Leagues and Governing Bodies

MLS will again hold its Future of the Game Showcase during All-Star Week this summer, hosting technology demos on July 22 and 23 at Q2 Stadium. The showcase debuted last year and is a tentpole of the league’s ongoing tech-forward strategy.

NFLPA Exec Dir Lloyd Howell Jr. is working as a paid, part-time consultant for The Carlyle Group, one of a select group of league-approved private equity firms “now seeking minority ownership in NFL franchises,” according to sources cited by Van Natta Jr. & Kahler of ESPN.com. Howell joined the ...

Tentpole days are nothing new for major league sports. The NFL for decades has owned Thanksgiving Day, while the NBA has laid claim to holidays like MLK Day and Christmas Day (although the NFL is moving into that date quickly).

WNBA’s expansion to Cleveland and Detroit have stakeholders of the teams “confident the second iteration will be more lasting than the original,” according to Ben Pickman of THE ATHLETIC. Cleveland and Detroit have been WNBA markets before with Cleveland Rockers from 1997-2003 and Detroit Shock from...

If NASCAR and the city of Chicago cannot “find another mutually suitable time” for its Chicago race, both parties “should go their separate ways,” according to the CHICAGO TRIBUNE’s Editorial Board. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said that he is “open to an extension,” but “raised questions about whe...

The NFL and senior leaders of the NFLPA “struck an unusual confidentiality agreement that hid the details of an arbitration decision from players,” including a finding that league executives had urged team owners to reduce guaranteed player compensation,” according to sources. Under the terms of the...

23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports “could lose their charter status and race as open teams as soon as next week” at Dover Motor Speedway after the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals “denied their request for a rehearing” on Wednesday, according to Dustin Long of NBCSPORTS.com. As open teams, 23XI Ra...

Suns Senior Advisor James Jones has been appointed NBA EVP & Head of Basketball Operations. He will report to President of League Operations Byron Spruell and will oversee all basketball operations matters for the NBA, including the development of playing rules and interpretations, conduct and d...

MLB is adding the automatic balls and strikes challenge system to the All-Star Game next week in Atlanta, “knowing it could be a precursor to becoming a permanent part” of the league as soon as next year. The same process used this past spring training “will be used for the midsummer classic: Each t...

The United Pickleball Association has signed a partnership with electronic line-calling technology vendor PlayReplay and plans to implement its tech across the PPA Tour and Major League Pickleball, likely within the next two years.