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Former Utah Jazz owner Gail Miller is leading a Salt Lake City-based consortium that aims to pursue an MLB expansion franchise in the coming years.
According to ESPN, the organization is dubbed Big League Utah. It is said to include Miller, the Larry H. Miller Company (established by Gail's late husband), a number of local companies, and former MLB players Dale Murphy and Jeremy Guthrie, all of whom live in Utah.
Salt Lake City is one of numerous locations that have thrown their hats into the ring to host an MLB franchise in the future. Nashville, Tennessee, Portland, Oregon, and Charlotte, North Carolina are among the others.
According to Big League Utah, the area is ready for an expansion franchise, and commissioner Rob Manfred stated in July that he "would love to get to 32 teams." However, there is some other business to attend to first. Both the Oakland Athletics and the Tampa Bay Rays have stadium leases that will expire in the next few years (A's in 2024, Rays in 2027). Both desire new stadiums but don't look to be getting them anytime soon. If stadium negotiations aren't concluded, either or both clubs might relocate to a new city.
When all of that is resolved, two-time National League MVP Dale Murphy, who retired and relocated to Utah, feels Salt Lake City is the ideal location for MLB's new franchise.
"It's finally time," Murphy told ESPN. "It is possible. And it'd be a fantastic market. Out here, there's a healthy love of baseball."
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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