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NJ Nets Try to Give Fans Something to Smile About

3 March 2010

The NJ Nets are desperately trying to give their fans something to smile about this year. They’ve now announced that they will give NJ state residents who are 18 years and older and attend the Nets home game this Friday a coupon for a free state tax return. The promotion is a partnership with the [...]

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Gambing on Super Bowl XLIV

7 February 2010

If you base it on the amount of screaming and jumping in my house alone, the most exciting moment in tonight’s Super Bowl coverage was Carrie Underwood singing the national anthem. But then, to my knowledge, neither Peyton Manning nor Drew Brees has appeared in an evening dress at the same event as Taylor Swift [...]

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Nashville Predators Checked by Tax Woes

13 January 2010

This season, the Nashville Predators are having a pretty good run on the ice. According to NHL.com, they’re ranked sixth in the league, well ahead of my husband’s perennial favorites, the Philadelphia Flyers.
But off the ice? It’s not so good.
The Nashville Predators recently filed a lawsuit against a company called the Sommet Group for failure [...]

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Life is a Bowl of Football

29 December 2009

Today, for the first time in 30 years, Temple is going to a bowl game (excuse me while I wipe a tear of joy from my cheek). It’s a pretty remarkable feat, considering that, just four years before, the university nearly shuttered its football program altogether. The committee decided to keep the program, despite [...]

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World Series Champs Pay Hefty Luxury Tax

22 December 2009

How much does it cost to win a world championship? Apparently, just over $226 million. That’s how much the New York Yankees reportedly paid their players this year.
Today, the reigning world champs in baseball were assessed a luxury tax of $25.69 million as a result of their crazy spending. The Yanks are the [...]

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Taking Tiger By the Tax Tale

6 December 2009

I don’t play golf. Despite growing up in a town with no actual supermarket for years – and yet, three golf courses – I never really moved beyond mini golf.
My father-in-law and my husband, however, like to play golf. I won’t speculate on how well they do – but I will note that [...]

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Can Williams get a tax break for her tirade?

2 December 2009

Can Williams get a tax break for her tirade?
Following on the heels of my Belichik post last year… can Serena Williams properly deduct her record fine for bad behavior?

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Israel Tax Authority Raids Basketball Club Offices

26 October 2009

Israeli tax authorities have acknowledged a raid on the management offices of the Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team. The team, known as מ.כ. מכבי אלקטרה תל-אביב in Hebrew is a professional basketball team based in Tel Aviv, playing in the Israeli and European basketball First league. It is the basketball division of the Maccabi Tel [...]

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Mayweather Gets a KO by IRS

22 September 2009

Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. didn’t quite walk away from his bout with Juan Manuel Marquez with all that he had hoped for… That $10 million prize money was chopped in half after he agreed to pay $5.6 million in back taxes to the IRS. The agreement put the breaks on a potential levy [...]

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Football Legend’s Earrings Taken to Pay Taxes

20 September 2009

Diego Maradona, formerly referred to by legions of football fans as “the Golden One”, lost more than weight when he checked into a weight loss clinic at the Hotel Palace health spa in Merano, Italy. The 48 year old former football (yeah, that’s soccer to my US readers) standout checked into the spa in [...]

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