1.   And, I bought this team to have fun and to win a championship.

2.   Another would keep an NFL team owner from buying a team in another sport that competes in the same market with another NFL owner.

3.   As pretrial jurisdiction issues hit the appellate level, Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen stepped in to buy the team with a promise to keep it in the city.

4.   At this point, Ueberroth and other baseball executives convinced a legendary Texas financier, Richard Rainwater, to help buy the team.

5.   Beaver hopes to buy the team from Carl Pohlad and move it to North Carolina after this season.

6.   Before buying the team two years ago, Henry said he would build a new park using private money.

7.   Behring became the villain and Allen the hero as he answered a call last winter from then-King County Executive Locke to buy the team.

8.   Behring once flirted with thoughts that he might be retained after Allen bought the team.

9.   Beverley bought the team from three-time Cup champion Waltrip in March, and merged it with ISM Racing and owner Bob Hancher in July.

10.   Bird has not been a fan of Paul Gaston and has said so, both in recent oeuvre and in comments about buying the team.