TYB
>Do not let personal (emotional) desires ("do it now""now""what is taking so long""NOW!") take over.
Wise anon is wise
>Logical thinking and strategy should always be applied.
US soccer journalist Grant Wahl dies covering World Cup in Qatar, brother thinks ‘he was killed’
December 9, 2022
Influential U.S. soccer journalist Grant Wahl died in Qatar while covering the World Cup, his brother announced. He was 49.
While covering Argentina’s quarterfinal win over the Netherlands on Friday, Wahl, who had run his own Substack after a long career at Sports Illustrated, collapsed at Lusail Iconic Stadium and was rushed to a nearby hospital. It’s unclear whether he died at the hospital or in transport.
His brother, Eric, believes foul play from the Qatari government may have been involved.
“My name is Eric Wahl. I live in Seattle, Washington. I am Grant Wahl’s brother. I’m gay,” he said in a video posted to his Instagram account before making the account private. “I’m the reason he wore the rainbow shirt to the World Cup. My brother was healthy. He told me he received death threats. I do not believe my brother just died. I believe he was killed. And I just beg for any help.”
Prior to the USMNT’s World Cup game against Wales, Wahl was initially not allowed into Ahmad bin Ali Stadium and detained for 30 minutes for wearing a shirt depicting a soccer ball surrounded by a rainbow. He was eventually let into the stadium.
The Qatari government cracked down on pro-LGBTQ demonstrations at the tournament despite their original promises not to. In addition to his rainbow-themed shirt, Wahl has been an outspoken critic of the Qatari government and its hosting of the World Cup. On Thursday, he wrote “They just don’t care. Qatari World Cup organizers don’t even hide their apathy over migrant worker deaths, including the most recent one,” in an article on his Substack.
“We’re still trying to find out,” Eric continued. “He collapsed at the stadium, was given cpr, was taken by Uber to hospital and died according to Celine. We just spoke with the state department and Celine has spoken to Ron Klain and the White House.”
Just one day prior, Wahl revealed that he was dealing with bronchitis while feeling under the weather.
“My body I think told me, even after the U.S. went out, ‘dude, you are not sleeping enough.’ It rebelled on me,” Wahl said on his podcast, “Futbol with Grant Wahl,” on Thursday. “So I’ve had a case of bronchitis this week, I’ve been to the medical clinic at the media center twice now, including today. I’m feeling better today I basically cancelled everything on this Thursday that I had and napped. And I’m doing slightly better. I think you can probably tell in my voice that I’m not 100 percent.”
Wahl was married to Céline R. Gounder, an American infectious disease physician who served on the COVID-19 Advisory Board transition team for President Joe Biden.
During the game, Wahl was tweeting coverage of the proceedings. His last tweet was at 4:05 p.m. ET. His wife also posted a tweet following the news.
“I am so thankful for the support of my husband @GrantWahl’s soccer family & of so many friends who’ve reached out tonight,” Gounder tweeted. “I’m in complete shock.”
A Mission, Kan. native, Wahl attended Princeton University. In addition to his work at Sports Illustrated, he was also a soccer correspondent and analyst for CBS Sports and Fox Sports, and authored the book “The Beckham Experiment.”
“The entire U.S. soccer family is heartbroken to learn that we have lost Grant Wahl,” U.S. Soccer said in a statement. “Fans of soccer and journalism of the highest quality knew we could always count on Grant to deliver insightful and entertaining stories about our game, and its major protagonists: Teams, players, coaches, and the many personalities that make soccer unlike any sport. Here in the United States, Grant’s passion for soccer and commitment to elevating its profile across our sporting landscape played a major role in helping to drive interest in and respect for our beautiful game.
Sauce/more: https://nypost.com/2022/12/09/us-soccer-journalist-grant-wahl-dies-while-covering-world-cup-in-qatar/
Alex Murdaugh killed his family to distract from financial crimes, prosecutors allege
December 9, 2022
South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh killed his family to distract from his own damning financial crimes, prosecutors allege.
Murdaugh allegedly shot his wife Maggie and their son Paul to death last June to gain sympathy and deter people from figuring out he stole nearly $9 million from clients, according to a motion filed by prosecutors Thursday.
“The evidence will show Murdaugh accrued substantial debts over a period of years and to uncover those debts began engaging in illicit financial crimes,” state grand jury chief prosecutor Creighton Waters wrote in the filing obtained by CNN. “The evidence will further show these financial crimes were about to come to light at the time of the killings, more specifically on the date of the killings.”
“Ultimately, the murders served as Murdaugh’s means to shift the focus away from himself and buy himself some additional time to try and prevent his financial crimes from being uncovered, which, if revealed, would have resulted in personal legal and financial ruin for Murdaugh.”
Prosecutors argued that Murdaugh’s alleged financial schemes are relevant to the murder case and should be admissible in the trial. In addition to the double murder, he faces nearly 100 other charges ranging from money laundering to drug offenses to stealing from clients and trying to arrange his own death to get his surviving son a $10 million life insurance benefit.
Waters claimed that Murdaugh had been living well beyond his means and funded his lifestyle with the alleged financial crimes.
When a high-profile, six-figure case fell through, Murdaugh sought a way to avoid his “day of reckoning” by any means, Waters wrote.
Murdaugh’s former colleagues reportedly confronted him about his financial mismanagement just hours before his wife and son were gunned down.
The former CFO of Murdaugh’s family law firm PMPED testified in a separate case that the firm approached him looking to identify where client settlement cash was on June 7, 2021, but decided to hold back from further investigating after learning about the murders.
Murdaugh spent the days following the murders collecting money to account for missing fees sought by his law firm, Waters said.
“This is a white-collar case that culminated in murders,” Waters told Circuit Judge Clifton Newman on Friday.
Murdaugh’s attorney Jim Griffin rebuked the theory and questioned why Murdaugh would distract from one crime by committing a dramatically more substantial one.
Griffin argued that the financial crime allegations amounted to character evidence, especially since there is no known evidence that his family knew of any crimes, and should not be included in the murder trial.
Murdaugh, who has pleaded not guilty, has repeatedly denied killing Maggie and Paul.
Sauce: https://nypost.com/2022/12/09/alex-murdaugh-killed-his-family-for-pity-prosecutors/
Anon, that's not very rainbow frenly
Dude was from Shawnee Mission, Kansas. fuck him.
kek
US journalist Grant Wahl, 49, DIES watching World Cup quarter-final in Doha after he was detained for wearing a rainbow shirt at USA match - as his brother says he was MURDERED andhis former Biden-aide wife says she's 'in complete shock'
American journalist Grant Wahl has died while covering the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, according to a video posted by his brother Friday evening
NPR confirmed Wahl's death while covering the Netherlands-Argentina quarterfinal match in Doha and US Soccer confirmed the news in a statement
Wahl, 48, was 'healthy' before he collapsed during a game Friday, according to brother Eric in an Instagram video he posted.
Eric, who is gay, said he believes his brother - who was detained before the USA-Wales match for wearing a rainbow flag shirt - may have been killed
Wahl said: 'I am the reason he wore the rainbow shirt to the world cup. I do not believe my brother just died, I believe he was killed'
Sauce/more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11523131/US-journalist-dies-days-detained-wearing-rainbow-shirt-Qatar.html
The statement/remarks that preceeded those looks must have been epic.. she's shocked/surprised and he's angry and concerned.
"“It’s a Boss Hogg kinda thing,” said retired civil rights attorney Lewis Pitts, who practiced in the Lowcountry, referring to the crooked sheriff of Hazzard County who would do almost anything for money on the ’80s TV series The Dukes of Hazzard."
"“Five people in the Murdaughs’ orbit have died violently. Why wouldn’t a word of caution be in order?”"
"P is for Paydirt
“It’s the stories we cannot tell that kill us,” the late novelist Pat Conroy liked to say. Conroy knew this not only because he was one of the foremost writers of the family secrets novel but because he hailed from the land of the Murdaughs. “He often said that all of the kids in his family were damaged in different ways, not only by the abuse itself but by keeping it bottled up,” Conroy’s widow Cassandra King told me when we talked about the novel springing to life 40 miles from the Beaufort, South Carolina, home she shared with her husband. Some of the secrets that Conroy kept were told in his most celebrated novel, The Prince of Tides. Published in 1986, it is the tragic story of the Wingos, a Lowcountry family lorded over by an overbearing, abusive father. The Wingos are torn apart by a traumatic childhood event involving rape and bloody retribution that Tom Wingo (played by Nick Nolte in the 1991 movie) would later reveal to a New York City psychiatrist (Barbra Streisand) after his sister’s latest unsuccessful suicide attempt.
The story of the Murdaughs, King says, may be even more perverse than the fictional Prince of Tides. “It covers everything: good-old-boy politics in the Deep South, family dysfunction that would make Pat drool, murder, corruption, addiction… Yep, a Conroy novel. I cannot tell you how many people have said to me, ‘I’d love to hear Pat’s take on this.’ ”
He would surely focus on whatever toxic family secrets lay within the Murdaughs, she says, “since his family was coerced by the times, by his mother, by his father’s insistence that no one ever reveal anything about the abuse that went on.”
It’s the stories we cannot tell that kill us.
This is the tragic tapestry of some blueblood American families that, like their houses, seem so idyllic from the exterior but are so haunted within, a sad testament to the secrets these families keep, told over and over again."
A first wife named Kathleen McCormack disappears on January 31, 1982, and a longtime friend, Susan Berman, is found murdered in her Los Angeles home. A man dressed as a woman hides out in Galveston, Texas, where he is arrested but acquitted for the murder and dismemberment of a neighbor, Morris Black. The name of the man eventually convicted of murdering Berman is known in New York not for high crimes but for revitalizing Times Square and creating the still-ticking National Debt Clock, the planning for which began before the technology was even available to create such a billboard-size device.Robert Durst-he gets off in pic below, decapitating a neighbor was fine, everything was fine..
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a42039884/alex-murdaugh-murders-family/
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Sports journalism didn't lose a journalist. Kansas lost another shit driver. Those road signs should say "All hope dies here"
Anon KNEW he looked like some leftist dick, that's who!
>@Jack knew
And distributed his lawyer vetted (Jim Baker?) explanation for MSM/public consumption.
ie: If he can't dazzle em with his brillance he will baffle them with his bullshit. aka: CYA, cover yer ass real tight!
Missed one, maybe he's safer in Texas?
Good Lord