The CEO of Anschutz Entertainment Group, Tim Leiweke, will also be leaving the company.
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Trouble is Anschutz asked Leiweke to make sales presentations, not try to determine the winner.
Calls I made to AEG and Leiweke over the past couple of days were not returned.
Leiweke sent a copy to Anschutz, who, he says, is a very visual person.
Leiweke says in the end it was his overriding love of the team that drove the decision.
"Larry brought the experience of running a billion-dollar company, and he was a local guy, " says Leiweke.
Timothy Leiweke, who runs AEG, the holding company for Staples Center and the Kings, does not return calls.
"This is the scariest thing I have ever seen, " Phillips wrote to Leiweke.
"He has no ego, " says Tim Leiweke, chief executive of Anschutz Entertainment Group.
The message to Tim Leiweke, former CEO of AEG'S parent company, stated that Jackson was drunk and refusing to address fans.
Putting your content through your own buildings "is not rocket science, but Live Nation doesn't do it that way, " says Leiweke.
Anschutz has given Leiweke the latitude and capital to build AEG out of nothing but an idea for a sports arena.
"We kept thinking we had hit bottom, then we'd sink even lower, " says Tod Leiweke, chief executive of Vulcan Sports and Entertainment.
It's like a cleaner version of New York's Times Square, says Leiweke.
The Sprint Center is owned by sports powerhouse Anschutz Entertainment Group, whose CEO, Tim Leiweke, has a reputation for grabbing what he wants.
Leiweke added that the former England skipper would not be required to return from Milan to Los Angeles before the World Cup in South Africa.
"At the time everyone thought we were crazy, " says Leiweke, who has spoken with Anschutz "every day" while running AEG for the past 15 years.
Eschewing college, Leiweke went into sports management and got to know Anschutz in the early 1990s, when he was president of the Denver Nuggets basketball team.
Leiweke was quoted today by Dow Jones saying that as temporary digs, a team could use decrepit Los Angeles Coliseum or more likely the Pasadena Rose Bowl.
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"This isn't about trying to go out there and build a whole new brand around the name Outbox, " said AEG Chief Executive Tim Leiweke, in an interview.
Es- chewing college, Leiweke went into sports management and got to know Anschutz in the early 1990s, when he was president of the Denver Nuggets basketball team.
Leiweke's office looks out on the plaza in the middle of L.A. Live, where fans gather before games and concerts under the glow of 40-foot-tall screens showing videos and ads.
Here is what I have been hearing from people very close to the situation who would only speak off the record: Anschutz got wind that Leiweke was trying to influence the choice of a buyer for AEG.
And Warner is believed to have been angered by AEG president Tim Leiweke's claim that it would not make economic sense to keep the stadium geared up for athletics because of a small number of major events that could be staged at the venue.
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