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Does the thought of private equity investors buying into big-time sports bug you? Does reading about it trouble your comfortable view of sport as a...
Before my daughter Scout ever set foot on a cruise ship, she got a phone call from Mickey Mouse. It was automated, nothing personalized about it; just...
College sports may have found a way to build something that looks a lot like the framework of a collective-bargaining agreement without actually...
Across many weekends in any given year, in cities from São Paulo to Monaco, a small group of people sit in front of dozens of screens and make...
This past weekend was another reminder of the gloriously unpredictable world of college football. Alabama, ranked No. 7, smashed No. 16-ranked...
Most college athletics revenue streams are obvious and transactional. “Set it and forget it.” Your MMR partner sells sponsorships and takes a fee....
With NFL season in full swing, all eyes once again turn to the biggest live game broadcasts: “Sunday Night Football,” “Monday Night Football,”...
Three years ago, while walking to dinner before the first NBA Cup, Ed posed a question: “Should we write a book?” John loved the idea. Together,...
The Protect College Sports Act, passed by the Senate on Sept. 28 by a 77-22 vote, raises an interesting question for sponsors, broadcasters and...
Pessimism, doom, inevitability. These sentiments describe how most fans and pundits view the likelihood of a work stoppage when Major League...
The WNBA caused an unwanted kerfuffle this summer. After a social media post featuring Angel Reese and Paige Bueckers making a low-stakes (but real...
At the end of every i9 Sports game, parents line up on both sides of the field and form a tunnel. Every kid runs through it, the most talented and the...
In June, I argued in Sports Business Journal that the global game has outpaced the talent pipeline. Sports organizations are expanding across borders,...
Assume it is February 2027. Spring training was supposed to begin three weeks ago. It has not. The lockout that began after the collective bargaining...
Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from “The Five-Tool Team: Bringing Out the Best in People to Make Better Decisions,” by Ricardo...
Arch Manning was having a pretty good week. The Texas quarterback had just led the Longhorns back from a 20-point fourth-quarter deficit to beat No. 1...
A new report shows that this summer’s World Cup generated an impressive $3.5 billion in economic impact across New York and New Jersey, proving what...
For a venue operator, ADA compliance doesn’t end with the construction sign-off on ramp slopes, counter heights, grab bars and accessible seating...
College athletics has a governance problem. The House settlement changed more than how schools compensate student athletes. It also accelerated a...
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...
For many women, sports fandom happens alongside the invisible labor of keeping life moving: coordinating dinner, managing schedules, planning group...
The House v. NCAA settlement has fundamentally reshaped the financial landscape of college athletics, introducing private capital as a potential...
As we begin National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15-Oct. 15), corporate America, political leaders and national media will once again shine a...
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...
I have spent more than 10 years working alongside professional fighters, including Khabib Nurmagomedov, and one observation has stuck with me. Many of...
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,...
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...
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...
In June’s SBJ Jobs Roundtable, Len Perna, chairman and CEO of TurnkeyZRG, suggested an MBA, JD or economics degree might better serve candidates...
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...
A new wave of concussion litigation in the UK and other jurisdictions suggests that the legal theories first tested in the NFL concussion litigation...
Over the past decade, private equity has turned a patchwork of local youth leagues into an asset class. Platforms like 3STEP Sports and Unrivaled...
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...
The University of Kentucky’s Champions Blue structure has been discussed mainly as a way to gain capital flexibility and pay athletes more directly....
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...
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...
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...
Soccer has always rewarded visibility. Goals are visible. Assists are visible. Tackles, shots and completed passes are visible. They create...
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...
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...
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...
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