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Commanders’ Stadium Tax Subsidy Plan in Line With Recent NFL Venues | Sportico.com
The path to LSU’s first national championship win was paved with records as this year’s women’s NCAA tournament shattered a series of previous highs. The Tigers’ Angel Reese-led victory over Caitlin Clark’s Iowa on Sunday rang in as the most-viewed college women’s basketball game on record, according to Nielsen’s final numbers. The title tilt averaged […]| Sportico.com
Pro and college football games accounted for 87 of the 100 most-watched TV broadcasts of 2022.| Sportico.com
Deliveries for Fox's national TV window are up 11% since former second-stringers Kevin Burkhart and Greg Olsen replaced Joe Buck and Troy Aikman.| Sportico.com
Clase Gambling Probe Shakes Athlete Income-Sharing Industry | Sportico.com
Poolhouse, a high-tech spin on billiards halls from the brothers who came up with Topgolf, has gotten $34 million in funding.| Sportico.com
Betsperts has acquired Fantasy Life App, creating what it calls the world's largest social media platform dedicated to gambling and fantasy.| Sportico.com
The show has enjoyed a ratings resurgence this year, and Kalshi and Polymarket celebrated the humor in its latest Season 27 episode.| Sportico.com
Allwyn has agreed to buy a majority stake of PrizePicks. The deal comes with the U.S. sports gaming industry in flux.| Sportico.com
The NHL's new deals with Polymarket and Kalshi could clarify how data providers like Sportradar fit into the growing prediction market boom.| Sportico.com
The latest NBA betting scandal shows the real long-term risk for leagues regarding betting: the ease with which players can be coerced into cheating.| Sportico.com
Kalshi NFL parlays did just $10 million in volume in the second week after their launch shaved billions off the market caps of sports betting stocks.| Sportico.com
Kalshi's NFL contracts accounted for more than 40% of trading volume on the platform in September, with sports making up roughly 90% of all volume.| Sportico.com
In the weeks after Kalshi touted a global push, people in countries who are supposed to be included say they are still shut out.| Sportico.com
Users could place bet parlay bets before two "Monday Night Football" games.| Sportico.com
Despite potential legal hurdles, the prediction market platform told Sportico it will offer its product in Asia's biggest countries.| Sportico.com
DraftKings will launch a predictions marketplace in the "coming months." Facing pressure from Kalshi, DraftKings is buying Railbird's exchange.| Sportico.com
The DraftKings, NBCUniversal partnership, which includes Comcast's NBC Sports, highlights how sportsbook marketing priorities are shifting.| Sportico.com
Custom parlays could be a game changer in the evolution of prediction markets, which are emerging as a sportsbook alternative.| Sportico.com
Lev Akabas is a Data Reporter at Sportico. He covers topics that involve data, creating charts and interactive graphics to tell stories visually. Prior to joining Sportico in May of 2020, Akabas worked on both the editorial side and the technology side of a newsroom at SLAM magazine and The New York Times, respectively. Akabas graduated from Cornell University in 2019 with a degree in Computer Science. He lives in New York City, where he enjoys playing pickup basketball.| Sportico.com
Dan Bernstein is an Assistant Editor at Sportico. Prior to joining, he edited and reported for global sports publications such as The Mirror, GOAL and Sporting News. He is a San Francisco native who now lives on the East Coast after graduating from the University of Maryland in 2018.| Sportico.com
The average NFL value is up 18% to $4.1 billion, with the Cowboys the most valuable franchise across all global sports leagues.| Sportico.com
The National Football League (NFL) is a U.S.-based pro football league that is currently the richest professional sports league in the world.| Sportico.com
The 2000 sale of the New York Jets went so well that Hess’ long-time friend Ralph Wilson “effectively copied” it, Marc Ganis (president, Sportscorp) said.| Sportico.com
The NFL is known to value control, but with many owners older and with several recent high-profile team succession controversies, is the league ready?| Sportico.com
Explore Sportico's NFL franchise valuations with this interactive data visualization.| Sportico.com
The Portland Trail Blazers will sell to Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon in a $4.25 billion deal. The agreement was signed this week, the NBA team said.| Sportico.com
Julia Koch and her family are buying 10% of the New York Giants at a valuation higher than the $10 billion sale of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers.| Sportico.com
The NFL approved three team stake sales, including Julia Koch's 10% of the Giants at a valuation of just over $10.5 billion, a new sports team record.| Sportico.com
Private equity giant Sixth Street and billionaire Dean Metropoulos are buying an 8% stake in the Patriots with a valuation of more than $9 billion.| Sportico.com
The Pohlad family will keep control of the Minnesota Twins after exploring a potential sale. Instead the team will bring on a few minority partners.| Sportico.com
The $5 billion valuation means a 10x return for MSP Sports Capital, which sold its stake. MSP bought 15% of McLaren Racing in late 2020.| Sportico.com
The NWSL's Dash are in talks to sell for $120M to Richard Hsiao's RHC Group. Hsiao, 24, is the son of imprisoned Chinese billionaire Xiao Jianhua.| Sportico.com
Tom Dundon is leading a group that is buying the Portland Trail Blazers. The group intends to keep the NBA franchise in Portland.| Sportico.com
The Chicago Bears owners, the McCaskey and Ryan families, will share the equity held by Andrew McKenna in a deal that values the team at $8.8 billion.| Sportico.com
The Grousbeck family bought the team in 2002 for $360 million, and Wyc Grousbeck will remain as the alternate governor through the 2027-28 season.| Sportico.com
In March, William Chisholm reached an agreement to buy the Celtics in two stages. He will serve as governor of the 18-time NBA champions.| Sportico.com
Angel City has new investors, including NBA star Chris Paul and Solina Chau, a Hong Kong billionaire. The team has more than 100 investors.| Sportico.com
The NBA announced it has suspended Phoenix Suns and Mercury owner Robert Sarver for a year for what it termed "workplace misconduct and organizational deficiencies."| Sportico.com
Mat Ishbia, the Chairman and CEO of Michigan-based mortgage lender United Wholesale Mortgage, will pay about $3.9 billion in a deal that also includes the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury| Sportico.com
Phoenix is an attractive market for borth NBA free agents and investors which should make for a frothy market for the Suns franchise.| Sportico.com
The Suns, which went on a club-record 18-game winning streak that ended Friday night at San Francisco, are under investigation by the NBA.| Sportico.com
Tatum topped teammate Jaylen Brown, who signed a five-year, $285 million contract last summer. Tatum will be only 32 years old when this deal expires.| Sportico.com
The 2024-25 salary cap is headed up only 3.4% but should rise 10% each year for the foreseeable future when the new TV deals kick in..| Sportico.com
NBA contracts for first-round picks are largely predetermined, with No. 1 pick Zaccharie Risacher in line for $57 million over four years.| Sportico.com
2024 All-NBA nods make the contracts signed last summer by Anthony Edwards and Tyrese Haliburton worth an additional $40 million over five years.| Sportico.com
The crowd at the ceremony behind the Clark Sports Center for seven inductees, headlined by David Ortiz, looked to be about half the 55,000 who showed up for Mariano Rivera three years ago.| Sportico.com
David Blitzer nearing Cleveland Guardians investment that will give him about 35% of the MLB franchise and a path to control in the future.| Sportico.com
The fragmented nature of youth sports makes it a natural target for private equity investors flush with capital.| Sportico.com
The freshly minted University of Tennessee Athletics Foundation is executing—and obscuring—UT's Adidas apparel deal and other third-party contracts.| Sportico.com
A recently disclosed tax-exempt determination letter casts further doubt on whether most collectives should qualify as federal charities.| Sportico.com
Daniel Libit is an investigative and enterprise reporter for Sportico. He previously co-founded The Intercollegiate, a college sports outlet that gained national attention for its inventive use of public records journalism. Prior to covering sports, Libit spent over a decade reporting on national politics for Politico, National Journal, The Daily, CNBC.com, and other outlets, before launching an experimental blog dedicated to scrutinizing the University of New Mexico Lobos. In 2017, the New Y...| Sportico.com
The Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) is a U.S.-based women’s basketball league that started play with eight teams in 1997.| Sportico.com
Latest From Fanatics & Friends: Flag Football in Saudi Arabia | Sportico.com
The Iowa star continues to play in the jersey she wore when setting the all-time NCAA women's scoring mark.| Sportico.com
Fanatics and Panini remain in federal litigation over their business dealings and how they compete, with both sides recently motioning for dismissal.| Sportico.com
The NCAA's legal defense of amateurism took another hit Friday when a judge issued a preliminary injunction against the NCAA's NIL-recruiting ban.| Sportico.com
Ivy League schools agree to not pay athletic scholarships. With antitrust law now fully applying to college sports, the Ivies face a new lawsuit.| Sportico.com
The NCAA faces another antitrust lawsuit, Carter v. NCAA, and this one could be the "big one": "t could end amateurism as its been known for decades.| Sportico.com
NLRB general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo says college athletes are employees under the NLRA. We break down what that means for college sports.| Sportico.com
Dartmouth College faces a difficult road in trying to reverse a regional director's ruling men's basketball players are employees who can unionize.| Sportico.com
Amidst the current NCAA student-athlete employment debate, it would be a bold and risky move that could pay dividends.| Sportico.com
USC makes the case it has not committed any labor law violations and that arguments by NLRB general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo fall short.| Sportico.com
If the NCAA thought a federal appeals court would be sympathetic to college athletes being denied employment status, that was a bad scouting report.| Sportico.com
Arctos Partners and Qatar Sports Investments have reached an agreement for Arctos to acquire a minority common equity stake in Paris Saint-Germain.| Sportico.com
Lakers, Warriors Tie for Most National TV Games in 2025-26 | Sportico.com
Earnings for the highest-paid female athletes rose 27% in 2024, but they were shut out for the second straight year from the 100 top earners overall.| Sportico.com
The world’s 15 top-earning athletes will make an estimated $221 million in 2024, up 27% versus last year. Eleven athletes made at least $10 million.| Sportico.com
Coco Gauff was the world's highest-paid female athlete in 2023, but her $22.7 million was nearly $10 million short the cutoff of the top 100 athletes.| Sportico.com
Cristiano Ronaldo became the first celebrity to reach 1 billion social media followers just weeks after launching his new YouTube channel in August.| Sportico.com
Ohtani's histroric contract has fans, teams and agents buzzing over its size and unique structure that calls for 97% of the total to be deferred.| Sportico.com
Freeman’s historic World Series performance carried the Los Angeles Dodgers as they beat the New York Yankees in five games.| Sportico.com
A key date looms for a potential merger between previous enemies LIV Golf and the PGA Tour.| Sportico.com
Cristiano Ronaldo was the highest paid athlete in the world in 2024, earning $260 million.| Sportico.com
Lakers, Warriors Tie for Most National TV Games in 2025-26 | Sportico.com
Curry's on-court and off-court earnings are both expected to hit $500 million during the 2026-27 season after his Warriors contract extension.| Sportico.com
Stephen Curry was the highest-paid NBA player last season and had $7.2 million of his $48.1 million salary withheld through the escrow system.| Sportico.com
Linda McMahon, the former WWE CEO, has committed to divesting certain of her assets if she is confirmed as Donald Trump's Secretary of Education.| Sportico.com
Proposed tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico could have multiple effects on the sports business, as costs rise and consumer spending tightens.| Sportico.com
