It has staunchly avoided the gold standard of background checks, the type required for taxi drivers in most California cities: Live Scans. No ridesharing companies -- Uber, Lyft, or Sidecar -- do them. Anyone following Pando's ridesharing coverage has seen me harp and harp and harp on the importance of Live Scans.
SEATTLE, Nov. 27â Paul Westphal was fired today as the coach of the struggling Seattle SuperSonics after disagreements with some of his star players.hree years later, after 33 games that season, he was fired by the Suns. Photo: Paul Westphal, left, was dismissed as the SuperSonics coach only days after an on-court shouting match with the All-Star guard Gary Payton.
Westphal scored 9,564 points as a member of the Suns and his No. 44 jersey was retired by the franchise on April 15, 1989. Born in Torrance, Calif., Westphal was the 1968 California Interscholastic Federation Player of the Year as a senior playing for Aviation High School in Redondo Beach.n 1988, Westphal joined the Suns bench as an assistant coach and four years later, in 1992, the California native became the franchise s head coach. As head coach, he led the Suns to three of their most successful seasons.