Money & MediaBasketball
The Valkyries built a major franchise before they built a long history
Expansion teams usually spend years looking like a tryout. Golden State sold out Chase Center, won early, and made the building feel like theirs.
Money & Media
Rights deals, valuations, brands, and the business of sport.
Money & MediaGolf
Apple is considering a bid for U.S. rights to golf’s Open Championship
Preliminary talks with the R&A sit beside a ~$750 million Formula One bet and an MLS partnership shortened by years. The real question is how long tech platforms will wait for sports audiences to arrive.
Money & MediaCricket
DAZN’s first standalone cricket broadcast is Australia–Bangladesh
Two Top End Tests are a small UK rights buy — and a real test of whether cricket belongs on a football-and-combat platform while Cricket Australia’s bigger packages stay in play.
Money & MediaMotorsport
Disney+ wins Formula E’s global streaming home across 144 markets
From the 2026/27 Gen4 season, every race weekend streams on Disney+ worldwide — and on ESPN+ in the U.S. The open question is whether Disney can turn electric racing into younger-audience programming.
Money & MediaBusiness
Asia’s rich are buying sports teams, not just sponsoring them
Asia-Pacific sports M&A hit a record $3.69 billion through mid-July. IPL sales near $1.8 billion show why families and funds want ownership, not another logo deal.
Money & MediaGolf
Fenway bought the last WTGL team — before anyone knows who will televise it
Boston Common Golf now has a women’s team in the LPGA’s indoor league. Matches start this fall in a Florida studio. A TV partner has not been named.
Money & MediaPadel
Why UBS is building a padel court beside the Sydney Opera House
A temporary glass court goes up on the Northern Broadwalk for a weekend invitational. The presenting partner is a wealth manager — and that says as much about padel’s commercial pitch as it does about the view.
Money & MediaSoccer
MLS hired Larry Berg to run the hard years after expansion.
The LAFC co-owner becomes the third commissioner in league history on Jan. 1 — calendar flip, CBA, and the next media deal, not another round of expansion fees.
Money & MediaBaseball
Yamamoto’s 100th win became a Fanatics SKU overnight
Seventy Orix wins, thirty Dodgers wins, and a Japan MLB Shop drop that paints the career math in Buffaloes gold and Dodgers blue — V-commerce doing what posting fees already proved: Japanese aces sell both sides of the Pacific.
Money & MediaBaseball
Seiko spent a decade in Japan with Ohtani. Now it wants the world.
From a 2016 Nippon-Ham image deal to global Seiko ambassador — and a one-of-one Star Time built around his question about how much career he has left.
Money & MediaBaseball
LA28 baseball may fail over hotel rooms — and a three-week pay cut
Owners want MLB stars at Dodger Stadium in July 2028. The union wants NHL-style tickets and rooms. MLB’s May proposal would put opt-outs on the restricted list without pay. The showcase is not locked.
Money & MediaBaseball
An NPB club just out-earned a dozen MLB teams — without their media machine
SoftBank Hawks posted ¥50.9 billion (~$340M) in the fiscal year through February — enough to rank 19th in MLB’s 2025 revenue table. The mix tells the real story: gate, sponsors, and a owned dome, not national TV.
Money & MediaBaseball
MLB is selling baseball to India through cricket’s biggest stage
Suryakumar Yadav as India ambassador, a renewed JioStar rights deal, and Reliance’s RISE Worldwide — baseball’s India strategy now runs through cricket’s distribution machine.
Money & MediaBusiness
Athlete brands: who owns the upside
Endorsements, equity deals, and the agency economics behind marketable athletes.
Money & MediaBusiness
Team valuations and the streaming shift
Franchise values track media multiples — until distribution changes.
Money & MediaFootball
The business of global football media rights
How broadcast markets fragment across regions — and why a North American World Cup resets the price of football’s biggest product.
Money & MediaBusiness
Sponsorship categories that actually convert
Which sponsor segments align with sports audiences — and which are noise.
Money & MediaBaseball
How the MLB posting system works
The fee structure, negotiation window, and economics of moving NPB talent to North America.