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Wizards owner Ted Leonsis: My teams aren't for sale, but I'm rooting for them to get the highest valuation possible
My teams aren’t for sale, but I’m rooting for them to get the highest valuation possible. It’s a gem of a property. My ...
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Wizards Owner Ted Leonsis: ‘We Weren’t Tanking, We Were Developing Players’
Tanking, when NBA teams deliberately lose games to improve their draft lottery position, has become one of the league’s most prevalent issues. However, Wizards owner Ted Leonsis is challenging the ...
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Having failed conventionally, the Wizards are going to try to succeed radically
Sashi Brown, Tommy Sheppard, Ted Leonsis, John Thompson III, Mike Thibault and Daniel Medina make up Monumental Basketball’s new braintrust. (Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post) Perspective by ...
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What Pro Team Would Ted Leonsis Like to Buy Next?
The Monumental Sports & Entertainment CEO would like to grow his empire further. The post What Pro Team Would Ted Leonsis Like to Buy Next? appeared first on Front Office Sports.
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Ted Leonsis is remaking the Wizards’ front office, but he’ll also have to look even harder at himself
WASHINGTON — Ted Leonsis is, as he puts it, a “moonshot junkie,” and as it was just the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s lunar landing over the weekend, the idea of impossible things coming ...
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How billionaire entrepreneur Ted Leonsis amassed his most important asset – his network
As I walked into my interview with billionaire Ted Leonsis and his son Zach for Uncommon Drive, a video series at USAandMain.com where we talk to inspirational founders and creators ...
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A Day in the Life: Ted Leonsis
SI's Simon Bruty and Dan Greene spent the day with Ted Leonsis, owner of multiple sports franchises in the Washington, D.C. area, including the Wizards (NBA), Capitals (NHL) and Mystics (WNBA).
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D.C. Rejected Some of Ted Leonsis’ Requests for a Capital One Arena Deal. But the Billionaire Is Still Getting Plenty of City Money.
“There has to be compromise,” Leonsis told reporters Monday morning. “The leagues have to compromise. The city has to compromise. We have to compromise. The only people so far who don’t ...
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‘It’s never easy,’ but Ted Leonsis delivered D.C. a title and a team to take pride in
LAS VEGAS — Ted Leonsis stood on the ice at T-Mobile Arena, no one around him — a rare moment of quiet inside a dream come to life, between the completion of what had been a two-decade quest ...
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Ted Leonsis
Ted Leonsis talked about his book The Business of Happiness: 6 Secrets to Extraordinary Success in Life and Work (Regnery Press; February 9, 2010). In the book, written with John Buckley ...
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Ted Leonsis group is front-runner to buy Nationals, sources say
A group led by Washington Wizards, Capitals and Mystics owner Ted Leonsis is emerging as the clear front-runner to buy the Washington Nationals from the Lerner family, according to sources within ...