The Predators have the third-highest attendance in the NHL this season, with Bridgestone Arena welcoming an average of 18,555 fans each home game. In the 2021 season, Nissan Stadium hosted an average of 68,566 fans every Titans home game, 12th-highest in the NFL. But once they do, expansion becomes next on the agenda.”īoth the Titans and Predators have enjoyed massive success in the region since coming to Nashville in 19 respectively. “There are two teams that don’t have homes: the Oakland A’s and the Tampa Rays, so those are his priorities to make sure those places have homes to play in. “I spoke to the commissioner a couple of weeks ago and the same thing still remains,” Stewart said. Tampa Bay, meanwhile, recently promoted a “sister city” concept between its city and Montreal, which was shut down by Manfred in January. It’s been nearly 25 years since MLB expanded, with Arizona and Tampa Bay joining the league in 1998.īoth Oakland and Tampa Bay have been pursuing stadium deals, with the former making a public bid to move to Las Vegas, while also looking for a new ballpark in Oakland. Manfred has said in the past that this was a priority before MLB could entertain expansion. Before that can take place, however, MLB and commissioner Rob Manfred must first find future homes for the Athletics and Rays. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is also a member of the group, which is looking to land an expansion team within the next three to five years. The Stars name is a callback to the original Negro League team that played in Nashville during the 1940s and 1950s.įormer U.S. Per ESPN, the “Nashville Stars” would be the first majority minority-owned team in league history.
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I’m hopeful that 50 years from they’ll say he started something very special.Three-time World Series champion pitcher Dave Stewart is reportedly leading a group in launching a $2 billion bid to secure an MLB expansion franchise in Nashville, Tennessee. And I’m grateful for being a good steward for what God has blessed me with. And the importance and significance of giving is a principal that works in life. This is a way to pay back by paying forward. “This community has helped me in a very unique and special way. He says its gives him great joy to give back to a place that’s given him so much. Louis like Boys and Girls Clubs, Variety Children’s Charity Leukemia, American Liver foundation, United Way, Urban League, just to name a few. He’s been on various boards or honorary chairs throughout St. Steward and his wife have given millions to dozens of charities. It is the most charitable city in the country.”Īnd he is leading the way.
But once they see the opportunity they have here and the environment they begin to say, ‘gosh, St. Louis sometimes it makes it difficult to get people from the outside to come to St. “The light of all the things that have happened in St. Louis has sometimes made bringing in talent a tough sell. “It’s wonderful we have all this technology but it’s really the corporate culture that makes the difference,” says project manager Mark Dougherty.īut Steward admits the national perception of St. And he’s why his company is one of the fortune 100 best companies to work for. A 2014 citizen of the year and Horatio Alger award winner. Louis it is about taking a leap of faith and seeing something that other’s don’t see. Any time you go into business that’s never been attempted before especially in a Midwestern city like St. Now he has about 3,000 workers and does business with many fortune 100 companies. The company’s success has skyrocketed since Steward founded it in 1990 with just 4 employees. I’m just hoping it doesn’t leave me behind.” To realize a dream like this I’m just hanging on by my fingernails on this rocket ship that keeps taking off. Happen to be a person of color growing up in the 50’s and 60’s. I mean a guy like me growing up in a small town. “The journey we’ve been on is a miracle,” says Steward. Now he runs a company worth over 6 billion dollars, World Wide Technology. Steward grew up in Clinton, Missouri in the segregated 60’s facing obstacles some of us can only imagine. LOUIS (KTVI) – David Steward is a great American success story-one of the richest men in the world and also one of the most generous.
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