Stan Kroenke is expanding his sports empire again, and this time the move reaches baseball.
On Tuesday, it was reported that the Colorado Avalanche owner and his company, Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, acquired a controlling interest in the Los Angeles Angels from Arte Moreno. The deal gives one of the most powerful figures in sports another major franchise to oversee.
Kroenke already owns stakes in eight different sports teams. His portfolio includes Arsenal FC and the club’s women’s team in the English Premier League, the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams, the Denver Nuggets, the Colorado Rapids, the Colorado Mammoth and, formerly, the Colorado Crush of the defunct Arena Football League.
The 79-year-old native of Columbia, Mo., first took control of the Avalanche when he bought the club and the Nuggets from Ascent Entertainment Group in 2000. The Avs delivered an immediate payoff, winning their second Stanley Cup in 2001, and then added another title under Kroenke’s watch in 2022.
Kroenke’s ownership track record is loaded with winners. Along with those two Stanley Cups, his teams have claimed two Super Bowls in 1999 and 2021, two NLL championships in 2006 and 2022, an NBA championship in 2023, an MLS Cup in 2010, an EPL title in 2025-26, a UEFA Women’s Champions League championship in 2024-25 and an Arena Bowl in 2005.
Now he takes over an Angels franchise that has been stuck in neutral for more than a decade. Los Angeles hasn’t reached the playoffs since 2009, and even with Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani in the lineup, the club has managed little more than mediocrity.
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