Jamie Mccourt

The Dodgers' trial resumes Monday, the courtroom is already abuzz because a few minutes earlier Jamie McCourt's car rolled back into a pedestrian. A woman has been hit, so first reports it's Frank McCourt are not true. The woman is hurt, but apparently not seriously. A witness says Jamie made no move to get out of the car to check on her. After all, it's not a jury trial. Later, Jamie is grilled about the incident by Page 2, by now everyone knowing it's her driver who hit the woman.

For the first time in their divorce trial, Frank and Jamie McCourt testified on the same day. That made their differing opinions on the marital property agreement that is at the core of their case ever the more obvious Friday. His take on her thinking that any agreement should leave her all of the couple's houses but split ownership of the Dodgers: "Absurd. " Her reaction to his belief that she would sign an agreement that did not leave her a share of the Dodgers: "Preposterous.

The way Frank McCourt tells it, Jamie McCourt expressed her financial philosophy in the same words time and time again during a marriage that lasted nearly 30 years: "You can make a billion. You can lose a billion. I don't care. I just want my own nest egg. " Frank was the only witness on the fourth day of the McCourts' divorce trial, this time under questioning from his own attorney, Steve Susman. Jamie is expected to testify in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday, after which the trial is scheduled to recess until Sept.

Frank and Jamie McCourt were married in 1979. The McCourts took over the Dodgers in 2004 and separated last year, four months shy of their 30th anniversary. Their divorce trial begins Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court. What's at stake? The future of the Dodgers. Frank wants the court to enforce a postmarital agreement — signed in 2004 by both spouses — that says he is the sole owner of the team and she is the sole owner of the couple's homes. Jamie wants the agreement thrown out. On what grounds?

Frank McCourt dismissed Jamie McCourt's allegation that he tampered with documents to deprive her of a share of the Dodgers as "offensive, flatly wrong and not supported by a shred of evidence" in court papers filed Tuesday. Exhibit A, in the version of the agreement signed by her in Massachusetts on March 31, 2004, and signed by Frank in California on April 14, 2004, provides Frank with "all securities … currently listed solely in Frank's name exclusive of the following," and specifically lists "within this exclusion ... all assets of the Los Angeles Dodgers ... and 276 acres of land located in Chavez Ravine.

The current value of the Dodgers is relevant to the merits of an agreement signed six years ago, Jamie McCourt argued in court papers filed Wednesday. Three of the six versions of the agreement, which is at the heart of a divorce trial set to start Monday, specify that Frank McCourt is the sole owner of the Dodgers and Jamie McCourt is the sole owner of the couple's residential properties. Frank had previously asked the court to forbid discussion of the current worth of the team or the homes.

Jamie McCourt wants a percentage share of the revenue the Dodgers might generate in coming years from television and land development, but calculating what that revenue might be is far from simple. The Dodgers have explored launching two cable sports channels in 2014, one in English and one in Spanish, similar to outlets owned by the New York Yankees (the YES network) and the Boston Red Sox ( NESN). According to court filings, the Dodgers' net television revenue is projected to jump from $41 million in 2013, the final year of the current contract with Fox, to $158 million in 2014 and $235 million in 2018.

Mark Cuban's failure to land the Texas Rangers might be good news for Dodgers fans, leaving the Dallas Mavericks' owner free to bid if Frank and Jamie McCourt are forced to sell.… Cuban has plenty of money and a feverish desire to win.… For the Rangers, Nolan Ryan & Co. probably fit better.… If the Dodgers are out of the race, nobody told Vicente Padilla , who has made himself at home in Dodger Stadium.… Long live the soap bubble.

An open letter to Frank and Jamie McCourt: I know, I know, this is a worn and hackneyed literary device, about as fresh as a Dodger Stadium concourse, but I don't really have a choice. I want to send a message to both of you, but you're never together anymore. I see Frank looking lonely in a half-empty owners' box. I hear Jamie sounding defiant behind some fancy Beverly Hills designer desk. I long for the days when you stood together next to the dugout and engaged in a theatrical postgame smooch.