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New Seahawks Investors Include Warriors LP Who Shoved Kyle Lowry
Mark Stevens, the Golden State Warriors investor who drew criticism for shoving an opposing player during the 2019 NBA Finals, is now a part owner of the Seattle Seahawks. A former managing partner at Sequoia and current Nvidia board member, Stevens is worth $12.4 billion, according to Forbes. He was one of a dozen human […]
SEC Sues LSU and Lane Kiffin Over Recruiting NFL Players
One of the main problems facing power-conference college sports is NCAA member schools—and particularly coaches—urging and incentivizing ineligible players to sue for court orders blocking the NCAA and conferences from enforcing eligibility rules. The SEC on Thursday took an aggressive step to combat that problem by suing LSU, LSU head football coach Lane Kiffin and […]
Steve Ballmer Could Sue the NBA, but It Would Be Tough to Win
The Los Angeles Clippers vehemently refute the NBA’s findings in the Kawhi Leonard salary-cap circumvention investigation, but converting that opposition into legal action will be challenging. That’s mainly because of the finality of league decisions and judicial deference to decisions of private associations. The NBA on Wednesday concluded that the Clippers and several team officials, […]
Don’t Wear Loud Versace If You’re Losing: The Codes of Sports Styling
This story appears in The Hollywood Reporter’s August 2026 Sports issue. Click here to read more. If you ask top sports stylists to explain the philosophy behind dressing superstar athletes, it won’t be long before one leans on a Deion Sanders quote: “If you look good, you feel good. If you feel good, you play […]
As Big 12 Promotes Energy Drinks, Its Schools’ Research Is Mixed
Last month, a coalition of physicians launched a public pressure campaign against the Big 12’s recent $20 million-per-year patch sponsorship agreement with Monster Energy, which received an international unveiling Aug. 29 when TCU’s football team played North Carolina at the Aer Lingus Classic in Dublin, Ireland. The doctors’ group, Protect Young Fans, warns of the […]
Sporticast: 2 Words to Explain Stan Kroenke’s Angels Purchase
On the 584th Sporticast episode, hosts Scott Soshnick and Eben Novy-Williams discuss some of the biggest sports business stories of the week, including an MLB shocker. Stan Kroenke announced earlier this week an agreement to buy control of the Los Angeles Angels in a $4 billion deal. Should it close, it would make Kroenke the […]
NBA Docks Clippers’ Draft Picks, Suspends Ballmer in Cap Caper
The Los Angeles Clippers and Kawhi Leonard conspired to violate the salary cap, the NBA said Wednesday, and the league stripped the team of five first-round picks, fined Leonard $700,000 and suspended billionaire owner Steve Ballmer from league and team activities for a year. The league said its investigation found the Clippers initiating off-court opportunities […]
The US Open’s Hardest-Working Player Is 38 Years Old
Being a professional tennis player is a grind, but nobody on the ATP or WTA Tours has been grinding more this year than 38-year-old Adrian Mannarino. Mannarino has played 28 pro tournaments so far in 2026, more than any player in the men’s or women’s U.S. Open main draws. He was totally unaware that he […]
Sports Influencer Can’t Deduct Taxes on Clout-Chasing Expenses
The U.S. Tax Court recently ruled that a social media influencer who paid money to try to catch a pass from Tom Brady (which he fumbled) and a pass from Drew Brees (which he caught) can’t deduct those—or his many other clout-chasing expenses—from his taxable income. Suleiman Sami’s business, S Sami Services LLC, provides transportation […]
Amazon Expands Regional Sports Play With 6 NHL Team Deals
Amazon Prime Video announced Wednesday it will be the exclusive local streaming home for six NHL teams beginning this season as sports media titans engage in a new round of rights competition. The Anaheim Ducks, Carolina Hurricanes, Columbus Blue Jackets, Dallas Stars, Minnesota Wild and St. Louis Blues will stream their games on the platform […]
Highest-Paid College Football Coaches: Cignetti Reigns at $13.2M
The college football season kicked off last year with a pair of coaches who were making at least $12 million a year in Georgia’s Kirby Smart ($13 million) and Ohio State’s Ryan Day ($12.5 million). The duo had won three of the four previous national titles. But as money floods into college football and it […]
Angels Deal Marks a $30 Billion Summer for U.S. Team Sales
Stan Kroenke’s surprise deal to buy the Los Angeles Angels capped a summer with an unprecedented level of action in sports M&A, with more than $30 billion in franchises trading hands in the four biggest U.S. leagues. Since the start of June, sale agreements have been reached for the Seattle Seahawks ($9.6 billion), the Los […]
Stan Kroenke to Buy MLB’s Angels for Record $4 Billion
Kroenke is expanding his sports empire, which includes the LA Rams, Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche and more. Arte Moreno has owned the MLB team since 2003.
Alex Eala, Left Off Ashe, Sends US Open Ticket Prices Soaring
The Grand Slams keep underestimating Alex Eala’s popularity. Eala’s first-round 2026 U.S. Open match against American Mary Stoiana is scheduled for the Tuesday night session in Louis Armstrong Stadium—the second-largest at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, after Arthur Ashe Stadium. Within hours of the announcement, the get-in ticket price on resale markets soared […]
The US Open Needs Influencers—and Influencers Need the US Open
Ayan Broomfield knows her way around a tennis court. A onetime NCAA champion in women’s doubles at UCLA, she now travels the world alongside her boyfriend, American tennis star Frances Tiafoe, as he competes on the ATP Tour. Showcasing both her perspectives as a former player and current WAG (wives-and-girlfriends of athletes), Broomfield has an […]
Exec Exodus: Crypto.com Shakes Up Prediction Market Subsidiary
Steve Goodsell announced his departure as chief technology officer of Crypto.com-owned prediction market exchange CDNA on Friday, as the subsidiary continues to churn through executives. Since last November, CDNA CEO Travis McGhee, chief compliance and regulatory officer Kevin Dan and chief risk officer Wen Jiang have also exited. Only the CEO role has been officially […]
Sports Television Is Fragmenting. Can YouTube TV Keep It Together?
As the TV business America knew for decades began to crumble, YouTube saw an opportunity. People remained interested in linear content, company leadership believed, but its format needed updating. In the second quarter of 2015, pay-TV services lost more than 600,000 subscribers, according to one research firm. Entertainment stock slumps that August cost investors $60 […]
Meta’s $18 Billion Settlement Sends Warning to Sports Betting Apps
Meta recently agreed to pay up to $18 billion and implement major design changes to Facebook and Instagram to settle litigation over allegations that the platforms contribute to addictive use among young people. This is a cautionary signal to sports-betting markets, prediction markets and other businesses with apps that could likewise be described as addictive. […]
Sporticast: ‘The First Thing I’ll Tell You Is, Make More Money’
On the 583rd Sporticast episode, hosts Scott Soshnick and Eben Novy-Williams speak with Marc Ganis, a longtime advisor to the NFL and its commissioner Roger Goodell, about the financial health of the world’s richest sports league and more broadly about what’s happening with sports M&A. The managing director of Sportscorp, Ganis discusses some major changes […]
Club Sportico: Introducing Tennis Scorigami
If you’re a big NFL fan, then you’re probably familiar with the term “scorigami,” meaning a final score that has never happened before. Jon Bois of Secret Base invented the concept back in 2016 with a YouTube video, and fans quickly became fascinated with tracking in real time whether games with odd-looking scores were likely […]
NHL’s Islanders Selling Stake to Venture Capital Investor
David Shuman, founder of venture capital firm Lateralus Holdings, has reached a deal to invest in the New York Islanders, according to the club. It is a limited partnership stake and does not impact the day-to-day operations or governance of the team, whose control owner is Scott Malkin. The size of Schuman’s stake and enterprise […]
Kalshi Creeps Closer to Supreme Court Docket With Nevada Ruling
Two federal courts of appeals have now issued conflicting decisions on whether federal law preempts states from enforcing their sports betting laws against Kalshi and other prediction-market operators. Last Friday, a panel of three judges appointed by President Donald Trump on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled for Nevada and against Kalshi, finding that sports […]
What Makes a Perfect Serve? IBM Stats at the US Open Offer Clues
Ben Shelton has the most dominant service games of anyone competing in the 2026 U.S. Open, according to the ATP’s ranking system. On another metric, which looks solely at the serve itself (rather than how the point plays out) to generate a 0-10 rating, Shelton comes in fifth on tour. But that doesn’t mean he’s […]
SB Nation Launches App Home for Its 200 Fan Communities
SB Nation and Sportico are both part of Penske Media Corporation’s PMX Global division. SB Nation is launching an app to pull together content and chats from its network of close to 200 team- and league-focused sports communities. The launch comes as artificial intelligence impacts the amount of web search traffic media publishers receive and […]
Scheffler Wins Tour Championship, Tops Tiger for Career Prize Money
Scottie Scheffler won the Tour Championship on Sunday to earn $10 million in prize money, pushing his career PGA Tour prize money to $130.4 million and ahead of Tiger Woods ($121 million), who had held the No. 1 spot since 2000. It was his second Tour Championship and FedEx Cup title in three years and […]
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