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The Cleveland Browns' home stadium will no longer be known as FirstEnergy Stadium after the two parties declared "an amicable decision" to terminate their contract.
"We've had a great association with FirstEnergy for more than two decades, and we appreciate this partnership and what it's created for our team and the broader northeast Ohio community," Haslam Sports Group COO Dave Jenkins said. "Our home stadium, Cleveland Browns Stadium, will revert to its original name."
The decision marked the end of a 10-year relationship that began in 2013, when then-new Browns owner Jimmy Haslam sold the naming rights to FirstEnergy for $107 million. The original deal was valid until 2029. The stadium's energy was provided by Cleveland Public Power, not FirstEnergy.
Despite the fact that neither party addressed it in their statement, the Cleveland City Council issued a resolution in June calling for the removal of FirstEnergy's name from the Browns' stadium due to the company's participation in a political corruption incident. FirstEnergy admitted bribing Ohio lawmakers to secure a $1 billion bailout for its local nuclear power plant and finally agreed to a $230 million settlement to avoid prosecution.
Cleveland Browns Stadium was the franchise's original moniker when it returned to the NFL as an expansion team in 1999. The Lerner family, the inaugural owners of the relocated Browns, refused to sell the name rights until Haslam purchased the club in 2012.
The Cleveland Browns have become the NFL's third club without a corporate sponsor for its stadium, following the Chicago Bears' Soldier Field and the Green Bay Packers' Lambeau Field. In addition, they are the third team in their division to alter their name. This season, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cincinnati Bengals renamed their stadiums Acrisure Stadium and Paycor Stadium, respectively.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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