SBJ Awards and Honors
Highlighting the top executives, innovators and emerging talent across sports business through our signature awards, rankings and recognitions.
SBJ Champions Class of 2026
Discover this year’s Champions: leaders shaping sports business through innovation and impact, featured throughout the year in Sports Business Journal.
Fenway Sports founder John Henry to receive SBJ Lifetime Achievement Award
For his vast, often transformational impact, Fenway Sports Group principal owner John Henry will receive Sports Business Journal’s Lifetime Achievement Award for 2026. He will be honored at the Sports Business Awards on May 20 in New York City.
SBJ unveils list of nominees for 2026 SBAs
Nominees across 15 categories were announced this morning for the 19th annual Sports Business Awards.
Influence 125
As the first quarter of the century comes to a end, SBJ honors those who exerted the most influence on the industry we love.
Introducing SBJ’s newest 10 Most Innovative Sports Tech Companies
Sports Business Journal introduces its fourth annual list of the 10 Most Innovative Sports Tech Companies.
SBA: Tech names 46 nominees leading the industry
SBJ has announced the finalists for the SBA: Tech awards. Winners will be revealed May 18 in New York.
Game Changers 2025
Celebrating the trailblazers who have profoundly impacted sports through leadership, mentorship, and innovation.
Forty Under 40: Class of 2025
SBJ's longest-running awards ceremony honoring individuals for achievement and innovation in their careers, all before the age of 40.
New Voices Under 30: Class of 2025
SBJ’s seventh class of New Voices Under 30 represents the next generation of industry leaders from across leagues, teams, media, marketing and more.
Winners of the 2025 Sports Business Awards
Eighteen awards were handed out Wednesday night at the 2025 Sports Business Awards in New York City.
Power Players: FIFA World Cup 2026
Explore the key leaders and organizations powering the FIFA World Cup 2026 across 16 host cities, detailing roles in media, sponsors, logistics, venues, and operations.
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.
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.
Champions: Volunteers spur decision to resume Games after Centennial Park bomb
After the 1996 bombing in Centennial Park, Atlanta Summer Olympics organizers considered whether the Games should continue. The dedication of volunteers help spur the decision not to cancel.
Champions: Faced with urban blight, Payne hatched Centennial Park
Looking out the window of his Olympic organizing committee office at a 20-acre stretch of warehouses, abandoned buildings and parking lots, Billy Payne envisioned Centennial Park.
Champions 2026: Billy Payne
Motivated to create a lasting legacy, Billy Payne has lived a career highlighted by bringing the Olympics to Atlanta in 1996 and a modernized business approach to Augusta National.
WISE honors its Women of the Year for 2026
Women in Sports and Events (WISE) held its 30th annual Women of the Year Awards Luncheon, honoring Ilana Kloss, Marla Ostroff and Janet Marie Smith as its 2026 recipients.
SBJ unveils list of nominees for 2026 SBAs
Nominees across 15 categories were announced this morning for the 19th annual Sports Business Awards.
WBC sees ‘dream matchup’ with U.S., D.R. meeting in semis
The U.S. will face the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic semifinals on Sunday at 8pm ET in a matchup many have been dreaming about from the start of the WBC.
Introducing SBJ’s newest 10 Most Innovative Sports Tech Companies
Sports Business Journal introduces its fourth annual list of the 10 Most Innovative Sports Tech Companies.
SBA: Tech names 46 nominees leading the industry
SBJ has announced the finalists for the SBA: Tech awards. Winners will be revealed May 18 in New York.
Fenway Sports founder John Henry to receive SBJ Lifetime Achievement Award
For his vast, often transformational impact, Fenway Sports Group principal owner John Henry will receive Sports Business Journal’s Lifetime Achievement Award for 2026. He will be honored at the Sports Business Awards on May 20 in New York City.
Of all the things I’m worried about, World Cup tickets selling below face value isn’t one of them.-- Eagle Point Credit Management founder & Managing Partner Thomas Majewski, on why his firm felt it was a safe bet to back Sports Illustrated Tickets' plan to purchase World Cup tickets and resell them.
