Tag: Sports Business
Remembering ESPN’s Chris Mortensen, who changed how the NFL is covered
The phone call Adam Schefter always feared came on his first Sunday at home in five months. It was early March, and ESPN’s senior NFL reporter had recently flown back from Indianapolis after a week at the scouting combine. He was about to sit down for breakfast with his family when his cell buzzed.
It was his boss, Seth Markman.
“We lost him,” was all Markman could muster.
For years, Schefter had known the call might come — when your
The former Denver Bronco who bought a pub in England – and saw his world implode
Drive north out of London for a couple of hours, head east just past the city of Leicester, bump along some of England’s finest country roads as they wind between gloriously green fields, and you eventually reach the small village of Ashby Folville, population: 174.
At the centre of it sits The Carington Arms: “Probably the prettiest pub in Leicestershire,” according to its website.
Set in lusciously green open space next to the village cricket field and presenting a charming
Are there enough fans to keep a team in the NHL’s smallest market?
WINNIPEG – Three hours before puck drop, Greg Burnett awaited the fate of his beloved Winnipeg Jets, on the brink of elimination.
The 56-year-old retired high school teacher stood in a fenced-off courtyard, just beyond a statue of the late Jets legend Dale Hawerchuk, between the glittering reflection of newly developed office towers on what used to be a vast parking lot in Winnipeg’s age-worn downtown.
Burnett felt optimistic. He calls it a glass-half-full mentality when his team is “paradoxically
Premier League salary cap mailbag: Why? Who wins and loses? How would it work?
Premier League clubs this week opted to push on with plans for a hard spending limit — a de facto salary cap tied to the income of the lowest earning side in the top flight.
OK, we hear you say, but what on earth does it all really mean?
Who better to answer your questions than Matt Slater, who broke the original story? If you prefer, you can listen to Matt for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and the usual
A year ago, the Oakland A’s announced their Vegas move. Then the real drama started
Rooted in Oakland.
That was the slogan, the motto that was supposed to define the ethos of the Oakland Athletics under the leadership of John Fisher and Dave Kaval. They hung signs from the stadium facade and plastered the hashtag on social media. The A’s were about history and community. Their decrepit stadium and its concrete masses could be an eyesore, but the old place had its charm. Oakland’s small attendance numbers could be trumped by the right-field drums and
The Paris Olympics are 100 days away – Venues ready but questions over opening ceremony and security
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In 100 days, Paris will host the most famous sporting jamboree on the planet: the summer Olympic Games.
There will be action across 32 sports watched by millions of visitors, as well as an unprecedented opening ceremony set to take place on the River Seine, which runs through the city’s heart. At least, that is plan A, anyway — Emmanuel Macron, the French president, confirmed an off-river contingency for the first time on Monday.
A new group is buying up minor league baseball teams at a feverish pace. What’s the end game?
WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. — The artificial turf at Heritage Financial Park is new. So is the right-field wall that opens wide enough for an 18-wheeler to haul concert equipment onto the field. The party deck is sponsored by a brewery that’s 10 miles away, giant windows have been installed around the corporate event space overlooking left field, and the renovated home clubhouse, where the Hudson Valley Renegades dress before games, has two indoor batting cages flanked by state-of-the-art data and
The $25m fraudster who came so close to buying an English football club
In the first of our series about the men who want to buy English football clubs, this is the remarkable story of Chris Kirchner, who came close to taking over Derby County and was then found guilty of fraud and money laundering.
This week, we will examine five prospective investors and what their interest in English football says about their ambitions and the game itself.
Valentine’s Day 2023 and, just after dawn, Chris Kirchner’s world begins to crumble.
A group
2024 NCAA Tournament bracket picks: Why CJ Moore has UConn winning the title
(Editor’s note: This is part of the Bracket Central Series, an inside look at the run-up to the men’s and women’s NCAA Tournaments, along with analysis and picks during the tournaments.)
Since Florida repeated as national champs in 2007, no defending champion has advanced past the Sweet 16. That ends this year.
Connecticut is the most complete team in college basketball, and it’s going to end that streak and repeat as national champions. That was my pre-bracket prediction and
Feeding the ‘demon inside’: Ex-employee tells how and why he stole $22 million from Jaguars
Feb. 2, 2023 began like any other morning for Amit Patel. He was sitting in his cubicle on the ground floor of EverBank Stadium, home to the Jacksonville Jaguars. Patel, a manager in the team’s financial department, was closing out the last cycle of expenses, as he did at the beginning of each month.
When Jaguars chief financial officer Mark Sirota asked Patel to come to Sirota’s office, he thought it might be to discuss a new project. But then