🏀 More like UCan’t
The top three NCAA men’s basketball teams were pushed to their limits this week
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The long weekend saw plenty of unexpected NCAA men's basketball scorelines, but the last 48 hours took the cake.
February 20, 2024
⚾ The origin of the role
A look at the ultimate sports leader: the commissioner
With the U.S. celebrating President’s Day tomorrow, we’re focusing on a different kind of leadership role: the sports commissioner.
February 18, 2024
⚾ How can you not be romantic?
No. 1 Wake Forest is the team to beat as NCAA baseball season begins.
I’s NCAA baseball’s opening day, and a whopping 305 Division I teams will take today’s field in pursuit of the sport’s Holy Grail: a ticket to June’s Men’s College World Series (MCWS) in Omaha.
February 16, 2024
🏀 The rest is still unwritten
Caitlin Clark breaks the all-time NCAA women’s scoring record
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No. 4 Iowa superstar Caitlin Clark is now the all-time NCAA women’s basketball leading scorer with a whopping 3,569 points, sealing the deal with a signature logo three while dropping a career-high 49 points in last night’s 106–89 win over Michigan.
February 16, 2024
🏒 Ice cold
PWHL lands three key partnerships as U.S. companies increase sponsorship in league
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The PWHL just keeps winning. This week, the women’s hockey league signed the Women’s Sports Network (WSN) as its first U.S. national broadcast partner and brought on two financial services companies — Bread Financial and Discover.
February 16, 2024
📺 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