{"id":1148,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/1148","headline":"Dodgers owner Mark Walter reportedly shopping the Sparks","dek":"Walter is pricing the WNBA franchise and its practice facility at $700 million as his sports holdings keep shrinking amid a federal investigation into his wealth management firm.","body":"Mark Walter's sports portfolio is getting smaller again. According to a Bloomberg report, the Dodgers owner is looking for a buyer for the WNBA's Sparks and the team's practice facility, with the asking price set at $700 million.\n\nWalter bought the Sparks in 2014 and has owned them well before his more recent, higher-profile moves in sports ownership. Earlier this year he sold his majority stake in the Lakers to former Disney CEO Bob Iger and venture capitalist Joshua Kushner at a record $12.5 billion valuation, along with his stakes in Chelsea FC.\n\nThe sell-off comes as Walter's wealth management firm faces scrutiny from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan and the Securities and Exchange Commission, following a whistleblower complaint about allegedly misrepresented loans between Guggenheim-founder Walter's companies. MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred confirmed the league is keeping tabs on the situation, telling reporters, \"As always when we have an investigation, external law enforcement, whatever, we monitor that and that's where we are right now.\"\n\nWalter still owns the Dodgers, but the pattern is clear: as legal pressure mounts, he keeps finding buyers for the other franchises in his collection.","published_at":"2026-10-24T21:33:56.314364+00:00","source_count":4,"written_from":[{"outlet":"CBS Sports","publisher":"CBS Sports","title":"Mark Walter reportedly looking to sell WNBA's Sparks next after Lakers, Chelsea FC sales","url":"https://www.cbssports.com/wnba/news/mark-walter-sparks-wnba-for-sale-investigation/"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"MLB monitoring Dodgers owner Mark Walter amid federal probe","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/mlb-monitoring-dodgers-owner-mark-024535799.html"},{"outlet":"Front Office Sports","publisher":"Front Office Sports","title":"Mark Walter’s Sports Empire Keeps Shrinking With Sparks Up for Sale","url":"https://frontofficesports.com/article/mark-walters-sports-empire-keeps-shrinking-with-sparks-up-for-sale/"},{"outlet":"New York Post","publisher":"New York Post","title":"Dodgers owner Mark Walter looking to sell Sparks after Lakers fire sale: report","url":"https://nypost.com/2026/10/23/sports/dodgers-owner-mark-walter-looking-to-sell-sparks-after-lakers-fire-sale-report/"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Report: Mark Walter looking to sell the Los Angeles Sparks","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/report-mark-walter-looking-sell-224754656.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Mark Walter reportedly looking to sell WNBA's Sparks after Lakers, Chelsea sales","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/wnba/article/mark-walter-reportedly-looking-to-sell-wnbas-sparks-after-lakers-chelsea-sales-225949653.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Mark Walter’s Sports Empire Keeps Shrinking With Sparks Up for Sale","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/mark-walter-sports-empire-keeps-001105128.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Dodgers’ Mark Walter in talks to sell another Los Angeles team","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/dodgers-mark-walter-talks-sell-011840088.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"MLB monitoring Dodgers owner Mark Walter amid federal probe","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/mlb-monitoring-dodgers-owner-mark-024535070.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Dodgers Questions Resurface With Mark Walter Reportedly Seeking Sparks Sale","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/dodgers-questions-resurface-mark-walter-180044998.html"}],"image":{"url":"https://frontofficesports.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/2026-02-15T154413Z_1975011552_MT1USATODAY28245535_RTRMADP_3_NBA-ALL-STAR-SATURDAY-NIGHT-scaled.jpg?quality=80&w=1024","credit":"Front Office Sports","width":1024},"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}