Full Coverage: The NFL’s return to Los Angeles
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The Rams want the U.S. District Court in St.
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They journeyed to Hawaii to play in the Pro Bowl and made the rounds as product pitchmen in San Francisco before the Super Bowl.
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The rush to possibly secure season tickets for the Rams’ 2016 season at the Coliseum resulted in requests that could fill the stadium and more.
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In another twist to their long flirtation with Los Angeles, the San Diego Chargers announced Friday they will not move here for the 2016 season and will redouble their efforts to reach a deal to remain in their hometown.
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The head of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission spoke favorably of having a second NFL team play at the publicly owned stadium but stopped short of making a decision Thursday.
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The San Diego Chargers have insisted for nearly a year that they wanted to be an equal partner in a Los Angeles stadium were they to move north.
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The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission will consider amending its lease with USC during Thursday’s meeting to allow two NFL teams to temporarily use the stadium.
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On a clear June afternoon in 1995, R.D.
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The Chargers and Raiders have been divisional rivals since the start of the AFL back in 1960.
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Is Los Angeles interested in the NFL? The first indication is a resounding yes.
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Carson Mayor Albert Robles isn’t happy with the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders after their failed attempt to build a $1.7-billion stadium in the South Bay city.
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The late bookie Jimmy the Greek once said that no event involving human beings has odds longer than 20-1.
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Walt Disney Co.
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A second lawsuit has been filed in Missouri over the Rams’ move to Los Angeles, this time by holders of personal seat licenses who say they should retain their right to seat licenses and season tickets, even in California.
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For months, commercial real estate agent Matt Crabbs had seen almost no interest in his listing for a vacant retail building on La Brea Avenue in Inglewood.
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The Rams’ return to Los Angeles has stirred a celebratory atmosphere.
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Rams owner Stan Kroenke is planning to borrow about $1 billion from JP Morgan Chase & Co. to help fund the proposed Inglewood stadium, which could cost nearly $3 billion.
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As the San Diego Chargers negotiate a possible move to Los Angeles, the franchise has already taken steps to secure a new name.
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Fans waiting for a chance to become NFL season-ticket holders in Los Angeles got their first opportunity in more than two decades Monday.
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The final steps in the National Football League’s return to Los Angeles began behind closed doors — with a coin flip.
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As he emerged from the Coliseum tunnel, the panorama of the hallowed turf unfurled before him.
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With an NFL football team headed its way, a city that once teetered on the brink of bankruptcy is reveling in the idea of revitalization.
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Not long ago, Inglewood’s prospects looked bleak.
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A few minutes into Stan Kroenke’s first news conference as owner of the Los Angeles Rams, he cleared his throat and gripped the lectern inside the Forum with both hands.
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When the Rams left Southern California for St.
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Manhattan Beach real estate agent Ed Kaminsky has been feverishly calling anyone he might know who has an in with a Rams player or two.
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Now that the NFL’s St.
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Stan Kroenke emerged from a white jet at Van Nuys Airport a few minutes before noon Wednesday as he returned to California for the first time as owner of the Los Angeles Rams.
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There was no doom or gloom among San Diego leaders on the morning after the National Football League gave their city’s pro football team permission to move away.
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Rams owner Stan Kroenke and others violated Missouri law by lying about their desire to keep the NFL team in St.
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After losing out to Inglewood in their bid to get an NFL team, Carson officials expressed confidence Wednesday that leading developers would still be drawn to the vast empty acreage on top of an old landfill they hoped would host a stadium.
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Pat Haden played his entire NFL career with the Los Angeles Rams, so he said Wednesday that he was looking forward to welcoming the franchise back to Southern California — and the Coliseum — after two decades in St.
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In early 2013, as part of his training before the NFL draft, former USC safety T.J.
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We have the Lakers and the Kings and the Clippers and the Dodgers and the Angels and the Ducks.
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For more than two decades, billionaire developers, corporate titans, Hollywood power-brokers and four Los Angeles mayors tried and failed to bring the National Football League back to the nation’s second-largest market.
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There’s been a lot of talk about which professional football team should return to Los Angeles, and which stadium proposal -- Carson or Inglewood -- is the better bet.
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The Rams are coming to Los Angeles next season, and soon maybe the Chargers too, but the new, $2-billion-plus NFL stadium planned for Inglewood won’t be ready for action until 2019.
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The NFL’s announcement Tuesday that the Oakland Raiders will stay in their current home sent waves of jubilation through Ricky’s Sports Theatre and Grill, often touted as ground zero of Raider Nation.
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San Diego’s civic leaders, while buoyed by the news that they have yet another shot at holding onto the hometown team, said it will only succeed if the Chargers ownership really wants to stay.
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You’ll forever remember that body-freezing feeling of bliss when St.
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Now that the Rams are headed back to Los Angeles, St.
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After 21 years of no NFL football in Los Angeles, sports fans throughout the county rejoiced Tuesday night that the region will once again be home to the Rams.
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When the Rams picked up and moved to St.
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The Chargers endured a brutal 2015 campaign filled with injuries and disappointments as the team lost nine games by fewer than eight points.
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More than two decades after they left town, the Rams will return to Los Angeles for the 2016 season.
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The Rams, Chargers and Raiders all have called Los Angeles home at various points in their history.
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NFL owners have yet to agree to a Los Angeles solution, but with many pushing for a marriage between the St.
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In the first dose of political wrangling at the NFL owners meeting, the league’s Committee on L.A.
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On the brink of a vote that could return the NFL to Los Angeles, a consensus is building within the league for the St.
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The current stadiums in Oakland, St.
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In another example of behind-the-scenes maneuvering as the NFL moves toward a Los Angeles solution, former secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge reiterated his reservations about the proposed Inglewood stadium in a letter to Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson.
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In a glass-walled room high above Park Avenue, NFL executives and billionaire team owners huddled around a long conference table this week to solve a problem that has plagued the league for two decades: how to get professional football back to Los Angeles.
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On a cold morning Wednesday, NFL owners hustled past reporters and into the 44-story building on Park Avenue that houses league headquarters.
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New York Giants co-owner John Mara said that there’s widespread hope among NFL owners that a return to the Los Angeles market is right around the corner.
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The Inglewood stadium proposal backed by the St.
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In an aggressive move Monday to end the NFL’s two-decade absence from Los Angeles, three franchises — the Oakland Raiders, San Diego Chargers and St.
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A small yellow pipe protrudes from the dirt on a massive construction site in Inglewood, where billionaire owner Stan Kroenke envisions the new home of his relocation-minded St.
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In the final row of Qualcomm Stadium’s sprawling parking lot, Johnathan Case considered the end.
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Developers of the proposed NFL stadium in Inglewood are working to resolve the Federal Aviation Administration’s concerns about the venue’s impact on radar at nearby Los Angeles International Airport.
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The NFL has a mess on its hands.
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As the clock winds down on the NFL’s efforts to return to Los Angeles in time for the 2016 season, Disney Chairman and Chief Executive Robert Iger is ramping up his efforts to carry the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders across the goal line.
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After months of fits and starts, there are strong indications the NFL is moving toward a solution in Los Angeles.
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Live reports from the NFL owners meeting: NFL owners hope to vote on potential relocation by a team or teams to Los Angeles when they meet in Houston on Jan. 12 and 13.
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The NFL has scheduled a special owners meeting on Los Angeles for January, and at least two influential team owners are hoping that a relocation vote can be taken there.
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The clock is winding down on the likelihood of the NFL’s return to Los Angeles by the 2016 season, and the situation is as murky as ever.
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Is Walt Disney Co. trying to jump back into professional sports?
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In the pitched battle to return the National Football League to Los Angeles, the proposed stadium in Carson seemed to face a difficult path.
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Missouri is the “Show Me” state, and this week the NFL is asking just that.
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The proposed NFL stadium in Inglewood faces a new challenge, after the Federal Aviation Administration released a preliminary report saying the venue at the former Hollywood Park site is “presumed to be a hazard to air navigation.”
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After staging town-hall meetings in St.
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Joey Seimas, an air-traffic controller who made the three-hour drive from Fresno, stood at a lectern Thursday night in the elegant and cavernous Paramount Theater.
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They came in spikes and shoulder pads, masks, face paint and at least one Native American headdress.
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The San Diego Chargers have released a Q&A from the club’s perspective in advance of Wednesday night’s NFL town hall meeting in that city.
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Fans of the San Diego Chargers vented their frustrations to NFL executives Wednesday during the league’s second stop on a three-city tour of relocation hearings.
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Rams fans filled the Peabody Opera House in downtown St.
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The photos are grainy but still searing.
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Art Rooney II, the influential Pittsburgh Steelers owner who chairs the NFL’s Committee on Los Angeles Opportunities, expects owners to vote in January on a team or teams relocating to L.A.
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Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones emerged from NFL headquarters Tuesday with an unmistakable message.
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NFL owners will convene at league headquarters this week to discuss the future of their sport in Los Angeles, which has been without a franchise for 20 years.
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San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer met with three members of the NFL’s Los Angeles relocation committee, and with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, to stress that San Diego has a plan to build a new stadium to keep the Chargers from leaving.
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As expected, the NFL has officially changed directions on its October meetings and will not have representatives from the cities of San Diego and St.
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The second-largest media market in the U.S. hasn’t called a professional football team its own since 1994.
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Last month, Tom Bateman buckled a familiar face into the back seat of his Dodge Charger for the drive from Anaheim to Oxnard to watch the St.
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The deadline set by the city of San Diego for preparing a Chargers stadium-financing measure for a January ballot passed Friday without cooperation from the team.
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The empty lot sprawls along the 405 Freeway, a brown scar amid Carson’s strip malls and oil wells.
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San Diego’s city attorney questioned the environmental review of the stadium the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders hope to build in Carson, as verbal sparring over the project continued Thursday.
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No obvious temporary venue for two NFL teams in Los Angeles?
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A signature element is missing from the latest renderings of the $1.7-billion stadium the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders want to build in Carson.
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Relocation-minded NFL teams made their pitches Tuesday, but it will take months to know how well they performed.
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As the barons of the NFL met near Chicago to discuss relocation issues, San Diego officials announced Monday that planning is “on track” to build a $1.1-billion stadium to keep the Chargers from leaving San Diego.
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It’s a tale of three cities, a situation steeped in irony. The St.
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Just as NFL training camps are designed to get teams up to speed for the season, the league this week will begin preparing its club owners for what could be a monumental decision.
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The San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders invested almost $900,000 in a ballot initiative to fast-track their proposed stadium in Carson, according to campaign finance reports filed Monday.
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The San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders invested almost $900,000 in a ballot initiative to fast-track their proposed stadium in Carson, according to campaign finance reports filed Monday.
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The NFL might be the country’s No. 1 sport, but Los Angeles-area venues aren’t scrambling to position themselves as temporary homes if one or more of the league’s teams relocate.
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The effort to build a new riverfront football stadium in St.
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San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer gave an upbeat assessment Tuesday after a three-hour meeting with an NFL executive about the civic effort to build a new stadium to keep the Chargers from leaving for Carson.
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The Federal Aviation Administration is conducting a routine review of the proposed professional football stadium in Inglewood, as the $1.86-billion project moves forward.
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The San Diego City Council voted, 6-3, Tuesday to spend $2.1 million to do an environmental impact report on a possible new Chargers stadium -- a move that Mayor Kevin Faulconer and others hope will convince the NFL to tell the Chargers to return to the bargaining table with the city.
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The San Diego City Council is set Tuesday to decide whether to spend $2.1 million on planning for a new Chargers stadium -- despite the fact the team says it will be a “gigantic waste of taxpayer time and money.”
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The next few months are crucial for the NFL. With St.
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It isn’t often the nation’s No. 1 sports league gets snubbed, but that’s what the Rose Bowl Operating Co. did this week in pulling out of the competition to be a temporary home for a relocated NFL franchise.
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Cross the Rose Bowl off the list of venues competing to be a temporary home for an NFL team that relocates to Los Angeles.
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San Diego and Oakland have made proposals to keep their NFL teams, but it’s clear the owners of those teams remain unconvinced.
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Almost six months ago, St.
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The NFL’s search for a temporary Los Angeles stadium is officially underway.
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The day after a chaotic Carson City Council meeting that included allegations of corruption and threats of litigation, one of the most vocal proponents of the city’s proposed $1.7-billion professional football stadium said toxic politics could undermine the project.
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In another indication of the impasse between the Chargers and the city of San Diego, the club released a statement Tuesday saying it does not believe a stadium initiative can be put on the ballot this year.
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The NFL’s committee on Los Angeles opportunities met at league headquarters in New York on Wednesday and heard updated presentations from backers of stadium proposals in Carson and Inglewood.
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San Diego officials have made two chess-like moves in hopes of persuading the Chargers to stay in San Diego and not relocate to Los Angeles County.
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It turns out trying to keep an NFL team from leaving town can be costly for taxpayers, too.
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NFL team owners will meet in Chicago on Aug. 11 to discuss the progress of stadium projects in Oakland, San Diego, St.
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For the first time, San Diego city and county officials met Tuesday with the owner of the Chargers and his top advisor to discuss a civic proposal to build a 65,000-seat, $1.1-billion stadium to convince the team not to relocate to Los Angeles County.
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The four-page letter to California’s Department of Finance is crammed with enough legal jargon and land-use minutiae to make a second-year law student blanch.
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Although she said last year she would “fight like hell” to keep the Raiders, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf is also vowing not to use public funds to prevent the franchise from leaving.
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When San Diego Chargers executives needed help raising $1.7 billion for a football stadium in Carson, they turned to the professionals: Goldman Sachs.
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Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay is among those who believe an NFL team will be playing in Los Angeles soon.
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Mark Davis couldn’t ignore the chant, which was yelled from the sidewalk in front of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on Tuesday but was loud enough to echo throughout the lobby.
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In a move that adds muscle to their joint pursuit of a football stadium in Carson, the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders have hired a heavyweight in the world of NFL politics.
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The complex land deal for the proposed stadium shared by the Chargers and Raiders in Carson closed Tuesday morning after months of closed-door negotiations.
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In hopes of persuading the Chargers to stay in San Diego, a mayoral committee Monday proposed a financial plan for building an approximately $1.1-billion NFL stadium -- a plan that includes major public contributions but not a tax increase.
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While much of the NFL world has been obsessed with deflated footballs, backers of competing Los Angeles-area stadium proposals are focused on moving the ball forward.
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Final cleanup of the old landfill site in Carson where the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders want to build a stadium should be funded by August.
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How much does it cost to get fast-track approval for an NFL football stadium?
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Two weeks after its members approved a football stadium on an old landfill site off the 405 freeway, Carson officials will consider taking on $50 million in debt to finish cleaning up the site.
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Two months after unveiling plans and renderings for a stadium in Carson, the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders have completely overhauled their design for the $1.7-billion project.
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Representatives of NFL stadium proposals in Inglewood, Carson and St.
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The Carson City Council unanimously approved a privately financed stadium for the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders on Tuesday night, barely two months after the public announcement of the $1.7-billion project.
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Carson’s City Council could decide Tuesday night to approve an NFL stadium for the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders.
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Representatives of proposed stadium projects in Carson and Inglewood met with NFL executives Thursday as the competition to return the league to the Los Angeles area continued.
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San Diego risks losing its chance to keep the Chargers if it waits until the end of next year for a public vote on financing a new stadium, the NFL’s top official on relocation issues said Tuesday.
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The Carson City Council will vote Tuesday on a plan to build a $1.7-billion professional football stadium, according to City Clerk Jim Dear.
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The decision to put NFL stadium proposals on the ballot, first in Inglewood and now in Carson, may seem noble.
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The Southwestern setting at the Arizona Biltmore was casual, but the billionaires and multimillionaires weren’t — most dressed in coats and ties for three days of closed-door sessions.
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The competing NFL stadium proposals in Inglewood and Carson have made significant progress in recent months, but that doesn’t mean the league is ready to choose one of the projects any time soon.
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As plans for an NFL stadium in Carson move toward a vote this spring, supporters released a study Wednesday night detailing how the project could benefit the South Bay city.
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The plan to pay for a $985-million stadium to keep the Rams in St.
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In the race to build an NFL stadium, San Diego now has what Carson and Inglewood have had for weeks: an artist’s rendering of what a stadium could look like and some dollar figures on how it could be financed.
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For so many years, people did exactly what James T. Butts Jr. told them to do.
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Even as San Diego tries to catch up with Carson and Inglewood to build a stadium to keep the Chargers, Mayor Kevin Faulconer said Thursday he will not follow the strategy being used in those cities to avoid a public vote.
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Developers of the proposed NFL stadium in Inglewood and organized labor reached agreement Thursday on jobs for the $1.86-billion project, avoiding a referendum that could have delayed the start of construction.
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A month after a report by former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge questioning the safety of a proposed NFL stadium in Inglewood became public, the city has retained a security consulting firm to assess the $1.86-billion project’s risks.
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With great fanfare, supporters of a $1.7-billion football stadium proposal in Carson turned in more than 15,000 signatures Wednesday to put the project on a city ballot.
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If the Chargers bolt for Los Angeles, don’t expect San Diego to get another NFL team anytime soon.
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Even though no teams have announced plans to relocate, and there have been no formal stadium presentations, several influential NFL owners believe a Los Angeles solution is within reach.
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The NFL will have rules in place to make the game safer next season, but measures to enhance replay got the thumbs down Tuesday from team owners at the league’s annual meetings.
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In San Diego, the mayoral committee assigned to find a location and financing plan for a new stadium for the Chargers has decided it will not ask for a tax increase.
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The plan to build a $1.7-billion stadium for the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders in Carson moved ahead Saturday as backers collected more than 14,000 signatures in support of a ballot initiative for the project.
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AEG may have shelved its plans for a downtown Los Angeles football stadium, but Mayor Eric Garcetti sounds as if he’s still willing to dust them off.
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Entertainment giant AEG is ratcheting up pressure on Carson to slow a proposal to build an NFL stadium.
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Now that sports and entertainment giant AEG has dropped plans to build a downtown stadium for an NFL team, tourism leaders say the city can focus on expanding and modernizing the Los Angeles Convention Center to attract bigger, more profitable gatherings.
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The NFL stadium plan that sped through Inglewood City Hall last month now faces its first major obstacle: A petition drive launched by a powerful labor group that could delay the project unless developers guarantee more union jobs and better wages.
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A mayoral advisory committee assigned to find a place for a new Chargers stadium defended its selection Thursday of the Qualcomm Stadium site over the downtown site preferred by the team owners.
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San Diego has taken a step toward keeping the Chargers — but team officials aren’t likely to be satisfied by it.
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Faced with possibly losing their NFL teams to the Los Angeles area, civic leaders in St.
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Lest anyone think AEG might reconsider its decision to pull the plug on Farmers Field, the company issued a press release Tuesday reiterating that it’s moving on from the pursuit of an NFL stadium in downtown Los Angeles.
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After investing five years and $50 million in an attempt to bring an NFL team back to Los Angeles, AEG is abandoning plans for its Farmers Field football stadium downtown.
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Last month, Carson Mayor Jim Dear took a call from a top executive at sports and entertainment giant AEG.
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Officials here are accustomed to doing civic business with a high degree of caution and deliberation, careful to avoid political conflict and legal wrangling whenever possible.
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Last summer, representatives of the San Diego Chargers approached the Starwood Capital Group to learn more about the 168-acre site of a former landfill in Carson.
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To the editor: It is shocking that sports and entertainment firm AEG, in its lust for an NFL team, would hire Tom Ridge, a former Homeland Security secretary, to play the terrorism card.
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An estimated 2,500 cheering Charger fans flocked to a meeting Monday night of the mayor’s stadium advisory committee to plead the case for building a new stadium to keep the team from moving to the Los Angeles area.
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In a bold move to undercut an NFL stadium at Hollywood Park, the sports and entertainment firm AEG commissioned a study by former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge that found the Inglewood project would be a tempting target for terrorists and should not be built.
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It’s not every day that a real estate developer considers walking away from $400 million in tax money.
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After four hours of public comment, financial analysis and questions for traffic planners and noise consultants, the vote by the five members of Inglewood’s City Council to approve plans to build an NFL-caliber stadium was swift and unanimous.
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The Inglewood City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to approve an 80,000-seat stadium at the site of the old Hollywood Park racetrack, jump-starting the effort to bring an NFL team back to the area after a two-decade absence.
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As two separate NFL stadium proposals in Los Angeles took steps forward Tuesday, in St.
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St. Louis is offering to split the cost of a stadium to keep the Rams.
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The drafting of a ballot initiative to approve the plan by the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders to build a stadium in Carson is complete and will be made public shortly, according to a person with knowledge of the negotiations.
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Moving quickly, the Inglewood City Council is in position to vote Tuesday evening to clear the way for an 80,000-seat professional football stadium as part of an expanded Hollywood Park development project.
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After two decades without a football team, Los Angeles County now has a handful of competing stadium proposals designed to woo the National Football League back to town.
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To the editor: People, gather ‘round.
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At $1.7 billion, the stadium being proposed in Carson by the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders would be the costliest ever built in the National Football League.
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After a week of acrimony, San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer and Chargers President Dean Spanos met privately Sunday to discuss the increasingly complex and controversial issue of building a new stadium to keep the team from moving to the Los Angeles area.
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For two decades, billionaires, business leaders, Hollywood celebrities and high-powered politicians have taken turns trying to coax the NFL back to Los Angeles.
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The Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers said their joint proposal to build a $1.7-billion stadium in Carson hinges upon whether they are able to work out new stadium deals in their home markets.
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For decades, the expanse of empty acreage hugging the 405 Freeway in Carson had been eyed as an ideal location for a shopping mall, homes, a hotel, some combination of those three — or even an NFL stadium.
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Steve Caruthers watched his football teams slip away long ago.
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On the field, the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders have had as bitter a rivalry as any in the NFL but in a sense, they’re now partners.
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Questions and answers about where we stand now that the San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders and St.
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A visibly upset San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer blasted the Chargers, contending that they deceived the city by working on a deal to build a stadium in Carson with the Oakland Raiders.
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The development company that is on a fast track to building a professional football stadium in Inglewood has poured more than $100,000 in campaign contributions to elected city officials, according to campaign finance reports.
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In the two decades since the NFL packed up and moved out, Los Angeles has become a unique sort of football city.
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Pittsburgh Steelers owner Art Rooney II, chairman of the NFL’s stadium committee, had a simple message this week for St.
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When developers and city officials unveiled plans last week for an NFL stadium in Inglewood, they painted a picture of a rare thing: A big-ticket project completed with no tax money whatsoever.
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