Weekly Issue

04.18.2020
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2020: The pandemic - and other factors - claim the second iteration of the XFL

XFL got the Final Call: It's parent company Alpha Entertainment filed for Chapter 11, Vince McMahon pulled the plug

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Reaching for relief

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NCAA to take giant step toward NIL

Leagues and Governing Bodies

Last Call For The XFL

Is there a future for a spring football league?

Colleges

NCAA council meeting crucial for future of NIL

Sports and Society

Teams, agencies flock to federal program to help weather virus crisis

SBJ survey: ’20 outlook offers some hope

Mark Miles is keeping IndyCar moving as races come to a halt

First Look podcast

Events and Attractions

Pandemic puts some tennis events on shaky ground

Marketing and Sponsorship

‘Landlords are going to have to play ball’: Eateries facing same issues as sports

Media

NBC’s Bevacqua stays connected to league partners and his team, looks toward return of live sports

Pac-12 Nets expect big revenue boost

Conference expects digital giants to bid for media rights

Labor and Agents

King says crisis a time to make more bold moves

Opinion

Forum: The Lessons of Joe Leccese

Fan bases are shifting under a demographic wave of esports

Post-isolation marketing is where the questions lie

Why losing your sports industry job will be the great opportunity of your life

Cartoon: Draft goes to new depths

People and Pop Culture

State of Play

Closing Shot: A Ray Of Hope

Power Players

Power Players: The Olympics

Power Players: Thomas Bach

Power Players: Yiannis Exarchos, Mark Parkman

Power Players: Timo Lumme, Christian Voigt

Power Players: Anita DeFrantz, Kikkan Randall, David Haggerty

Power Players: Christophe De Kepper, Christophe Dubi, Mark Adams

Power Players: Casey Wasserman

Power Players: Kathy Carter

Power Players: Doug Arnot

Power Players: Zaileen Janmohamed, Dave Mingey, Chris Pepe

Power Players: Christine Walshe

Power Players: Rick Adams

Power Players: Christopher McCleary

Power Players: Susanne Lyons, Sarah Hirshland

Power Players: Rich Bender

Power Players: Max Cobb

Power Players: Rob DeMartini

Power Players: Tim Hinchey

Power Players: Li Li Leung

Power Players: Tiger Shaw

Power Players: Max Siegel

Power Players: Dedra DeLilli

Power Players: Chris Curtin

Power Players: Rick Echevarria

Power Players: Matt Lederer

Power Players: Ricardo Fort

Power Players: Katie Williams

Power Players: Janet Fletcher

Power Players: Gary Zenkel

Power Players: Linda Yaccarino

Power Players: Molly Solomon, Rebecca Chatman, Joe Gesue

Power Players: David Zaslav, JB Perrette, Andrew Georgiou, David Schafer

Power Players: Ed Hula, Sheila Hula

Power Players: Terrence Burns, Jan Katzoff

Power Players: Michael Lynch

Power Players: Jamie Corr

Power Players: Sead Dizdarevic, Alan Dizdarevic

Power Players: Michael Payne

Power Players: Adam Lippard

Power Players: Gary Pluchino

Power Players: Rob Prazmark, Tom Shepard

Power Players: Mary Scott

Power Players: Nicole Jeter West

Power Players: Jon Tibbs

Power Players: Ann Wool

Power Players: Peter Carlisle, Janey Miller

Power Players: Simone Biles

Power Players: Michael Phelps

Power Players: Lindsay Kagawa Colas, Dan Levy

Power Players: Katie Ledecky

Power Players: Patrick Quinn, Jeannie Goldstein, Scott Kirkpatrick

Power Players: Brandon Swibel

Power Players: Allyson Felix

Power Players: Shaun White

Power Players: Lowell Taub, Lis Moss

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Sports were fine for 150 years before we had technology. ... So now we've added this VAR, Video Assisted Referee, which again, I wouldn't mind, what I mind is when we get it wrong. ... I could live with human error, I can't live with human error when the technology is wrong.
-- Peak6 Investments co-founder Matt Hulsizer, on his frustration with the Premier League's VAR technology getting calls wrong.
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