Lisa Bhathal Merage, second from right, at a Portland Thorns match NOTABLE: In January, Alex and Lisa were awarded the Business Journal’s Businesspersons of the Year Award in the sports category. Alex ...

But plenty of other billionaires — or groups capable of assembling a 10-figure war chest — could purchase the Portland Trail Blazers, which Paul Allen’s estate put on the market two weeks ago. No ...

Alex Bhathal and Lisa Bhathal Merage, the brother-sister duo who recently purchased the NWSL’s Portland Thorns, are the WNBA’s newest owners. Part of the reason why is because of what they ...

Professional women’s basketball will return to the Rose City for the first time in more than two decades after the WNBA announced Wednesday that it has awarded Portland an expansion team that ...

The Bhathal family already owns two professional sports teams in Portland... and they didn’t outright deny interest in owning a third. Bill Oram of The Oregonian reports that he asked RAJ Sports ...

The new team will be owned and operated by RAJ Sports, led by controlling owner Lisa Bhathal Merage and her brother, Alex Bhathal. They also are the majority owners of the NWSL's Portland Thorns.

A spokesperson for RAJ Sports, the sports investment arm of the company run by siblings Lisa Bhathal Merage and Alex Bhathal, acknowledged the opportunity but didn’t say if the company was ...

The team will be owned and operated by Raj Sports, led by Lisa Bhathal Merage and Alex Bhathal. They paid $125 million for the franchise. “This is huge for Portland. We are so honored and ...

The team will be owned and operated by Raj Sports, led by Lisa Bhathal Merage and Alex Bhathal. They paid $125 million for the franchise. “This is huge for Portland. We are so honored and ...