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Sports

The Khosla Signal: Why $9.6 Billion for the Seahawks Is the New NFL Floor, Not the Ceiling

SK Lee — Sports & consumer desk On July 11, the estate of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced it had agreed to sell the Seattle Seahawks to a family investment group led by Vinod Khosla for $9.612 billion. The number reset the US sports franchise record by 59 percent

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Sports

The Rugby League Premium: Why the NRL's A$5.3 Billion Deal Rewrites Australian Media, Not Just Australian Sport

The National Rugby League just signed the biggest sports broadcast contract in Australian history. The headline is that rugby league has passed the AFL for the first time. The subplot is that Foxtel and Nine paid it at a moment when the linear ad market is cratering, and only one of the two counterp

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Research

The 30% Discount Sitting in Plain Sight: Why Lakers and Celtics Just Re-Priced Every Public Sports Stock

Mark Walter just closed on the Lakers at a $10 billion valuation, the highest ever paid for a North American sports franchise. Sportico marks the Knicks plus the Rangers at $13.5 billion. MSG Sports trades at $9.6 billion. The 29% gap is now a research thesis, not a footnote.

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Research

Apollo's Pickleball Verdict: Why the $225M Check Is a Real-Estate-and-Media Bet, Not a Sports Wager

SK Lee — Sports & consumer desk A few days before the Strait of Hormuz reopened and the oil curve collapsed, Apollo Global Management quietly closed the largest structured check ever written into the business of pickleball. The trade press treated it as a curiosity. The composition of the deal, the

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Research

Apollo's Pickleball Pivot: Why the $225M Roll-Up Drags the Sport from Venture Asset to PE Asset Class

Apollo Sports Capital's $225M lead into Pickleball Inc. at a $750M valuation is not a price print. It is a category-of-capital print — pickleball's underwriting

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Research

The NHL's Compounding Moment: Why SBJ's League of the Year Vote Maps a Structural Re-Rating, Not a One-Cycle Rally

The Sports Business Journal named the NHL Sports League of the Year for the first time since 2014. The 12-year gap matters more than the award.

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Research

The LIV Postmortem: Why PIF's Exit Vindicates the Disruption Even as It Buries the Disruptor

PIF spent $6B to permanently reshape professional golf. The league dies. The disruption succeeds. Where the money flows next is the trade.