Dolphins President Eddie Jones said Wednesday that team
Owner Wayne Huizenga "maintains he has fielded no offers" to
buy the team and Pro Player Stadium, despite an ESPN.com
report that one unidentified buyer may be interested in
paying up to $1B for the properties, according to Charles
Elmore of the PALM BEACH POST. Jones: "[Huizenga] said he
has entertained no offers to sell the team in its entirety
and that his charge continues to be to sell to a minority
interest." Pro Player Stadium execs said that they are
"under orders to keep shopping for a new naming sponsor for
the stadium, which seemed to suggest no change of ownership
is imminent," as a new owner "might want control of such
rights for his own company, or at least to make sure there
was no marketing clash between dot-com competitors" (PALM
BEACH POST, 8/31). But in Miami, Jackson & Cole cite a
source within the Dolphins organization as saying that
Huizenga "has been offered" between $800M-1B for the team,
but "does not believe" the bidder "has enough money to cover
it." The source added the figures that have been floated
"intrigue" Huizenga and "are in the range of what it would
take for him to sell" the team (MIAMI HERALD, 8/31).
