Hip-Hop Moguls Courting Sports Teams, Looking to Own
(LA Times) — Jay-Z may have “made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can,” but that doesn’t mean he could ever own the team. Still, the hip-hop giant with a stake in the New Jersey Nets has surely inspired a group of mic-masters for whom purchasing a sports franchise is high on their list of things to buy. Last month Snoop Dogg proposed to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerbergvia Twitter that they should tag-team on an acquisition. “Ayo sumbody tell Zuckerberg to holler at me. He n I need go buy a pro sports team tgether,” Snoop tweeted. Zuckerberg’s sister and marketing manager, Randi, was tickled by the offer and she and Snoop tweeted back and forth about it. “It’s official. @snoopdoog is my hero,” Randi Zuckerberg wrote. “Snoop, what will the team name be? The Mighty Nerds? Save me some box seats!”
