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$500M Lawsuit: Idea For WNBA “Stolen” From Man

Posted by Brooks on Jan. 17, 2008, 10:57am

WDAF-TV (FOX 4!) in Kansas City reports that a local man “has filed a federal lawsuit, contending he’s the one who came up with the idea for the WNBA. But he said he never got any credit.”

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Yes, that’s amusing, but not as funny as the TV station promoting their coverage of the lawsuit: “In this story you’ll see only on FOX 4, the man tells FOX 4 why he believes the NBA stole his dream.”

Well the only reason you’ll only see it on “FOX 4!” is no one else has seen fit to cover a kook lawsuit like that.

But the damages the man, Lightning Mitchell, is seeking make the coverage so worthwhile. Read more…