Brendan Coffey is the sports finance reporter at Sportico. Prior to joining Sportico in June 2020, Coffey spent years writing about business, markets and innovative thinkers, during which he called Carl Icahn more times than he can remember, split a bottle of wine with Gordon Getty three times and was cursed at by Leon Cooperman more than once. His prior stints include serving as founding senior reporter for Bloomberg News’ billionaires news team, reporter for Forbes magazine, commodities a...| Sportico.com
The first leg of horse racing's Truple Crown will take place on Saturday in Churchill Downs race's newly renovated Homestrech Club with added premium seats, 100-foot long bar, terraced outdoor seating and 200-person lounge.| Sportico.com
DraftKings and Churchill Downs will share revenue 40-60 from DK Horse, a standalone thoroughbred gambling app within the DraftKings family.| Sportico.com
Asli Pelit is the Sports Deals Reporter at Sportico, where she covers private equity, business of global soccer, Formula 1 and technology. Prior to Sportico, she created short and long form visual stories for Voice of America in New York, USA Today and VICE on HBO. From 2006 to 2014, Pelit was based in South America where she created, produced and anchored Continent of 10s, a weekly documentary series focusing on soccer, business, politics and culture. She has covered three Copa Americas and ...| Sportico.com
Eben Novy-Williams is Sportico's deputy editor. Prior to joining, he was at Bloomberg News for almost a decade, covering everything from media deals and team sales to esports and the Olympics. He is the co-host of the Sporticast podcast. His writing has appeared in magazines and newspapers around the country.| Sportico.com
