An NFL team owner heated up football stadium rumors, audio tapes forced a local billionaire to sell his basketball team and North Korea went to war against a Culver City studio. The Silicon Beach tech scene continued booming, oil companies kept swooning and an iconic apparel company finally parted ways with its idiosyncratic founder. In this final issue of the year, the Business Journal looks back at those and other big L.A. business stories from 2014. Click here to find out which local stocks soared or slumped, get a rundown of the year’s biggest story lines and see some of the Business Journal’s most memorable images from the past 12 months.