Which Of These Incredibly Wealthy Men Will Be The Next Owner Of The Dodgers?

Stan Kroenke

While less attention has been focused on billionaire sports investor/entrepreneur Stan Kroenke's bid (sources close to the process do not consider Kroenke's group to have as good a chance as the Cohen group or the Magic Johnson group), it's nevertheless worth talking about for what it suggests about the future of not baseball, but football, in Southern California. See, aside from the fortune he's accumulated by marrying Wal-Mart heiress Ann Walton (and conveniently owning most of the real estate that new Wal-Marts are being built on), Kroenke is also the owner of the NFL's St. Louis Rams, as well as the Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche (NHL), Colorado Rapids (Major League Soccer), Colorado Mammoth (National Lacrosse League), and a majority shareholder in English soccer powerhouse Arsenal. The NFL has a rule that bans team owners from owning any sports teams in different cities with NFL teams, so all of Kroenke's teams in Colorado are technically registered to his son, Josh. However—and this is where it gets interesting—Kroenke's bid on the Dodgers is in his own name, a move that wouldn't make a whole lot of sense with an NFL team coming to town soon... unless that team were the St. Louis Rams. It's not a guarantee of anything, but food for thought nonetheless. [via]