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Planned AEG Sale Muddies Los Angeles Sports Future

September 19, 2012 RSS Feed Print
Paul Patsis, president of Market Management for Farmers Insurance, center, poses with Los Angeles Kings cheerleaders during a 2011 ceremony naming a new proposed NFL football stadium in Los Angeles. It would be called Farmers Field under a 30-year naming-rights deal between developer AEG and Farmers Insurance Exchange.

Paul Patsis, president of Market Management for Farmers Insurance, center, poses with Los Angeles Kings cheerleaders during a 2011 ceremony naming a new proposed NFL football stadium in Los Angeles.

Opened in 1999, the Staples Center is among the world's busiest arenas. It hosted six playoff games in four days for its main tenants — the NBA's Lakers and Clippers, and the NHL's Kings, who won their first Stanley Cup in June.

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