The absolute worst drivers live in New Jersey.
Do they teach driver's training here? I'll die on this hill.
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British-Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Mansour will reportedly pay a $500 million franchise fee for a MLS expansion team in San Diego.
The 30th MLS team will start in the 2025 season.
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The Oakland Athletics drew 2,064 (!!) fans last night in a 5-2 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks at the Oakland Coliseum.
It's the lowest A's attendance since 1979.
(via Sportsnet)
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3 of the top 5 most popular NBA teams are in the Conference Finals, per survey data.
(📊 Oct. 2022 survey prior to 2022-23 season)
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The biggest winner of the first month of the 2023 MLB season isn’t a team or player, it’s a rule: the pitch clock.
New data story for .
morningconsult.com/2023/05/15/mlb
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The biggest winner of the first month of the 2023 MLB season isn’t a team or player, it’s a rule: the pitch clock.
New data story for .
morningconsult.com/2023/05/15/mlb
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It's NBA and NHL postseason time, Twitter has a new CEO and MLB is in full swing, yet the Los Angeles are trending at No. 1 on Twitter.
For an anime-themed schedule release video.
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StubHub is The Athletic's exclusive ticketing sponsor as part of a multiyear deal.
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Spending the day at ’s SBC Summit | North America in NJ. DMs open if any followers want to meet up and chat for a few minutes.
The Colorado Rapids have removed midfielder Max from all team activities as MLS investigates his connection with unlawful sports gambling.
Max is alleged to have received 60,000 Brazilian real (around $12k USD) to purposefully get a yellow card last season against LA Galaxy.
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Updated breakdown in ESPN+ sub growth since 2018:
Sept 18: 1M
Feb 19: 2M
Aug 19: 2.4M
Nov 19: 3.5M
Feb 20: 7.6M
May 20: 7.9M
Aug 20: 8.6M
Nov 20: 10.3M
Feb 21: 12.1M
May 21: 13.8M
Aug 21: 14.9M
Nov 21: 17.1M
Feb 22: 21.3M
May 22: 22.3M
Aug 22: 22.8M
Nov 22: 24.3M
Feb 23:… Show more
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Planning a 9-day road trip later this summer from St. Augustine, Florida up the coast to Jacksonville, Savannah, Hilton Head, Charleston and over to Atlanta.
Any and all recs on things to do/eat/sights to see much appreciated.
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Apple's head of TV+ and sports business Pete Distad is reportedly planning to depart the company.
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NFL schedule release season reads on Twitter like it’s free agency.
Social media and the sophistication of creatives and digital producers have turned this into quite the dominant sports storyline for a few days.
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ESPN is the leading candidate as popular YouTuber Pat McAfee weighs a move to leave his $120 MILLION FanDuel deal, reports .
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Barstool gets into live golf coverage for the first time ever as the exclusive broadcast partner of 's NV5 Invitational in July.
⛳️ Three hours of daily live coverage (Barstool dot tv) between Thursday and Sunday, ft. , ,… Show more
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The Blackhawks have already sold $2.5 million worth of season-ticket plans for 2023-24 in the 1.5 hours since winning the #1 pick — including more than 500 new full-season plans.
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The NFL’s schedule release has turned into the Super Bowl for each team’s social media team, via
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Fairly inside baseball but good insights into ’s negotiations with Barstool Sports.
(🎥 podcast)
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Top-selling NHL player jerseys during the 2022-23 regular season, per Fanatics:
1) Alexander Ovechkin
2) Sidney Crosby
3) David Pastrnak
4) Jack Hughes
5) Auston Matthews
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Most expensive and cheapest beers at MLB ballparks, per a USA TODAY analysis.
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Sports make up 40 of the top 50 most-watched English language broadcasts in 2023 thru April.
(Source: Sports Business Journal)
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The Golden Knights have signed a multi-year agreement with Scripps Sports to bring all locally broadcast Golden Knights games for free to residents of Nevada and surrounding states within the team’s broadcast territory.
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News: the Santo Domingos, Colombia's richest family at $12.2 BILLION, is reportedly joining Josh Harris' group, which has an agreement in place to buy the Washington Commanders.
sportico.com/business/team-
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Source: The second edition of the Barstool Classic is expected to be held in Chicago during the first week of the 2023-24 college basketball season.
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It's that time of year where students interested in breaking into the sports business are stressing out because they just graduated, don't have a job lined up like their friends and seemingly don't have their life "figured out" at 22 years old.
Who did, though?
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Regarding TNT's use of drone technology for live coverage of Celtics-76ers, source familiar w/ situation says Warner Bros. Discovery Sports (TNT/TBS) has been testing in-arena drone use and recently incorporated the tech into NBA All Star along with the men's Final Four in… Show more
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TNT is using a drone camera to provide live footage during Celtics-76ers.
From last August: Why drones are the future of sports broadcasts.
morningconsult.com/2022/08/08/why
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TLDR -- Portnoy says:
- Ben Mintz said a racial slur while reading rap lyrics on a livestream, immediately realized he messed up
- Penn forced Barstool to fire him against strong protestations from Portnoy, Erika Nardini, Dan Katz over fear of losing gambling licenses
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Emergency Press Conference - Ben Mintz Has Left the Building
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. hit 150 MILLION YouTube subscribers, including adding 50 MILLION subs in less than a year.
. is the most valuable Brazilian soccer club in 2023 at $540 million, per .
It's among the world's 50 most valuable soccer teams.
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Stephen Curry is the No. 1 most-liked NBA player among NBA fans.
LeBron James is the 3rd most-liked NBA player.
(via 📊 Oct. 2022 survey data)
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. asked U.S. sports fans who is the greatest athlete of all-time.
— LeBron James tied for No. 6.
— Stephen Curry did not crack the top 15.
(📊 Feb. 2023 survey) #NBATwitter
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Coming out of halftime for Knicks-Heat, TNT shows David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery.
Last month, Zaslav said to CNBC “We have the NBA for another couple of years and hopefully for long-term.”
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