Reaction to the news was mixed: Connecticut basketball don Geno Auriemma called the offer a "sham"; former player Nancy Lieberman said she liked the idea.
* CBS calls offer a "sham," "empty gesture".
Salus had called Standard General's offer a "sham" and offered to pay about $271 million for RadioShack's assets, combining the liquidation proposal with $129 million that was contingent on winning future litigation in the case.
But an investigation by the serious fraud office found the offer was a sham, the shortage failed to materialise, and the "second-rate" champagne was only worth a fraction of the price paid.
"In short," the lawsuit charges, "the I.M.G. offer is a sham, both on its face and because it is reasonable to conclude that the true terms and conditions and/or duration of that 'offer' and the Yankee Partnership's plans are not being presented to MSG".
On climate change, Mr Bush noisily pulled America out of the flawed Kyoto protocols, but offered only a sham domestic replacement based on voluntary targets and emissions "intensities": goals that are either meaningless or toothless.Bush appointees have also undermined greenery in subtler ways that help the resource industries.
Hyatt told MediaGuardian.co.uk that "the offer they made was a sham offer, purely to suggest they were engaged in negotiations when in fact they were not".
But on Saturday, through a Foreign Ministry spokesman, North Korea said Mr. Bush's plan, which was conveyed last month in Beijing, was "a sham offer" because it required North Korea to disarm and submit to intrusive inspections before it could get the full benefits of economic concessions from the United States, Japan, South Korea and Russia.
Mockridge was also accused of making a "sham offer" to Current TV – to make it look like News Corporation, Sky Italia's owner, was engaged in normal commercial negotiations – when in fact the Murdoch-controlled media group had decided to drop the channel for what Current TV claimed are political reasons.
William was so imbued with the traditions of the Prussian monarchy that it was painful for him to accept Bismarck's foundation of the German Reich and the imperial title, which came to him by a sham offer (arranged by Bismarck) from the German princes.
The unsuspecting homeowner or the business owner may "self-select" by returning the postcard or by calling to inquire about the offer, which may be a sham.
