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News 8 Investigates
DALLAS -- Maximum Sports Connection of Dallas continues to push the limits in broken promises to sports fans and vendors.
Take, for instance, last year’s Masters Golf tournament. Maximum agreed to donate a three-day package to the tournament to a National Kidney Foundation (NKF) charity auction, according to two officials familiar with the event. The package included three days of tournament passes, air tickets, and hotel.
“A gentleman made a donation to win the trip,” said Tommy Finn of PPI Marketing, who helped gather items for the event.
The bid for the package was $8,800. But when it came time to produce the trip, Maximum Sports reneged on its promise.
“As it turns out, they simply refused to honor the commitment on the certificate,” Finn said. The National Kidney Foundation had to pay out of its own pocket, officials say, to put together another Masters’ package.
Maximum Sports is owned by Ronni Sokol of Dallas. The company has a long history of broken commitments, most recently with Dallas Cowboys fans.
Hundreds of fans from all over the county bought packages to last year’s Dallas—Pittsburgh game, with prices beginning at $300 each. Just before the game, scores of fans, who had traveled literally from all over the world, were told by Sokol that the game had been oversold.
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