BANG’s Matthew Artz reports that Scott McKibben will be the next Coliseum Authority Executive Director, filling a position that had been vacant for over six years. JPA counsel Deena McClain has been the JPA’s interim executive director since 2008, when Ann Haley left. Zennie Abraham notes that the vote was unanimous. McKibben says his goal […]
This morning I went into the wayback machine to find out how many times I had written about Scott McKibben. The answer: 4, all in 2014 and 2015. McKibben previously was the head of the Rose Bowl and would, presumably, provide some professionalism to the Coliseum JPA, which had no one in the executive director […]
I assume this is about a short-term lease extension, not a new stadium deal, but stranger things have happened. Press release: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Authority For Immediate Release February 11, 2015 News Conference Oakland Alameda County Coliseum Joint Powers Authority (JPA) to Make Important Announcement on the Future of the Oakland Raiders 3pm, Thursday, […]
A vote on former Assemblyman and Dublin mayor Guy Houston’s candidacy for the vacant JPA executive director position was postponed last month. The vote was finally taken yesterday and, as expected, Houston was rejected. Reasoning mostly centered on Houston’s anti-labor stances, with many eyebrows raised at fraud charges levied at Houston a few years back. […]
Kansas City Era 1954 October – Descendants of Connie Mack sell Athletics to Chicago businessman Arnold Johnson, who owned both Yankee Stadium and the Yankees’ AAA stadium, Blues Stadium in Kansas City. Yankee Stadium was sold back to the Yankees, while the A’s were moved from Philadelphia to Kansas City. Blues Stadium became Municipal Stadium, the […]
With the Guy Houston hire apparently on the outs for political reasons, the Coliseum JPA still has an opening for a general manager to fill. Matter and Ross report that one candidate is Scott McKibben, a longtime newspaper industry veteran who in 2009 was tapped to run the Rose Bowl and Parade in 2009. McKibben […]
