L.A.-based sports marketing and talent representation giant Wasserman is changing its name to The Team starting Monday. The branding shift comes as the agency’s founder & CEO Casey Wasserman is selling off an estimated 40% stake valued at approximately $2B. It was revealed in late January that h...

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Range Sports’ women’s division is adding 18-year-old flag football standout Kiona “Ki’Lolo” Westerlund to its talent representation roster as a client. The agency will be handling her NIL deals. She will be managed by her point agent, Range Sports Coordinator of Player Relations, Nyah Jones.

TOCA Social will open its first U.S. venue Friday with a 20,000-square-foot facility at Grandscape in The Colony, Texas, as the soccer-themed entertainment concept expands from the U.K. into the North Texas experiential venue market.

Ex-WME MLBPA certified agents Braden Looper and Matt Nimer are joining CAA’s baseball division. Both will report to CAA’s co-heads of baseball Andrew Nacario, Matt Ricatto and Ryan Hamill. Nimer will be based out of N.Y. and Looper will be based out of Chicago.

Megan Keller was never supposed to be a cornerstone of Bartlett Hockey’s business. When she met co-leaders Brian and Scott Bartlett over lunch in Boston, there was no Professional Women’s Hockey League and she was living largely off USA Hockey stipends.

Tampa-based private investment firm Weatherford Capital is joining BellTower Partners in becoming an investor and partner for the United Soccer League as it nears the launch of its new top division, USL Premier, in 2028. The exact value and size of the firm’s equity stake were not disclosed. Neither...

For decades, Leigh Steinberg was untouchable. He was the super-agent behind NFL icons, the inspiration for “Jerry Maguire,” the man whose clients raised more than a billion dollars for charity. He had the beautiful house in Newport Beach, Calif., and the influence to reshape how the NFL thought abou...