”He convinced them to move to the new Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, and they were renamed the Oakland Clippers that June. An eagle-eyed TV viewer called in to complain that Thompson had placed her golf ball, after marking it, about half a centimetre from its original place on the 17th green. ”(Parsons was not on the conference call when Sermanni revealed that Marta wasn’t likely to have her visa paperwork cleared in time to play Saturday. In the money-first world of professional sports owners, Rooney, who died Thursday at 84, showed courage many others might have avoided.