By R.E. Porter
Associated Web Press
NASHVEGAS—NFFA Commissioner William D. Money has been hospitalized at Baptist Hospital with a serious head injury, the AWP has learned.
Money was admitted to Baptist Hospital at 5:37 p.m. yesterday, and according to eyewitnesses, he was unconscious at the time of admittance as a result of a severe injury to his cranium.
According to neurologist Dr. Brian Cutler, who was called in to examine the commissioner, Money should make a full recovery. “There was no permanent damage to the brain,” Cutler said, “but Mr. Money will suffer from headaches for a few weeks.” No surgery was required, but Money will remain hospitalized for several days.
After he was admitted, the police were called in to investigate the cause of the commissioner’s injury. Because he is heavily sedated, they have yet to ask Money himself how he was injured. Still, the picture of what happened is coming into focus.
Speaking to the AWP on condition of anonymity, an employee in the league office said that Money apparently suffered the injury as the result of a vicious blow to the head with some kind of large, blunt object. He was found shortly before 5 p.m. lying on the floor of his office in an unconscious state. The employee didn’t want to speculate on how the commissioner was injured, but when pressed, acknowledged that Money had almost certainly been assaulted.
About 15 minutes before he was found in his office, Money had sent an email to all staffers indicating he intended to overrule Deputy Commissioner Meemaw Murrman’s decision to deny the Corsairs a waiver to the keeper rule.
For her part, Murrman said she was nowhere near the commissioner’s office when the “accident” occurred. “I was in the kitchen at the other end of the building, washing my skillet,” she explained.
The AWP will have more on this story as it develops.
NASHVEGAS—NFFA Commissioner William D. Money has been hospitalized at Baptist Hospital with a serious head injury, the AWP has learned.
Money was admitted to Baptist Hospital at 5:37 p.m. yesterday, and according to eyewitnesses, he was unconscious at the time of admittance as a result of a severe injury to his cranium.
According to neurologist Dr. Brian Cutler, who was called in to examine the commissioner, Money should make a full recovery. “There was no permanent damage to the brain,” Cutler said, “but Mr. Money will suffer from headaches for a few weeks.” No surgery was required, but Money will remain hospitalized for several days.
After he was admitted, the police were called in to investigate the cause of the commissioner’s injury. Because he is heavily sedated, they have yet to ask Money himself how he was injured. Still, the picture of what happened is coming into focus.
Speaking to the AWP on condition of anonymity, an employee in the league office said that Money apparently suffered the injury as the result of a vicious blow to the head with some kind of large, blunt object. He was found shortly before 5 p.m. lying on the floor of his office in an unconscious state. The employee didn’t want to speculate on how the commissioner was injured, but when pressed, acknowledged that Money had almost certainly been assaulted.
About 15 minutes before he was found in his office, Money had sent an email to all staffers indicating he intended to overrule Deputy Commissioner Meemaw Murrman’s decision to deny the Corsairs a waiver to the keeper rule.
For her part, Murrman said she was nowhere near the commissioner’s office when the “accident” occurred. “I was in the kitchen at the other end of the building, washing my skillet,” she explained.
The AWP will have more on this story as it develops.
