Dave Checketts is a sports executive who founded Sports Capital Partners Worldwide, which owns the St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League and Real Salt Lake in Major League Soccer.http://www.scpworldwide.net/leadership.asp#BioTop
Along with Rush Limbaugh, Checketts was in negotiations to purchase the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League in October of 2009.http://www.seattlepi.com/scorecard/nflnews.asp?articleID=233715
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Born
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Resides
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Deb
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Children
Six, plus four grandchildren
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Industry
Sports
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Title
Chairman, founder
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Alma mater
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Founded Sports Capital Partners Worldwide in 2001
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President of the Utah Jazz at age 28, the youngest to ever hold the title in the National Basketball Association
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President of the New York Knicks starting in 1991
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Former president and CEO of Madison Square Garden, which owns the New York Rangers, New York Knicks, New York Liberty, the Madison Square Garden arena and the MSG TV network
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In talks in October 2009 to purchase the St. Louis Rams
