📺 On the telly
WSL begins negotiating new media rights deals with UK networks
After joining forces with the Women’s Championship (WC) and reorganizing under NewCo, the Women’s Super League (WSL) is taking the next big step toward getting paid. Following in the footsteps of FIFA and the NWSL, the WSL is negotiating to have every game shown live in the UK next season.
February 16, 2024
🏀 Records are made to be broken
The “Caitlin Clark Effect” is in full-force as the No. 4 Iowa senior closes in on the NCAA women’s career scoring record
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Barring absolute disaster, No. 4 Iowa superstar Caitlin Clark will break the NCAA women’s basketball career scoring record in one of the sport’s most in-demand games ever — college or pro — when her Hawkeyes host Michigan tomorrow at 8 p.m. ET.
February 14, 2024
🏀 Where’s Larry Bird when you need him?
Once-hot NCAA men’s basketball teams failed their heat checks this week.
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Basketball fully took center stage this week, and the NCAA men’s courts brought all the chaos.
February 14, 2024
📱 Nothing but net
Google inks integrated multiyear partnership with the NWSL
During a hectic 2024 NWSL offseason, the league made its own game-changing move by signing a multiyear partnership with Google yesterday. Google Pixel will become the NWSL’s official mobile phone partner and a title sponsor, in addition to supporting tech activations.
February 14, 2024
💸 Come to collect
New social platform for collectibles launches with key sports investors
Wheelhouse Entertainment CEO Brent Montgomery and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian (aka Serena Williams’ husband) launched Mantel yesterday, a social media platform focused on the collectibles community.
February 14, 2024
🏈 Big reputation, big reputation
The Kansas City Chiefs win their second consecutive Super Bowl
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KC overcame a low-scoring first half and some flaring tempers to become the first team since the 2003–04 New England Patriots to repeat as champs, hoisting their third Vince Lombardi Trophy in five seasons.
February 12, 2024
🎤 Let it burn
The top five cultural moments of Super Bowl LVIII
From Beyoncé’s BarBey drop to Usher’s wheely cool hidden talent, here are the top moments that captured the internet’s attention in between the gridiron action.
February 12, 2024
💸 Feeling brand NewCo
NewCo lands $25.2M loan from the English Premier League
England’s newly-formed NewCo, which consists of the top two flights of English women’s football — the Women’s Super League (WSL) and Women’s Championship (WC) — just landed a $25.2M interest-free loan from the English Premier League (EPL) several months after the WSL requested money to revamp UK women’s soccer.
February 12, 2024
📺 A raw deal
Major media TV rights package creating unease across industry
Last Tuesday, ESPN, FOX, and Warner Bros. Discovery announced their intention to create a unified live sports streaming app. It would offer content from all three platforms, a prospect that has already spooked smaller streamers, Wall Street investors, and sports leagues.
February 12, 2024
🏀 The history
Legends of the Game: Pat Summitt
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Since we’re spending today celebrating women, there’s no better place to start than with the late, great Pat Summitt — a winner in every sense of the word, a champion, a role model, and an inspiration to everyone who had the honor of crossing paths with her.
February 12, 2024
🏀 A guide to the NBA’s 2024 All-Star Weekend
🏀 A guide to the NBA’s 2024 All-Star Weekend
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This feature is the second in a season-long partnership with the NBA, where, alongside their REPRESENT campaign, we’ll be celebrating the next generation of Canadian NBA stars.
February 12, 2024