Winning formula: Stan Kroenke brings championship pedigree as Angels new owner
The Angels have a new owner.And he is no stranger to the sports world within Los Angeles, around the country and across the globe.Billionaire businessman Stan Kroenke set an MLB record by buying the Angels from Arte Moreno for $4 billion on Tuesday.However, the team is just the latest to join his already vast portfolio of sports properties, which stretch from the NFL’s Rams in Los Angeles, to the NBA’s Nuggets and NHL’s Avalanche in Colorado, to Arsenal Football Club of the English Premier League in London.In his three decades in sports ownership, Kroenke has overseen titles in two Super Bowls, two Stanley Cups, one NBA Finals and one Premier League season.He will now be trying to bring that championship pedigree to an Angels franchise that has been floundering under Moreno’s ownership for the last decade-plus, having failed to make the playoffs since 2014 or record even a winning record since 2015.California Post News: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, WhatsApp, LinkedInCalifornia Post Sports Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, XCalifornia Post Opinion California Post Newsletters: Sign up here!California Post App: Download here!Home delivery: Sign up here!Page Six Hollywood: Sign up here!In the wake of Tuesday’s stunning news, the California Post analyzed the track record Kroenke –– through his Kroenke Sports & Entertainment holding company –– has created with his other high-profile sports teams, as he prepares to embark on his latest, and perhaps most daunting, undertaking in Anaheim.RamsBefore he was the man who brought the NFL back to Los Angeles, Kroenke was involved in the process of moving the Rams out of the Southland in the first place.During the Rams’ 1995 relocation from Anaheim (where they were playing at Angel Stadium) to St.
Louis, Kroenke –– who originally got his start as a real estate developer –– bought a 30% stake in the NFL franchise. For the next 15 years, he was a minority owner during the franchise�...