The idea of launching a new sports league in a relatively niche sport, on the heels of an ongoing global pandemic, might sound daunting. But Owen Scannell is doing just…
Designs were approved, permits secured, and construction was well underway at what’s now known as Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle before, well, everything changed…
Major League Baseball has taken its lumps the past decade. An audience too old, a game too slow and a dearth of marketable stars have it doomed, shout the naysayers. Not…
The NBA is discussing expanding the number of institutional investors that can take equity stakes in its teams, according to two people with knowledge of the…
Donald Dell is group president of media, events and tennis for SportFive. With this difficult and challenging year coming to an end, what does the sports landscape look…
The effort to form a professional cricket league in the U.S. gets a major boost today as 26 investors have signed on as the initial backers of Major League Cricket. The…
The world’s most popular actor is betting millions of dollars that the U.S. is ripe for establishing a pro league of media-friendly cricket. Shah Rukh Khan, a Bollywood…
There may be no fans in the seats, fewer eyeballs on the screen and lots of debt piling up, but as the recent sales of the Utah Jazz and New York Mets show, demand…
Get used to the sight of quarter-filled stadiums like this year’s World Series in Arlington, Tex. The best-case scenario for the start of U.S. sports going into 2021 is…
With few fans in the stands and fewer games on TV since COVID-19 roiled sports in mid-March, the NFL, Golden State Warriors and Atlanta Braves are among the dozens of…
A legend in the NFL’s player development community has joined a national organization dedicated to building sustainable relationships between police and the…
Private equity sports investment firm Arctos Sports Partners has hit $800 million in assets under management, nearly doubling the capital it can deploy since the start…
