Leagues and Governing Bodies
SailGP selects Fever as its official ticketing provider, centralizes process
SailGP has selected Fever as its new global ticketing provider, a deal that will launch with the 2026 season and carry through 2028. Financial terms were not disclosed to SBJ. CAA helped SailGP with the deal.
World Series captures spotlight with 18-inning Game 3 thriller
Dodgers 1B Freddie Freeman hit a walk-off home run in the 18th inning of a 6-5 win over the Blue Jays in a World Series Game 3 that will go down as “one of baseball’s most remarkable nights.” It tied the record for longest World Series game ever, sharing the distinction with the Dodgers’ 18-inning w...
Senate committee pushes NBA for details on gambling policies amid scandal
A U.S. Senate committee “sent a letter” to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver Monday saying that last week’s federal indictments of Heat G Terry Rozier, Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups and former NBAer Damon Jones “were a matter of ‘Congressional concern,’” and the committee is now “asking for detail...
Ohio Gov. pauses push for ‘microprop’ bet ban amid effort by leagues
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Monday said that he is “holding off for now on seeking a statewide ban of ‘microprop’ bets” as MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred is “working with the nation’s five other major professional sports leagues to collectively seek such a ban in all 50 states,” according to Jeremy Pelze...
Marketing professor on the impact of the NBA betting scandal on the league, fans
Wharton School professor of marketing Americus Reed said for fans to want to “disengage from the NBA brand” after the recent gambling scandal, it would require a “very high threshold of somehow perceiving that these sorts of gambling problems are systematic and somehow the league is complicit in eit...
NBA to review league policies after gambling arrests
Following last week’s gambling arrests, the NBA’s legal department sent an advisory today to the Board of Governors and the top levels of each front office to say it is reassessing how to protect the integrity of the league while also reviewing internal polices on how injuries are reported.
NASCAR turns to YouTube for new ‘Rising’ docuseries
NASCAR has teamed up again with Connor Schell’s Words + Pictures for a docuseries that tracks three promising drivers in the sport’s national series. The project, aptly called “Rising,” is a five-episode show that will air for free on YouTube and follow around Carson Hocevar from the Cup Series, Jes...
NBA could look to tighten betting rules amid gambling scandal
The NBA gambling scandal last week and the precedent of former NBAer Jontay Porter’s attempts to manipulate his own value on the prop betting market could lead the NBA to “check a few boxes at once,” according to Danny Chau of THE RINGER. The league has already “taken measures to discourage outright...
LPGA’s Kessler makes first trip to Asia, a market key to the tour’s global growth
LPGA Commissioner Craig Kessler last week made his first trip to Asia for the 2025 International Crown in South Korea -- a market that, in “many ways,” will “dictate what’s possible everywhere else,” according to Beth Ann Nichols of GOLFWEEK. Kessler “kept a packed schedule” in Korea. Earlier this y...
Reactions to NBA gambling scandal question league’s ‘marriage’ to industry
There is a “level of confusion right now in the league office” over the Terry Rozier/Chauncey Billups gambling probe “because the NBA feels it is doing enough diligence, education and security to prevent these embarrassing missteps that add more scrutiny into its association with the betting world,”...
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The most appealing thing about this group was their ties in the Tampa Bay region. I think that’s a really important thing in terms of getting political support for getting a new facility built. They’re well-financed, (a) really strong group and I am confident that something good’s gonna happen in Tampa.-- MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, on the new Rays ownership group led by Patrick Zalupski.
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