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Front Office Sports

Front Office Sports on how far Amazon has come in its fifth season as an NFL broadcaster.

Front Office Sports

Texas and Ohio State delivered record college football viewership for a second straight year.

College sport

The Athletic

The Athletic finds the true value of 100-plus college football player deals is murky and open to interpretation.

College sport

Forbes

Patrick Mahomes is again the NFL's highest-paid player, about $14 million ahead of Josh Allen.

The Athletic

NFL Week 1's twelve Sunday afternoon games averaged 53.75 points, putting the Week 1 scoring record within reach.

The Athletic

An Akron season-ticket holder won a drawing to call his team's opening drive, and learned in four plays that football rarely follows the script.

The Washington Post

The Post profiled the billionaire Trump ally blowing up college football.

College sport

The Athletic

The NFL drew 100,021 to the Melbourne Cricket Ground for its first regular-season game in Australia.

Front Office Sports

Further reading from the day's sports business section.

Reuters

Big Ten wants a 24-team College Football Playoff, SEC wants 16, with a decision due by December 1.

College sport · Labour

Front Office Sports

The NFL moved the Patriots-Seahawks Super Bowl rematch to Wednesday, and it won't be the only Wednesday game this season.

Front Office Sports

NBC Sports is abandoning its blended linear-plus-streaming audience math and reverting to Nielsen's standard.

Puck

Further reading from the day's section on sports business and the NFL's new day of the week.

College sport

Front Office Sports

The SEC amended its federal suit against LSU to seek authority to expel it from the conference, over an eligibility fight about rostering former NFL players.

Front Office Sports

LeBron James let his DraftKings deal lapse and signed with Polymarket, as the AGA blames prediction markets for a flat NFL betting projection.

Sports betting

Front Office Sports

NFL owners finalized a four-year extension for Roger Goodell, carrying him to 2031 and a quarter century in the job.

The Athletic

A replay review put one second back on the clock after the broadcast showed zero, and Michigan won on a Hail Mary; WMU's coach said the refs did not cost them.

College sport

The Athletic

George Toma, who oversaw every Super Bowl field, assessed the failing grass at the Bills' new stadium: somebody fell asleep.

Stadium financing

Front Office Sports

A Louisiana judge granted an injunction letting players who took NFL preseason snaps return to LSU.

Regulation

ESPN

Stan Kroenke's $4B Angels purchase makes him the only owner with a franchise in the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, MLS and Premier League.

Front Office Sports

Further reading from the day's section on sports as an asset class.

Vanity Fair

The excerpt from John Talty's book on Lane Kiffin includes Nick Saban's staff guidance.

College sport

Sport & Story

More than 200 NFL players are interested in Olympic flag football, including Allen and Burrow.

Front Office Sports

Further reading from the day's section on sports franchises as a scarcity trade.

Front Office Sports

A court ruling lets college football players who took part in NFL preseason activities return to college, and LSU's Lane Kiffin tried to sign two.

College sport

Front Office Sports

Further reading from the day's section on college football's upheaval and sports business.

The Athletic

Further reading from the day's section on college football's upheaval and sports business.

The Athletic

NFL MVP, Hall of Famer, Minnesota Supreme Court justice and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.

Regulation

NFL.com

NFL owners unanimously approved the Seahawks' sale to the Khosla family for a record $9.612 billion, ending 29 years of Allen family control.

Sportico

Arctos is buying 10% of the Falcons at a $10-11B valuation on about $800M of revenue and 55 ticketed stadium events a year.

Stadium financing

Front Office Sports

NFL owners ratified the $9.6B sale of the Seahawks to a Vinod Khosla-led group.

BMJ

Of 235 examined brains among the 878 former NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021, 215 had CTE.

CNBC

Arctos is buying 10% of the Atlanta Falcons at a $10.6B valuation, one of five major franchise transactions in a month.

Sports Business Journal

Fanatics is now the official NFL sportsbook, ending a months-long vacancy after FanDuel, DraftKings and Caesars' deals lapsed.

Sports betting

The Athletic

Roger Goodell said he has no doubt the NFL will eventually base teams outside the U.S.

The Athletic

Further reading from the day's section on sports as an asset class.

Stadium financing

NBC Sports

Fanatics became an official NFL sportsbook by paying the Genius data fees that FanDuel and DraftKings are refusing to swallow.

Sports betting

Sportico

Further reading from the day's section on private equity buying into sports franchises.

Puck

Further reading from the day's section on the fights over media ownership.

The Athletic

An NFL super-agent, a lost GM job, a dead business partner and two hung juries in a 37-year-old crossbow killing.

Puck

Eriq Gardner asks whether NFL teams should be allowed to IPO, hung on the quirk that makes Packers shares effectively worthless.

IPO

The Athletic

Ted Cruz's bill would cap Power Four conferences at 19 teams, and The Athletic ran the scenarios: Notre Dame to the Big Ten, Miami to the SEC.

Puck

Further reading from the day's section on FIFA's failed World Cup sale and the week in sport.

Defector

Further reading from the day's reading list.

Puck

With Turner's assets folding into Paramount, leagues lose a bidder, and John Ourand and Michael Nathanson argue streamers fill the vacuum.

Puck

Further reading from the day's section on LeBron James's move to Philadelphia and the week in sports.

Regulation

The Athletic

ESPN fired analyst Ryan Clark during a commercial break of NFL Live, after learning the news was about to leak.

The Athletic

The Athletic called Fox's final broadcast Super Bowl-like and credited studio host Rebecca Lowe with making Zlatan Ibrahimović a TV star.

Film and TV