Labor and Agents
OneTeam Partners, EnTrust Global launch $250M sports investment fund
Athlete licensing giant OneTeam Partners has partnered with investment firm EnTrust Global to launch EnOne Ventures. The new fund is raising $250M to back early- and growth-stage sports businesses. It’s thus far secured commitments of around $77M from Fanatics, family offices and an undisclosed sove...
Women’s basketball agency Choice Sports Group launches
A new agency launching around the women’s Final Four is taking an increasingly trendy approach to athlete representation -- focusing exclusively on high school and college women’s basketball prospects rather than professional stars. Longtime sports and entertainment marketer George Kaplan is launchi...
MLBPA totals $519.3M in assets in 2025
With a season to go before a likely labor battle with the league, the MLB Players’ Association amassed total assets of $519.3M in 2025, up from $353.1M in 2024, according to its annual LM-2 filing with the Dept. of Labor. Assets rose $166M year-over-year, a jump of nearly 47%, as the union stockpile...
Paul Coggiola joins Lift Management to lead new creators division
Lift Management is the latest agency to enter talent representation for content creators. The N.Y.-based outfit is tapping former UTA Creators agent and leader of UTA’s Sports Crossover team Paul Coggiola to head its new division, Lift Creators.
NFLPA president denies JC Tretter had inside track
NFLPA President Jalen Reeves-Maybin defended the union’s election of JC Tretter as executive director on Monday, insisting the process wasn’t unfairly tilted toward Tretter and that multiple investigations cleared Tretter of any wrongdoing while he was the group’s president from 2000-24 and during t...
WNBA players ratify CBA, Board of Governors vote next
The WNBA players on Monday unanimously ratified their collective bargaining agreement with the league, whose Board of Governors will vote next to memorialize the deal.
MLBPA’s Bruce Meyer brings reputation as tough-minded litigator into critical labor talks
Bruce Meyer always knew he wanted to be a trial attorney.
Guillermo Zamarripa’s bet on women’s soccer pays off
Guillermo Zamarripa never reached the World Cup as a player. But the agency he founded now represents more than 200 women’s soccer players across 42 countries — including Zambian forward Racheal Kundananji, whose $788,000 transfer fee last year became the most expensive deal in the women’s game.
Baseball’s labor negotiators: Who will be leading talks on behalf of the players union and MLB
MLBPA interim head and lead negotiator Bruce Meyer will be supported by several key members of the union in bargaining talks.
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There’s an economic rationale for our investment, as well as the investment with other partners in the sport. So we do believe it has a positive ROI beyond just growing the fan base.-- Chiefs owner and NFL Finance Committee Chairman Clark Hunt, on how the league's planned professional flag football league is viewed as more than a marketing/sport development expense.
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