June 05, 2003
Say it ain't so, Mario
Pittsburgh Penguins superstar Mario Lemieux, hailed as a hero when he bought the team out of bankruptcy in 1999 and kept it in town, now says he feels "betrayed"by the lack of public funding for a new arena. "This franchise is a free agent in 2007. I hope they understand that," Lemieux told the Associated Press, in the time-honored tradition of the veiled move threat. Both the city of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County say there's no money in their budgets for a new hockey arena.
Posted by Neil deMause
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