When Vinod Kohsla's Seahawks deal was announced, both he and the team told curious fans to go read his Wikipedia. One day prior, a number of edits were made to the page, including the removal of a sentence identifying him as a Democrat. That editor has only edited Vinod's page...

- David Tepper (Steelers -> Panthers) - Josh Harris and David Blitzer (Steelers -> Commanders) - Vinod Khosla (49ers -> Seahawks) It's become common for billionaires interested in owning an NFL team to first buy LP stakes.

BREAKING: $9.6 billion is the highest price ever paid for an NFL team. Close to the $10B Lakers transaction as well.

To put that in perspective: - Theres only one man with $10+ million earnings that hasn't won *multiple* titles. - Among active men’s players, Fokina’s prize money sits between Alexander Bublik and Ugo Humbert. Bublik has nine career singles titles. Humbert has seven!

🎾🚨One of tennis's craziest stats could end tomorrow 🚨🎾 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina has won more than $11.7 million in tennis prizes, by far the most ever by a player that hasn't won a single tournament. Tomorrow he plays Ethan Quinn in the Mallorca finals...

There are two World Cups happening in North America this summer:

The ten highest paid players in the World Cup, counting salaries and endorsements, come from ten different countries.

As Chinese consumers turn away from many western brands (like Nike), Steph Curry's deal with Li-Ning will drastically accelerate the growth of his brand in China long after he's done playing. My quick reaction for Sportico. Link in replies👇

On the latest Sporticast we talked about Gucci, Aryna Sabalenka and fashion's growing push into tennis 👇

The Rangers are the only team with a new stadium in that span. Here you see not only the more ads, but how front-row baseball hospitality is changing. Static seats are not as enticing as table, clubs and better viewing.

Here's Busch Stadium, home of the Cardinals. Not only are there more ads, but the camera angle has shifted to capture more ad locations.

🚨🚨 @jacobfeldman.bsky.social just built a website that will let you see every single #MLB team's backdrop in 2016 vs. 2026. If you're curious about how advertisements (and new camera angles) have crept into baseball broadcasts, it's a fascinating tool. Quick 🧵

The NWSL has now sold $585 million in expansion fees in the past three years....

On the women's side, the Big Ten earned 32 units, which will pay $6.4 million over the next three years. The SEC was second; the ACC was third.

So the Big Ten wins both the men's and women's titles, and takes home the biggest NCAA payday from both the men's and women's tournaments. On the men's side, the Big Ten earned 30 units, which will pay about $60 million over the next six years. SEC second, Big 12 third.

Here's a look at the NFL and NBA's ownership rules. And how that might play out if the Seahawks sell for $9 billion and the NBA expansion team sells for $8 billion.

For this @clubsportico.bsky.social story we convened a roundtable of five Terps fans, from four different decades of life, to talk about their relationship with the team. Here's a snippet of that convo:

Here are @sportico.bsky.social's most recent valuations for the WNBA and NWSL. #WNBA #NWSL 🟠 WNBA -- $269 million average 🔵 NWSL -- $184 million average

Basically the entire #NWSL has a new control owner (or was an expansion team) within the last ~six years. 🔴 = expansion or new control owner

This is wild. Anyone else get this when they google "World Cup Schedule 2026"??

Get the 🔎 out. Here's the latest @sportico.bsky.social valuations for all 154 team in the big five U.S. leagues: 🔴 NFL - $7.13 billion average 🟠 NBA - $5.51 billion average 🟢 MLB - $2.82 billion average ⚫️ NHL - $2.1 billion average 🔵 MLS - $767 million average

For the next two weeks, @sportico.bsky.social is handing our AM newsletter over to a different writer each morning to look back on 2025 🔙 and ahead to 2026 🔮. Here are some excerpts so far from Lev, Anthony and @jacobfeldman.bsky.social 👇

Can you figure out what's happening in these three circles? In today's Club Sportico essay, @jacobfeldman.bsky.social lets you in on a fun little trivia challenge: deciphering the oddities in the NFL's Sunday TV map.

And here's UMass football in four charts:

🚨 Sportico's F1 valuations are out 🏎️ Here's the full list, plus how each franchise compares to its next "Big Four" comp...

Two classic stories here (one about batting cages, the other about Japanese toilets) from the Dodgers' free agent courtship of Shohei Ohtani and Roki Sasaki

If there's one main takeaway from me on @sportico.bsky.social's latest NBA valuations, it's this: The league is moving toward an NFL-style model. It's gotten closer to fixed costs, and the league-wide media distributions (now $143M) have grown into a significant revenue stream.

Finally, Corso's year-by-year-breakdown. Lee struggled in the 2015-2018 range, but has come roaring back...

Full conference by conference breakdown