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Yankees Tally $257.6 Million in Ticket Sales Through June
Yankee fans are pushing through the turnstiles in the Bronx at a faster rate this year, as the team disclosed it made nearly $258 million in ticket and suite sales through June 30.Skenes All-Star Start to Atone for MLB's Strasburg Marketing Miss The club reported $257.6 million in ticket sales for the first three months of the 2024 season and while that figure lags the first half of last season by about $3 million, the Bombers had six fewer home games in the period this year. The club also sold more tickets since the start of the calendar year—totaling $162 million—than...
Ticketing Chaos at Copa América Final Could Have Legal Implications
Game tickets are revocable licenses to enter a sports facility and occupy a seat for a specific event. Sporticast 362: Fallout of Copa America Crowd Disaster What happens when people without tickets force entry into a facility and occupy seats purchased by ticket holders, who then show up? That problem played out at the Copa América final between Argentina and Colombia Sunday night at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. According to eyewitnesses, thousands of fans without tickets tried to enter the stadium to watch what might be global star Lionel Messi’s last game for Argentina. According to ESPN, the crowd overcame...
Willie Mays Memorabilia Sold at Goldin Auctions After His Passing
When Willie Mays died on June 18 at 93 years old, the “Say Hey Kid” left a massive void in the baseball community and sports world. Tributes poured out across the country and during MLB’s game at Rickwood Field, intended to honor Mays’ storied career and the Negro Leagues.Skenes All-Star Start to Atone for MLB's Strasburg Marketing Miss When it comes to collectibles, there are not many Mays pieces out there, but some rare items exist from the MLB legend’s playing days. A Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA) Type I photo of a 20-year-old Mays during his debut with the New York...
HCU Blasts NCAA, Attorneys Over Pending Antitrust Settlements
The NCAA, power conferences and attorneys for athletes represented in the House, Carter and Hubbard antitrust litigations are nearing the submission of a motion to approve their multibillion-dollar settlement. However, a small DI college in Texas is fighting to not pay $3 million for a settlement it says it never approved.NCAA House Settlement Delayed by 'Infighting,' Per Plaintiffs' Lawyer Last Friday, attorneys for Houston Christian University, a school of about 2,300 undergrads formerly known as Houston Baptist University, filed a reply brief in support of their motion to intervene. As Sportico detailed, HCU filed a motion to intervene in June, and both the...
Ex-Netflix Exec Bruce Daitch Joins OneTeam Board
Athlete rights commercialization company OneTeam Partners has added former Netflix and Dreamworks executive Bruce Daitch to its board of directors, bringing modern media expertise to the group.OneTeam Partners Mulls $75 Million Venture Fund At Netflix for three years, Daitch served as VP of animation, leading global production strategy. Before that, he spent more than 20 years at DreamWorks Animation including stints as COO and CFO. He also serves on the NFL Players Inc. board of directors. OneTeam is a joint venture between the NFLPA, MLBPA, WNBPA, MLSPA and USWNTPA, with backing from multiple financial firms who see a larger opportunity for players...
Concurrence in Johnson v. NCAA Complicates Employee Test
It’s been said that concurring opinions are neither “the law” nor “precedent” since they don’t reflect the majority of a court. They simply exhibit a judge agreeing with the result reached by the majority but for a different reason.NCAA House Settlement Delayed by 'Infighting,' Per Plaintiffs' Lawyer Yet as college sports has seen through Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s oft-cited concurring opinion in NCAA v. Alston (2021), those opinions can shape attitudes. They can even become more influential than the majority opinion, despite only the latter setting law. Many court and agency filings have favorably invoked Kavanaugh’s concurrence, where he–unlike the other eight U.S. Supreme...
Nebraska-NIL Collective Data Deal Models New Form of Engagement
As the NCAA continues loosening its restrictions on schools’ involvement in athletes name, image and likeness deals–with the latest drawdown phase set to take effect Aug. 1—institutions and their dedicated NIL collectives are weighing a new opportunity to put their collaborations on the record.Mario Chalmers NCAA Suit Seeks NIL Cash for Non-House Athletes In April, the NCAA Division I board ratified rule changes that, among other things, permitted schools to be directly involved in sourcing and facilitating deals wtih NIL collectives. In anticipation of next month, a handful of collectives have already begun publicizing new formal partnerships. “Expect a rush of those...
HR Derby Prize Money Is More Than Gunnar Henderson’s 2024 Salary
Orioles shortstop Gunnar Henderson, who has a $756,200 salary this season, has a lot on the line in Monday night’s Home Run Derby. The 23-year-old rising star has a chance to capture the $1 million windfall that comes with winning the event while boosting his national exposure and marketing profile.British Open Prize Money Hits $17M With $3.1M for Winner Baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr., another Oriole, can relate. He had a meager $40,000 salary in his first year in the big leagues in 1982. But he had a clause in his contract that called for a $100,000 bonus if...
Carlos Alcaraz Wins Wimbledon, $3.5M in Prize Money
Carlos Alcaraz captured his second straight Wimbledon title against Novak Djokovic in a rematch of their 2023 final. Last year was an epic, nearly five-hour, five-set match in which Alcaraz denied Djokovic his fifth straight All England title. This year, the 21-year-old Spaniard rolled in straight sets: 6-2, 6-2, 7-6.Highest-Paid Tennis Players 2024: Alcaraz Leads With $45M Alcaraz earned $3.5 million for the 2024 title, which pushed his career prize money to $35.1 million, ninth all time. Djokovic made $2.2 million and extended his lead on the all-time list to $184.7 million, $50 million ahead of Rafael Nadal. “For me, this is...
Flores Questions Goodell’s Authority to Arbitrate NFL Disputes
In a filing last Thursday to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores asked the appellate court to affirm a trial judge advancing his race discrimination and retaliation claims against the Denver Broncos, New York Giants and Houston Texans and related claims against the NFL. Ticketing Chaos at Copa América Final Could Have Legal Implications But Flores wants the appellate court to affirm for a reason the trial court rejected: Arbitration would be unconscionable since the arbitrator would be Roger Goodell, the chief executive officer of a defendant. In making this argument, Flores tries...
Copa America and Euros Offer Lessons for American ’26 World Cup
Every four years, the FIFA World Cup final transforms the second Sunday of July into the center of the sports world, with the next one to be held in the United States in July 2026.CONMEBOL Blames Hard Rock Stadium for Copa América Chaos This Sunday will be a dry run of sorts, on two continents, as the CONMEBOL Copa América tournament concludes with a final between defending champion Argentina and Colombia at Hard Rock Stadium in suburban Miami. That game will follow the UEFA Euro 2024 final at Berlin’s Olympiastadion, where England and Spain will vie for the title of Europe’s...
MLB Players Union Sweats the Details of A’s Move to Sacramento
ARLINGTON, Texas – The Major League Baseball Players Association is in negotiations with MLB about the logistics of the A’s interim move next year from Oakland to a minor-league facility in Sacramento, Tony Clark, the union’s executive director, said.Wander Franco Faces Multiple Legal Issues After Sexual Abuse Charges That move, which is for three years, is pending the A’s permanent relocation to Las Vegas no earlier than 2028 as negotiations to build a domed $1.5 billion ballpark there continue to lag. “It’s going to be interesting to see how things progress,” Clark said Friday about the Vegas move during All-Star weekend festivities...
Pitch Invaders in Soccer Cast Spotlight on Security Protocols
In this “summer of soccer,” a handful of individuals have broken the plane between spectators and players by invading playing fields during live action.CONMEBOL Blames Hard Rock Stadium for Copa América Chaos Five people—including a child—made their way to Cristiano Ronaldo in hopes of getting selfies with the iconic striker during the Portugal-Turkey Euro 2024 match on June 21. Organizers said they would implement new security measurements as well as penalties for the invaders, yet a different individual got too close to Kylian Mbappé during the France-Spain semifinal of the same tournament on Tuesday. In North America, MLS fans have been introduced...
Messi Leads Argentina as His Former Fashion Partner Ships Out
Few things seem more distant from the brightly lit world of fashion than the oily business of global energy tankers. But while Lionel Messi leads Argentina into the spotlight of Sunday’s Copa América final, his former partner in a flop of a casual clothing line is drifting toward an unheralded ending as part of a Marshall Islands-based oil tanker management firm.Liberty Global Buys Formula E Controlling Stake From WBD MGO Global, a fashion house that until this spring designed and sold the Messi Brand of casual clothing and gear, is in the midst of selling itself to Heidmar Inc., a firm...
Rams’ Puka Nacua on NBA Celebrity Game, NFL vs. NBA Debate
Puka Nacua can do more than just catch footballs. He’s also a skilled basketball player. And he’s here to tell you a lot of other NFL players are, too.Andre Drummond Returns to Big East Roots in Real Estate Venture The Los Angeles Rams star wide receiver scored 16 points during February’s NBA All-Star Celebrity Game. The Pro Bowler and former high school basketball star from Orem, Utah, spoke about his hardwood experience sitting alongside teammates Kobie Turner and Steve Avila during Variety and Sportico’s Sports and Entertainment Summit in Los Angeles on Friday. “I was trying to get a 10-day contract,” Nacua...
Diamond Sports and Comcast Resume Talks as Key Hearing Looms
Comcast and Diamond Sports Group may be inching closer to a resolution of the dispute that has left scores of baseball fans out in the cold, based on a recent court filing and the resumption of talks between the two sides.In a four-page motion filed Thursday with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, Diamond asked to shift an upcoming deadline back by nearly a week as the principal owner of the Bally Sports RSNs prepares for the crucial confirmation hearing at the end of the month. Attorneys for the company are looking to move the voting/opt-out...
Sportico Transactions: Moves and Mergers Roundup for July 12
Welcome to Sportico’s transactions wire, a weekly rundown of personnel, partnerships and products across the sports business industry.Sportico Transactions: Moves and Mergers Roundup for July 5 PERSONNEL MSG Sports Names Jamaal Lesane Chief Operating Officer Madison Square Garden Sports Corp. (NYSE: MSGS) has named Jamaal Lesane as chief operating officer. Lesane previously served as MSG Sports’ executive vice president and general counsel since March 2022. As COO, Lesane will work closely with executive leadership to strengthen the company’s portfolio and support its long-term direction and growth. In this role he will oversee business operations for the company’s teams, including the New York Knicks...
Who Is Don Garber? The MLS Commissioner Hits 25-Year Mark
Don Garber and a cadre of Major League Soccer executives were gathered at MLS headquarters in New York on June 16, 2023, when the phone call came through confirming Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi’s imminent arrival at Inter Miami CF. Despite having known Messi was seriously considering MLS, the thrill of the moment still caught Garber off guard.Copa America and Euros Offer Lessons for American '26 World Cup Twenty-five years ago, when he became commissioner, he never imagined the league would attract such a huge star. “And I don’t think anybody would have expected that MLS would be where it is today...
Business Beyond the Game: Breanna Stewart Chasing WNBA Greats
Breanna Stewart added another record to her illustrious career last month.WNBA on Verge of League-Wide Charter Flights for 2024 Season The New York Liberty star and two-time WNBA champion took another step toward fulfilling her goal of being the best to ever play the game, becoming the fastest player to score 5,000 career points in WNBA history. The reigning league MVP spoke about what fuels her basketball motivation as well as her business ventures off the court on the newest episode of Sportico’s Business Beyond the Game. This list of ventures includes Unrivaled, a new 3-on-3, full-court style women’s basketball league founded...
Andre Drummond Returns to Big East Roots in Real Estate Venture
Some of the best days of Andre Drummond’s life were when he was starring at the University of Connecticut. The two-time NBA All-Star is now on a mission with his new business venture to not only give back to the same New England region that molded him, but also help his fellow Big East Conference brethren create generational wealth.Rams' Puka Nacua on NBA Celebrity Game, NFL vs. NBA Debate Drummond, who recently signed with the Philadelphia 76ers, has joined with former NBA players Moe Harkless and Michael Carter-Williams to create Special Teams Real Estate, a commercial development firm. Harkless, a New...
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