Since taking ownership of the Dolphins, Ross has been emblematic of the new class of sports franchise owner.
The local shoe store, the lawn mowing business, the photographer, the single store Subway franchise owner and so forth.
However, as a franchise owner your initial focus is managing the business and hiring and leading others to contribute to the success.
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Rather, they are your players and you are the franchise owner.
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One franchise owner was furious when he was inundated with Groupons.
Simpson himself was once a spokesperson for and a franchise owner of two chicken restaurants, and he held a 50 percent ownership in eight HoneyBaked Ham stores.
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The average franchise owner needs 750 members to break even.
The greatest lesson that Mattingly had learned from his experiences with Frank McCourt this year is how important a franchise owner is to the success of a ball club.
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But fan enthusiasm which tends to accompany small-market fan bases never guaranteed the on-court success of the Thunder franchise for owner Clay Bennett.
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"It's kind of like your arm is twisted into participating, " says Romil Patel, a Baskin Robbins franchise co-owner in Milwaukee.
He took the owner of the franchise up on a deal to buy and run the entire franchise.
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At this point, with the new future franchise quarterback on board, owner Woody Johnson could be prepared to cut his losses now.
One clever idea is to borrow tactics from retail chains like McDonald's and Subway--operate an easy-to-replicate, owner-operated franchise system focusing on health care.
Major League Baseball prevented the deal from moving forward since it was pushing for the team's current owner to sell the franchise.
But it also seems clear that Prokhorov, a man with property holdings all over the world and substantial international exposure as the owner of an NBA franchise, is much more independent, and more capable of striking independent political positions, than a party functionary in the old Soviet system.
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Not only does he have the cash, but it would make it more economical in the future for him to get a new arena that he could share with his NHL franchise and, as the only owner of three teams in the four major leagues in one market, start a regional sports network (or use the threat of one to extract higher television fees).
Or cynically settle for that mediocrity when it turns out that their franchise organization doesn't have it handled after all (at least not as well as the owner was led to believe when they sold her the franchise), and doesn't hand it to them on a plate.
However, the right owner could easily resurrect the moribund franchise and restore it to prominence.
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Red Sox billionaire owner John Henry bought the MLB franchise in 2002 and reversed the curse, bringing two World Series titles to the team in 2004 and 2007.
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"A lot of Americans come down to Mexico and check their brains at the border, " says Duane Christie, an owner of the Century 21 master franchise in Mexico.
The Maloof family -- known for ownership of properties in Las Vegas, such as the Palms, among other business ventures -- has been trying for months to unload its majority owner stakes in the pro basketball franchise.
That's doesn't come anywhere close to the Stanley Cup-contending aspirations owner Terry Pegula expressed upon purchasing the franchise two years ago.
Therefore, the financial headaches that accompany an aging ball player well past their prime will solely fall on the shoulders of the regretful owner and the new leadership of the franchise.
That's a big number for new owner Robert Pera, who took over the franchise last November and has quickly started addressing the team's salary situation.
And for the struggling franchise trying to revitalize itself in a football-crazed town, his hiring by owner Pat Bowlen as head of football operations makes sense on plenty of levels.
Bill Davidson finally ended with the sale of the franchise in the summer of 2011 from his widow, Karen Davidson, to current owner Tom Gores, players might have grown accustomed to a calm status quo.
If you're a fan of a pro-sports franchise, financial instability is the last thing you want out of your team's owner.
From the beginning, minority owner Jay-Z set up the Nets to be the coolest, hippest, sports franchise on the planet.
For two of the past three years ESPN magazine has named the Spurs the best franchise in sports, based on a composite ranking of such things as fan feedback, championships and owner loyalty.
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