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Judge tosses McCourts' marital agreement

Wed, 12/08/2010 - 11:06 by Prince damin

Los Angeles -- A judge Tuesday threw out a marital agreement Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt contended gave him sole ownership of the baseball club.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Scott Gordon ruled the 2004 marital property agreement was insufficient to back Frank McCourt's claim his wife Jamie wasn't entitled to an ownership stake in the Dodgers as part of their divorce, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Gordon made the ruling more than two months after an 11-day trial during which Jamie McCourt argued she didn't know that by signing the agreement she'd be surrendering her rights to the team.

"The court finds that the marital property agreement is not a valid and enforceable agreement," Gordon wrote.

Mavs owner would consider buying Dodgers

Tue, 11/10/2009 - 10:21 by shalini.bahadur

Los Angeles -- Mark Cuban, owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, said Monday he would be interested in buying the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Cuban told the Los Angeles Times he has been urged by many Dodgers fans -- "more than I can count" -- to acquire the National League franchise. However, the team is not for sale, Dodgers owner Frank McCourt had said.

McCourt's estranged wife, Jamie McCourt, maintains she is a co-owner of the Dodgers and has said she would put together an investor group in a bid to buy out Frank McCourt. He insists he is the sole owner of the franchise.

McCourts begin Dodgers custody battle

Wed, 10/28/2009 - 10:11 by shalini.bahadur

Los Angeles -- Jamie McCourt is seeking to void an agreement that may block her from claiming a piece of the Los Angeles Dodgers in her divorce, court documents indicated.

Jamie McCourt, who formally filed for divorce from Dodgers owner Frank McCourt Tuesday, contended the agreement they signed in 2004 naming Frank McCourt sole owner of the Dodgers was invalid and unenforceable.

Frank McCourt responded with documents he contends trump California's community property laws, which would give his estranged with a 50 percent stake in the team.

Dodgers owner, wife, separate

Thu, 10/15/2009 - 11:10 by shalini.bahadur

Los Angeles, Oct. 15: Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt and his wife Jamie have separated, the team announced late Wednesday.

Jamie McCourt is the team's chief executive officer.

"This is a personal matter and they request that their privacy be respected," the team said in a statement confirming the couple had separated.

The separation, after almost 30 years of marriage, is likely to raise questions about ownership of the team, which the McCourts acquired in 2004, the Los Angeles Times said. A dispute involving assets resulted in the sale of the San Diego Padres when owner John Moores and his wife Becky split, the newspaper said.

Joe Torre philosophical about the playoffs

Sun, 10/04/2009 - 22:17 by Salinder Kumar

Los Angeles -- Los Angeles Dodgers Manager Joe Torre is trying not to be overly excited about guiding the franchise to its second straight National League West title.

It happened late Saturday with a 5-0 win over the Colorado Rockies, giving the Dodgers back-to-back NL West titles for the first time since 1977-78.

The Dodgers have won the division three of the last four seasons.

"It never gets old," Torre said about equaling Atlanta's Bobby Cox with a 14th straight playoff team.

"This is a huge step for the franchise," owner Frank McCourt told MLB.com. "I think we have the franchise back to a place where the fans know and can expect us to compete every year."

McCourt's ashes to be scattered in Ireland

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 19:50 by Inderjit Singh

New York -- Frank McCourt's ashes are to be scattered over a river in Limerick, Ireland, where the late author spent much of his childhood.

The New York-born teacher, who died of cancer Sunday, chronicled his years living in poverty in the Irish town in his best-selling memoir "Angela's Ashes."

"Scatter my ashes on the Shannon," IrishCentral.com quoted McCourt as telling friends on his deathbed.

Smith magazine founder Larry Smith told the New York Post he plans to publish McCourt posthumously in "It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure."

Smith told the newspaper he pursued McCourt for months before the beloved scribe came up with something.

Frank McCourt dies; wrote 'Angela's Ashes'

Mon, 07/20/2009 - 11:27 by surajdogra

New York, July 19: Frank McCourt, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Angela's Ashes," died in New York Sunday of cancer, his family announced. He was 78.

The cause was metastatic melanoma, McCourt's brother, Malachy McCourt, told The New York Times.

Frank McCourt capped a 30-year teaching career in the New York City public system by writing a memoir of his wretched childhood in Ireland during the Depression.

"Angela's Ashes" became an enormous best seller when it was published in 1996 and earned Frank McCourt a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Critics Circle Award.

Brother: Frank McCourt has meningitis

Fri, 07/17/2009 - 00:27 by surajdogra

New York -- Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt, who has been battling melanoma, is also suffering from meningitis and is in a New York hospice, his brother said.

"Frank was OK for a bit and we had hopes for a while after the treatment for melanoma, but the meningitis turned it all around, turned it topsy-turvy," Malachy McCourt told the Irish Echo newspaper Tuesday.

McCourt said relatives from around the world are arriving in New York to see Frank, a 78-year-old former teacher, actor and the author of the blockbuster book "Angela's Ashes."

McCourt told the newspaper his family wishes to keep private the location of the hospice where his brother is staying.

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