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5 Things Sports Fans Could Do With $500 Million Powerball Winnings

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5 Things A Sports Fan Can Do After Winning $500 Million Powerball

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There is a lot of advice out there for the individual who wins the $500 million Powerball lottery tonight, but most of it is boring technicalities like hiring a lawyer and investing in the stock market. Sports fans are a more fun lot, and if one diehard fan is lucky enough to win the lotto tonight, here are five fun things that fan might consider doing with the winnings.

5. Get a Super Box: $400,000

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5. Get a Super Box: $400,000

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In Washington, fans of the baseball Nationals have to pony up $400,000 a year to watch games in the ultra-deluxe Washington Suites. That’s pretty much the going rate in all of the new stadiums, and in it, a lotto winner can entertain up to 60 guests with two HDTV flat-screen TVs, leather furniture and year-round access to the suites for non-sporting events.

4. Build a Stadium: $128 Million

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4. Build a Stadium: $128 Million

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If you are a fan of college football, you can build your team a nice 40,000-seat stadium like the one that opened at the University of Houston last year for $128 million and call it Joe Sports Fan Stadium or even name it after yourself. The stadium includes 26 luxury boxes and four party decks.

3. Buy a Minor League Team: $26 Million

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3. Buy a Minor League Team: $26 Million

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The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) RailRiders are for sale. Currently, the Triple-A team is half-owned by the New York Yankees and a consortium that owns four other minor-league clubs. They can be had for a mere $26 million, which is a ballpark figure for most Triple-A teams. Even with $500 million, owning an NFL team is out of the question since the most inexpensive ones are worth double that figure.

2. Donate a Practice Facility: $30 Million

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2. Donate a Practice Facility: $30 Million

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If building a stadium seems excessive, a new lotto winner can donate a basketball practice facility to the alma mater that would rival Kentucky’s for a mere $30 million. At Kentucky’s Joe Craft Center, arguably the best in the nation, the men’s and women’s teams each have their own courts, video rooms and a weight room.

1. Purchase a Sports-Themed Mansion: $21 Million

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1. Purchase a Sports-Themed Mansion: $21 Million

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Michael Jordan auctioned off his Highland Park, Ill. mansion in 2013 for $21 million. In it, the home has an indoor basketball court and an indoor Olympic-sized swimming pool, and there are probably similar mansions available all over the country now at those prices. There is also a man cave TV room equipped with large-screen HDTVs.

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