- The Seidler family is exploring a potential sale of the Padres, engaging investment bank BDT & MSD Partners to guide the process, reports SBJ’s Mike Mazzeo.
- SBJ’s Alex Silverman writes about a pair of significant MLS decisions on Thursday as it votes to adopt a summer to spring schedule and moves matches on Apple TV to the main subscription from a standalone league pass.
- The Pac-12 and USA Sports signed a five-year deal that will begin next fall and run through the 2031-32 school year, marking the latest agreement as Versant continues to build out a sports-rights portfolio separate from NBCUniversal after the companies split, reports SBJ’s Austin Karp.
- WWE will bring its first premium live event in over 30 years back to the United Center, hosting next year’s Elimination Chamber at the arena on Feb. 28, writes SBJ’s Na’Andre Emerson.
- UFC jumped on the prediction-market bandwagon with a sponsorship making Polymarket the “Official Prediction Market” of TKO’s MMA circuit, along with its Zuffa Boxing promotion, notes SBJ’s Terry Lefton.

