit to see Paul Astles and Bobby Valentino perform together – they appear there fairly regularly – their next appearance is in a fortnight.
I figured last month might have been a freakish success. But this time it was definitely not; it was pure talent and experience. The punters in the Wickham Arms are so fascinating and individually unique they would tend to detract from and outshine most performers – I've seldom seen such a collection of odd headgear, facial hair and faces straight from Renaissance paintings or a Hogarth print – but not last night. It's equally seldom I've seen a member of the audience in the saloon bar of pub actually get up out of her seat and bop. It was like Glastonbury gone local.
Before my visit last month, I hadn't seen the amazing Bobby Valentino for maybe 20 years. I saw him perform back in, I guess, the mid 1980s with The Hank Wangford Band and then, around 1990, solo with his own backing band.
He was always talented – a great fiddler and singer who was a distracting lookalike of actor Clark Gable from Gone With The Wind. Now, after 25 years, his fiddle playing has a subtle, seeming effortless flow to it, the sound moving from violin to mandolin to ukelele and to an almost mini-orchestral sound on some songs.
And, on Thursday night, he played ornate backing to the wonderful voice of Paul Astles. Like Randy Newman with the inferior and vastly overrated Bob Dylan, if Paul Astle's name were Paul Weller, he would be selling albums by the lorryload and playing arenas around the country. His voice is that good. And, with Bobby Valentino complementing him, it was an astonishing night. He switched from Johnny Cash to Neil Young to Merle Haggard to his own songs as effortlessly as Bobby Valentino's violin swooped around him – and he made each song his own: none a copy.
The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent throw the spotlight on wannabe semi-talents or non-talents with the right hairstyles. Meanwhile, real talent goes un-noticed. 'Twas ever thus.
As with comedians, so with musicians – it's often British pubs which are showcasing world class acts. The bullshitters get on TV.
The good news is that Paul Astles and Bobby Valentino may have a CD out next year. Though not, of course, on a major label.
Filed under Comedy, Music, Television
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Our Attraction to Partners Who Look Like Our Parents
Just like daddy? Do straight women and gay men seek partners who look like dad?
Do women tend to shack up with men who resemble their fathers?
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How do parents influence their children's choice of partner?
I'm not talking about direct influences, here. It's certainly true that in some cultures parents arrange marriages for their offspring, and even in the most liberal societies it is common for parents to pass judgement on the boyfriends and girlfriends their kids bring home for dinner. But what about more subtle influences that neither parents nor offspring are likely to be aware of?
You may have heard of imprinting. It's the biological phenomenon that explains why ducklings follow the first individual they encounter after hatching. In normal circumstances, that makes sense because the chicks are likely to spot their mother first. Many psychologists think that humans also imprint on their parents, and that this imprinting affects the type of person we find most attractive later in life.
Past research has shown that heterosexual men and women have a 'type' when it comes to hair and eye color, and that the type matches their opposite sex parent. Of course, many of us have the same hair and eye color as our parents, which is why it's important to test whether we prefer partners who look more like us or more like our parent: the parents win out.
We also know that women who grow up with an older father tend to prefer older men themselves.
Zuzana Štěrbová of Charles University in Prague, along with her research collaborators in Prague and São Paulo, decided to investigate whether other physical qualities of our parents can influence our mate preferences. They recruited around 900 people who were attracted to men: ~750 straight women and ~150 gay men.
Each of the volunteers was shown a 5x5 grid of images. Each image was a silhouette of a naked man. The volunteers' task: to pick out the man whose body looked most like their own (if they were male), most like their ideal partner, most like their current or most recent partner, and most like their father as they remembered him from their childhood.
But the images weren't chosen randomly. They were taken from a 1950s textbook — The Atlas of Men — which depicts a variety of men's bodies according to their somatotype. A male body's somatotype can vary from ectomorphic, to endomorphic, to mesomorphic. In simpler language, a man can be skinny, fat, muscled or any point in between.
Štěrbová found that gay men and straight women didn't vary in their preferences for men's bodies. Both men and women preferred a man who was somewhat midway between muscled and skinny, and didn't prefer a man who was fat. When it came to actual partners, gay men and straight women were different. First of all, there was a lot more variation in the bodies of actual partners than ideal partners. Gay men's partners tended to be fatter (or, at least, to be perceived as fatter by the volunteers themselves), and straight women's partners tended to be more muscled.
What about the fathers' body types? The researchers found that straight women's ideal partner body shape was similar to the body shape of their fathers. The effect was weak, but present in all three components: endomorphy, ectomorphy, and mesomorphy. Gay men's ideal partners and their fathers were only similarly skinny.
However, these preferences did not seem to translate into the real-world choice of partners, because the volunteers reported that the bodies of their fathers and their actual partners were neither similar nor dissimilar. This could be because we are constrained in our ability to choose our partners: we may have to compromise because our preferred partner doesn't prefer us, we may value other traits more highly than body shape and so choose a partner based more on those instead, or we may have a limited pool of partners to choose from.
In an important further analysis, the researchers showed that women who reported a good childhood relationship with their father were more likely to express a preference for male bodies that were similar to their fathers'. This makes sense if we think of imprinting as a way of modeling our parents' choice of partner. In other words, maybe women unconsciously perceive their fathers as a good example of an ideal partner. But, if true, it is unclear why there was no such link between the quality of father-child relationship and mate preference in gay men. As the researchers point out, it could be because gay men and lesbians tend to report lower quality relationships with their parents, and it is plausible that for the imprinting-like effect to fully emerge it is necessary that parents and children have a good relationship.
Štěrbová, Z., Trébický, V., Havlíček, J., Tureček, P., Varella, A. M. C., & Valentova, J. V. (2017). Father's physique influences mate preferences but not the actual choice of male somatotype in heterosexual women and homosexual men. Evolution and Human Behavior.
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Murphy was first elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 2006, and served the 64A district until leaving office in 2015. During her last two years in office, she served as the Democratic majority leader.
In 2016, Murphy announced her candidacy for the 2018 Minnesota gubernatorial race, running on a platform of statewide single-payer healthcare, lessening the educational achievement gap and reducing racial disparities in Minnesota. She was defeated during the primaries by governor-elect Tim Walz.
Before serving in the Minnesota House of Representatives, Murphy worked as legislative director for former Attorney General Hubert Humphrey III, worked as an operating room nurse and served on the board of trustees for the American Nurses Association political action committee.
Murphy holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh and a Master of Art in Organizational Leadership from St. Kate's.


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Meet the local man at the helm of efforts to keep Birmingham's iconic Rickwood Field open and thriving.
Clarence Watkins has gone from being a perpetual right fielder to overseeing one of the most iconic baseball parks in the country.
The Pelham resident is executive director of the Friends of Rickwood Field, the non-profit group that strives to preserve the Birmingham stadium built in 1910. It is the oldest professional baseball park in America, and it is still in regular use.
"We are the home field for Miles College and two high schools, Ramsay and Carver," said Watkins. "Birmingham-Southern is going to play some games here this year. We are going to have an American Legion tournament, and a group in Chicago has inquired about using Rickwood."
"I get emails and phone calls every week from people wanting to come out. At least two or three times a week people just drop in and ask if they can see the park. It's on web sites and [sports] bucket lists."
The stadium is owned by the city of Birmingham, which provides some funding for its maintenance and upkeep. The Friends of Rickwood Field run the park with a 99-year lease, overseeing its restoration and day-to-day activities.
Clarence Watkins as a boy.
But about that right fielder.
A native of Memphis, Watkins was on the track team at Messick High School but only played baseball in a church league.
"Even in church league I was the right fielder," he said, laughing about the position traditionally reserved for the least talented kid on the team.
His love affair with baseball started with radio broadcasts.
"I had a grandfather who lived with us off and on. He was a huge baseball fan, and he'd go to bed at night with the [St. Louis] Cardinals game on the radio. My brother and I could hear the games in our room," he said.
Did he go to Memphis Chicks games as a kid?
"I have vague recollections of it, but the stadium burned when I was 10 years old. And like most kids I was more interested in getting a hot dog and whether I would get a souvenir than the game. But I had a moth-eaten Memphis Chicks uniform and there are some fuzzy pictures of me wearing it. I think it was a hand-me-down from a first cousin. I asked my mother about it, but she couldn't tell me. I 'd give anything to have that uniform now no matter how moth-eaten it is.
"My best buddy collected baseball cards, and he got me going. It was a gradual thing, but from about 1958 I was totally hooked. Baseball cards consumed my life until about 1965."
An original program from the opening day at Rickwood Field in 1910.
Then real life took over. There was high school and college and eventually marriage and a job. There was little contact with baseball until 1972 when the Oakland A's won the first of three straight World Series. Coincidentally, most of the stars on those teams had played with the Birmingham A's at Rickwood.
"Then there was the Boston-Cincinnati World Series and Carlton Fisk's home run," he recalled. "I started buying a few baseball cards, mostly curious to see what they were doing with them."
Then he ran across a book called The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book. The authors, Brendan C. Boyd and Fred C. Harris, had a joyous, zany approach to cards that reminded Watkins of the fun he had with them as a kid. Soon, he was collecting again.
From 1986-96 he was living in Statesboro, Georgia, about 45 minutes from Savannah, which had a minor league team. He was sales manager for Georgia and South Carolina with Durkee-French Foods. During this time someone gave him a bunch of wire service photographs of old Southern Association ball parks such as Ponce de Leon in Atlanta, Engel Stadium in Chattanooga and Rickwood Field in Birmingham. He got interested in stadiums and ball parks and was soon visiting them when he traveled.
"My job gave me an opportunity to travel all over the Southeast. I'd go to the local history department in the local library and look at their baseball files and make copies of photos and articles," he said.
Often those files would contain a note written by some other researcher, welcoming contact from fellow baseball historians. He began a correspondence with Chuck Stewart, an Auburn resident, who shared material on Rickwood.
"This was about 1994. I had no idea I was going to move to Birmingham," he said.
"One day we had a sales meeting in Birmingham. I asked a couple of local guys, 'Where was Rickwood Field?' They looked at other and said it still was located and told me where. I drove over there after the meeting They had just finished filming Cobb there and the place was pristine. When I walked in through that third base gate, I'm sure my jaw must have dropped. I was in such shock. It was beautiful. All of the other Southern Association ball parks had burned or been torn down," he said.
In 1996 his company moved him to Birmingham. A couple of years later he got a new computer and discovered the internet and eBay and his baseball research and collecting "just exploded." Driving home from work one day he was listening to a sports-talk radio show. They mentioned that former New York Yankee Clete Boyer was going to be the guest at a meeting of something called the Triple Play Club. There he talked with people like Lamar Smith, Gerald Watkins and Joe de Leonard, all of whom are involved in the Friends of Rickwood Field.
"I said, 'These are my kind of people!'''
For the next couple of decades Watkins enjoyed continuing this research and collecting, going to Birmingham Barons games, never realizing that a hobby would lead to a dream job.
The manager's office at Rickwood has been staged with memorabilia to resemble what it might have looked like back in the day.
In 2017 a series of events dovetailed to make that dream job happen. First, David Brewer, executive director of the FORF for 20 years, resigned. About the same time, it was discovered that the stadium had massive foundation problems requiring immediate attention. Watkins was asked if he would take the position on a part-time basis during the construction and full-time afterward.
"I was only working part-time," he said. "About that time the company I was working for let me know that my position was being eliminated. I couldn't have planned it any better."
With the renovations completed and a new baseball season looming, Watkins said he is excited about upcoming events at Rickwood. In addition to the high school and college games, the Tennessee Vintage Baseball Association will return on April 20. The group presents games with rules, equipment and culture of the 1860s.
The annual Rickwood Classic, a Birmingham Barons game with a Southern League opponent, will return on May 29. Special guest for the afternoon game will be former major league player and manager Lou Piniella.
The 16th Annual Southern Association Conference will be on March 2. This year's theme focuses on the Dixie Series playoffs between the Southern Association and the Texas League from 1920-58. A Negro Leagues conference is planned for July.
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Who Will Suffer As A Result of Euro Policies? The Jews.
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It is as if the U.S. were to renounce the dollar for the "amro," a common currency with countries as different as Mexico. Colombia, Brazil and Argentina. A documentary on German television last week revealed that the political class in Europe knew that the Greeks were cooking the books, but did not care. Extremist parties of the Left and the Right (all of them anti-Semitic) are rapidly gaining electoral support at the expense of mainstream parties....
The European Union, and especially its common currency, the euro, is on the brink of collapse. The Greeks, unable to form a government after the May 6 elections, will have to go to the polls again next month. In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel is rapidly losing support. If she cares about her reelection next year, she had better push Greece out of the eurozone rather than keep that country afloat with German taxpayers' money. If Greece leaves, the whole euro edifice might come down – a better outcome than the present situation, in which extremist parties on the Left and the Right (all of them anti-Semitic) are rapidly gaining electoral support at the expense of mainstream parties which keep clinging to the failed project of the common European currency.
A recent program on German television revealed that former German Chancellor Kohl had exchanged the strong D-mark for the crisis-prone euro because he wanted to atone for Germany's role in the Second World War. Contemporary Germans, however, are not inclined to pay for the Greeks and other southern Europeans to make up for their grandfathers' role in the Second World War.
The euro project was flawed from the beginning. It lumped various countries with widely divergent economies, cultures and languages together in a single monetary union, imposing a "one size fits none" monetary policy on 17 countries which have little in common but the fact that they are all located on the European continent. It is as if the U.S. were to renounce the dollar for the 'amro,' a common currency with countries as different as Mexico, Colombia, Brazil and Argentina.
In this fashion, a prosperous and industrious northern European country such as Germany, the economic powerhouse of Europe, renounced the D-mark for a euro, which also included a nation such as Greece, where corrupt politicians lied and cheated about the country's dire economic situation.
A documentary on German television last week revealed that the political class in Europe knew that the Greeks were cooking the books, but did not care. The euro was a political project. Former European Commissioner Frits Bolkestein admitted as much in the documentary. Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl renounced the D-mark for a euro which was to include as many countries as possible. "Kohl was a romantic as far as the EU was concerned," Bolkestein said. "For Kohl, European unification was the way for Germany to atone for the Second World War. That is why he wanted to have as many countries in the eurozone as possible, whether they qualified or not."
Bolkestein admitted that he had misgivings about the inclusion of countries such as Greece in the eurozone. In the same documentary, Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank from 2003 to 2011, admitted that the financial crisis in Greece, which is currently dragging the euro down with it, could only have happened because the EU refused to see the obvious. It was an eye-opening documentary that enraged many Germans viewers.
The euro crisis is leading to a general dissatisfaction of the Europeans with the governing political class, whether left, the right or center. In less than one and a half years, 10 of the 17 government leaders of the eurozone have been brought down or voted out of office. This happened in February 2011 to Ireland's centrist Prime Minister Brian Cowen; in April 2011 to Finland's centrist Prime Minister Mari Kiviniemi; in June 2011 to Portugal's socialist Prime Minister Jose Socrates; in September 2011 to Slovenia's socialist Prime Minister Borut Pahor; in October 2011 to Slovakia's center-right Prime Minister Iveta Radicova; in November 2011 to Italy's center-right Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Greece's socialist Prime Minister George Papandreou and Spain's socialist Prime Minister Jose Zapatero; in April 2012 to the Netherlands' center-right Prime Minister Mark Rutte; in May 2012 to France's center-right President Nicolas Sarkozy.
All ten of them fell -- directly or indirectly -- as a result of the eurocrisis. It is generally expected that the same fate will befall Germany's center-right Chancellor Angela Merkel in next year's German general elections. Merkel is Helmut Kohl's successor as leader of the Christian-Democrat Party CDU. In last Sunday's state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany's most populous state, where almost a quarter of all Germans live, the CDU lost its position as the biggest party in the state to the Socialists. The CDU lost a quarter of its votes, while the Pirate Party, some of whose leaders acknowledge that the party is infiltrated by neo-Nazis, entered the NRW state parliament.
The largest European countries, Germany, France and Italy, which were (or, in Germany's case, are) led by center-right politicians, are shifting to the left. In countries where the left has lost the leadership, the extreme-left won significantly in the elections.
Extreme-right parties are also on the rise. In Greece, the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn won 7% of the vote on May 6. For the first time, the Nazis entered the Greek parliament, winning no fewer than 21 seats.
Europe's shift to the Left will also affect its domestic policies: the Left's penchant for deficit spending and multiculturalism will become dominant again. Rather than bringing peace and prosperity to Europe, the failed EU project may lead to economic decline and risky political behavior.
As explained earlier, the shift in European politics will surely affect Europe's future relations with the rest of the Western world, in particular the U.S. and Israel. While Golden Dawn remains a fringe party, the extreme-left Greek Syriza party became the second biggest party in the country on May 6, surpassing the socialist Pasok party. Syriza has a party platform which includes "disengagement from NATO" and "termination of the military cooperation with Israel." Syriza is expected to become the largest party when the Greeks are called to the voting booths again next month.
In France, too, the election victory of the Socialist Francois Hollande has driven Jewish unease. "More French Jews will leave France," journalist Melanie Phillips predicts.
The fact that Kohl's atonement policy for German crimes during the Second World War has led to the euro disaster is bitterly ironic: the people bound to suffer the worst as a result of Kohl's hubristic euro policies are Israel and the Jews.
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Take 5 with MacKenzie Kossler
by Joseph May 25, 2021, 7:45 pm 1.1k Views
In this series, Healthcare design Senior healthcare design professionals, companies, and owners are asked to tell us what caught their attention and share some insights on the topic.
MacKenzie Kusler is a designer at Ryan Architecture + Engineering (Minneapolis). Here, she shares her ideas on Design for Health Equity and the importance of understanding site analysis, historical research, and societal context before creating a design.
Understand the social determinants of health
Health equity is based on the idea that everyone has access to the essentials that support positive health, but the truth is that it is severely limited by social determinants of health, such as access to food and education, economic stability, and the neighborhood environment. If health outcomes are rooted in where you live, designing for health equity must start outside of the health care facility and in the context of the community. To understand and design the conditions that determine patient outcomes before they advance in a healthcare environment, designers need to assess the location, community, and historical context.
Site evaluation and historical analysis
Traditional architectural site analysis revolves around inquiries at the surface level such as studies of sun, shade and winds. To start thinking and designing for health equity, a site evaluation must also include in-depth site analyzes and historical research, which can shed light on the basic facts of the site and how it is informed or informing its surroundings. The discoveries may include a historical lack of investment or the high use of racially restricted vocabulary in title deeds that deprive people of color of ownership. For example, an in-depth site analysis might reveal an area where there has been a lack of investment in public transportation. As a result, residents of that area cannot easily access care outside of their own area. The proposed solution would be to design a site that is highly accessible and inaccessible to pedestrian traffic.
Research in community context
After achieving a comprehensive understanding of the site, it becomes essential to understand how it relates to the community as a whole. This includes research into how social determinants of health emerge and influence the health of neighborhood residents. For example, it became apparent how some societies may be more vulnerable to poor health outcomes when mapping COVID-19 mortality rates, with rates twice as high among populations of black, indigenous and people of color. In contrast, it becomes important to think about the social determinants of health that have manifested themselves through systemic causes such as housing and infrastructure policy, how they can be sustained within the built environment, and the corresponding impacts on health and access to resources.[this addition pretty much repeats what she said in sentence above. I'd cut it]]For proper design of health equity, designers must gain a deeper understanding of the individuals affected.
Reflection of Community Research
Design is often seen as tangible, but it can also be based on relationship and system designs. For example, research may indicate high rates of childhood obesity, and potential solutions could be a healthy food initiative or nutritional education. Not only can this support long-term health and wellness, but it can continue to evolve with the changing society. This research can also guide site selection and development, spatially informed design, and community-related construction.
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For health equity, the design should largely reflect what has been learned during site analysis, historical research, and the societal context. If this broader understanding is not achieved before the design is created, opportunities for communication and community support will be missed. Architecture needs to expand outside the physical building and consider the people and society in which they live.
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Robert Pera Decides To Retain Control Of Grizzlies
April 10th, 2018 at 10:42am CST by Dana Gauruder
10:42am: Tim Bontemps of The Washington Post clarifies (via Twitter) that Pera will purchase Kaplan's share at the same valuation as Straus' high bid (noted below), buying out both minority stakeholders.
APRIL 10, 9:38am: ESPN's Zach Lowe provides a couple more details on the Grizzlies' ownership situation, reporting that it was Straus' bid – rather than Kaplan's – that Pera needed to match. Straus' higher bid valued the franchise between $1.3 billion and $1.4 billion, per Lowe.
With Pera set to buy out Straus, it's unclear how Kaplan and his shares are impacted, Lowe adds.
APRIL 9, 7:12pm: Grizzlies majority owner Robert Pera has sent a formal notice to the NBA indicating that he will retain his controlling interest in the franchise, the team announced in a press release.
Pera shared his decision in an open letter from to Grizzlies MVP Season Ticket Members. Minority stakeholders Steve Kaplan and Daniel Straus had triggered a clause in the purchase agreement that forced Pera to either buy them out or sell at a valuation of their choosing.
That duo placed a valuation of just over $1 billion on the franchise. Pera then needed to decide between buying out their shares or selling his own shares at the price of their valuation.
Pera might still wind up selling the team in the long run after buying out their shares, Tim Bontemps of the Washington Post tweets.
Pera's decision to retain control could also improve the chances of J.B. Bickerstaff being retained as head coach.
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Grizzlies Notes: Pera, Transactions, NBA Draft
April 6th, 2018 at 6:34pm CST by Austin Kent
The working assumption around the NBA is that Robert Pera will retain ownership of the Grizzlies franchise, Chris Herrington of The Memphis Commercial Appeal tweets. The scribe cites comments made by Marc Stein of The New York Times in a recent podcast.
As we covered last month, Pera is expected to have the opportunity to buy out minority stakeholders Steve Kaplan and Daniel Straus after they triggered a clause in the purchase agreement that forced him to either buy them out or sell at a valuation of their choosing.
Herrington also relays that if Pera remains in control of the franchise, J.B. Bickerstaff is a decent bet to retain the head coaching job.
There's more out of Memphis tonight:
There's a very good chance that the Grizzlies end up with a top-six pick in this June's NBA draft. Chris Herrington of The Memphis Commercial Appeal recently broke down six of the top league prospects, such as DeAndre Ayton and Luka Doncic, detailing how they might or might not fit with the Grizzlies.
The Grizzlies haven't had much luck in the draft of late and 2016 first-round pick Wade Baldwin, who was surprisingly waived by the club prior to the 2017/18 season, is a reminder of that. Chris Herrington of The Memphis Commercial Appeal writes that Memphis needs to find a better way of stocking its cupboard with young talent.
Shortly after locking MarShon Brooks (our story) into a multiyear deal earlier today, the Grizzlies announced that they've cut Marquis Teague in order to make room to sign Omari Johnson (our story).
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Grizzlies Notes: Ownership, Losing Streak, Evans
March 15th, 2018 at 11:43am CST by Luke Adams
The unusual ownership situation in Memphis appears set to take a step forward, according to a report from Daniel Kaplan of SportsBusiness Journal. As we've detailed in the past, the nature of the agreement between the Grizzlies' various owners gives controlling owner Robert Pera the opportunity to buy out two of the club's top minority stakeholders, or to sell his shares to one of them.
As Kaplan details, Steve Kaplan and Daniel Straus intend to place a valuation of just over $1 billion on the Grizzlies. Once the two minority owners make that price official, Pera would have to decide between buying out their shares or selling his own shares at the price of their valuation. According to Kaplan, most observers of the process expect Pera to keep the team, but if he sells, Kaplan and Straus would have to determine which of them will become the controlling owner.
While Pera may ultimately buy out Kaplan and Straus, that decision seems less obvious now than it has in the past. As Grizzly Bear Blues outlined last month, Pera's company Ubiquiti Networks saw the value of its shares drop by 25% after the SEC issued subpeonas to look into the company's finances and structure. However, Kaplan estimates that Pera's shares in the telecommunications firm would still be worth nearly $4 billion today.
As we wait to see how the Grizzlies' ownership situation plays out, let's round up more notes out of Memphis…
The Grizzlies' 18-game losing streak has done wonders for the club's odds of landing a top pick in the 2018 draft, but all those losses are taking a toll on many of the team's players, writes Ronald Tillery of The Memphis Commercial Appeal. "I'm offended about losing. I'm just tired of losing," JaMychal Green said. "I'd rather win so we won't be talking about this. I'm trying to stay positive. … It's tough for us to lose. I'm trying not to let the losing affect me and my game and my spirit. I want to just finish strong."
According to Tillery, Tyreke Evans probably won't return to the court for Memphis before the end of the regular season, in part because it's simply not worth the risk as he prepares to enter free agency.
The Grizzlies signed Briante Weber to a 10-day contract on Wednesday to fill the roster spot vacated by Xavier Rathan-Mayes. We have that story right here.
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Grizzlies' Ownership Clause Activated
December 1st, 2017 at 4:32pm CST by Austin Kent
A critical clause in Memphis' franchise ownership agreement has been activated this week, Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic writes. As we've written in the past, the second-largest Grizzlies shareholders will now have an opportunity to possibly buy out majority owner Robert Pera.
In short, Steve Kaplan and Daniel Straus will be presented a chance to purchase Pera's stake (25-26%) at a price point of their choosing, a caveat being that when they submit their offer, Pera will have the option to instead buy their shares (13.5% each) at the same rate.
All eyes will be on how Pera handles the forced decision. As Krawczynski writes, Pera has been a notoriously absent owner and the franchise appears to be trending in the wrong direction.
The clause, then, marks an opportunity for Pera to cash out on what could prove to be a very successful investment considering that Kaplan and Straus will naturally look to dissuade him from matching and, of course, the rise in franchise valuations across the entire NBA in general.
While the Grizzlies were purchased for $377MM back in 2012, the recent sales of the Clippers and Rockets for north of $2B has obliterated the former precedent.
Pera will have 60-90 days from the day that the clause was activated which means that, barring any complications, we could see a resolution here by the end of January or February at the latest. The exact date that the clause was triggered is not presently known.
If nothing else, the activation of the clause could bring an end to a chapter of uncertainty for the franchise. This year especially, with a lack of familiar faces on the roster, a plethora of injuries and now a coaching change, any semblance of stability could bode well.
Whether that means Pera assumes a larger ownership stake or Straus and Kaplan unseat him altogether, however, remains to be seen.
Latest On Grizzlies' Ownership Situation
October 24th, 2017 at 10:08am CST by Luke Adams
As of this Thursday, a pair of Grizzlies minority owners will have the opportunity to make a play for majority ownership of the franchise, as Brian Windhorst and Zach Lowe detail in an ESPN.com report.
The unusual ownership situation in Memphis, which we outlined last month, allows Steve Kaplan and/or Daniel Straus, who each own about 14% of the Grizzlies, to make an offer to majority owner Robert Pera, who owns approximately 25-26% of the franchise.
If either Kaplan or Straus makes an offer during a 60-day window, which opens on Thursday, Pera would then have a 60-day window of his own to decide whether to buy Kaplan's or Straus' shares at their valuation, or whether to sell his own shares to them at that price.
Kaplan and Straus are under no obligation to initiate the process, but there's a belief that one or both of them will do so, sources tell Windhorst and Lowe. Still, it's possible that the process could take months to play out, with Straus and Kaplan standing by and watching to see what the other will do. If neither minority shareholder places a formal bid at this time, they'll have another chance to do so in 2020.
It will be interesting to see whether either minority stakeholder moves forward with an attempt to supplant Pera as the Grizzlies' controlling owner. The amount of a potential bid from Straus or Kaplan would be equally fascinating — Forbes' franchise valuations earlier this year pegged the Grizzlies' worth at $790MM, but those estimates are typically conservative. For comparison's sake, Forbes's valuation for the Rockets was $1.65 billion, and Tilman Fertitta bought the club several months later for $2.2 billion. The current Grizzlies' ownership group bought the team for about $350MM in 2012.
Of the Grizzlies' top two minority shareholders, Kaplan appears to be the more likely of the two to make a move, though that's just my speculation. He has made an effort in the past to gain a more significant stake in an NBA team, but attempts involving the Hawks and Timberwolves didn't pan out. Kaplan currently has a controlling interest in Swansea City, a Premier League soccer team in Wales.
While the Grizzlies' ownership situation is somewhat uncertain going forward, the team is off to a great start on the court. Memphis is 3-0 so far, with victories over the Warriors and Rockets.
Potential Ownership Change Looms For Grizzlies
September 9th, 2017 at 5:44pm CST by Austin Kent
At some point in October, there may be a transition in ownership of the Grizzlies but it's complicated. This week, Haley O'Shaughnessy of The Ringer broke down a clause built into the original purchase agreement when majority owner Robert Pera and company took over the franchise from Michael Heisley.
In short, October 25 marks the fifth anniversary of the consortium of owners led by Pera assuming control of the team. Pera's majority stake of the club, it's worth noting, is a somewhat modest 25%.
Built into the terms of the agreement at the time was language that ensured that the partial owners with the second- and third-largest shares in the club could potentially buy Pera out at price of their choosing.
In response to the national article published at The Ringer, Chris Herrington of the Memphis Commercial Appeal clarified some aspects of the agreement. Per Herrington, who wrote one of the original articles that O'Shaugnessy cited, five years after the original purchase (and every three years there after), either Steve Kaplan or Daniel Straus – who each own 14.22% – will have the option to bid for Pera's shares at a rate that they themselves choose.
At that point, the ball will fall into Pera's court, who will then elect to either sell his stake at that price or buy the offering party's stake at that same rate. Pera, therefore, can not trigger the event but his hands aren't exactly tied either. The onus is on either Kaplan or Straus, if they so dare, to find a pricepoint that will dissuade Pera from simply matching and taking over their own shares.
As O'Shaungessy writes in her piece for The Ringer, the relationship between Kaplan and Pera can be described as strained and Kaplan has aggressively sought a controlling ownership of his own NBA franchise, ultimately coming up short in bids for both the Hawks and the Timberwolves over the years.
Complicating matters is the recent sale of the Rockets for $2.2B that will inevitably bump franchise values across the board up dramatically, including that of the Grizzlies'.
In 2012, the Grizzlies sold for about $350MM (per Marc Stein of ESPN). In 2014, following the sale of the Clippers for $2B, Forbes projected the value of the franchise at $750MM. That, of course, is expected to creep up ever higher in light of the Rockets deal.
There's nothing set in stone that either Kaplan or Straus will pursue the bid for ownership, especially considering that it could backfire, but it's something worth keeping an eye on at that fifth anniversary draws ever closer.
Western Rumors: Wolves, Pau, Spurs, Parsons
June 28th, 2016 at 1:34pm CST by Luke Adams
Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor has finalized the sale of shares of the franchise, bringing in two minority stake-holders, writes Brian Windhorst of ESPN.com. According to Windhorst, Taylor closed separate deals with Shanghai-based businessman Lizhang Jiang and New York-based real estate magnate Meyer Orbach. Per Jon Krawczynski of The Associated Press (Twitter links), Jiang – the NBA's first Chinese minority owner – purchased about 5% of the Wolves, while Orbach took on about 9.5%. News of these sale agreements first surfaced in April.
Taylor had previously been in talks to sell 30% of the Timberwolves to Grizzlies minority-share owner Steve Kaplan, and they were reportedly discussing a plan to have Kaplan eventually succeed Taylor as the Wolves' primary owner. Windhorst suggests that deal has fallen apart, though Krawczynski tweets that there's "still some optimism" that the two sides could eventually work something out.
Here's more from around the Western Conference:
Appearing on Chris Mannix's podcast for The Vertical, Adrian Wojnarowski indicated that the Spurs are high on Pau Gasol, and could make him a priority in free agency this weekend (hat tip to Sportando). Pau's brother Marc Gasol has previously advised his brother to sign with San Antonio.
Mavericks forward Chandler Parsons conducted a Q&A with his followers on Twitter, and predictably, with just a few days to go until the recruiting period begins, there were several questions related to his free agency. As Adam Grosbard of The Dallas Morning News outlines, Parsons remained adamant that he's worthy of a max contract. When asked why he feels he deserves such a deal, the veteran forward replied, "Cuz I'm really good at basketball."
In an in-depth piece, Eddie Sefko of The Dallas Morning News runs through the Mavericks' blueprint for free agency, which includes Plan A, Plan B, and Plan CP (the team's alternatives at small forward should Parsons sign elsewhere).
Although the Jazz front office likes the team's core, Utah intends to fortify its roster via free agency or trades this summer, writes Jody Genessy of The Deseret News. While the acquisition of George Hill was a start, GM Dennis Lindsey has more in mind, and has described the club's approach to the coming offseason as "active" and "aggressive," as Genessy details.
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Western Notes: Garnett, Demps, Rockets
April 22nd, 2016 at 9:21pm CST by Eddie Scarito
Kevin Garnett, who still has one year and $8MM remaining on his deal with the Wolves, is waiting to see how the hiring of Tom Thibodeau as coach and president of basketball operations will affect his future with the franchise, Marc Stein of ESPN.com relays. "I pride myself on being loyal," Garnett told Stein. "I think I've proven that by coming back home to finish my career. I need to see how the next few weeks turn out to truly understand if everyone has that same loyalty. Then I will know what my future holds." Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical reported earlier this week that Garnett intends to hold off on retiring and play in 2016/17.
Talks between team owner Glen Taylor and Grizzlies part-owner Steve Kaplan about a would-be deal for 30% of the Minnesota franchise are ongoing, Stein notes. If a deal between Kaplan and Taylor is struck, it would be with the understanding that Kaplan would eventually succeed Taylor as the Wolves' controlling owner, with the timing of that change up to Taylor, Stein adds. Jon Krawczynski of The Associated Press had reported in early March that talks between the pair had "hit a wall."
Pelicans ownership will meet with GM Dell Demps on Monday to discuss his future with the team, though indications point to the executive returning in 2016/17, as Scott Kushner of The New Orleans Advocate relays.
Much has been made out of the lack of emotion shown by members of the Rockets' bench after James Harden nailed the game-winning shot on Thursday night, but their failure to over-react only illustrates that they understand the Warriors haven't played their best and are still firmly in control of the series, opines Ray Ratto of CSNBayArea.com.
The Rockets contend that it wasn't a lack of investment that caused them to appear stoic, but rather that they were upset with themselves for being in that precarious of a position, Jonathan Feigen of The Houston Chronicle notes (Twitter links). "All of us were happy we won the game, but we were upset we put ourselves in position that it took a last-second shot," Dwight Howard said. "For all those people saying we weren't happy and excited that James hit the shot, shut up." GM Daryl Morey also defended his team's response, tweeting, "Big win to keep series on serve and folks are worried about grading cheer technique and execution when there is still time left on the clock? OK."
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Timberwolves To Retain GM Milt Newton
March 25th, 2016 at 3:30pm CST by Chuck Myron
Timberwolves GM Milt Newton will be in charge of the draft and free agency for the team this summer, owner Glen Taylor said today on "The Chad Hartman Show" on WCCO-AM, according to Darren Wolfson of 1500 ESPN Twin Cities (Twitter links). Newton hadn't previously been assured of remaining the team's top basketball executive beyond this season after inheriting the role this past fall upon the death of president of basketball operations Flip Saunders. Taylor also said that it's unlikely he'll complete a deal with Grizzlies part-owner Steve Kaplan, who was to purchase a 30% share of the Wolves and perhaps eventually succeed Taylor as controlling owner. Kaplan, who'd have to sell his stake in the Grizzlies to buy into the Wolves, has reportedly met resistance from primary Grizzlies owner Robert Pera.
Newton and coach Sam Mitchell have essentially been on one-season trials since Saunders' death, as Jon Krawczynski of The Associated Press noted in a recent interview with Hoops Rumors. The fate of Mitchell's job remains undecided, but it appears Newton is safe for now. Minnesota has had a largely quiet season on the personnel front outside of buyouts with Anthony Bennett, Kevin Martin and Andre Miller. The team didn't make a trade. The offseason ahead figures to be pivotal, however. Minnesota, which has the last two No. 1 overall picks on its roster, is in line for another top-five selection, as our Reverse Standings show.
How much say Kaplan would have had about whether to retain Newton and Mitchell was one of the issues that he and Taylor were sorting through as they tried to finalize a deal on the ownership share, but Taylor had been preparing to make those decisions on his own as of earlier this month, as Jerry Zgoda of the Star Tribune wrote then. Taylor, 74, has said that he won't sell the team to anyone who'd move it out of Minnesota, and it appeared as though Kaplan was on board with the franchise staying put, so the dissolution of their negotiations throws the franchise's long-term future into some doubt. Taylor said it looks like it'll take years for Kaplan to resolve his situation in Memphis, as Wolfson notes.
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Western Notes: Wolves Sale, Martin, Walton, Noah
March 13th, 2016 at 6:00pm CST by Arthur Hill
A dispute in the Grizzlies' ownership group may prevent a planned sale of the Timberwolves, as Brian Windhorst and Zach Lowe of ESPN.com examine. Steve Kaplan was set to sell off his share of the Memphis franchise and purchase 30% of the Wolves, with an opportunity to become Minnesota's controlling owner. However, Kaplan and Grizzlies owner Robert Pera have been embroiled in a months-long dispute, as Windhorst and Lowe detail, advancing earlier reports. Their disagreement was recently settled through a confidential agreement when Kaplan threatened arbitration, but the delay has imperiled Kaplan's deal with Wolves owner Glen Taylor, Windhorst and Lowe write.
Windhorst and Lowe also cite unidentified sources who say Pera has become "distant" from the Grizzlies and has prevented minority owners in having a say in important decisions. Kaplan fears that once word spreads about these practices, it will be difficult for him to sell his 14% share of the team. Sources tell the ESPN scribes that he has been asking for $100MM, while estimating the Grizzlies' value at about $700MM. Windhorst and Lowe also mention sources close to Taylor who claim he is reconsidering his desire to sell, given the complications in Memphis and the Wolves' stockpile of talented young players.
There's more from the Western Conference:
The Wolves elected to stretch Kevin Martin's contract over the next three seasons when he agreed to a buyout, tweets Eric Pincus of Basketball Insiders. Martin's cap hit for Minnesota will be $1,229,584 next year and $1,229,583 in each of the following two seasons.
Tim Bontemps of The Washington Post believes Luke Walton is the favorite to take over as head coach of the Lakers if Byron Scott gets fired this summer. Bontemps cautions that L.A. isn't certain to dismiss Scott, whose salary is guaranteed for next season, but Walton's history with the franchise and success as an assistant with the Warriors make him a natural successor. In assessing the Lakers' future, Bontemps said they need to establish a new identity with the retirement of Kobe Bryant and re-emerge as a force in the free agent market.
Joakim Noah is a realistic option for the Mavericks in free agency this offseason, and although he would provide Dallas with an upgrade at the center spot, he wouldn't give the team the personnel to compete with the top frontcourts in the league, opines Matt Mosley of the Dallas Morning News.
Chris Crouse contributed to this post.
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