Opinion

Within the sports industry, roles in community engagement and social impact are regarded as rewarding positions to attain. The people in these departments are spending each day not only influencing people in their local community, but also finding ways to set up their cities for long-term success.

Major League Baseball umpire claims to have done his chores, but his wife is checking the replay for verification.

Two conversations at the CAA World Congress of Sports that should be amplified came on the final day. There were back-to-back, one-on-ones with two sports power brokers, Clearlake Capital co-founder Behdad Eghbali and sports industrialist/investor Clara Wu Tsai, and both shared insight into their in...

Teams know when a game is pacing behind. The weather looks shaky. The opponent doesn’t travel well. A star player is questionable. Pricing may be off, and the right fans haven’t been reached. There is still time to fix it, but most teams cannot move fast enough for it to matter.

In January, federal authorities indicted 26 individuals in a college basketball point-shaving conspiracy involving more than 39 athletes across 17 different teams. At least two defendants were also implicated in a separate NBA gambling case, suggesting that professional and collegiate betting miscon...

The NBA journeyman who plays for several teams over the course of his career has existed for decades, long before Dennis Schröder completed the rainbow of jersey colors. In recent years though, we’ve seen the multiteam career path, that was historically reserved for role players, become the norm for...

NFL fan shoos away NHL and NBA playoffs to watch the draft.

College football is the second highest-rated TV programming in the U.S., behind only the NFL. A dozen schools’ games consistently produce NFL-like numbers at 4 million to 10 million-plus viewers. College football generates $3.9 billion in media rights, and … it is underperforming.

Norway’s approach to youth sports dominated the conversation during the Winter Olympics. And why not? When a country roughly the size of South Carolina leads the world in medals, for the second Winter Olympics in a row, it’s fair to assume the Norwegians might be doing a few things right.