Haslam Sports Group, LLC

Well, I mean, yeah, I know who-

Haslam Sports Group, right?

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Well-

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Haslam Sports Group.

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There's a battle over parking spots at the new Brown Stadium in Brook Park.

The Planning Commission asked for 13,000 spots, but in a special meeting Thursday, the Haslam Sports Group will ask to gut that to 8000.

It says 13,000 spots would take away 60% of the space they want for mixed use.

Things like shopping office living space.

It was amazing.

Um, I love hearing about ownership groups and how they operate, just because we are part of a, a ownership group called the Haslam Sports Group that owns multiple properties.

Um, and it was really nice because we resonate with a lot of things that they've been saying, um, across perseverance and loyalty and, uh, sort of cross-cultural collaboration.

Um, there was chat about, you know, the, the recent game in Melbourne that the Rams played and how they had, uh, like Australian partners specific to the game and how, um, you know...

Is there any way to introduce them to Arsenal when they're playing out there over the next summer? Um, if that's the, the opportunity for them.

Mm-hmm.

Um, and, and we sort of operate that way as well at the Bucs and across Haslam Sports Group.

There's a lot of data sharing.

I've got voices from the North Lot coming your way.

And Haslam Sports Group top soccer

guy checks in a little bit later on.

Yes, of course, I'm talking about Tim Bezpachenko.

Absolutely.

A deserved round of applause for the black and gold.

We'll move on with a conversation with Anas Zaruri, plus Tim Bezpachenko, the president of Global Soccer Operations for Haslam Sports Group, will check in with us as well as we continue tonight on Inside the Crew.

Hey, welcome back to Inside the Crew.

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And so, you know, not that that changes the way you should handle this situation either, but, you know, you're under the same ownership group as you're about to, you know, bring women into this umbrella of, of, you know, Haslam Sports Group, I guess.

Yeah.

You, you, you know, I don't think...

Thank you, guys.

J.W. Johnson, managing partner of the Haslam Sports Group, joining us off the top of the show.

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And that, I think, is why the PRSA, which is the referees union, why their statement, I think, was so kind of emphatic and why they were so frustrated with the suspension and the lack of accountability was that the incident, from their perspective and point of view, was egregious and beyond uh you know a professional disagreement and you know tempers running over and you know whatever like no this was like general misconduct uh by someone um who who represents uh everything and and anything involved with the columbus crew so uh yeah uh there's the the him being shown the door uh absolutely needed to happen and and i think that's that's that as far as i'm concerned

Yeah, and I think it's fair to mention, and I thought about this, she had this, like, this is a club on the cusp of introducing, you know, they've already announced it, but a women's professional team into the city, right? And so, you know, not that that changes the way you should handle this situation either, but, you know, you're under the same ownership group as you're about to, you know, bring women into this umbrella of, you know, Haslam Sports Group, I guess.

Yeah.

I don't think that adds to it of like, you can't have this.

But the two are intersecting in a way that historically didn't.

Remember, before working for the Haslam family at Haslam Sports Group, I was at Goldman.

And we were the center of the sports finance universe.

If there was a real sports finance transaction going on, we were likely at the center of it.