NFL Private Equity Ownership Rules: PE Can Now Own Stakes in Teams
In August, the NFL voted to allow institutional investors to buy into franchises. The world’s richest league had stood apart from every other top-level global…
In August, the NFL voted to allow institutional investors to buy into franchises. The world’s richest league had stood apart from every other top-level global…
Private equity is as American as baseball and apple pie. PE as we know it developed stateside after the end of WWII and has grown to a global phenomenon with more than…
The National Women’s Soccer League, founded in 2012, is one of the youngest top-tier sports leagues in North America. But the NWSL is also one of the fastest-growing…
The financial picture for sports leagues in the coming year looks stable, but the deteriorating traditional media landscape is starting to force them to favor reach over…
Startup sports entities such as the United States Football League, Premier Lacrosse League, LIV Golf, Big3, 3Ice, American Cornhole League, The Basketball Tournament…
The idea of launching a new sports league in a relatively niche sport, on the heels of an ongoing global pandemic, might sound daunting. But Owen Scannell is doing just…
Designs were approved, permits secured, and construction was well underway at what’s now known as Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle before, well, everything changed…
Major League Baseball has taken its lumps the past decade. An audience too old, a game too slow and a dearth of marketable stars have it doomed, shout the…
The NBA is discussing expanding the number of institutional investors that can take equity stakes in its teams, according to two people with knowledge of the…
Donald Dell is group president of media, events and tennis for SportFive. With this difficult and challenging year coming to an end, what does the sports landscape look…
The effort to form a professional cricket league in the U.S. gets a major boost today as 26 investors have signed on as the initial backers of Major League Cricket. The…
The world’s most popular actor is betting millions of dollars that the U.S. is ripe for establishing a pro league of media-friendly cricket. Shah Rukh Khan, a Bollywood…