user: Q: Jacksonville Jaguars Sold To Illinois Businessman For $760 Million

Wayne Weaver has sold the Jacksonville Jaguars to Shahid Khan, a Pakistan-born entrepreneur and head of Illinois-based Flex-N-Gate Corp, for $760 million. People familiar with the matter say Kahn used $350 million of debt to finance the deal.

In August we said the Jaguars were worth $725 million, last among the National Football League’s 32 teams. But in September Walt Disney-owned ESPN signed a new television deal with the NFL that was 73% more than the previous contract. The Jaguars sale price clearly reflects the boost in television revenue given that the most recent sale prior to the Jaguars were the St. Louis Rams, which were acquired by Forbes 400 member Stan Kroenke in 2010 for $750 million.

The Jaguars play in the NFL’s third-smallest market and Weaver has often had a combative relationship with local politicians over the teams lease at EverBank Field. Last year Weaver cut a deal with the city giving Weaver all of the revenue from the $16.6 million, five-year stadium naming rights agreement with EverBank. The prior agreement gave 25% of the naming rights to the city.

Khan had previously attempted to buy the St. Louis Rams from the children of the late Georgia Frontiere in 2010. But the team was grabbed by Kroenke, who had the right of first refusal to purchase the Rams.

The sale to Khan was announced the same day the struggling Jaguars fired head coach Jack Del Rio and replaced him with defensive coordinator Mel Tucker. The Jaguars have had hard time selling tickets, averaging 62,000 per home game this year, 26th in the league. To avoid embarrassing blackouts of its home games the team has been buying tickets.

The Jaguars, along with the Minnesota Vikings and San Diego Chargers, have been mentioned as teams most likely to to move to a new stadium in Los Angeles for which Farmers Insurance Exchange has agreed to pay $700 million for naming rights. Weaver has denied the team will leave Jacksonville. The team’s stadium lease with Jacksonville runs through 2027. But if revenue projections are high enough at the new L.A. stadium then it could all come down to how much Khan would have to pay to get out of the lease and to the NFL as a relocation fee.

A: The Jacksonville Jaguars get a new owner and fire their coach.


Q: Adoptees of Argentine media owner allow DNA tests

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Two people who were adopted by the owner of an Argentine media conglomerate have agreed to DNA tests that a court ordered to determine whether they were stolen as babies during Argentina's military dictatorship.

Adoptees Marcela and Felipe Noble say they will not appeal the order to have blood samples taken and compared with relatives of people who disappeared during the dictatorship between 1976 and 1983.

They had previously refused to have their DNA compared with samples stored by authorities. The two were adopted by Grupo Clarin owner Ernestina Herrera de Noble.

Alejandro Carrio is the pair's lawyer. He says they are tired of "lies being told about them" in reference to suspicions raised about their biological parents.

A: Two people who were adopted by the owner of an Argentine media conglomerate have agreed to DNA tests that a court ordered to determine whether they were stolen as babies during Argentina's milit...


Q: New immigration facility in Texas to include unit with beds for transgender detainees

DALLAS (AP) – Federal immigration officials will soon open a new detention facility southwest of Dallas that includes a special unit for transgender detainees.

The facility under construction in Alvarado, Texas, will include 36 beds for transgender people.

Officials at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Monday that the facility is expected to open in November.

The Texas facility would be the second federal unit dedicated to housing transgender detainees.

The other, in Santa Ana, California, houses about 30 transgender people.

Advocates say transgender immigrants often face challenges in detention facilities such as higher rates of sexual assault, an inability to get hormone replacement treatments and guards unfamiliar with gender-identity issues.

Federal guidelines instruct detention staff to ask incoming detainees about their chosen gender identity and make accommodations based on their preference.

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assistant: The immigration detention center under construction in Alvarado, Texas, will include 36 beds for transgender people. It's set to open in November.