Frank McCourt, flailing owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, has now filed for federal bankruptcy protection.
Former Dodgers owner Frank McCourt made a rare public appearance at the game.
At the end of the day, Frank McCourt utilized the Dodgers franchise as if it were an inexhaustible asset.
FORBES: Selig Correct To Take Control Of Dodgers From McCourt
It looks like Los Angeles Dodgers fans will have to put up with Frank McCourt for most of next season.
Five owners earned their undergraduate degrees there, including embattled Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt and Washington's Ted Leonsis, who owns the Wizards and Capitals.
Whom ever buys the Los Angeles Dodgers in a bankruptcy court-led sale from Frank McCourt will have a stack of IOUs to deal with.
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Tim Brown of Yahoo Sports is reporting that Frank McCourt is open to the idea of selling a stake in the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Which is why I believe that the much-maligned Bud Selig is certainly justified in stripping Frank McCourt of his control of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
FORBES: Selig Correct To Take Control Of Dodgers From McCourt
The big news in baseball late Tuesday was that Frank McCourt and MLB have reached a settlement in which McCourt will be selling the Dodgers.
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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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The most valuable part of the television deal Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt has been trying to sign with Fox is the equity stake in the regional sports channel.
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Like the Rangers and its previous owner, Tom Hicks, the Dodgers and Frank McCourt have debt problems with hordes of creditors chomping at the bit to get what is owed them.
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Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig blew kisses at Frank McCourt yesterday, but the Los Angeles Dodgers owner turned his cheek and made it clear that there was no chance at romance.
The Angels and Cubs might be the most likely suitors since the Yanks and Red Sox are set at 1st base and the Dodgers are still mired in the Frank McCourt divorce fiasco.
This, of course, is the Frank McCourt vs.
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When Frank McCourt decided that enough was enough and reached a settlement with MLB to sell the Los Angeles Dodgers, immediately attention shifted from McCourt to who the new owners might be.
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The battle between Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt and Major League Baseball in bankruptcy court gives more leverage to David Einhorn as he hammers out a deal with the New York Mets.
At this point no decision has been reached on whether or not team owner Frank McCourt is going to include the 250 or so acres around the stadium he also owns as part of the sale of the Dodgers.
The Angels made the move as the financially troubled Los Angeles Dodgers are in the process of being sold by Frank McCourt in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, a move that could give the region's NL team a new wealthy owner next year.
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Bill Saikin of the Los Angeles Times did it the other day with this scoop about Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt meeting with Major League Baseball executives to apparently see if he can borrow money to keep his team.
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The sales process was led by Blackstone LP, the New York-based investment advisory firm, which held the auction Tuesday evening, just hours after Major League Baseball approved three finalists in the bidding, allowing current owner Frank McCourt to accept the highest and best offer.
In three decades he has repeatedly rescued a rogues' gallery of trouble-prone or troublesome stars: the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Paul Simon, as well as boxer-thug Mike Tyson, author Frank McCourt, the estate of Andy Warhol and titans such as Sony and Time Warner.
In three decades he has repeatedly rescued a rogues' gallery of trouble-prone stars: the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Paul Simon, as well as the boxer-thug Mike Tyson, the author Frank McCourt, the estate of Andy Warhol and such titans as Sony and Time Warner.
If Wilpon and Katz do not boost their investment in the team, then MLB commissioner Bud Selig must tell Mets fans why he forced Frank McCourt to sell the Los Angeles Dodgers because the former owner was sucking cash out of the team for personal uses, while allowing the Mets owners to do the very same thing he accused McCourt of doing.
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Other big gainers: the Texas Rangers (up 6, 000 to over 42, 000 per game), a team coming off two straight World Series appearances, the Los Angeles Dodgers (up 5, 100 to 41, 300), who shook off the Frank McCourt nightmare just before the season started, and the Washington Nationals (up 4, 900 to 29, 800), who vaulted to first place this season while showcasing talented youngsters Bryce Harper and Stephen Strasburg.
But now the deal has seen more delays than the divorce between Frank and Jamie McCourt.
What the current owners, Frank and Jamie McCourt, fail to understand is that their ownership constitutes a disruption of the Dodgers baseball team and is itself a continuing nuisance to the fans.
FORBES: Strike Three: Frank McCourt and the Los Angeles Dodgers File for Bankruptcy
Murdoch then sold the team to longtime Boston residents Frank and Jamie McCourt, who learned nothing from Murdoch about respecting local legends and fired broadcaster Ross Porter a Los Angeles sports institution almost before the ink dried on the contract.
FORBES: Strike Three: Frank McCourt and the Los Angeles Dodgers File for Bankruptcy
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