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Enron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Enron was originally involved in the transmission and distribution of electricity and gas throughout the United States and the development, construction, and operation of power plants, pipelines, and other infrastructure worldwide. Enron's global reputation was undermined by persistent rumours of bribery and political pressure to secure contracts in Central America, South America, Africa, and the Philippines. Enron's plunge occurred after it was revealed that much of its profits and revenue were the result of deals with special purpose entities (limited partnerships which it controlled). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Enron   (4486 words)

Minute Maid Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Minute Maid Park (formerly Enron Field and Astros Field) is a baseball stadium in Houston, Texas that opened in 2000 to house the Houston Astros. The ballpark was first christened as Enron Field on April 9, 1999, with naming rights sold to the Houston energy corporation in a 30 year, $100 million deal. The difference is that the Crosley Field "terrace" was necessitated by the difference in elevation between field level and street level, while Tal's Hill is purely decorative. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Enron_Field   (689 words)

ESPN.com - Astros ask bankruptcy court for guidance Enron, considered the nation's seventh-largest company in 2000, wilted late last year as investor confidence vanished amid wave of questions over the energy trader's accounting practices. Enron spokeswoman Karen Denne said the company's naming rights agreement with the team is a valuable asset the former energy giant isn't willing to give up. Denne, Enron's spokeswoman, says she isn't quite sure how the team is being harmed by the company's name being prominently placed on Enron Field. sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1323132&type=news   (637 words)

JS Online: Enron Field Becomes Astros Field When Enron in 1999 pledged $100 million over 30 years to plaster the Astros' new ballpark with its name and logo, the company was on its way to being one of the top 10 of the Fortune 500. McLane said Enron's name, featured repeatedly in huge blue letters or with its logo in the center of a baseball diamond, will be removed or covered with tarps. Enron was paid up for naming rights until its next annual payment of $3.65 million was due Aug. 31. www.jsonline.com /bym/news/ap/feb02/ap-enron-ballpark022802.asp?format=print   (591 words)

Houston Astros - Stadium Enron Field opened a new chapter in the history of the "City of Destiny." After the Houston Oilers split for Tennessee in 1997, the city got serious about providing a state of the art, cutting-edge technology facility for their remaining sports team. Enron has 50,000 square feet of glass in the west wall of the roof, which provides the fans a view of the Houston skyline even when closed. Seats along the right field and left field lines are five feet from the foul line, which brings the game closer to the fans. www.baseball-statistics.com /Ballparks/Hou   (778 words)

Enron news & links & T-shirts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) We ought to find out whether they ignored warning signs." "The White House had knowledge that Enron was likely to collapse but did nothing to try to protect innocent employees and shareholders who ultimately lost their life savings,'' he said in a statement. Enron the once a mighty energy trader unraveled after it disclosed losses from partnerships kept off its balance sheet. Enron's auditing firm, whose work is under investigation by federal regulators, disclosed that its employees had destroyed a ``significant'' number of documents related to Enron. www.bushandcheneysuck.com /Enron-news.htm   (760 words)

ENRONGATE Enron is accused of hiding its debts and creating a conflict of interest, according to investor lawsuits, by allowing its chief financial officer, Andrew Fastow, to run several partnerships that were not disclosed to shareholders. Enron, a company close to both the Bush hearts and the Bush pocketbooks (is there a difference?), has served as a virtual home away from home for members of the previous and current Bush administrations. Enron has also provided employment for a number of officials in the Bush II Administration, in addition to being the single largest financial contributor to the political career of President "Duh-bya.'' The relationship between Enron and the Bushes has been long, and profitable. www.bushwatch.com /enron.htm   (5967 words)

Business: Astros take Enron Field battle to court "Because the Enron (Field) name blankets the stadium, thousands of people who have been adversely affected by the Enron collapse are being reminded on a daily basis of this continuing tragedy," attorneys for Astros owner Drayton McLane wrote in a motion filed Tuesday with the New York court overseeing Enron's bankruptcy. The Astros say it isn't realistic to expect Enron to be able to make the $3.7-million payment and that Enron should reject the naming rights agreement, even though it is paid up-to-date, and stop thinking of the baseball team's trademarks and retractable roofed-field's sign as an asset. Enron spokeswoman Karen Denne said the company's naming rights agreement with the team is a valuable asset Enron isn't willing to give up. www.sptimes.com /2002/02/06/Business/Astros_take_Enron_Fie.shtml   (257 words)

Enron Field Enron Field, the new state-of-the-art baseball stadium for the Houston Astros, the City's major league baseball team, is a fine example of a successful Brownfields Redevelopment Project. The construction of Enron Field has had a major impact on nearby properties by increasing the potential for those properties to be redeveloped and has substantially increased their values. Some of the benefits to the community include the remediation of 25 acres of environmentally impacted land, that is helping to revitalize the east side of downtown Houston and generate new revenue for the City, as well as creating over 225 new full-time employment positions. www.phoenixawards.org /Presentations/present_00/Cases/case_00.6.htm   (217 words)

Enron Field merges tradition and technology McLane says the same 262-acre circumference around Enron Field provides 14,000 parking spaces, and that should be enough since studies show that an average of 3.1 people per vehicle attend the games. Field box seats increased from $21 to $25 and mezzanine seats remain $12. Center field surface rises 30 feet toward center field fence with padded flagpole on the field. www.canoe.ca /Baseball00Preview/mar29_enr.html   (955 words)

Astros Field | BaseballLibrary.com While no such grandiose claims were made for Enron Field, it is something of a technological marvel itself. The exterior architecture of this 42,000-seat facility is postmodern, and the field configuration is quirky, with eight bends and angles in the outfield wall and an in-play flagpole on the field in center. Before Enron opened, sportswriters were of differing opinions whether Enron would be a hitter's park (after the Astrodome, almost anything would feel like a hitter's park), or whether it would favor pitchers. www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/E/Enron_Field.stm   (730 words)

CNN.com - Explaining the Enron bankruptcy - January 12, 2002 Enron filed for protection from creditors on December 2 in the biggest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history. A: Enron, which had 20,000 employees, barred them from selling Enron shares from their retirement accounts last fall as the stock price plunged, saying the accounts were being switched to a new plan administrator. Enron and its employees have been the single biggest group of contributors to Bush's campaigns. archives.cnn.com /2002/US/01/12/enron.qanda.focus   (722 words)

Astros strike out Enron name - Feb. 27, 2002 Enron, the now bankrupt energy company, had agreed to pay $100 million over 30 years to have its name on the facility during that time. Enron itself said last week it was seeking to change its name. When Enron's financial problems surfaced last fall, team executives said they hoped to be able to keep the Enron name on their home. money.cnn.com /2002/02/27/companies/enron_astros   (685 words)

Clem's Baseball ~ Minute Maid Park When Enron went bankrupt in December 2001, there was no doubt in anyone's mind that Enron Field would be renamed before the first day of the 2002 season. There is a small "nosebleed section," however, located in the left field corner of the upper deck where ten or so additional rows of seats are squeezed in. On that slope, which is an obvious homage to Crosley Field, there is a flag pole just to the left of the center field distance marker. www.andrewclem.com /Baseball/MinuteMaidPark.html   (1041 words)

Harris County - Houston Sports Authority - News This roof allows the field to be made of natural grass, decreasing the risk of injury to players, and improving the fan experience. Enron Field was built on the site of a 1911 railroad station, and the station was renovated and incorporated into the design of the building, successfully uniting the historic with the modern in an attractive and functional whole. Enron Field has broad based civil engineering design/analysis features, including: traffic/transportation/parking, water/wastewater/storm sewer utilities, geotechnical, innovative moveable roof, large electronic scoreboard and large air conditioning system. www.hchsa.org /news/enronaward.html   (374 words)

Enron Field Enron's top executives were more aware of the risks in the one-time energy trader's controversial partnerships than they have previously acknowledged, according to documents released by congressional investigators. Enron Corp. collapsed last fall because of massive failures by its management, board and outside advisers as well as self-enrichment by some employees "in a culture that appears to have encouraged pushing the limits," according to an internal report released yesterday. Enron employees, whose retirement plans vanished amid the debris of the energy giant's bankruptcy, are quietly pointing federal investigators toward the man they think most responsible for the fiasco: former Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling. www.cursor.org /enronfield.htm   (6381 words)

Houston's Homer Haven / Enron Field a nightmare for pitchers Nearly three months into the inaugural season of Enron Field, that explosion is about the only thing yet to happen. Home runs fly into the left- field bleachers with the greatest of ease; Enron is averaging 3.45 homers per game, more than any major-league ballpark except high-altitude Coors Field in Denver. Most criticism of Enron Field has still focused on the ballpark's size, the contention it is simply too small. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/06/23/SP96851.DTL&type=printable   (1498 words)

Enron and Enron Field Clothing Accessories Collectibles at tlknet.com Enron Field commissioned O.P.I. to make ONLY five hundred of these watches to be made. The face of the watch is a baseball diamond that displays the Enron Field logo that includes the three-colored "Crooked E" logo. Embroidered on the front is the multicolored Enron Field logo that includes the infamous "Crooked E" Enron logo. www.tlknet.com /enron_shirts.htm   (1674 words)

TCS Daily - What To Do With Enron Field Enron executives essentially locked out retirees from selling their shares until they were nearly worthless, much as the Argentine government has done with the banks helping make the peso's value plummet. The box seats at Enron Field in Houston - so named because of the large chunks of cash Enron doled out for naming rights - could be set aside so groups of Enron employees could have outings there. Of course, one might say that, in regards to Enron, its problems had more to do with a lack of common sense and common decency than it did with a lack of financial sophistication. www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=020702B   (768 words)

Minute Maid Park However, on December 2, 2001 Enron became the largest corporation in history to declare bankruptcy. After two full seasons of being called Enron Field, the home of the Houston Astros then became temporarily know as Astros Field. Tal’s Hill, a tribute to Crosley Field, is a 10° grass-covered incline in the deepest part of center field. www.ballparks.com /baseball/national/bpkaus.htm   (1250 words)

ESPN.com: SPORTSBUSINESS - Astros facing potential PR nightmare in Enron The ad is for Enron, the deeply troubled energy company that is the namesake of the Astros' 2-year old ballpark. The Enron name literally permeates the stadium, says Rick Costello, general manager of the Home Plate Bar & Grill, which is across the street from Enron Field. For one, the Enron bankrupty put some 4,500 area residents out of work, some of whom undoubtedly were ticket buyers, and the average Astros ticket in 2001 cost $20.03, 12th-highest in the major leagues. espn.go.com /sportsbusiness/s/2002/0124/1316712.html   (973 words)

Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Enron Field at Epinions.com The way the booing and jeering cascaded down onto the field was something I have never heard the likes of before. You have a great view of the field and the scoreboard from there and the tickets are less than $15. Also, there are shuttles from Enron Field to Bayou Place, but I don't know whether they cost to ride or what their running times are. www.epinions.com /sprt-review-7F9A-1FF7E1FB-397CC759-prod5   (556 words)

CNNSI.com - MLB Baseball - Bonds takes record chase to Enron Field - Wednesday September 12, 2001 11:19 AM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) Batters have hit 206 homers at Enron this season, second among all major league stadiums to Coors, which has yielded 239. His most significant homer was the longest one hit at Enron, 458 feet over the center-field fence. Unlike the last-place Rockies, the Astros are fighting to stay atop the NL Central ahead of the St. sportsillustrated.cnn.com /baseball/mlb/news/2001/09/10/bonds_enron_ap   (758 words)

Enron Field in Houston Unlike the retractable ceiling tiles at BankOne Ballpark in Phoenix, when Enron's roof panels move out of the way, the entire playing field and a lot of the seats are fully exposed to the elements. And since Enron Field cost $248 million to build, maybe someone can explain why Safeco Field in Seattle -- which has a design very similar to Enron -- ended up costing a staggering $517 million to complete. And just as Kansas City's park has the fountains, the most identifiable, unique aspect of Enron Field is the enormous steam locomotive that runs along 800 feet of track high above the left-field wall. www.baseballparks.com /Enron.asp   (1066 words)

CNNSI.com - MLB Baseball - Astros open Enron Field with 6-5 victory - Friday March 31, 2000 01:18 AM Daryle Ward's two-run homer in the eighth inning was the first home run by a Houston player as the Astros entertained a sellout crowd with a 6-5 comeback victory over the Yankees in the first game played at Enron Field on Thursday night. Though it was an exhibition, the Astros and Yankees provided a night of firsts for Enron Field, the new retractable-roof ballpark in downtown Houston. Yankee's manager Joe Torre was especially interested in the hill in center field that rises at a 30-degree angle to the fence. sportsillustrated.cnn.com /baseball/mlb/news/2000/03/30/yankees_astros_ap   (617 words)

Enron Field could epitomize Home Run Central: 4/7/00 If the exhibition season was any indication, however, Enron Field will be a slugger's sanctuary. No one has threatened the expansive center field, with a flagpole-topped 30-degree hill rising to the fence 436 feet away. In left field you're just going to have to take a lot of balls off that wall and see how it bounces. www.s-t.com /daily/04-00/04-07-00/c03sp114.htm   (570 words)

Enron Field to be More Aptly Renamed (from archives)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) Above: The former Enron Field is anxious to be called anything else, even Butt-Munch Field. The spokesman said several groups and companies have already approached the Astros about purchasing the field's naming rights, including the Proctologists Association of America, who want the field renamed, "Up Yours." "Frankly, I think that's in poor taste and won't happen," the spokesman said. Until the naming rights are resold, the stadium will be called, "Greedy Bastard Field," in honor of former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay. www.glossynews.com /artman/publish/printer_enron-field-6731.shtml   (353 words)

Enron Field is no longer Enron Field Well, it happened, and the Astros were so anxious to sanitize their ballpark of Enron's name that they actually paid off the ailing corporation (by then in bankruptcy court) to end the naming-rights agreement prior to the 2002 season. Travelers along one of Houston's busiest thoroughfares, US Route 59, were used to seeing a huge "ENRON FIELD" sign on the exterior of the ballpark as they passed by. And although they tried to remove the name "Enron Field" everywhere they could, there were still some places where you could see where the letters used to be, such as above the ticket windows next to the entrance behind home plate. www.baseballparks.com /EnronNoMore.asp   (586 words)

Enron's Washington Enron's Lay--as candidate George Bush's most-deep-pocketed patron--has a good relationship with Commerce Secretary Donald Evans, whose previous job was as the Bush-Cheney campaign's tapper-of-deep-pockets. Looking just at Enron, the center's study turned up fourteen executive branch officials who owned stock in Enron, collectively valued when disclosed at from $284,000 to $886,000 (the spread is so broad because officials report income in approximate ranges). Enron was elated by that treaty because the company, which specializes in trading esoteric goods, was excited about trading pollution credits around the world. www.thenation.com /doc/20020204/bivens20020124   (1746 words)

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