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Inside EA’s $55B Buyout + Crypto’s Esports Takeover

Inside EA’s $55B Buyout + Crypto’s Esports Takeover

EA’s record $55B LBO cements gaming as private equity’s new frontier, while crypto is rewriting esports into a $259B digital economy.

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LA’s $3.2B Olympic Ask and Europe’s $39B Football Cash Machine

LA’s $3.2B Olympic Ask and Europe’s $39B Football Cash Machine

From Europe’s booming $39B football market to LA’s Olympic funding fight and Gronk’s bottle hustle, sports and money are colliding on every front.

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From Wimbledon to Wall Street, Tiriac Proves Athletes Outplay Execs

From Wimbledon to Wall Street, Tiriac Proves Athletes Outplay Execs

From private equity and streaming rights to ticketing’s $72B surge, sports economics is rewriting the playbook.

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Apollo's $5B Sports Fund | Agassi & Graff's $200M Play

Apollo's $5B Sports Fund | Agassi & Graff's $200M Play

From tennis royalty building investment portfolios to poker’s reinvention as esports’ stickiest format, sports business is evolving fast.

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From Courts to Capital: US Open’s Record Haul & Premier League’s £3B Spree

From Courts to Capital: US Open’s Record Haul & Premier League’s £3B Spree

The 2025 US Open broke every record in sight—drawing over a million fans and generating $623.8M in revenue.

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Sports Tech at 70% GenAI Adoption | Hear From Jon Ledecky, Bobby Sharma, Julia Wittlin, Ben Fund & More

Sports Tech at 70% GenAI Adoption | Hear From Jon Ledecky, Bobby Sharma, Julia Wittlin, Ben Fund & More

Early dollars cluster in content automation, betting/fantasy personalization, and fan CRM—where vendors with distribution keep the margin while leagues and teams, slow to deploy, drift toward price-taker status.

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PE’s Sports M&A Surge, Nadal’s $40M Academy & eSports Goes Big League

PE’s Sports M&A Surge, Nadal’s $40M Academy & eSports Goes Big League

From 2018–2024, sports M&A jumped 152→410 as PE deals surged 50→190 (+280%) to 46% of volume—driving up valuations and forcing strategics to bid faster or get priced out.

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JPMorgan’s Sports IB Machine: Teams, Bonds, Billion-Dollar Deals

JPMorgan’s Sports IB Machine: Teams, Bonds, Billion-Dollar Deals

Streaming turns strategic—ESPN’s $1.6B WWE rights (with the NFL in its DTC cap table), JPMorgan’s sports IB engine powers mega-deals, the Cincinnati Open’s $260M rebuild rewires venue economics, and Europe’s eSports awareness outpaces engagement.

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$13B in Sports Medicine | Mayweather $63M Nationwide Fitness Empire

$13B in Sports Medicine | Mayweather $63M Nationwide Fitness Empire

The $13 billion sports medicine market is annually growing 8.23%, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang reaches 4.1 million viewers in 2025.

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Why Nike Bet $200M on Tennis Star Carlos Alcaraz I Carmelo Anthony’s Second Act

Why Nike Bet $200M on Tennis Star Carlos Alcaraz I Carmelo Anthony’s Second Act

Champions League Finals outperforms SuperBowl media raitngs. Nike goes all in with a $200M deal with Carlos Alcaraz.

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Streaming Seniors, Token Tickets, and Stadium Tax Hacks Drive ROI

Streaming Seniors, Token Tickets, and Stadium Tax Hacks Drive ROI

Boomers embrace streaming, NFTs transform tickets into yield, and tax-smart stadium builds show where the next wave of sports ROI is headed.

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MetLife’s $1.6B Upgrade | Club World Cup’s Split Success | $3.1B Satellite Bet

MetLife’s $1.6B Upgrade | Club World Cup’s Split Success | $3.1B Satellite Bet

Stadiums, satellites, and $70 M prize pools headline a week where capital floods every layer of the sports stack—from MetLife’s $1.6 B retrofit to SES’s $3.1 B satellite merger—signaling the new frontiers of return on investment.