Franchises
Fertitta family set to buy WNBA Sun for $300M, move team to Houston
The Connecticut Sun are being sold by the Mohegan tribe to the Fertitta family for $300M, a “record-breaking purchase of a WNBA team,” and will relocate to Houston, according to sources cited by Alexa Philippou of ESPN.com. The team will play the 2026 season in Connecticut before moving. Sources sai...
Liverpool FC to raise ticket prices in line with inflation
Premier League club Liverpool FC announced that season ticket and general matchday prices will “increase” from next season and “will be in line with inflation over the next three seasons,” according to Ryan Paton of the Liverpool ECHO. The club has cited the “significant increase of matchday costs a...
Senators, Algonquin Anishinabe Nation near LeBreton Flats arena partnership framework
The Senators and the Algonquin Anishinabe Nation on Thursday confirmed that they are “on track for the framework of an economic partnership” for a new arena at LeBreton Flats, according to Bruce Garrioch of the OTTAWA CITIZEN. Completing the deal would allow the Senators to “clear a major hurdle to ...
MLB Franchise Notes: Business remains good as Padres start season
In San Diego, Tom Krasovic wrote the business of baseball has “become so very, very good for the Padres.” The announced sell-out crowd for Thursday’s season opener against the Tigers at Petco Park was 45,673. No fan should be surprised if the Padres set a “third consecutive attendance record” or if ...
Blue Jays enter 2026 on strong footing with payroll, renovations, aligned leadership
The Blue Jays, coming off a trip to the World Series, are “as stable as they’ve been in a very long time,” according to Shi Davidi of SPORTSNET.ca. Blue Jays 1B Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is “locked up through the next decade.” The leadership group of President & CEO Mark Shapiro, GM Ross Atkins and ...
Lew Sherr brings U.S. Open growth playbook to Mets
The U.S. Open championship trophy Lew Sherr received when he left the United States Tennis Association sits behind his desk at Citi Field.
Dodgers bring out World Series trophies, gold-trimmed uniforms for season opener
The Dodgers on Thursday opened the season at Dodger Stadium for the first time in three years after opening in Asia in 2024 and 2025, and prior to the game the team “trotted out their World Series trophies from those years,” carried by 2B Miguel Rojas and 1B Freddie Freeman -- who “arrived via a con...
Ravens, Commanders settle territory dispute
Sources say there is a solution to the long-simmering disagreement between the Commanders and the Ravens over their commercial rights in the Maryland suburbs, a dispute that rose to the highest levels of the NFL.
NFL expected to open up local preseason rights to streamers
NFL teams would be permitted to sell preseason game TV rights and original shows to streamers under a plan heading to owners for approval at next week’s league meeting, sources said. This is seen as a marginal but intriguing new asset for teams in the highly centralized NFL media ecosystem, where th...
Attanasio: Brewers to lose $20M in TV revenue after RSN exit
Brewers owner Mark Attanasio acknowledged for the first time publicly that the team is experiencing a $20M loss by “going away from a regional sports network for their television deal and bringing everything in-house as part of MLB Advanced Media.” But he noted that the revenue loss “did not impact ...
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Does the NFL still benefit from the antitrust exemption when they’re negotiating for carriage of games not on a sponsored telecast, but on a streaming service?-- FCC Chair Brendan Carr, on his feeling that if the NFL puts too many games behind a paywall, it could risk losing its antitrust exemptions.
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