Opening Statements In Bryan Stow Case

((HT: NBC Los Angeles))

You had to get through a six-page written questionnaire, but 16 jurors were selected, eight men and eight women, to hear the Bryan Stow civil case against the Los Angeles Dodgers and Frank McCourt.

Stow suffered brain damage in the Opening Day 2011 beating at Dodger Stadium and is permanently disabled.
His lawyers say his lifetime care could cost $50 million and he will not testify in the case.

Patrick Healy is outside the courtroom


Four of the 16 will become alternate jurors, but the panelists will not know until the end of the trial which 12 will actually deliberate on the Stow case and deliver a verdict.

The Dodgers maintain that the security force they had at the Giants-Dodgers game was one of the biggest they ever had and that the responsibility for the acts of that day rest with Stow for wearing his Giants gear and two Dodger fans who beat him on that day.

German Soccer Boss Sees UEFA Protesters Point

If this happened in your own barn before a high-profile soccer match, you'd be bent out of shape, wouldn't you...???


Wouldn't you...???

Well, FC Schalke GM Horst Heldt was quoted by the Bild newspaper as saying: "It is important that there are organisations that are committed to things that concern all people. I can identify with it, these are topics that are important to everyone."

UEFA confirmed that disciplinary action might be taken against the home team, Basel, over the protest but only after the match delegate's report had been submitted.

Whatever that means... and, what else can be said about the whole thing, anyway...???

The protesters shimmied down from the roof, got their banner unfurled, delayed the game, and got their point across. It was a massive security breach and UEFA and their suits can't be happy about it one bit...

It was a dangerous thing to have happen, and Basel will end up paying the piper somehow... especially since the protest was against one of the Champions League mega-sponsors...