Redemption is a common theme in sports. Everyone loves to see a favorite player come back from being down, to grab themselves by the bootstraps to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, yada, yada, yada. But the question for new Sacramento Kings head coach Eric Musselman is how do you redeem yourself from a [click on title to continue reading...]
Oakland Athletics Vice President & General Manager Billy Beane
Baseball is many things to many people – sport, pastime, and sometimes a way of life. It is certainly all of those things to Oakland Athletics Vice President and General Manager Billy Beane, the man behind the team’s remarkable on-field success over much of the last decade. [click on title to continue reading...]
DMGI Hopes to Ride the Digital Music Wave into the Black
Amazon, Netflix, eBay … the Digital Music Group? Don’t worry if you haven’t heard of that last one; neither have most people. Butafter barely two years in business, the Sacramento-based digital music distributor definitely has both its investors and the fi nancial markets buzzing [click on title to continue reading...]
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ruffled more than a few GOP feathers last fall when he hired long-time Democratic Party operative and former CPUC Commissioner Susan Kennedy as his new chief of staff. But Kennedy has both helped stabilize the governor’s standing with angry voters after his disastrous special election debacle and been a major player [click on title to continue reading...]
The Rags-to-Riches Rise of Soccer Fanatic, Franchisee and Mega-Developer Abe Alizadeh
Imagine yourself at the age of 16 being dropped into the middle of a strange land where you don’t speak the language, have precious little money, no friends or relatives, and only the vaguest of ideas of where to go and what to do with [click on title to continue reading...]