Owners of 57 North American franchises in the four major sports are included in the list of billionaires published by Forbes, with Clippers owner Steve Ballmer leading the way.
The Inglewood City Council late Tuesday night approved plans to build a football stadium that includes St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke as a partner, clearing a path for a return to the Los Angeles area of the NFL for the first time in two decades.
Meeting with San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer's nine-member stadium advisory group for the first time this week, representatives of the Chargers provided a blunt assessment on the city's effort to build a new NFL stadium that would keep the team here.
City officials said Wednesday that the owner of the Rams isn't returning their calls, so they plan to work directly with the NFL on efforts to keep a team -- any team -- in St. Louis amid speculation the Rams are headed back to Los Angeles.
City and state leaders are committed to keeping the Rams in St. Louis, but not at the expense of a "bidding war" with Los Angeles.
Inglewood mayor James T. Butts, Jr. said that a project to build an NFL stadium in L.A. is "going forward."
