New LA Dodgers owners explore ways to boost value

The group that paid a record $2.15 billion to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team expects to boost the return on their investment by creating value with stadium improvements, aggressive investment ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters)

What with soaring ticket prices and $7 beers, many sports fans complain that their local teams take advantage of them. But no one has it worse than baseball fans in South Florida. The Miami Marlins have “disgraced baseball.” Team owner Jeffrey Loria has been described as “the most hated man” in the game today by prominent members of the media—and much, much worse by fans. And the entire team became “the butt of jokes around the country,” to put it mildly, after trading nearly all of its best players toward the end of last season.

What with soaring ticket prices and $7 beers, many sports fans complain that their local teams take advantage of them. But no one has it worse than baseball fans in South Florida. The Miami Marlins have “disgraced baseball.” Team owner Jeffrey Loria has been described as “the most hated man” in the game today by prominent members of the media—and much, much worse by fans. And the entire team became “the butt of jokes around the country,” to put it mildly, after trading nearly all of its best players toward the end of last season.

Competition has become so heated for the rights to baseball telecasts that . has recently been including equity stakes in its Fox regional sports networks as part of its its deals with teams. The Texas Rangers, who signed a 20-year deal with Fox Sports Southwest in 2010 that begins in 2015 and is worth $3 ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A group spear-headed by former basketball great Earvin "Magic" Johnson agreed to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team for a record $2 billion, team owner Frank McCourt announced on Tuesday, capping a two-year drama that started with McCourt's divorce and wound its way through bankruptcy court.

A group spear-headed by former basketball great Earvin "Magic" Johnson agreed to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team for a record $2 billion, team owner Frank McCourt announced on Tuesday, ...

Los Angeles Dodgers' popular slugger Manny Ramirez on Sunday led his team to breeze past Taiwan's all-star professional baseball team 11-1 in their last scheduled exhibition game.Ramirez displayed his striking power before some 15,000 fans packing the Chenchinghu baseball stadium in the southern county of Kaohsiung.The Dodgers, a mix of major and minor leaguers, surprisingly lost to the home team during the first game held in Taipei Friday. The scheduled second Taipei game was rained out Saturday.