McLEAN, Virginia—Hilton Worldwide is continuing to develop its portfolio of luxury properties.

The McLean, Virginia-based company’s luxury footprint, which includes 21 Waldorf Astorias and 18 Conrad Hotels & Resorts, is continuing to expand throughout North America with the help of Matthew Sparks, who joins Hilton as senior VP of luxury and corporate development.

The new senior VP’s strategy relies upon streamlining Hilton’s efforts in the luxury segment both domestically and globally. Sparks, who previously was senior VP of acquisitions at Sage Hospitality Resources, plans to work with assets available to him instead of new construction to spread the Hilton brand from Chicago to Jerusalem. 

N have fallen?!?

After all, we can only imagine the host's random, personal attacks against ESPN.com columnist Bill Simmons stem from a need to garner attention. You can get caught up on the feud HERE , but in a nutshell:

Simmons wrote an article in which he said the upcoming Tiger Woods comeback would be more challenging than the boxing return of Muhammad Ali in the early 1970s, which was a result of the latter's stance on the Vietnam war.

It was a controversial stance, one clearly meant to elicit opinion and feedback. That's often a columnist's job. But Olbermann didn't attack the content of the argument, he attacked Simmons himself.

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