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Top sports agent says WNBA salaries are ‘blatantly unfair’ to players
The WNBA has a salary problem, and it’s “blatantly unfair to its players,” according to top sports agent Jeff Schwartz. Schwartz, who founded and runs Excel Sports Management, told Alex Sherman in a CNBC Sport interview that something has to change when it comes to compensation in the women’s basketball league. “It’s ridiculous what women […]
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Unrivaled women’s basketball league debuts Friday. Here’s everything we know about it
Unrivaled 3-on-3 women’s basketball league Courtesy: Unrivaled Unrivaled, a new 3-on-3 women’s professional basketball league, launches Friday, presenting both a major test and opportunity for women’s sports to boost its growing profile in the United States. The league, co-founded by WNBA superstars Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart, has already announced deals with a dozen sponsors […]
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Yacht-racing competition SailGP has two podiums — one for sport and one for the planet
An international sailing championship has become the first of its kind to rank teams on their efforts in sustainability, as well as performance. CNBC explored how SailGP is racing for the future. An international yacht-racing competition, featuring teams competing in high-tech foiling catamarans across a season of multiple grand prix events, is on a mission […]
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Investors pitch new international basketball league that would offer players equity
Maverick Carter, co-founder and chief executive officer of The SpringHill Company, during the USC Next Level Sports Conference in Los Angeles, California, US, on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images A group of high powered investors want to raise billions to form a new international basketball league, according to people […]
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LIV Golf announces multiyear media rights deal with Fox Sports
A general view of the 18th green the LIV Golf logo and Club 54 during the 3rd round of the LIV Golf Invitational Series Bedminster on July 31, 2022 at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Rich Graessle | Icon Sportswire | Getty Images LIV Golf announced Thursday a multiyear media rights agreement […]
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Netflix and Comcast among companies donating to LA wildfire relief effort
Evacuees from the Eaton Fire dwell among heaps of clothes displayed on the ground at a donation center in Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, California, on Jan. 13, 2025. Etienne Laurent | AFP | Getty Images As Los Angeles continues to battle wildfires that have destroyed parts of the city and killed at least 24 people, […]
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Comcast and Harris Blitzer to build new NBA, NHL stadium in South Philadelphia
Joe Daniel Price | Moment | Getty Images Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment announced on Monday a joint venture with Comcast Spectacor to build a new arena in South Philadelphia for the NBA’s 76ers and the NHL’s Flyers. The deal represents a reversal from previous plans to build an arena in the Center City district […]
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We went inside the Amsterdam smart arena changing the game for sporting infrastructure
Arenas are often thought of as purely functional: a music venue, an expo or a place where athletes go head-to-head and where rivalry is encouraged. But what if there was more to these places? What if they could also lead new innovations? That’s exactly what the Johan Cruijff Arena did on August 11, 2024, when […]
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Former WWE boss Vince McMahon resolves SEC charges over undisclosed settlements
TKO Executive Chairman of the Board Vince McMahon is seen during a ceremony announcing Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has joined the Board of Directors for TKO at New York Stock Exchange on January 23, 2024 in New York City. Michelle Farsi | UFC | Getty Images Former WWE boss Vince McMahon has settled charges filed […]
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Judge scraps Biden’s Title IX rules, reversing expansion of protections for LGBTQ+ students
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks during the Tribal Nations Summit at the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 9, 2024. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters The Biden administration’s Title IX rules expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students have been struck down nationwide after a federal judge in Kentucky found they overstepped the president’s […]
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