ST. LOUIS — St. Louis Blues principal owner Dave Checketts is heading a group that wants to buy the Rams and keep the team in St. Louis.

A spokesman for Checketts confirmed Tuesday that Checketts leads a group of St. Louisans and outside investors interested in purchasing the NFL team. That news came a day after the Rams said the family of former owner Georgia Frontiere has hired the investment banking firm of Goldman Sachs, a move seen as expediting the possibility of a sale.
Frontiere was majority owner of the Rams, with 60 percent of the team, when she died in January 2008. Her death left her children, Chip Rosenbloom and Lucia Rodriguez, as majority owners. Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche owner Stan Kroenke owns the remaining 40 percent.