Cleveland Indians to Rebrand as Guardians After 2021 Season
The Cleveland Indians announced Friday that they will be known as the Guardians at the end of the season, becoming the latest professional sports franchise to change its…
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If there’s any downside to the glutton’s buffet that is the Sunday NFL experience, that 12-hour, three-window smorgasbord of circus catches and skeleton-pulverizing…
MLB Adds $1.9 Billion to Available Credit, Raises $102 Million in Debt
Major League Baseball is expanding its available credit by more than $1.9 billion and is raising $102 million in senior secured notes, according to a ratings note from…
Pitching Strikes, Picking Stocks Demand Stats, Savvy and Patience
Today’s guest columnist is Ross Stripling, a pitcher with the Toronto Blue Jays and a broker with Skyward Financial. As a Major League pitcher and a licensed financial…
Sinclair Venture Steps Nearer to Unbundled, DTC Local Sports Content
The New York Post recently reported that Sinclair Broadcast Group was working with global investment bank LionTree in an attempt to raise $250 million for a…
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Fanatics Taps Dodgers Executive Tucker Kain to Explore New Verticals
Tucker Kain, president of business enterprise for the Los Angeles Dodgers, is leaving the MLB team to join the executive ranks at ecommerce giant Fanatics, according to…
Mets and SNY Get Soaked by Rainouts and COVID Delays
Baseball may be clawing itself back to a semblance of normalcy, but for the New York Mets and their regional sports network, 2021 has been anything but routine. An…
Bobbleheads Boost Attendance, Build Long-Term Fan Devotion, Study Finds
Stadium giveaways are a common means of increasing attendance at sporting events. In 2019, roughly every third Major League Baseball game featured a gameday promotion…
Network Upfronts Bank on Sports Amid Shift to Streaming and Drop in Shows
For nearly 20 years, Jimmy Kimmel has served as the unofficial bullsh*t detector of Upfronts Week, that frenzied four-day stretch in mid-May during which the Big Four…
ESPN Inks Slimmed-Down $4 Billion MLB Rights Extension
ESPN has signed off on a renewal of its MLB rights deal, inking an extension that will keep the cable network’s signature Sunday Night Baseball telecast on the air…
DeGrom Outings Lure Fans Even as They Repel Runs: Data Viz
Over the past decade there have been more than 22,500 MLB games played, which amounts to more than 45,000 starts by pitchers. Among them, just 41 (0.09%) finished an…
Manfred’s $2.2 Billion MLB Expansion Fee on the High Side, at Least for Now
Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred stated during a recent SporticoLive discussion on club valuations that the price tag for a MLB expansion franchise would…
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