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Why American Sports Owners Want To Buy European Teams

Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver recently attempted to buy European Soccer team the Glasgow Rangers.

Sarver isn’t the first American owner to try and extend his sports franchise across the pond. Denver Nuggets owner Stan Kroenke owns part of Arsenal in London and The Boston Red Sox owners have a controlling stake in Liverpool.

But are these moves based on business or simply a love of sports? To find out we turn to Anthony Evans, a researcher at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.

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Mark Brodie is a co-host of The Show, KJZZ’s locally produced news magazine. Since starting at KJZZ in 2002, Brodie has been a host, reporter and producer, including several years covering the Arizona Legislature, based at the Capitol.