He may be in the league’s penalty box, but the NHL still loves Anaheim Ducks owner Henry Samueli. Samueli is on indefinite league suspension pending sentencing for misleading investigators in Broadcom’s options case. But at a preview party for the Discovery Science Center’s Science of Hockey exhibit, Samueli and wife Susan hung out with NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, who greeted the couple warmly and lauded them. The exhibit is funded by the Samueli Foundation, the Ducks, the NHL and USA Hockey. The event affirmed thinking that Samueli’s suspension is a technicality necessitated by the more severe case of Adelphia’s John Rigas and his former ownership of the Buffalo Sabres, and that Samueli’s suspension could be lifted once the court case is decided …
CNBC noted Broadcom’s stock rise (about 30% in a month) and its chip technology for smart phones, but commentator Erin Burnett couldn’t resist a Nicholas-allegation-related dig, saying Broadcom makes her think of “underground crack dens” …
Hours before flying to Detroit to root on Michigan State in the Final Four and reunite with Larry Bird, Ritz Cove homeowner Magic Johnson was greeting guests and signing autographs at the open house for SCP Auctions’ new digs in Laguna Niguel’s Ocean Ranch center. SCP chief Dave Kohler says his sports memorabilia company is feeling the recession, especially in the “mid-priced” range of goods, but that “vintage” (pre-1970s) stuff remains in high demand …
OC Business Bank chief JP Gough acknowledged his OCBJ Excellence in Entrepreneurship award with a quip-“I’m surprised that anyone involved in banking in today’s environment could win an award”-and a tip-“The opportunity to make money in real estate will be here in the next year, year and a half” …
Another Mainero and Capaldi have joined the conservative cause. Mario Mainero is Supe John Moorlach’s chief of staff and former dean of Whittier Law School. Corona del Mar neighbor Michael Capaldi is a corporate lawyer, Lincoln Club director and political commentator. Now Mainero’s son Anthony and Capaldi’s son Ben-described by both dads as being to their political right-are executive editor and executive publisher, respectively, of The Opinion. It’s a self-funded magazine that the teenagers get professionally printed and distribute at Sage Hill High School, where they’re juniors. The fourth issue is out; advertisers include Fletcher Jones Motor Cars and Wells Fargo. Anthony says he started the magazine, which prints a range of views, after being told he was too conservative to become opinion editor of the school-sponsored newspaper, The Bolt …
President Jim Doti expects to hang out, literally, at Chapman U’s new resident hall when it opens this fall-it will have a 50-foot climbing wall … Almost live: KOCE-TV’s “Inside OC with RR” has gone from a two-day to four-hour delay. Air times remain the same, but the kickoff of each weekly episode now is Wednesday at 7 p.m., with Sunday the final airing instead of the first …
Financial blog 24/7 Wall St. spared the OC Register and L.A. Times from its list of the 10 major daily papers most likely to fold or go all digital.
