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SCOTT HOWSON UNDER FIRE AT THE AHL

By: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT - With his first contract nearing completion, Scott Howson, AHL President, Scott Howson is facing an insurrection from league owners. It has become severe enough that the NHL's second-in-command, Bill Daly, has been brought into the fray to deal with the issue. An unknown number of teams apparently want to end the relationship with Howson and go in a yet undefined different direction. The first report on this story came during a segment of The Insiders on Tuesday night's TSN Montreal Canadiens - Philadelphia Flyers broadcast. Right off the bat, Darren Dreger, one of TSN's top reporters, dropped the bombshell. Howson was selected to replace AHL Hockey Hall Of Famer Dave Andrews (1994-2018), who has now retired to Phoenix and Cape Breton. Several long-time top sources were equally as stunned and perplexed by the news, with only one offering an opinion. Unfortunately, at this point, facts and solid information are hard to come by. "I'm puzzled by this," the source, who asked to remain anonymous, stated. "He got the AHL through the pandemic, opened four brand new state-of-the-art arenas (Laval, Henderson, San Jose, and Coachella Valley), and the NHL has majority ownership (22 of 32 teams). I can only surmise that a block of independent owners are unhappy somehow. It's perplexing. When Scotty played, he was a lawyer-like in every way back then; I can't imagine that's changed. "Did he rub somebody the wrong way? I don't know. I am in the dark on this as much as everybody. If Daly is involved, however, that's significant." With the 2/3 majority ownership, the NHL has full veto power over the direction of the league. There are no more independent teams. The last two were the Worcester (MA) Ice Cats in their first season under the late Roy Boe. They're no longer in the AHL. Worcester is now an ECHL city. There's the other, the long-gone 1991 New Haven Nighthawks. They have comprised of Quebec Nordiques (now the Colorado Avalanche), farmhands, and free agents. Dual affiliations are a thing of the past too. The Charlotte Checkers were split by the Florida Panthers and Seattle Krakken last year while their new building in the California desert was being built. This was the first one since the ill-fated, two-year experiment known as "The Beast of New Haven" in the late 90s that was shared by both the Carolina Hurricanes and Florida. The AHL had come a long way in 46 years since they nearly went out of business during the WHA-NHL war before they merged in the late 1970s. The league was nearly scuttled when they almost fell out of the minor-league required range of having six teams to qualify as a minor league. They put an expansion team, then a brand-new expansion team called the Maine Mariners, affiliated with the Flyers, in a location that saved the AHL, which had lost cities and players in the WHA-NHL war. Ironically, Portland, Maine, is no longer in the league but has a team called by the original name of the Maine Mariners, now in the ECHL. The AHL absorbed six teams from the original IHL (International Hockey League) in 2000. It comprised Chicago, Grand Rapids, and Milwaukee (all still playing). Manitoba is the second edition of the Manitoba Moose. The Utah Grizzlies have dropped to the ECHL. Gone are the Houston (TX) Aeros, who became the Iowa Wild. The minor league hockey scene went thru a boom-and-bust cycle in the early part of this century. The Western Professional Hockey League (WPHL) folded in 2001, and pieces went to the Central Hockey League. However, one city, Austin, TX, formerly the Ice Bats, survived in a new form as the Texas Stars. They lost teams (with great logos) like the Amarillo (TX) Rattlers, El Paso (TX) Buzzards, San Angelo (TX) Outlaws, and the Lake Charles (LA) Ice Pirates. The Central Hockey League (CHL) went out of existence in 2014. In the second creation of the league, only the Tulsa (OK) Oilers, Allen (TX) Americans, and Wichita (KS) Thunder have lived on in the ECHL. The West Coast Hockey League (WCHL) also quit the business in 2003. Only the Idaho (ID) Steelheads in the ECHL and the San Diego (CA) Gulls and Bakersfield (CA) Condors make up the AHL Pacific Division survived. The United Hockey League (UHL) went out in 2007. Living on from that league in the AHL is Rockford Ice Hogs. Now in the ECHL are the famous Ft. Wayne (IN) Komets (in their fourth league) and Kalamazoo (MI) Wings, and the Quad City (IL) Storm are in the SPHL, the fourth league. So the city has been in. The WHA-2 lasted one year (2003-2004), and only one city is still involved in hockey, Macon (GA), which has from Whoopee to Trax. The reborn Atlantic Coast Hockey League (ACHL) lasted one year (2002-03) and had two cities still in hockey Macon and the Knoxville (TN) Ice Bears (SPHL). The AHL is married to the NHL with 32 teams like the NHL direct affiliates, and the ECHL is up to 28 cities and affiliates to the AHL. The AHL has remained quiet. The only low-grade rumbling is the Nashville Predators, who are potentially looking to leave Milwaukee for a brand-new, closer-to-home arena built by the Predators in Sumner County, TN. It will encompass 100,000 square feet a half-hour from Nashville, and two other small arenas are already built in Bellevue, TN, and Antioch, TN. AHL HOME Read the full article

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jackeers · 6 years ago

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Loving this photo😍❤️

Also Vanessa‘s outfit is our Coachellastyle part 15😍

#coachella #coachella 2019 #coachella music festival #take me to coachella #vanessa morgan #ross butler #alisha boe #friends #Friendchella

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cannedstring · 3 years ago

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hiiii! i’m ella :-) here’s a quick lil’ intro on violetta below before i hope off to w*rk. i’m sry it sucks. i do more later? maybe? so excited to be here.

◜ * : alisha boe . cis woman & she/her . the beach ii by wolf alice . ━━ the legend surrounding london’s l’academiae furorum would not be complete without VIOLETTA LARSEN . the academy's TWENTY-THREE year old FIRST SOLOIST has returned to furore for SIX MONTHS , oft described as LAX, STARRY-EYED, CANDID, DISTANT & has proved utterly indispensable to the company. in passing , they’ve come to be associated with SALTED CITRUS ON THE RIM OF SOMETHING CRISP AND BURNING — CRUSHED LEAVES SEEPING EARTH BETWEEN CLASPED HANDS & vibrations on a worn-out stage, feet against warmed hardwood, leaping and spinning . hair in waves, held by saltwater, dewy-afterglow as the sun’s first rays fall upon last night's sparkles and laughter . and mind masked by the right amount of hazy, chest bubbling as everything shifts to more pretty, more nice . whether this will be their final curtain call is anyone's guess & the company’s worst nightmare .

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sahra rose quickly, naturally gifted but also a hard worker. danced on air, moves as smooth as they were sharp. style noted once as ‘uncomfortably beautiful’. alexander was a quiet, serious pianist who at first glance would go unnoticed, blended into the rest of the orchestra, but when he played, all eyes fell on him. a classic tale of romance. she danced to his music. he created music for her to dance to. they became bonded by the endless act of creating something great from nothing.

violetta was a ‘something great’ in their eyes, despite the way her formation had cut the careers of her mother and father short. they wished for something beyond the halls of furore. to create their own legacy and they did. traveled all over the place with baby, then child, then teenager, violetta, in tow. sahra and alexander — goodwill ambassadors, worked to build schools to spread dancing and music all over. socialites at the brim of the best events and ideas.

they never imposed any boundaries on their sole daughter. she grew up learning from her parents but also whoever and whatever caught her eye. exuding confidence in the most cool-girl-culture-esque way with the shadow of nepotism ofc but you could never really pin violetta down.

she seems to deal with everything (annoyingly) with so much ease, doesn't know the concept of worrying (may be because of the fact that she always carries the best weed and shrooms — a must), knows about all the drama but never involved in any of the drama.

quintessentially she’s kid cudi dancing during electric feel at mgmt coachella set but as a person ifykyk

her venture at furore may have been expected all things considered but it wasn’t. a whim like many other things that violetta decided to tread into. although, she had her mother’s trainings and her father’s music and did all the right things albeit in very wrong ways, but it created her own unique style, not as perfect as her mother’s, but effortless, ripples in a stream. she kept at it for two years, the promise of principal dancer was there before she decided that her journey was over and went onto pursue other things to the chagrin of the academy. just bc she felt like it. violetta was seemingly unperturbed and went into acting, traveled some more, did a few apartment-tour-what’s-in-my-bag maunders.

two years passed and she decided to return. by another whim was a reason accepted by most, although many had expected the academy to completely bar her, but again preference by bloodline ruled. violetta wasn’t made principal dancer though, first shunted to second soloist (to set an example) but then quickly first soloist once more.

in reality, violetta’s return was the most planned thing she had ever done in her entire life. meetings with her parents were booked as ‘dinner with sahra & alexander at 8 pm’, but their family dynamic was never the norm. still filled with love and joy. the news during one said dinner cast an ugly dent onto all of the great things that had been built. (illness tw) alexander was sick, had months — maybe — but it was all uncertain. the only uncertain violetta ever had difficulty dealing with in her life.

love was always characterized by passion in violetta’s mind and it felt right, needed, that both of her parents saw her dance on the stage to the song alexander had written for her, when she was born composed of notes that her mother had danced to all laced together. it was a way of managing grief. of saying all the things she wanted to say to him, and them.

#furore.intro #illness tw #a gorgeous giggle

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d-criss-news · 6 years ago

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Darren Criss cozies up to wife Mia as they stop by Poolside with H&M Party held during 2019 Coachella Music Festival on Saturday afternoon (April 13) at Sparrow’s Lodge in Indio, Calif.

The newlyweds looked cool in colorful outfits as they were joined at the party by former Miss USA Olivia Culpo.

Other stars at the party included Kiernan Shipka, Rowan Blanchard, Love, Simon’s Keiynan Lonsdale, Why Him? actress Zoey Deutch, Blocker’s actress Kathryn Newton, Assassination Nation’s Hari Nef, singer Cody Simpson, Riverdale actor Hart Denton, model Shaun Ross, and 13 Reasons Why actress Alisha Boe.

#darren criss #just jared #mia swier #coachella 2019 #press #april 2019

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yours-stevie · 6 years ago

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Chella ‘19 🌹🌵🌸

#alisha boe #victoria justice #ashley tisdale #cindy kimberly #selena gomez #olivia culpo #katy perry #maia mitchell #coachella #music festival #2019 #valley #style #fashion #gorgeous #women #hair #make-up #goals

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letsgofullpogue · 2 years ago

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via ig - yestanner

#austin north #outer banks cast #obx cast #inanna sarkis #alisha boe #events #coachella #instagram

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victoriajustice11 · 6 years ago

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Coachella 2019: Leonardo DiCaprio, Rachel Zoe, Lance Bass among celebs partying in the desert - The Desert Sun http://bit.ly/2VDtRzX Coachella 2019: Leonardo DiCaprio, Rachel Zoe, Lance Bass among celebs partying in the desert The Desert Sun

Lance Bass, Leonardo DiCaprio, Rachel Zoe, Victoria Justice, Madison Grace, Kiernan Shipka, Alisha Boe, Paris Berelc are spotted across the desert.

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nightmare-afton-cosplay · 7 years ago

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Former Boeing CEO Lists $10M Desert Home With a Restored Soda Fountain

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The former CEO of aerospace company Boeing, Philip M. Condit, listed his Mediterranean-style home in a private Californian golf community Wednesday, property records show. The house comes with a $9.75 million price tag.

Mr. Condit, 76, and his wife, Geda, bought the plot in Coachella Valley’s Indian Wells in 2002 for $1.4 million, property records show, and embarked on an 18-month project to build their home, said listing broker Bruce Blomgren of Bennion Deville Homes.

The resulting house designed by Kristi Hanson, spans 13,415-square-feet, sits on one acre of land and is built around a large central courtyard.

It has five bedrooms, imported travertine flooring, a chef’s kitchen with granite countertops, a master suite with a fireplace and an outdoor shower, pool, a 26-seat theater, a 1,500-bottle wine cellar and “great indoor-outdoor living,” Mr. Blomgren said, thanks in part to the home’s disappearing doors, which slide into the walls.

The home is on a private Californian golf community in the Coachella Valley.

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An originally restored soda fountain

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One of the home’s most original features is what the owners call a town square.

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One of the home’s most original features is what the owners call a town square. “It’s an area which has an originally restored soda fountain and an antique bar,” Mr. Blomgren said, along with a stamped copper ceiling and a games room.

This is the first time that the house has been on the market. The couple is downsizing, Mr. Blomgren said, and will likely stay in the desert.

Mr. Condit, who was CEO of the Boeing company from 1996 to 2003, could not be reached for comment.

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The Points Person founder Brian Kelly has lavish life and costs

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Brian Kelly is the founder and CEO of The Points Person, a travel and credit-card-rewards site also referred to as TPG.

Kelly lives a luxurious lifestyle of superior flights and luxury hotel suites in locations including the Maldives, Venice, and Japan.

Some previous and present TPG employees explained an office atmosphere they saw as toxic, consisting of claims of verbal abuse and public shaming by Kelly.

2 previous freelancers each said Kelly inquired to buy cocaine for him while on a work journey in Asia.

One of those freelancers, a manufacturer, declared Kelly made an undesirable sexual advance during a work trip to Costa Rica in 2016.

In a declaration to Organisation Expert, TPG’s parent company, Red Ventures, said Kelly “unequivocally denies all allegations of drug use, unwanted sexual advances and assault.”

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First, he hopped aboard a first-rate flight from New York to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in a private cabin with butler service and its own restroom.

It may sound elegant, however for Kelly, the founder of The Points Person, it’s simply another week on the job.

The Points Guy, a travel and credit-card-rewards website likewise known as TPG, was founded 10 years back.

To numerous, operating at TPG appeared like a dream task where they were assured a slice of Kelly’s jet-setting lifestyle, which he relays everyday to his 232,000 followers Pictures of him cavorting at $2,000- a-night-plus hotels in Venice and the Caribbean sit along with pictures of Kelly hobnobbing with Martha Stewart and partying at the Oscars as a Marriott executive’s date.

Several sources explained Kelly, who was also understood for his kindness, as having a quick mood.

The business has seen an exodus of senior workers because early 2019.

Organisation Insider spoke with 28 current and previous staff members, freelancers, and professionals, 23 of whom explained a harmful work environment they said was fostered by Kelly.

Success and a life of excess

Kelly got his start as a recruiter at Morgan Stanley, where he made less than $70,000 a year

Two years later, he sold the blog to Bankrate for more than $20 million, according to a source with knowledge of the offer.

The company has been lucrative every year it has actually existed, and its top-line revenue grew by more than 50%in 2018, Kelly told Digiday, an online trade magazine for online media, in October.

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” I think the big thing that [TPG] got right, which is something that publishing is awakening to from a business-model perspective, is that just putting ads in front of people isn’t good enough. You need to get people to take action,” Brian Morrissey, the president of Digiday, stated.

In spite of his incredible expert success, several former workers told Service Insider that they didn’t believe Kelly was fit to be the CEO of a 100- person business.

His supreme goal, sources said, was simply to be well-known.

” Brian would call the website ‘The Points God’ if he could,” a former staff member who worked on TPG’s marketing team said.

Josh Dixon, a former Olympic gymnast who dated Kelly from 2016 to 2017, stated his ex “absolutely has an extravagant lifestyle.”

Dixon stated Kelly had unlimited freedom at TPG and would take him and pals on all-expenses-paid journeys around the world, traveling to the Maldives, Greece, and London, to name a few locations.

” I was whisked away to Coachella for 36 hours on a private jet. I resembled, ‘Oh wow, this isn’t regular,'” Dixon stated.

Josh Dixon, left, Brian Kelly’s then-boyfriend, and Kelly at an amfAR gala in New york city City in June2016

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Bankrate, the financial-services and marketing business that acquired TPG in 2012, appeared to approve of, or at least not concern, the business’s spending routines.

” There was a lot of wiggle room with what he could get away with,” Dixon stated, citing an extravagant 2016 TPG holiday party aboard the Intrepid, a maritime museum inside a ship docked on the Hudson River in Manhattan.

But when Red Ventures, a portfolio of digital-marketing and e-commerce business, bought Bankrate in 2017, Kelly’s excessiveness was unexpectedly viewed as a liability.

Throughout a 2019 work trip to Israel, Kelly allotted $50,000 to his individual security detail.

It was the single biggest expenditure of the $138,00013- field trip on which Kelly and 4 crew members embarked.

According to the business budget plan memo acquired by Business Expert, another $30,000 was approximated for a regional tour business. The hotel budget was $35,000, and airfare and hotel transfers were anticipated to be $8,000 The rest was allocated for regional fixers and place costs.

The trip included Kelly flying very first class on El Al Airlines and remaining in a suite at the Waldorf Astoria in Jerusalem, the latter of which Kelly booked with points.

” When I talk to people, one of the things individuals will state is the advantages have actually been getting even worse,” the present staff member said.

The travel honcho hosted celebrations at his homes in Manhattan, the Hamptons, Pennsylvania, and Miami Beach, the latter of which he offered for $2.

” There were a couple of times where even he would state he had actually been partied out of home and home in East Hampton,” Dixon stated, including that the raging would end up being too much for Kelly to handle and he would leave his own home while his visitors continued carousing.

The partying would sometimes seep into Kelly’s work life too, according to sources.

A specialist who traveled with Kelly said that on work trips, the CEO “was drinking and partying in a way that was not professional.

A freelance manufacturer said Kelly got “blackout intoxicated” during a 2016 work journey to Las Vegas.

2 people, the freelance producer and another source, likewise said Kelly asked them to procure drug for him on work trips in Asia.

During a journey to Japan in spring 2016, the freelance producer stated Kelly asked for drug– demanding he not come back without it.

The other source echoed the sentiment, saying Kelly told him during a separate Asia trip, “If you desire to get the other half of this check,” when the CEO asked for the source go out and discover him drugs.

Nevertheless, even after partying, Kelly managed to place on a nice front for TPG.

In 2013, a buddy said Kelly “went on live TELEVISION after not sleeping and on a bender,” including that with Kelly’s composure, “you would never ever understand.”

However his partying, at one point, led to an allegation of an improper sexual advance during a work trip.

The freelance producer who had traveled to Japan and Vegas, said Kelly tried to kiss him in the swimming pool at the Andaz Costa Rica Resort at Peninsula Papagayo during a work journey in March 2016, a couple of weeks prior to they traveled to Asia.

” Our last night in Costa Rica, we were shooting for JetBlue, and he just kept on getting more and more tequila and then he wanted to enter the swimming pool afterwards,” the freelance manufacturer said.

” He swam approximately me and showed up in front, so I had my back to the wall, and put his arms on both sides of me, so I was kind of caught. And after that he pushed his entire body up against me so I was pinned in between him and the wall. He just began trying to construct with me and I was like, ‘What the f–?’ and pressed him off and swam away.”

According to the freelance producer, two buddies of Kelly’s remained in the swimming pool at the time. One friend did not react to requests for remark. The 2nd good friend stated he was “not exactly sure what you’re referring to” when emailed about the occurrence at the hotel pool. When Company Expert offered further details via e-mail, the second pal did not respond.

The swimming pool at the Andaz Costa Rica Resort at Peninsula Papagayo.

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The freelance producer says that he went back to his room at the Andaz Papagayo hotel alone after the occurrence with Kelly.

” I was just in shock and extremely uncomfortable,” the freelance manufacturer said.

The freelance producer told both his best friend and another TPG professional about the incident.

While Kelly’s substance abuse stayed an “open trick” among coworkers at TPG, according to the former editorial staff member, Red Ventures implemented a strict no-tolerance policy. A former senior coworker and the former editorial employee informed Service Expert that one of their colleagues was fired after acknowledging utilizing a cannabis vape pen in June at the New York City Pride March, where TPG had a Boeing 747- themed parade float

After Red Ventures purchased TPG, all brand-new employees were required to take a drug test. Those currently at the business were spared, multiple current and previous staff members told Business Insider.

Some ex-employees describe Kelly’s treatment of his staffers as condescending, impolite, and unprofessional

Despite working at a business hailing high-flying travel and first-class hotels, workplace life might be tense at TPG, according to sources.

A number of previous staff members explained a pattern: If you didn’t challenge Kelly, they stated, you ‘d remain on his good side. The minute you began to question his decisions, your days at TPG were numbered.

” I have actually seen it happen with 3 separate people,” a previous staffer said. “You get on that bad side, and after that it snowballs and snowballs, and then you’re eventually pressed out.”

Frequently, Kelly’s “public shaming,” as several sources called it, would occur on Slack.

Instead of sending a direct message to the person and their manager, Kelly would regularly assault the individual in the companywide Slack channel, according to sources. The previous senior coworker said Kelly would mock staffers and write comments along the lines of: “How could you not have considered this currently? How could you still be stopping working like this?”

Some said his temper was popular among workers.

On one event, throughout a conference in Kelly’s office, a previous high-level TPG source stated the travel CEO “tossed down his phone in anger” regarding a job-related matter, and it bounced across the desk toward her.

” I was very startled,” she said. “Not only was it less than professional, improper, and a reaction disproportionate to the situation, it was truthfully extremely scary originating from someone who was in a leading position of power. I ‘d never ever had a fellow employee– not to mention a remarkable– display physical aggressiveness like that in a meeting.”

The former senior coworker stated she believed Kelly had little faith in his team members.

” He would trust almost anyone in the world before he trusts his own staff members,” she said.

A number of staff members would resort to asking their good friends to leave comments on TPG stories, videos, or posts so that Kelly would see their ideas and ideally execute them.

” It leads to a sense of confusion in the workplace of, ‘What’s going on?

The former senior colleague said that Kelly gravitated towards the more recent staff members.

” Brian likes brand-new and glossy things,” the former senior associate stated.

3 previous staff members told Business Insider of a circumstances when a freelancer was provided a full-time task at TPG after working at the company for several months.

Former staff members said that regardless of the downsides of working at TPG, Kelly could be generous and charming.

Amy Nobile, a pal of Kelly’s who has traveled with him to places consisting of Guatemala and Iceland, told Company Expert that Kelly is a “generous soul” with his buddies and household and would frequently have extravagant surprises planned for their journeys, consisting of a helicopter trip to Reykjavik, Iceland, after they left an ice cavern.

Years after a previous colleague’s other half assisted teach Kelly search-engine optimization, Kelly gifted the household enough points for a trip to Ireland.

This kindness sometimes extended to his workers.

The previous top-level TPG source likened her experience of working with Kelly to having an alcoholic dad.

” You may get the daddy that is in a great state of mind and is giving out presents and praise like it’s sweet, or you may get the bad dad who is on a raging bender,” she said.

Despite raking in millions, some experts state Kelly does not have reliability

While lots of insiders in the points and miles market appreciate Kelly for bringing their specific niche to the mainstream, some think Kelly’s coziness with credit-card issuers prevents him from offering unbiased credit-card guidance.

Much of this boiled over when Marriott’s global marketing officer took Kelly as her date to the 2019 Oscars.

Kelly safeguarded himself in an Instagram post, stating he was welcomed to the Oscars as part of a little group of ambassadors for Marriott Bonvoy, the brand name’s commitment program, which a Marriott spokesperson confirmed to Service Expert.

In spite of the criticism, buddies explain him as a visionary with deep commitment to his work.

Adam Kotkin, TPG’s former chief of staff, informed Company Expert that if Kelly didn’t like running the company, “he most likely wouldn’t be there.”

” Without a doubt, he wouldn’t want to do anything else … he is giddy about planes … and attempting brand-new things,” Dixon included. “There’s no question that he loves what he built.”

Still, the life of excess has its risks.

” If you’re truly proficient at it, it’s going to be tiring,” Dixon said. “At points, I remember being in a hammock in the Hamptons and asking him, ‘Is this lonesome?’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, it is.'”

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How a PGA Tour Event in the Desert Became The Wildest Party In American Sports

On Feb. 6, 2016, Ryan Palmer lined up his putt on the 10th hole at TPC Scottsdale, the annual venue of Arizona’s Phoenix Open. He pulled back his club, ready to caress the ball into the hole, when a nearby spectator cried out ��miss it!” just as Palmer was mid-stroke. The player stopped, composed himself, and once again readied his stroke. Again, the heckling voice shouted out, “miss it!”

After a third call came out, James Edmonson, Palmer’s caddy of 18 years, jumped into action. “I walked all the way around the green and went right up to the rope [separating the crowd from the course]. I pointed at him and I was like, ‘Hey, come here!’” Edmonson says, describing the heckler as a “frat punk” wearing a “stupid little tie.”

“I was going to pull his tie and pull him over the rope,” he recalls. “‘Cause once you get inside the ropes, you know, it’s fair game.” The fan backed down — “like a keyboard warrior on social media” — but when the next group of players arrived on the green, his antics resumed. Security staff soon decided enough was enough and kicked him out. “I’ve never seen anything like it before,” Edmonson says.

Professional caddies’ typical duties include carrying golf bags, calculating shot lengths, and determining which club their player should use to make a shot. Altercations with “frat boys” is not, as the old adage goes, par for the course. But the Phoenix Open is an event like no other on the PGA Tour.

Officially billed as the Waste Management Phoenix Open, the tournament is better known among golf fans as the “Greatest Show on Grass.” The event eschews the sport’s rigid etiquette, with raucous crowds, a festival-like atmosphere, and extra-curricular activities that extend well into the night. Its annual attendance figures closer resemble music festivals than sporting events.

The tournament is notorious for its spectators’ epic alcohol consumption. In a bid to curb overindulgence and crackdown on DUIs, the Scottsdale Police Department introduced free breathalyzer tests as part of a “Know Your Limit” campaign in 2012. Meanwhile, the event’s costly corporate boxes, which are sold with “open” bars, set a 10-drink limit per person a few years back. Even with that in place, multiple sources told VinePair that bartenders are happy to ignore the limit when tipped generously.

“The way I try to explain the Phoenix Open to people that have never gone is, ‘Imagine a humongous bar or outdoor party, and in the middle of it, there’s a golf tournament going on,’�� Edmonson says. “I mean, 90 percent of the people attending don’t really care about the golf.”

His estimate, though unscientific, is telling. The seven-day event takes place during Super Bowl week and concludes the first Sunday of February. The competition itself spans Thursday through Super Bowl Sunday; but practice rounds on Monday and Tuesday, and Wednesday’s celebrity Pro-Am, which has previously featured the likes of Mark Walhberg, Michael Phelps, and Aaron Rogers, draw crowds of up to 70,000.

In terms of attendance, there’s only one winner between the Super Bowl and the Phoenix Open. The highest-attended Super Bowl in history barely breached 100,000 spectators. In 2018, more than 200,000 fans turned out at the Phoenix Open on Saturday alone. Over the seven-day period, close to 720,000 people crossed its gates.

The Phoenix Open’s attendances don’t just trounce almost every event on America’s sporting calendar, they make Burning Man, which receives some 70,000 visitors annually, seem like a county fair by comparison. Only Coachella, the celebrity-stacked music festival that takes place over six days on two separate weekends, boasts similar numbers.

The jewel in the tournament’s crown is the legendary par-3 16th hole, hailed as the “most electrifying” in all of golf. It holds a singular place within the sport, owing to the 20,000-capacity grandstand that completely surrounds the hole. On competition days, thousands of spectators queue from as early as midnight the night before gates open to try to claim a spot in the stands.

The calm before the storm on the 16th hole at the Phoenix Open. Credit: WM Phoenix Open / Facebook.com

When play begins, the raucous crowd is ruthless. Players enter the golfing coliseum through a makeshift tunnel before stepping up to the infamous tee. Find the green with their shot, and the stadium celebrates with rapturous fervor; miss it, and the 20,000-strong crowd erupts with catcalls and jeers.

Players “can embrace it and play along with it,” Edmonson says. “But if you try to fight it, they’ll crucify you.”

Tiger Woods embraced it. In 1997, with a 9-iron in his hand, as he reached the top of his backstroke, the TV caller said: “They’re going to go nuts when he hits this thing.” Less than a second later, Woods’ ball took off from the tee box, and the noise from the crowd reached the level of a Boeing 747 during takeoff.

When the ball finally hit the green, it bounced twice and dropped into the hole. The crowd practically broke the sound barrier in celebration. After high-fiving his caddy and playing partner, Woods turned to the crowd and alternated between fist pumps and “raise the roof” motions for the entirety of the 152-yard walk to collect his ball from the hole.

Some of the players even encourage the crowd to cheer and make noise while they’re hitting their shot. “No other hole in golf really has that,” says Ryan Conlogue, an insurance group service operations supervisor who attends the Phoenix Open every year.

Just another day at the Phoenix Open. Credit: WM Phoenix Open / Facebook.com

Like many spectators, Conlogue turns up to the event in fancy dress. Cast a gaze across the stands that line 16, and you’ll see gorilla suits, caddy overalls, Sesame Street characters, and Where’s Waldo (if you can spot him).

Conlogue arrives dressed as professional golfer Rickie Fowler, a one-time winner and two-time runner up at the tournament, with whom he bears a striking resemblance. “People do some wild things out there, so it’s just what I do to kind of be funny,” he says.

Like Edmonson, Conlogue estimates that most people in the crowd are not there for the golf — nor to enjoy just one or two drinks. “People are there to drink all day,” he says.

When play eventually stops, the party continues at the Coors Light Birds Nest, a 50,000-square-foot live music venue and the official afterparty that takes place every night from Wednesday through Saturday. Its headline acts span musical genres from country to punk rock to hip-hop.

On Feb. 1, 2019, Snoop Dogg took the Birds Nest’s party atmosphere to “a whole new level,” according to local news site AZCentral, when he brought pole dancers, “blunts,” and worked the crowd with iconic hits like “Gin and Juice” and “Drop It Like It’s Hot.”

“It’s just a really cool atmosphere — people hanging out, enjoying music, and enjoying some beverages,” Conlogue says.

TPC Scottsdale’s 16th hole is the only one on the PGA Tour that’s completely enclosed by stands. Credit: WM Phoenix Open / Facebook.com

Among all the partying, some still find time to use the event for their business interests. Patrick Shaughnessy, a 67-year-old finance industry veteran, has attended the event for more than 20 years. Through his work, he gains access to one of the corporate “Skyboxes” that overlook the 16th hole.

For $53,000, the corporate package includes 34 Skybox tickets per day, and perks such as complimentary food (breakfast, lunch, and an afternoon buffet) and an “open” bar. While general admission costs between $45 and $60 depending on the day, Shaughnessy says the $1,500 per person for the Skybox is a canny investment and describes it as the “best business development tool ever.”

The tournament offers similar, slightly cheaper packages on the 17th and 18th holes, but it’s 16 that holds the biggest pull. “My clients always wanted to go, so I had to take care of them,” Shaughnessy says. “And then they’ve wanted to bring their friends — prospects in my world. So I’ve gotten many, many introductions to people from all over the country who come here for this thing.”

Shaughnessy calls the 16th hole “the madhouse,” and says Friday and Saturday at the event are “just insanity.” But when there’s potential business to be done, just like the golfers, “you have to be on your game,” he says. “I have a tendency to pace myself out there because I know it’s a marathon, not a sprint.”

Perhaps the most subtle of the tournament’s quirks is its title sponsor, Waste Management. In place of the requisite insurance companies, investment banks, cell phone networks, or luxury carmakers that tend to align themselves with elite sporting events, the Phoenix Open has been supported by a company that specializes in trash disposal and recycling for the last decade.

In a way, it comes full circle. “When you put 160 to 170,000 people on a property, and you have to open up the next day and play golf, that property looks like the remains at Woodstock,” Shaughnessy says. “The place is a mess.”

While spectators get wasted, Waste Management cleans up the mess. Shaughnessy believes it’s a perfect fit. “I’m telling you,” he says, “they couldn’t have found a better sponsor.”

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How a PGA Tour Event in the Desert Became The Wildest Party In American Sports

On Feb. 6, 2016, Ryan Palmer lined up his putt on the 10th hole at TPC Scottsdale, the annual venue of Arizona’s Phoenix Open. He pulled back his club, ready to caress the ball into the hole, when a nearby spectator cried out “miss it!” just as Palmer was mid-stroke. The player stopped, composed himself, and once again readied his stroke. Again, the heckling voice shouted out, “miss it!”

“The way I try to explain the Phoenix Open to people that have never gone is, ‘Imagine a humongous bar or outdoor party, and in the middle of it, there’s a golf tournament going on,’” Edmonson says. “I mean, 90 percent of the people attending don’t really care about the golf.”