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David Blitzer Reportedly Acquiring Stake in Another Mediocre Sports Team
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Sport ownership news:
Per Sportico: The deal also includes a path to control for Blitzer, who would eventually take over from the Dolan family, the team’s current principal owners. #Guardians
— P.J. ZIEGLER (@PJFOX8) December 20, 2021
The Sportico article is behind a paywall, so not sure what else is detailed in there, but with Blitzer acquiring a stake in the Guardians, that’ll be three underperforming franchises on this side of the Mississippi. The Devils stink, the Sixers can’t get past round two, and then you can throw Crystal Palace in there, too. CPFC has been a mid-table Premier League team for some time now.
For what it’s worth, Blitzer was linked to Real Salt Lake as well, of Major League Soccer, which currently doesn’t have an owner and is being operated by the league.
From a recent column by Pablo Maurer and Sam Stejskal:
In addition to co-owning the NBA’s Sixers and the NHL’s Devils, Blitzer holds a stake in Premier League club Crystal Palace, German Bundesliga side FC Augsburg, Belgian first-division team Waasland-Beveren and Dutch club ADO Den Haag through his company Bolt Football Holdings. He also owns a portion of a variety of other properties through the Harris Blitzer Sports and Entertainment group, which he co-owns with fellow 76ers and Devils partner Josh Harris.
That’s all good, now we need the Sixers to trade Ben Simmons.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com