Speed reads

  • After chairing MLB’s competition committee for the past seven years, Mariners owner John Stanton will be moving to chair the league’s business board, reports SBJ’s Mike Mazzeo.
  • The Commanders are instituting a new season ticket members value menu that will include 15 fan-favorite items all costing less than $10, writes SBJ’s Bret McCormick.
  • Longtime sports marketer Tom Fox joined Scott Coker’s yet-unnamed MMA circuit as COO, notes SBJ’s Terry Lefton.
  • Mike Breen has called 21 consecutive NBA Finals for ESPN/ABC, but he readily concedes that this year’s NBA Finals will be entirely different for him, reports SBJ’s Richard Deitsch.
  • TMRW Sports and Trybe Ventures, the group co-founded by former UWSNT player Alex Morgan, added a handful of women athletes as investors in the soon-to-launch WTGL golf league, notes SBJ’s Josh Carpenter.
  • UFC inked digital financial services company Exodus as its “official payments partner,” and it is one of the new brands signing on for the Freedom 250 card at the White House, writes SBJ’s Adam Stern.


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