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	RISMedia - Residential Real Estate's Largest Independent News & Information Service - Immediate access to industry ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Billy Joe "Red" McCombs owns an island of property near Wolf Creek ski area where he wants to build the state's largest resort village.
		McCombs' team crafted a similar rider to the 2001 National Energy Bill, which would have deemed the proposed 2,172-unit village a "Pilot Energy Efficiency Project." The proposed amendment never made it onto the bill.
		McCombs wants a final decision on the environmental impact statement, which was launched in December 2003, by mid-January, a few days before inauguration day.
	www.rismedia.com /index.php/article/articleview/7734/1/1 (702 words)

	Printer version: The Red McCombs years
		McCombs acknowledges that Minnesotans "should be concerned about" their team being owned by a San Antonio businessman who had lobbied for an NFL team in his hometown, but he also called the Vikings a Minnesota institution and added: "I don't expect that issue to go away.
		McCombs hires former Kansas City NFL executive Tim Connolly as general manager and executive vice president in charge of day-to-day operations.
		McCombs said the move was made to free up Gary Woods, team president, from having to be responsible for the Vikings' day-to-day operations.
	www.startribune.com /dynamic/story.php?template=print_a&story=5240912 (1630 words)

	ESPN.com: NFL - McCombs putting the pressure on Minnesota
		And for Billy Joe McCombs, the Minnesota Vikings owner whose nickname is "Red" but whose color of preference is green and not purple, the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter's aligned with Mars.
		Those options could range from selling the team, which pundits have long predicted was the eventual aim of McCombs when he bought the franchise in '98, to loading up the moving vans and heading to San Antonio or Los Angeles or anywhere in between.
		Jesse Ventura, the wrestler-turned-governor of Minnesota noted Monday that McCombs is merely putting "a gun to the heads" of the locals in an effort to land his new stadium.
	espn.go.com /nfl/columns/pasquarelli_len/1385006.html (1105 words)

	Rocky Mountain News: State
		He was envisioning what Texas billionaire Billy Joe "Red" McCombs wants to build nearby: a $1 billion project with 222,100 square feet of commercial space, hotels and homes for up to 10,500 people.
		McCombs says the Pitchers violated an agreement to help him win government approval of a key access road and he now faces going through a Forest Service review.
		McCombs, a former owner of the NBA's Denver Nuggets and San Antonio Spurs, declined an interview request.
	www.rockymountainnews.com /drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_3777114,00.html (1216 words)

	Printer version: Purple Pride before the fall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		McCombs' lasting legacy -- if there is one -- is difficult to predict because of the different ways he managed the franchise before and after it became apparent that Minnesotans weren't going to build a new stadium for a car dealer living in Texas.
		On Aug. 1, 2001, McCombs and the Vikings were rocked when right tackle Korey Stringer collapsed during training camp and died 15 hours later because of heat stroke.
		McCombs is not named in the lawsuit, so any liability will remain with the team after McCombs sells.
	www.startribune.com /dynamic/story.php?template=print_a&story=5240971 (1119 words)

	www.MackBrown-TexasFootball.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		When McCombs spoke, he talked of the value of an education from The University of Texas and he talked about all that the football team had done for its school.
		McCombs talked about the thousands of people who are behind the team and he used the perfect night on the prairie as an example.
		Born Billy Joe "Red" McCombs in 1927 in Spur, Texas, his passion for sports took him at 17-years old on a hitch-hiking tour of schools of the old Southwest Conference as he tried to find a place to play football, the game he loved.
	www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com /pages/billcommentary/002/little_081902.html (1143 words)

	Durango Herald Online
		Texas billionaire Billy Joe "Red" McCombs and his partners are pursuing the Village at Wolf Creek development.
		McCombs is a co-founder of Clear Channel Communications Inc., and also owns the Minnesota Vikings, among other business ventures.
		McCombs owns 288 acres of meadow that is surrounded by 1,300 acres of the ski area.
	www.durangoherald.com /asp-bin/printable.asp?article_path=/news/04/news041023_3.htm (563 words)

	Texas Monthly September 1999: Business • Red McCombs
		The last time McCombs was that animated was a few months before, on January 17, when his newly acquired professional football team, the Minnesota Vikings, came within a single game of making it to the Super Bowl.
		Billy Joe McCombs was born on October 19, 1927, in Spur, a town of fewer than two thousand about seventy miles from Lubbock, into a family in which the ability to make cars go and trucks shine was taken seriously.
		As he related the story, McCombs assumed the pose of a fisherman who was terrified the catch of his life might be slipping off his hook.
	www.texasmonthly.com /mag/issues/1999-09-01/feature11.php (2935 words)

	High Country News
		McCombs sat on the land for years, but in 1998, he brought Honts on board.
		McCombs and Honts have fought to gain that access without triggering NEPA — even allegedly trying to strong-arm Pitcher into illegally constructing a road and utility corridor.
		That attempt was foiled by The Wilderness Society in Washington, D.C. In November 2003, McCombs and Honts finally submitted an application requesting road and utility easements across the 250 feet of public land.
	www.headwatersnews.org /HCN.wolfcreekpass.html (735 words)

	Rocky Mountain News: Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Billy Joe "Red" McCombs' life is a rags to riches tale.
		"McCombs was easy to know, as I had been assured, and he struck me as being close to the stereotypical Texan - a large man, still reddish haired, with a voice that would rattle windows," wrote Michener.
		In his book, McCombs called the spur-of-the-moment decision "a huge blunder" because he failed to consult his wife, Charline, who had become attached to Denver and the friends she made here.
	rockymountainnews.com /drmn/business/article/0,1299,DRMN_4_4087728,00.html (958 words)

	Teton Gravity Research Forums - wolf creek fighting back against developer
		McCombs and partners are proposing to construct the biggest ski resort village in Colorado at 10,000 feet and smack in the middle of Wolf Creek Ski Area - something the Pitchers say would hurt the essence of the place they worked hard to build.
		McCombs, born in Spur, Texas, in 1927, is an automobile, oil, communications and sports magnate, part of the nation's corporate elite.
		McCombs owns 288-acre Alberta Park, a vast wood-ringed meadow that is surrounded by the Pitchers' 1,300 acres of federally permitted ski area.
	www.tetongravity.com /forums/printthread.php?t=9923 (4156 words)

	HAMILTON COUNTY: Death in the Air
		Gary persuaded Jesse, Billy Baldwin, Clinton Vann and Karen Hobby, the wife of Bobby Hobby who died of bone cancer, to speak with me. For others, the experience was too painful to discuss and, fearing intimidation, they refused to be quoted, even when offered anonymity.
		"Billy was sick at his stomach, had headaches and was as white as a ghost.
		Billy Baldwin recalled, "Occidental float crews were given no special protective gear like clothes, dust masks or respirators.
	www.flouridealert.com /phosphate/HamiltonCounty.htm (6613 words)

	The Scribe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Some local residents are opposed to construction of a housing village on the 288 acres of private land surrounded by the 1,600 acres of federally permitted ski area.
		According to Colorado Wild, a letter sent by the Forest Service to McCombs on March 11 may have violated federal environmental laws and the 1999 agreement with the Forest Service.
		The lawsuit alleges that permission for use of the road was given before a final environmental impact statement was issued.
	www.uccs.edu /~scribe/archived/102704/index.php?id=news4 (1105 words)

	Minnesota Vikings Football Club, Inc. - Fact Sheet - Hoover's
		Texas billionaire Billy Joe "Red" McCombs bought the team in 1998.
		McCombs is selling the Vikings to a group headed by New Jersey real estate developer Zygmunt Wilf.
		The group will build a new stadium but won't move the team, something McCombs threatened after his attempts to replace the aging Metrodome failed.
	www.hoovers.com /free/co/factsheet.xhtml?ID=46795&mode=print (222 words)

	Ward's Dealer Business: Three stars glow in Texas - automobile dealers Ramsey H. Gillman, Billy Joe McCombs and Bill A. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Ramsey Gillman, Billy Joe McCombs and Bill Gilliland typify a new breed of dealer who is leading the business into a brave new 21st century world.
		It was a stroke of serendipity last fall that brought the three Texas dealers into prominence all at once - with McCombs fulfilling a career-long quest to join the Forbes 400 and Gilliland raising approximately $43 million in a public stock offering on the eve of Ramsey Gillman's accession to the NADA presidency.
		But although each arrived at his destination through different routes, the trio's shared achievement of becoming a "first among equals" underscores the singular status of new-car dealers at a time when the dealer image has been battered and doubts have been raised in high places about the system's survivability in the next century.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FJN/is_n5_v31/ai_19231619 (1030 words)

	National Football Foundation
		One of the nation's top offensive tackles and an Iron Arrow inductee in 2000 (the highest academic honor bestowed to any UM student or staff member), Joaquin Gonzalez epitomizes the term "scholar-athlete." A two-time All-First Team America, Gonzalez also contributes time and energy to many worthy causes.
		Billy Joe "Red" McCombs received The Gold Medal, the highest award the Foundation bestows.
		From life as an auto mechanic's son on the wind swept plains of West Texas, Red McCombs has risen to become one of America's most successful businessmen, with varied interests in auto dealerships, oil, ranching, communications, and professional sports.
	www.footballfoundation.com /news.php?id=78 (695 words)

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		The other surprise came when it was discovered that the one year $1 million option on Tice's contract must be acted on by January 1st.
		Owner Billy Joe "Red" McCombs has repeatedly said (despite a "Yes, I'll pick up the option" statement in Sports Illustrated) that he won't make any decisions about Tice's future until after the season.
		So, with the division title possibly in the balance, ol' Billy Joe is going to have to do some quick thinking and fast talking to figure this one out.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=5723104&postID=110303849214707329 (280 words)

	VikingUpdate.com: Fowler Out As Front Man
		Red’s “Purple Pride” mantra and a legislative guarantee on the grave of Pete Rozelle that Minnesota would have a team in the NFL let the “Chicken Little” belief that the sky was falling get pushed to the back burner.
		Those same concerns were raised when McCombs reached a tentative agreement on the second sale of the Vikings – what many Vikes fans consider being taken hostage for a second time – in seven years.
		At the time, some of us thought the line of questioning was more in keeping with tabloid news or a press conference more comfortable in the 1970s.
	vikings.scout.com /2/377145.html (768 words)

	14/9/2004 -- COLORADO: Udall assails billionaire's push for road at Wolf Creek
		U.S. Rep. Mark Udall and an environmental group are girding to battle a possible last-minute amendment to a major appropriations bill that could give a Texas billionaire a controversial road through public land in Colorado.
		The brouhaha is the latest in the long-simmering feud that recently boiled over the top of Wolf Creek ski area down to the U.S. District Court in Denver and now has reached the nation's capital.
		Opponents to the proposed village - and there are many - say that McCombs is flexing his Republican stalwart status to either get the project speedily approved or written into law through a tiny rider on a massive bill.
	forests.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=34931 (1041 words)

	Addict Baseball and Football Forum - Soap Opra in Viking land!!!!
		McCombs could exercise the option, and then fire Tice, but he would then owe the coach $800,000 of the $1 million base salary stipulated for 2005.
		Red isn't going to want to pay a new coach more money, in a multi-year deal, as well as pay off any coaches who have time left on their deals when the new coach wants to hire his own guys.
		12-16-2004, 07:21 PM Billy Joe McCombs (Red's real name) told Sid Hartman, Star-Tribune sports gossip columinst, in today's paper that Tice will be back next year no matter what happens.
	www.addictsports.com /baseball/archive/index.php/t-46151.html (544 words)

	THE CITY GRITTY: The Best of the Twin Cities 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Throughout his long career as an auto-sales and communications magnate, Billy Joe "Red" McCombs has displayed the typical billionaire's touch for cutting the timely deal.
		The Vikes looked every bit the part of a declining franchise: Home games were regularly fled out, the team had annually lost badly in playoff game after playoff game, and internal dirty laundry had been hung out in public.
		When a cheery McCombs speculated during the preseason that the Vikes might go undefeated and proceeded to award head coach/pariah Dennis Green a three-year contract extension, fans and pundits alike shook their heads or laughed derisively.
	www.citypages.com /bestof1999/citygritty/bestof777.asp (338 words)

	Addict Baseball and Football Forum - Tice's option picked up for 2005
		Owner Red McCombs told Tice in a phone call Monday that he would pick up the coach's $1 million option for 2005.
		Oh and the Vikings are stuck with Cottrell for one more year since Billy Joe McCombs (Red's real name) is not going to eat that money for next year.
		I think one of the reasons why Tice's option was picked up was because Billy Joe did not want to pay a new coach millions so it made sense for him to pick up Tice's option in a business sense.
	www.addictsports.com /baseball/showthread.php?t=46435 (470 words)

	Minnesotans Among Top U.S. Donors in 2000 (1/9/01)
		Richard Schulze is founder, chairman and CEO of Minneapolis-based Best Buy Company, Inc. The couple designated their gift for the university's entrepreneurial education programs, scholarships and the School of Law, which is scheduled to open in 2001.
		Last year McCombs contributed $50 million to the Business School at the University of Texas at Austin.
		The largest individuals donations in 2000 were a $5 billion gift by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, to endow the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; and a $5 billion pledge by Gordon Moore, chairman emeritus of Intel, and his wife, Betty, to endow the Gordon E. and Betty I. Moore Foundation.
	www.mcf.org /MCF/whatsnew/archives/Jan2001/topgifts010109.htm (216 words)

	The 2000 Slate 60: The 60 largest American charitable contributions of 2000 Compiled by the Chronicle of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		BILLY JOE (RED) McCOMBS—$50 million to the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN.
		McCombs, 73, who attended the university but did not graduate, owns the Minnesota Vikings and co-founded Clear Channel Communications, an advertising company in San Antonio, Texas.
		Photographs of: Marguerite Brooks and H.F. (Gerry) Lenfest courtesy of Wilson College; Theodore J. Forstmann courtesy of Forstmann Little and Co.; Billy Joe (Red) McCombs courtesy of University of Texas at Austin.
	slate.msn.com /id/2058561/entry/97229 (1021 words)

	Sell Red Sell Petition
		We feel that Red McCombs is a carpet bagging huxter out to move the Vikings to another state.
		THEREFORE we are collecting signatures to urge Billy Joe McCombs to sell the team to a local owner, or to the Vikings fans.
		The Sell Red Sell Petition to Red McCombs was created by and written by Van and Cheryl.
	www.petitiononline.com /redmc123/petition.html (103 words)

	Magazine Column: GQ and Forbes throw the NFL for a loss
		Included are three Western Pennsylvania QBs -- Joe Namath, Joe Montana and Dan Marino.
		But, to Hunt's lament and as Forbes makes clear, greedy/smart/aggressive capitalists like Dallas Cowboys' owner Jerry Jones are trying to take over the league.
		Hustling, creative marketeers like Jones and Billy Joe McCombs of the Minnesota Vikings want to change the rules so they no longer have to share their teams' larger-than-average merchandising revenues with the have-nots.
	www.post-gazette.com /magazine/19990909mags3.asp (689 words)

	SLV Dweller: - Wolf Creek Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Their disagreements are an extension, sometimes philosophical, always economic, of the two powerhouses they represent: skiing patriarch Kingsbury Pitcher and Forbes 400 billionaire Billie Joe "Red" McCombs.
		They claim the county violated state laws and its own rules by neither taking public comment nor giving public notice of meetings on the Village at Wolf Creek, which is proposed on nearly 300 acres of private land that's surrounded by national forest.
		Legal action is likely against Texas billionaire Billy Joe "Red" McCombs' plans to build the biggest ski resort village in the state just below the Continental Divide near Wolf Creek Pass.
	www.slvdweller.com /archives/cat__wolf_creek.html (1935 words)

	Wearing the Net halo \| Perspectives \| CNET News.com
		At Clear Channel Communications, director Billy Joe McCombs purchased 200,000 shares during March at $56.93 to $59.58.
		McCombs' purchases are particularly meaningful, since insider buying is a fairly rare phenomena in large-cap growth stocks
		Insiders were also sending valuable clues at Harbinger Corporation, a company that designs software to promote e-commerce on the Web, primarily through electronic data interchange (EDI).
	news.com.com /2010-1071_3-281226.html (1125 words)

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