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- Courts would likely back baseball commissioner Bud Selig's power to take control of the Dodgers, but it's a fight Frank McCourt might be gearing up to take on. LAT, TMZ
- It's about the TV money McCourt was trying to get from Fox, which itself was trying to head off a deal between McCourt and Time Warner Cable, says the Wall Street Journal. LA Biz Observed
- "There's a predetermined campaign to blow him [McCourt] out of town," said Dodgers vice-chairman Steve Soboroff, signaling that McCourt will fight back. LAT, ESPN
- Selig briefly spoke about his decision, without adding much: "I thought a lot about it. I went back and looked at a lot of things, including some things that happened in my career. I said a couple weeks ago that people said this Texas thing [when the league facilitated the sale of the Rangers] was awful, and I said at the time that we'll work our way through. And I believe we'll work our way through this thing. That's life." LAT
- Don't let Bud Selig and former owner Peter O'Malley off the hook for Dodgers mess, writes Ed Leibowitz at Los Angeles magazine's website: "Both men have been doing their level best to impersonate Claude Raines playing Capt. Renault in Casablanca as of late—“shocked, shocked,” to find out that gambling's been going on in Bogie’s café."
Meanwhile: The Dodgers won 5-3 Thursday on another walk-off home run by Matt Kemp. They are now 10-10 on the season.