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Disability access compliance requires attention from blueprints to the box office to every advertisement and performance

Disability access compliance requires attention from blueprints to the box office to every advertisement and performance

For a venue operator, ADA compliance doesn’t end with the construction sign-off on ramp slopes, counter heights, grab bars and accessible seating...

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Jennifer Serafyn

The governance paradox: Could commissioners be our next best hope to save us from ourselves?

The governance paradox: Could commissioners be our next best hope to save us from ourselves?

College athletics has a governance problem. The House settlement changed more than how schools compensate student athletes. It also accelerated a...

17.09.2026 2

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Steve Eigenbrot

Why prediction infrastructure is the next great global utility

Why prediction infrastructure is the next great global utility

I tell my students that the most expensive commodity in the world is a wrong guess. And it would be wrong to guess that what we are witnessing now in...

16.09.2026 1

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Gina Antoniello

The next sports advantage: Designing for women’s time

The next sports advantage: Designing for women’s time

For many women, sports fandom happens alongside the invisible labor of keeping life moving: coordinating dinner, managing schedules, planning group...

15.09.2026 4

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Thayer Lavielle

A model for investing in the future of college athletics

A model for investing in the future of college athletics

The House v. NCAA settlement has fundamentally reshaped the financial landscape of college athletics, introducing private capital as a potential...

14.09.2026 5

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Michael Santos And Ethan Silverman

Latinos are primary drivers of sports industry growth

Latinos are primary drivers of sports industry growth

As we begin National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15-Oct. 15), corporate America, political leaders and national media will once again shine a...

14.09.2026 3

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Xavier A. Gutierrez

Premier League sees massive shift in how clubs value players

Premier League sees massive shift in how clubs value players

When the Elliot Anderson deal broke, I texted my brother that it might be the biggest shift in how clubs value players we’ve seen in years. A few...

11.09.2026 5

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Arjun Krishnan

Athlete attention isn’t the problem — it’s cutting through the noise

Athlete attention isn’t the problem — it’s cutting through the noise

I have spent more than 10 years working alongside professional fighters, including Khabib Nurmagomedov, and one observation has stuck with me. Many of...

10.09.2026 5

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Magomed Kurbaitaev

Stakeholders want to ‘save’ college sports for their interests, not students’ interests

Ten years ago, I wrote for Sports Business Journal that “the NCAA is most likely irrelevant to the future of college athletics” (SBJ, Jan. 11-17,...

09.09.2026 8

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Jim Tucker

College athletics is now running a business. Is it ready?

July 1 marked five years since NIL went into effect, and it’s time to take stock of what has changed. A few years ago, the chief revenue officer...

08.09.2026 9

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Bill Bailey

Geographic expansion of women’s sports must surpass zero-sum thinking to achieve growth

As a basketball player and fan, and former Rockets employee, the WNBA’s return to Houston is a dream come true. Yet I can’t celebrate...

07.09.2026 6

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Joyce Olushola Ogunrinde

Sports management degree and MBA go hand-in-hand for career development

In June’s SBJ Jobs Roundtable, Len Perna, chairman and CEO of TurnkeyZRG, suggested an MBA, JD or economics degree might better serve candidates...

03.09.2026 6

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Jillian Salas

Sports fans are drawing the line on AI-generated content

I’ve been paying a lot of attention to AI over the last year — not just the technology itself, but how consumers are responding to it. Everyone in...

02.09.2026 5

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David Brickley

Concussion claims in sport: What global litigation means for organizations

A new wave of concussion litigation in the UK and other jurisdictions suggests that the legal theories first tested in the NFL concussion litigation...

01.09.2026 6

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Lorna McAuliffe

The EBITDA churn trap: Youth sports’ best-looking assets may carry a hidden discount

Over the past decade, private equity has turned a patchwork of local youth leagues into an asset class. Platforms like 3STEP Sports and Unrivaled...

31.08.2026 5

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Jason Dyck

The ghost in the playbook: When the machine calls the plays

Dear SBJ readers: You’ve probably been hearing a lot about artificial intelligence for the last two years, but maybe haven’t seen an actual...

31.08.2026 5

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Rick Burton

Why athlete data could become the defining issue in college sports’ new LLC model

The University of Kentucky’s Champions Blue structure has been discussed mainly as a way to gain capital flexibility and pay athletes more directly....

27.08.2026 10

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Samuel D. Goldstick And Aaron K. Tantleff

Regular fans are paying the price at the U.S. Open

The weeks ahead of the U.S. Open have been dominated by storylines beyond the scoreboard: Carlos Alcaraz’s return after four months away, Jannik...

26.08.2026 10

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Felipe Rosas

Scott O’Neil: LIV Golf adds value to game’s evolving landscape

As LIV Golf closes out the 2026 season, which encompassed events across ten countries and five continents, I have spent a lot of time thinking about...

26.08.2026 10

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Scott O'Neil

The money in college sports only moves one way

Watch how the money moves in college sports and you can see exactly what it values. A collective raises tens of millions on the promise that athletes...

25.08.2026 10

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Amanda Guralski

Hidden player value is becoming a business issue

Soccer has always rewarded visibility. Goals are visible. Assists are visible. Tackles, shots and completed passes are visible. They create...

24.08.2026 10

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Tobias Haupt

Is the ‘Netflix of Sports’ … Amazon?

Ten years ago, Ed mused here about which company might become the “Netflix of Sports” (SBJ March 28, 2016), the digital disrupter that assembles a...

24.08.2026 10

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Ed Desser And John Kosner

Sports betting extends lead over responsible approach

For years, it’s been said that baseball is America’s pastime. While recent decades show football climbing into that role, it could be argued that...

20.08.2026 10

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Larry Atkins

Gaps in MLB CBA enable player lawsuits over field conditions

In 2025, former Milwaukee Brewers player Darin Ruf sued the Cincinnati Reds in an Ohio state court over an allegedly career-ending knee injury Ruf...

19.08.2026 20

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Christopher R. Deubert

Women’s sports isn’t a marketing test — it’s a brand one

The WNBA numbers this season are impossible to ignore. Record viewership. Sponsorship deals that didn’t exist three years ago. WNBA sponsorship...

18.08.2026 10

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Shannon Langrand

World Cup winners are the host cities that built something to outlast it

We’ve seen the numbers reflecting just how big the 2026 World Cup became: 6.8 million tickets sold, nearly double the 1994 record. $2.8 billion in...

17.08.2026 20

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Ashley Shaffer

Trump council’s Randy Levine: Congress must act to fix college sports

College sports are in a deep, rapid dive toward ruin. Universities are spending tens of millions of dollars annually simply to remain competitive --...

17.08.2026 20

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Randy Levine

Thinking out loud about ticket sales strategies

I have consulted and written about ticket sales for the past 20-plus years. I am excited about opportunities with AI and the increasing applications...

17.08.2026 20

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Bill Sutton

The 2026 World Cup was an outlier — its marketing lessons aren’t

The biggest lesson from the 2026 FIFA World Cup isn’t that it attracted record audiences. It’s that it showed sports marketers how to create more...

13.08.2026 10

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Danny Senor

Five years into NIL: No better time for athletes to think about their financial future

As we mark five years since NIL began reshaping college sports, the biggest change is that earning power can start earlier — and move faster —...

12.08.2026 20

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Mikael Lemieux

What did your World Cup sponsorship actually build?

The whistle has gone, and the invoices have cleared. If you sponsored the World Cup, you’ve likely got your numbers by now — a deck of...

11.08.2026 20

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Neill Duffy

MLB’s labor negotiations are really about the future of sports media

A salary cap proposal has become one of the major stories emerging from Major League Baseball’s labor negotiations, and the issue will likely remain...

10.08.2026 10

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Dave Dembowski

America’s sports decade needs a permanent playbook

The final whistle has blown on the largest World Cup in history. On the field, the tournament delivered everything fans could have hoped for: 48...

10.08.2026 10

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Travis Murphy

The missing piece in women’s softball has officially arrived

For years, women’s softball has been one of America’s most successful participation sports and an incredibly popular NCAA television property. Yet...

10.08.2026 10

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Caroline Fitzgerald

The game-changer isn’t on the field — it’s in the cup

Summer sports season is at its peak and fans are buzzing and filling stadiums for high-stakes games and matches to bond with strangers over beers and...

07.08.2026 20

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Crystal Dreisbach

Why leagues are struggling to secure their share of fandom — and what to do about it

In a communication landscape defined by an explosion of content and a fragmented attention economy, many sporting organisations struggle to secure...

06.08.2026 10

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Ayo Fagbemi

Giveaway days bring value, but smarter distribution could multiply their impact

Leagues and front offices across sports franchises have always been able to count on at least one universal maxim of ticket sales and promotions: Fans...

05.08.2026 10

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Joep Leussink

Performance tech has made sports brands smarter. Emotion will make them matter

Technology is changing the operating model of sport and the branding that surrounds it. AI line‑calling at Wimbledon, algorithmic NBA scheduling,...

04.08.2026 10

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Jen Yuan

What it takes to facilitate a competitive basketball program in the NIL era

Any college basketball fan who knows their Elliot Cadeau from their Emeka Okafor can tell you a little about the bygone days of college basketball....

03.08.2026 10

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Davyeon Ross

College athletics doesn’t have a cost problem — it has a revenue problem

The old parable says: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” That may be the best...

03.08.2026 20

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Bruce Lefkowitz