Editing Kevin Costner (section)

==Other ventures==
===Country music===
{{Main|Kevin Costner & Modern West}}
[[File:KevinCostnerJuly10.jpg|thumb|upright|Costner on stage in July 2010]]
Costner is the singer in [[Kevin Costner & Modern West]], a [[country rock]] band which he founded with the encouragement of his then wife, Christine. In October 2007, they began a worldwide tour which included shows in [[Istanbul]] and Rome. The group also performed at NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races at Daytona International Speedway and Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina.

The band released a country album, ''[[Untold Truths]]'', on November 11, 2008, on [[Universal South Records]]. The album peaked at No.&nbsp;61 on the ''Billboard'' [[Top Country Albums]] and No.&nbsp;35 on the [[Top Heatseekers]] chart. Three singles ("Superman 14", "Long Hot Night" and "Backyard") have been released to radio, although none have charted. For the single "Superman 14" a live music video was made.

In 2009, they went on tour with [[opening act]] [[The Alternate Routes]]. In August, at the [[Big Valley Jamboree]] in Camrose, [[Alberta]], Costner and the band were scheduled next on stage when a severe thunderstorm struck, causing the stage and stands on the main stage to collapse. One person was reported dead and forty injured.<ref>{{Cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/08/02/world/AP-CN-Canada-Stage-Collapse.html | title = 1 Dead, 40 Injured in Canada Stage Collapse | agency = [[Associated Press|AP]] | newspaper = [[The New York Times]] | date = August 2, 2009 | access-date = August 2, 2009}}</ref> Later, an auction was held to raise money for the two young sons of the woman killed. A dinner with Costner was auctioned off for $41,000. Two guitars, one autographed by Costner, helped raise another $10,000 each.<ref>{{Cite news | first = Nick | last = Lees | title = Katz likely culprit behind mystery $41,000 bid | url = https://www.pressreader.com/canada/edmonton-journal/20090812/281882999355295 | work = Edmonton Journal | date = August 12, 2009 | page = B3}}</ref>

A second [[Kevin Costner and Modern West]] album, ''Turn It On'', was released in February 2010 in Europe<ref>{{cite web | url = http://kevincostnermodernwest.com/news/comments/new-album-turn-it-on/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110819095309/http://kevincostnermodernwest.com/news/comments/new-album-turn-it-on/ | url-status = dead | title = New Album – "Turn It On" – News – Kevin Costner & Modern West | archive-date = August 19, 2011}}</ref> and was supported by a European tour.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://kevincostnermodernwest.com/news/comments/new-tour-dates-announced-new-album-in-the-works/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110920201900/http://kevincostnermodernwest.com/news/comments/new-tour-dates-announced-new-album-in-the-works/ | url-status = dead | title = New Tour Dates Announced / New Album In the Works – News – Kevin Costner & Modern West | archive-date = September 20, 2011}}</ref> In July 2012, the band performed in [[Halifax, Nova Scotia]], at the 20th annual [[Telus World Skins Game]] in support of the [[IWK Health Centre]] Foundation, donating a guitar autographed by Costner.<ref>[http://www.telusskins.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1342189346&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1& Academy Award winner, actor, director and musician, Kevin Costner and Juno Award winner Canadian musician and humanitarian Tom Cochrane to play at 2012 TELUS World Skins ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130602044103/http://www.telusskins.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1342189346&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1& |date=June 2, 2013 }}</ref>

Costner has also appeared in the documentary film ''Country Roads'' by Marieke Schröder.<ref name="euroarts.com">{{cite web | url = https://www.euroarts.com/tv-license/6071-country-roads-heartbeat-america | date = June 2, 2013 | title = Country Roads – The Heartbeat of America | website = EuroArts}}</ref>

The most recent album released by Kevin Costner and Modern West, ''Tales from Yellowstone'', was written by Costner and his co-writers from the perspective of John Dutton, Costner's character on the hit TV series ''[[Yellowstone (American TV series)|Yellowstone]]''. Songs from the album were featured on Season 3 of the show.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://tasteofcountry.com/kevin-costner-modern-west-tales-from-yellowstone-album/ | date = July 21, 2021 | title = Did You Know Kevin Costner Recorded a 'Yellowstone' Album? | website = Taste of Country}}</ref>

===Baseball===
Several of Costner's films have included a baseball theme: ''[[Chasing Dreams (film)|Chasing Dreams]]'', ''[[Bull Durham]]'', ''[[Field of Dreams]]'', ''[[For Love of the Game (film)|For Love of the Game]]'', and ''[[The Upside of Anger]]'', in three of which his character is a pro baseball player and one a former pro baseball player.

Costner has a home in [[Austin, Texas]], and sometimes appears at [[Texas Longhorns baseball]] practices and games. He was a close friend of former Longhorns baseball coach [[Augie Garrido]] from Garrido's days coaching at [[Cal State Fullerton]], Costner's alma mater. He cast Garrido to play the role of the Yankee manager in ''For Love of the Game''. He tries to attend every [[College World Series]] game that the [[CSUF Titans]] team plays in [[Omaha, Nebraska]]. Costner walked on for a tryout, but did not make the team early in his time at the university.{{cn|date=January 2025}}

Costner was a partial owner of the [[Zion, Illinois]]-based [[Lake County Fielders]] [[Independent league baseball|independent baseball team]] in the [[North American League (baseball)|North American League]]. The Fielders name was an homage to ''Field of Dreams'', with the logo showing a ballplayer standing amid a field of corn.<ref>{{Cite news | last = Rotenbirk | first = Lori | title = Major League Hopes Pinned on the Minors | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/us/05zion.html | newspaper = [[The New York Times]] | date = April 5, 2009 | page = A23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = Zion, IL 2010 Northern League Expansion Team Named the Lake County Fielders | url = http://www.fieldersbaseball.com/zion-il-2010-northern-league-expansion-team-named-lake-county-fielders | work = Lake County Fielders web site | access-date = July 28, 2013 | date = October 5, 2009 |url-status=dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150404014641/http://www.fieldersbaseball.com/zion-il-2010-northern-league-expansion-team-named-lake-county-fielders | archive-date = April 4, 2015 }}</ref> On August 12, 2021, he led the [[New York Yankees]] and [[Chicago White Sox]] onto the field prior to the [[MLB at Field of Dreams]] game held in [[Dyersville, Iowa]] and gave a short speech.<ref>{{Citation|title=Kevin Costner leads Yankees and White Sox from cornfield onto the Field of Dreams {{!}} FOX SPORTS| date=August 12, 2021 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbmZ1Oz_nTg| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211028/jbmZ1Oz_nTg| archive-date=October 28, 2021|language=en|access-date=August 13, 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

===Business interests===
[[File:Kevin Costner - Stella nella Walk of Fame - Hollywood - USA - agosto 2011.jpg|thumb|upright|Costner's star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]]]]
In 1995, Costner bought a company that was developing [[oil separation]] machines based on a patent he purchased from the [[US government]]. The machines developed by the company were of little commercial interest until the [[Deepwater Horizon oil spill]], when [[BP]] took six of the machines from a company in which Costner owned an interest, Ocean Therapy Solutions, for testing in late May 2010.<ref>{{Cite news | url = http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/if-you-build-it/?dbk | newspaper = [[The New York Times]] | title = If You Build It ... | first = Liz | last = Robbins | date = May 19, 2010}}</ref> On June 16, 2010, BP entered into a lease with Ocean Therapy Solutions for 32 of the oil-water separation devices.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.reefrelieffounders.com/drilling/2010/06/11/examiner-kevin-costner-sells-32-oil-spill-machines-to-bp-to-recycle-6-million-gallons-of-water-a-day-photos | title = Examiner: Kevin Costner sells 32 oil spill machines to BP to recycle 6 million gallons of water a day (photos)| date = June 11, 2010}}</ref> Although Spyron Contoguris and [[Stephen Baldwin]] had previously sold their interests in Ocean Therapy Solutions in mid-June to another investor in the company, they filed a lawsuit in Louisiana District Court claiming $10.64&nbsp;million for securities fraud and misrepresentation. The suit claimed that Costner kept a meeting with BP secret from them, and the secret meeting resulted in an $18-million down payment on a $52&nbsp;million purchase, and that after the down payment, but before any announcement, another investor used part of the down payment to buy out their shares, thus excluding them from their share of the profits from the total sale.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://news-briefs.ew.com/2010/12/23/stephen-baldwin-kevin-costner-lawsuit-bp/?hpt=T2 | title = Stephen Baldwin spills lawsuit on Kevin Costner | author = Kate Ward}}</ref> The suit claimed that, despite public statements by Costner, Ocean Therapy Solutions, BP and others to the contrary, Baldwin and Contogouris were told that BP was still testing the machines and had not yet committed to lease the machines from Ocean Therapy Solutions and that the other investor in Ocean Therapy Solutions purchased their shares for $1.4&nbsp;million to Baldwin and $500,000, to Contogouris.<ref>Detroit Free Press, Friday, December 24, 2010, page 3C</ref>{{full citation needed|date=June 2018}} In June 2012, a federal jury in Louisiana deliberated for less than two hours before rejecting Baldwin's and Contogouris' claims in the multimillion-dollar oil-clean-up case, and the court ordered Baldwin and Contogouris to reimburse Costner and the other defendants in the case for their costs.{{citation needed|date=May 2018}}

On June 6, 2004, Costner opened ''Tatanka: The Story of the Bison'' one mile south of [[Deadwood, South Dakota]], on [[U.S. Route 85]], saying he hoped it would be an educational and emotional place for people to learn about America's westward expansion. Promoters stated in a news release that the $5-million attraction had a new, 3,800-square-foot interactive center featuring exhibits, retail, and food and beverage areas, as well as offices and a small theater. The visitor center features graphics and text about the bison and the relationship of the [[Plains Indians]] to the animals - historically hunting and now raising them for food and clothing, among other things. The centerpiece is a bronze sculpture depicting a [[buffalo jump]] by [[Hill City, South Dakota|Hill City]] artist [[Peggy Detmers]], depicting 14 bronze bison in the act of running from their pursuers and three bronze [[Lakota people|Lakota]] riders on horseback. Three of the massive bison are posed in midair, cascading over the face of a cliff. Costner commissioned the work in 1994 from Detmers. The five-fourths-scale bronzes, each weighing between 2,500 and 8,000 pounds, were cast at Eagle Bronze Foundry in [[Lander, Wyoming]].<ref>Rapid City Journal, June 6, 2004</ref>{{full citation needed|date=May 2018}}

Costner opened the Midnight Star Casino and Restaurant in Deadwood, S.D., in 1991.<ref name="jh">{{cite news |last=Holland |first=Jim |url=https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/deadwood-s-midnight-star-sold-to-reopen-in-july/article_81752b78-1b1e-5380-99f3-a1c1910c1998.html | title=Deadwood's Midnight Star sold, to reopen in July |date=February 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200217212832/https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/deadwood-s-midnight-star-sold-to-reopen-in-july/article_81752b78-1b1e-5380-99f3-a1c1910c1998.html |archive-date=February 17, 2020 |access-date=May 9, 2021}}</ref> He hired Francis and Carla Caneva to manage the establishment and gave each of them a 3.25 percent ownership and paid them salaries and bonuses. He terminated their employment in July 2004 and asked to agree to an amicable disassociation. When they declined, Costner dissolved the partnership and hired an accountant who determined its fair market value to be $3.1 million. The Canevas sued Costner to buy their shares based on twice that amount or sell the company on the open market. They won in the lower court but, on Costner's appeal, lost in the South Dakota Supreme Court.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.today.com/popculture/court-rules-costners-favor-casino-dispute-1C9428197 |title=Court rules in Costner's favor in casino dispute |agency=[[Associated Press]] |via=[[Today (American TV program)|''Today'']] |date=November 9, 2006 |access-date=May 9, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite case |url=https://caselaw.findlaw.com/sd-supreme-court/1451770.html |title=IN RE: the DISSOLUTION OF MIDNIGHT STAR ENTERPRISES |via=[[FindLaw]] |date=November 8, 2006 |access-date=May 9, 2021}}</ref> Costner closed the establishment in 2017 and sold it in 2020.<ref name="jh"/>

In 2020, Costner joined Woody Sears's new audio entertainment travel app, HearHere, as a co-founder, podcast narrator, and investor. Costner narrates some of the audio stories provided by the iPhone subscription app for travelers on road trips across the United States who want to hear about the people, places, and histories they are encountering on their travels.<ref>{{cite web|title=Want to take a road trip with Kevin Costner? Investors are betting you will|url=https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/02/want-to-take-a-road-trip-with-kevin-costner-investors-are-betting-you-might/|access-date=April 4, 2021|website=TechCrunch|date=April 2, 2021 |language=en-US}}</ref>

===Philanthropy===
Costner serves on an honorary board for the [[National World War I Museum]] in [[Kansas City, Missouri]]. In spring 2011, he recorded two radio spots for the museum that were aired on [[Kansas City Royals]] Radio Network.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.theworldwar.org/s/110/new/index.aspx?pgid=1194 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130420183858/http://www.theworldwar.org/s/110/new/index.aspx?pgid=1194 | url-status = dead | title = Costner Lends Voice to Museum | archive-date = April 20, 2013}}</ref>

===NASCAR===
Costner was named ceremonial [[Grand Marshal]] of the [[NASCAR Cup Series]]' [[Auto Club 500]] which took place on February 25, 2007, at the [[California Speedway]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.allbusiness.com/services/business-services/3997065-1.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090108025257/http://www.allbusiness.com/services/business-services/3997065-1.html | url-status = dead | title = Kevin Costner Named Grand Marshal | archive-date = January 8, 2009}}</ref> In 2008, he worked with the NASCAR Media Group and [[CMT Films]] to help produce the NASCAR Documentary ''The Ride of Their Lives'' which was released in December of that year.<ref>{{Citation |last=Karpf |first=Rory |title=NASCAR: The Ride of Their Lives |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1381509/ |type=Documentary, Sport |publisher=NASCAR Media Group |access-date=August 16, 2022}}</ref> Costner would be the narrator for that documentary. Also in 2009, he was named the spokesman for NASCAR Day which took place on May 15. The next day, May 16, he and his country music band would perform in the infield of [[Charlotte Motor Speedway]] as well as participate as a judge in the 2nd annual Victory Challenge before the [[NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race XXV|25th Running of the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race]].

===Writing===
In 2015, Costner co-authored ''The Explorer's Guild: A Passage to Shambhala'', a hybrid [[adventure novel]] and [[graphic novel]], with John Baird, researcher [[Stephen C. Meyer]], and illustrator Rick Ross.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kevin Costner on Building His Career, Positive Self-Talk, and Making Dances with Wolves Happen|url=https://tim.blog/2015/11/16/kevin-costner-the-near-death-audition-work-ethic-and-the-explorers-guild/|access-date=October 11, 2020|website=tim.blog|date=November 17, 2015}}</ref>

Costner has a chapter giving advice in [[Tim Ferriss]]' book ''[[Tools of Titans]]''.