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25 Years Ago, a Nation Turned Its Lonely Eyes to the Mets and Yankees
On the night before everything came to an end, a cold front dumped about an inch-and-a-half of rain on New York City. We’d gone up to the Stadium to watch Roger Clemens try and win his 20th game of the season and to basically just catch up over some baseball. As the rain further diluted […]
NFL 2026: The League’s Flag Football Long Game Is Paying Dividends
Now that the NFL, the richest sports league in the world, sits unchallenged atop American sports, that lofty perch raises its own questions: How can you sustain growth and popularity without falling prey to complacency—or greed? How do you further grow a successful league while fending off platform decay and lawsuits? What threats are out there, […]
Mickelson Is Unnamed Player-Shareholder in LIV Golf Filing
Phil Mickelson owned a 0.23% stake in LIV Golf at the time of its bankruptcy filings, according to a person familiar with the matter. On Tuesday, LIV Golf submitted a 128-page document to tee off its Chapter 11 proceedings in the District of New Jersey, outlining financial details such as the cap table of the […]
Breaking Vlad: Making Sense of Robinhood’s Crypto.com Curveball
Robinhood name-dropped its prediction market exchange 18 times during a July 29 second-quarter earnings presentation and 10 times in a subsequent call with analysts. Robinhood co-owns the entity, named Rothera, alongside Susquehanna International Group and Miami International Holdings through a purchase that closed earlier this year. Rothera earned Robinhood’s praise by rapidly onboarding volume during […]
Key Women’s Sports Figures Predict Future of Growing Biz at RISE
While Kerri Walsh Jennings was in the process of winning four Olympic medals, there was no single moment when she decided to become as much of a leader off the court as on it. When she played, there was no professional beach league for her to compete in between Olympics. There was no players’ union […]
NCAA’s Federal Court Winning Streak Subdues Eligibility ‘Chaos’
The NCAA has landed key legal wins in recent weeks regarding its new eligibility rule system, and that success continued Wednesday. A West Virginia federal judge denied a preliminary injunction to 14 Marshall University and Ohio University athletes who graduated from high school in 2022, have already played four seasons and seek another year of […]
Sabrina Ionescu Reflects on WNBA’s New CBA Impacts
When asked about the biggest difference under the WNBA’s new CBA this season, Sabrina Ionescu has an easy answer. “You’re talking about how much we get paid?” Ionescu told Sportico reporter Sara Germano at Sportico’s RISE event Thursday in Manhattan, N.Y. “Everything that came with the new CBA impacts everyone in the league,” Ionescu said, […]
NFL 2026: The NFL Has a Big—and Lucrative—Opportunity in Japan
Now that the NFL, the richest sports league in the world, sits unchallenged atop American sports, that lofty perch raises its own questions: How can you sustain growth and popularity without falling prey to complacency—or greed? How do you further grow a successful league while fending off platform decay and lawsuits? What threats are out there, […]
NFL 2026: What’s Next for the NFL’s Investment Arm, 32 Equity?
Now that the NFL, the richest sports league in the world, sits unchallenged atop American sports, that lofty perch raises its own questions: How can you sustain growth and popularity without falling prey to complacency—or greed? How do you further grow a successful league while fending off platform decay and lawsuits? What threats are out there, […]
Sporticast: Are Late U.S. Open Matches a Victimless Crime?
On the 586th Sporticast episode, hosts Scott Soshnick and Eben Novy-Williams discuss some of the biggest sports business stories of the week, including the latest from the U.S. Open. Ben Shelton’s quarterfinal win over Carlos Alcaraz ended after 3:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday morning, renewing criticism from fans that the event’s scheduling makes it difficult […]
LIV Golf’s Bankruptcy Through the Eyes of One of Its Creditors
After LIV Golf filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New Jersey on Tuesday, the details have slowly trickled out as to what it would take for the breakaway circuit to survive. A proposed transaction with London-based private equity firm BC Partners that would inject $300 million in funding to the cash-strapped enterprise appears to be […]
LIV Golf Secures Initial Court Approval as Bankruptcy Case Begins
LIV Golf told a U.S. bankruptcy court Wednesday that the embattled global golf circuit’s 57 entities are entering bankruptcy proceedings with meaningful assets, committed revenue and a path forward. “These debtors did not come into this case in a free fall,” said attorney Matthew Williams of law firm Gibson Dunn, which is representing LIV Golf. […]
SEC’s LSU Threat Puts Conference Autonomy to the Test
As Congress weighs whether to grant the NCAA a limited antitrust exception to bring more order to the chaos of college sports, conferences have intriguingly become willing to litigate against their own members as a means of bringing order. The SEC is suing LSU—and now threatening to vote the Tigers out—over the school’s adding players […]
NFL 2026: As Netflix Gets More Games, Will It Lose Any Magic?
Now that the NFL, the richest sports league in the world, sits unchallenged atop American sports, that lofty perch raises its own questions: How can you sustain growth and popularity without falling prey to complacency—or greed? How do you further grow a successful league while fending off platform decay and lawsuits? What threats are out […]
NFL 2026: The Price of Reaching America’s Monoculture
Now that the NFL, the richest sports league in the world, sits unchallenged atop American sports, that lofty perch raises its own questions: How can you sustain growth and popularity without falling prey to complacency—or greed? How do you further grow a successful league while fending off platform decay and lawsuits? What threats are out […]
LIV Golf Files for Bankruptcy: What to Know and What Comes Next
Over the past five months, LIV Golf has lost its funding, canceled events and laid off most of its staff. Now, the breakaway circuit has filed for bankruptcy. In a Tuesday letter addressed to fans, LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil announced the enterprise had “entered a court-supervised restructuring process that provides us with the time […]
White Tennis Shoes for Fall? Nike, Reebok, Adidas All Say So
The sneaker industry has been in a funk all summer, but with the fall fashion season kicking off this week in New York, brands are beginning to tout their next big ideas. And those ideas appear to be quite similar: The white tennis shoe is coming back. On Tuesday, Nike and Reebok announced lifestyle sneaker […]
Esports Was Supposed to Be Bigger Than the NBA. What Happened?
This story appears in The Hollywood Reporter + Sportico’s September 2026 Sports issue. Click here to read more. Remember when professional esports team FaZe Clan IPO-ed at a $725 million valuation? Follow up: Do you even remember FaZe Clan? Though only six years removed from the pandemic, it is difficult to recall just how much […]
Frances Tiafoe Has a Favorite US Open Stadium
Update: Francis Tiafoe came back from a two-set deficit to defeat Alex Michelsen in the quarterfinals at Arthur Ashe Stadium—his first match away from Louis Armstrong Stadium during the 2026 U.S. Open. Deciding who gets to play on which courts at the U.S. Open is a daily jigsaw puzzle undertaken by the tournament’s organizers. One […]
NFL 2026: Sunday Ticket Faces Legal Reckoning
Now that the NFL, the richest sports league in the world, sits unchallenged atop American sports, that lofty perch raises its own questions: How can you sustain growth and popularity without falling prey to complacency—or greed? How do you further grow a successful league while fending off platform decay and lawsuits? What threats are out […]
NFL 2026: As Team Values Soar, Can Anything Slow Them Down?
Now that the NFL, the richest sports league in the world, sits unchallenged atop American sports, that lofty perch raises its own questions: How can you sustain growth and popularity without falling prey to complacency—or greed? How do you further grow a successful league while fending off platform decay and lawsuits? What threats are out […]
Sporticast: An NFL Safety’s Journey From Truck Hits to Trucking Biz
On the 585th Sporticast episode, hosts Scott Soshnick and Eben Novy-Williams speak with Antoine Bethea, a former All-Pro safety, about his business journey since retiring from the NFL. Bethea was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the sixth round of the 2006 draft. He went on to play 14 NFL season with the Colts, San […]
When NFL Players Are Fined, Where Does the Money Go?
The NFL’s Collective Bargaining Agreement, ratified in 2020, outlines all procedures for player punishment, including how fines are determined and where that money goes. The CBA even accounts for inflation, with the minimum fines automatically rising 3% each league year. After every Monday during the 2026 regular season, Jon Runyan, NFL vice president of policy […]
The Sun Never Sets on Kroenke’s Sports Empire: Club Sportico
This story originally ran in Club Sportico, our casual community newsletter. Sign up for Club Sportico here. Stan Kroenke is on the verge of achieving something never before seen in U.S. sports. With his $4 billion deal to buy the Los Angeles Angels ⚾, which was announced earlier this week, Kroenke has set the stage to […]
Goodell Contract Extended After $270B Team Value Gain Since 2006
Roger Goodell reached an agreement on a four-year contract extension, the league announced Sunday. The deal runs through March 2031 and would mark 25 seasons with Goodell in charge, if he completes the contract. The compensation committee headed by New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft informed the full ownership regarding the extension. The memo, reviewed […]
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