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The attorney appointed to represent Orioles owner Peter Angelos in his family’s fight over his fortune has rejected a move to disqualify him from the case, calling allegations that he has conflicts of interest “absurd” and a “distraction.” Angelos, 93, has been incapacitated by illness for several years, and his younger son Louis sued his mother, Georgia, and brother, John, the chairman and CEO of the Orioles, in June over control of the team, the family patriarch’s renowned law firm and other assets. Georgia Angelos subsequently sued Louis Angelos, likening his transfer of the law firm from his father to himself to elder abuse.

A week after writing off an additional $1 billion of its value, the Sinclair Broadcast Group subsidiary that owns regional sports networks appointed a new CEO. The subsidiary, Diamond Sports Group, said Monday that former NBC Sports Group executive David Preschlack will lead Diamond, which owns Bally Sports Regional Sports Networks. Preschlack was appointed by Diamond’s board of managers, on which he has served since May.

Hertz said Monday it will pay $168 million to settle hundreds of claims by customers who were falsely reported by the rental car company as having stolen its vehicles, with some innocent renters arrested and jailed for weeks or months over the reports. Hertz said in a brief statement that it was settling 364 claims, which it said amounted to 95 percent of the outstanding claims against the company over the false theft reports.

Three years ago, the last time Mike Elias found himself in San Diego for the winter meetings, the circumstances were far different. Back then, the executive vice president and general manager of the Orioles entered his second offseason in Baltimore on the back of another 100-loss season, with competitive baseball — and the spending that accompanies it — not at the forefront of his mind.

McCormick & Co. Inc. has promoted a longtime executive to become the next head of human resources for the 14,000-person global company. The Hunt Valley-based spicemaker announced Monday that Sarah Piper took over the role of chief human relations officer on Dec. 1. As part of the promotion, she will also join the company’s management committee. Piper replaces Lisa Manzone, who announced her retirement last month after 15 years with McCormick (NYSE: MKC).

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake may be the most overqualified person to take the reins of a sports union’s philanthropic arm, but as the new executive director of the National Basketball Players Association Foundation, she has ambitious plans. Rawlings-Blake served as mayor of Baltimore from 2010 to 2016. She was also the president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, and built a network of relationships with mayors of cities all over the country, something that she can tap into in her new job.

It sure didn’t look like a winning lineup, but maybe that was the point. If the bettor at Live! Casino & Hotel Maryland had picked basketball teams with less dismal prospects, he wouldn’t have gotten such steep odds — about 141-to-1. But that’s what enabled him to collect $714,000 on a $5,000 wager when his three “huge underdogs” pulled upsets — two in overtime — on the same night.

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority still has a $184.7 million gap to fill in the upcoming fiscal year’s operating budget, which is in the early stages of being developed. At a finance and capital committee meeting Thursday, officials from Metro’s financial office told board members of a few ideas they have about how to fill that gap in the fiscal 2024 budget, for the period starting in July 2023.