Attanasio, Berman go deep on the value of original sports content
BEVERLY HILLS -- The Milken Global Conference annually attracts some of the finance world’s top power brokers, and this year’s edition has been no exception. In fact, a crowd that included Clearlake Capital co-founder and incoming Padres owner Jose Feliciano sat in on a panel about the future of spo...
UNA Sports Group acquires pair of X Games League teams
The upcoming X Games League has found its first team owner in investment firm UNA Sports Group. The firm has acquired the action sports league’s N.Y. teams for both summer and winter competitions. Financial details were not disclosed, though X Games CEO Jeremy Bloom told Sports Business Journal that...
Inner Circle’s Maddie Winslow guides women’s sports to new heights
Last month, the Haslam family committed more than $300 million to launching an NWSL expansion franchise in Columbus. That deal included a $205 million expansion fee, a record for the women’s soccer league and a nearly 25% premium over the prior expansion team sold in Atlanta just last November.
Unrivaled Sports CEO: The vision is coming to life
When David Blitzer and Josh Harris teamed up with The Chernin Group to launch Unrivaled Sports in 2024, it set the stage for arguably the most aggressive roll-up of facilities and event operators across youth sports. Unrivaled has prioritized baseball/softball, flag football and action sports in the...
Sports industry’s top dealmakers tell us where they really stand on four critical business questions
The sports industry converged on Los Angeles last week for SBJ’s CAA World Congress of Sports. And what better way to leverage the dozens of sports bankers, lawyers and investors assembling in one place than to canvass them with a straw poll on some of the industry’s most pressing questions?
What the industry told us about Padres’ sale price
LOS ANGELES -- The sports industry converged on L.A. this week for SBJ’s CAA World Congress of Sports, and SBJ used the opportunity to canvass sports bankers, lawyers and investors on some of the industry’s biggest topics.
Sports executives see substantial value in international expansion on many fronts: ‘Nothing but massive growth ahead of us’
Two months ahead of hosting the United States’ first match in the FIFA Men’s World Cup and two years before the city welcomes the arrival of the Olympic Games, Los Angeles played home to the CAA World Congress of Sports. Those massive international events and the broader globalization of sports were...
Chelsea owner Behdad Eghbali: Regulation is beneficial for European soccer
Within sports, one of the biggest and most immediate fallouts of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was Roman Abramovich being forced to sell Chelsea FC. Clearlake Capital, the L.A.-based private equity firm with some $185 million in assets, joined Todd Boehly in acquiring the team in a $5.2 billion deal.
Fox’s Eric Shanks goes deep on World Cup, landing Zlatan Ibrahimovic
In a conversation with Colin Cowherd at SBJ’s CAA World Congress of Sports in L.A. on Wednesday, Fox Sports CEO & Executive Producer Eric Shanks said this summer’s FIFA Men’s World Cup will be the biggest sports event in his network’s history.
MLSPA exercises option to increase OneTeam ownership
The MLS Players Association exercised an option in 2025 to increase its equity stake in OneTeam Partners by $5.1M, while also making an initial $1M investment in the firm’s global licensing business, OneTeam International. The moves came as the union’s licensing revenue from OneTeam grew 15.6% year ...