SBJ Awards and Honors

Highlighting the top executives, innovators and emerging talent across sports business through our signature awards, rankings and recognitions.

Power Players

Power Players: Brand Builders

The executives recognized in Power Players: Brand Builders work with leagues, teams, venues, colleges and events to develop deeper relationships with consumers, while growing market share.

Power Players: Sports Streaming

The list includes dealmakers at streaming companies, networks and leagues; producers who lead the streaming sports productions; and experts who create or manage the technology that makes streaming possible.

Power Players: Women’s Sports

In 2022, Sports Business Journal debuted the first women’s sports edition of Power Players. In the two years since, women’s sports exploded more rapidly than most predicted.

Power Players: Mixed-Use Development

This Power Players list shows how sports and real estate entities are adapting their businesses to pursue new opportunities for mixed-use developments.

Best Places to Work / Best Sports Business Cities

Best Places to Work in Sports 2025

The honorees represent industry segments covering the spectrum of sports, from major league teams to behind-the-scenes companies, with workforces that range from seven people to 554 employees.

Best Sports Business Cities: Event Hosting

Orlando has been tapped as the best sports business city for hosting events. See the full list.

Best Sports Business Cities

How SBJ ranked the best cities in which to conduct sports business, and why Dallas is so popular

Best Places to Work in Sports 2024

Sports Business Journal is recognizing its second annual class of Best Places to Work in Sports. The honorees represent industry segments covering the spectrum of sports, from major league teams to behind-the-scenes companies, with workforces that range from seven people to 8,000 employees.

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Influence 125: Bud Selig, MLB

Influence 125: Bud Selig, MLB

By Bill King



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There are so many lazy takes and hot takes out there now, like saying, ‘The Dodgers are bad for baseball.’ There is a lot of nuance in this. It’s not just about the payroll. I know there are other organizations who want to be great and they could look at what we are doing.
-- Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, on the perception that his team is hurting the game of baseball by how it spends and allocates money.
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