DALLAS — Tom Hicks, the Texas businessman and philanthropist who owned two Dallas-area skilled sports activities franchises and an English Premier League soccer workforce, died Saturday. He was 79.
Spokesperson Lisa LeMaster stated in assertion that Hicks died peacefully in Dallas surrounded by household.
Hicks owned the NHL’s Dallas Stars from 1995 to 2011, profitable the Stanley Cup in 1999. He additionally owned baseball’s Texas Rangers from 1998 to 2010, main them to a few American West Division titles and a World Sequence look. In 2007, he acquired a 50% stake in Liverpool.
“Being shoulder to shoulder with him was all the time about greater than ballparks and stadiums, although,” Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones stated in an announcement. “It was about private respect, belief and friendship. We shared loads of miles collectively, and I am going to miss him drastically. My coronary heart goes out to his household.”
Hicks co-founded Hicks & Haas in 1984 and helped reshape non-public fairness and investing technique. He served on the College of Texas’s board of regents from 1994 to 1999.
“Tom Hicks was an revolutionary businessman and a pioneer in non-public fairness,” fellow Texas businessman Ross Perot Jr. stated in an announcement. “He mixed his dedication to enterprise and sports activities by means of his possession of the Stars and the Rangers.”
Hicks is survived by his spouse of 35 years, Cinda Cree Hicks, and his six youngsters — Thomas Ollis Hicks Jr., Mack Hardin Hicks, John Alexander Hicks, Robert Bradley Hicks, William Cree Hicks and Catherine Forgrave Hicks.
His youngsters launched a joint assertion, saying:
“Of all the things he completed in his outstanding life, Tom Hicks’s most cherished title was, ‘Dad.’ Irrespective of the trials and tribulations he confronted in life, he was fixed in his generosity and love for his household. He stays a guiding power for our household, and we’re deeply honored to proceed increasing his legacy. Though we’re devastated by this loss, we’re profoundly grateful to have been his youngsters.”
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