Sam Katz is expanding his sporting empire, and has bought the Cracker Cats for $400,000 - way below the $1 million expansion fee paid when the team was created. The very first thing he's done is dump the name. This is actually pretty good news, as there were fears that the club would die out for real, and the loss of either Calgary or Edmonton would likely take the entire Canadian expansion project with it.
Hopefully Katz can rebuild the team, because as bad as the Vipers have been at times, Dan Orlich and company made Calgary's club look like the Yankees. One half of the Northern League's legacy of incompetence in how it handled the Alberta expansion is now dead.
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