Sports

Atlanta Dream co-owner on deals: "I will 100% reach out to them and say, what's up?"

10 moments: how a LeBron James tweet led to her stake, why she read the whole ownership contract, and why playoff games belong on broadcast TV

10 hrs ago • Scuttlebutt

"Is it worth the risk? I don't know": Raiders owner on sports betting

7 takeaways: why he turned down bigger private equity checks for Tom Brady and partners, why concerts flip the Raiders' revenue model, and how he ended…

10 hrs ago • Scuttlebutt

NBCUniversal Chairman on NBC: "In 17 days, we reached over 225 million viewers"

5 takeaways: How the Olympics proved streaming grows live TV instead of cannibalizing it, why Peacock leans on ads more than rivals, and the YouTube…

Nov 3 • Scuttlebutt

In its 10th year, Big3 is beating MLS and NHL regular-season audiences, says its CEO

6 takeaways: a SPAC deal due around year-end, why one-year CBS deals were deliberate, friction with NBA leadership, and a pitch to let fans own the…

Oct 31 • Scuttlebutt

An NBA champion sold his Subway and Starbucks franchises to own soccer clubs — Heat VP

8 moments: the Nvidia stock he bought in the 2020 NBA bubble, why Miami affordable housing is his core project, and the money rule he learned from…

Oct 28 • Scuttlebutt

"A vanity play": Providence dealmaker on why he skips buying sports teams

5 numbers: a $12.5 billion Lakers sale, a $3.4 billion sports-agency bet, and why Anthropic at $800 billion still isn't a private-equity deal

Oct 26 • Scuttlebutt

Mercedes F1 team principal: a £4.6B valuation, 30% margins, and he cannot be fired

6 principles: how he sold a dot-com portfolio just before the 2000 crash, why a $200M cost cap reshaped F1 engineering, and why going public failed…

Oct 21 • Scuttlebutt

Boxing's $750M independent promoter: "550 million stolen from me"

6 numbers: why he says a "father figure" took $350M, a second "friend" took $200M, what the McGregor fight paid him, and his 2027 guarantee

Oct 21 • Scuttlebutt

Carlyle co-founder: baseball teams have no earnings, so owners profit only when they sell

6 moments: why he hung up on the Orioles deal before closing it, why he plans to give away virtually all his money, and why he says unlimited campaign…

Oct 17 • Scuttlebutt

Focusing on what it can control took sales from $3.3B to nearly $10B — New Balance CEO

14 lessons: why New Balance canceled a warehouse weeks before COVID, why Ohtani and Gauff wear its shoes, and why its CEO stays quiet for an hour each…

Oct 16 • Scuttlebutt

WML Foundation chair on next-gen leaders: "We just announced our first eight fellows"

10 moments: how Evan LePatner's late wife came to oversee $120B at Blackstone, Kim Ng's softball league with 50 games on ESPN, and a sleep mask that…

Oct 15 • Scuttlebutt

Discretionary macro is back as quant tools impress nobody, says RCM Alternatives partner

9 insights: how the Lakers buyers can deduct about $800M a year, how a Utah resort sold back to its developer for $30M, and why AI job losses are…

Oct 9 • Scuttlebutt

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