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Feb 11, 2025 | 
frontofficesports.com | A.J. Perez |Alex Schiffer
Timberwolves and Lynx owner Glen Taylor said he’d “thoroughly” review an arbitration panel’s decision in the dispute over his ownership of the Timberwolves. It’s a signal that Taylor could seek a court challenge before relinquishing control. In a 2-1 decision announced Monday, arbitrators ruled in favor of Alex Rodriguez and tech entrepreneur Marc Lore over Taylor’s allegation that the pair violated terms of the 2021 three-year succession plan.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
frontofficesports.com | Eric Fisher |A.J. Perez
The Utah Hockey Club is abandoning efforts to name the franchise permanently to the Yeti or Yetis, instead unveiling three other candidates in a major twist in the long-running and high-profile branding effort.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
frontofficesports.com | A.J. Perez
The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee trademark infringement lawsuit against Prime Hydration was formally dismissed this week after the two sides worked out a settlement. The USOPC sued Prime—which counts the YouTube star turned boxer Logan Paul as a minority owner—before the start of the Paris Olympics in July and sought “millions” in damages over alleged trademark violations. U.S. District Court Judge Regina M.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
frontofficesports.com | A.J. Perez |Daniel Roberts
A group of investors advised by LeBron James’s business partner Maverick Carter is seeking to raise $5 billion to create an international basketball league that would compete with the NBA, Bloomberg reported Wednesday evening. A source confirmed to Front Office Sports that Carter is spearheading the effort, but said James is not a part of it. UBS and Evercore are raising the money, which could come from sovereign wealth funds.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
frontofficesports.com | A.J. Perez
Robert Saleh’s Oct. 8 firing five games into his fourth season as head coach of the Jets created the first vacancy in the current hiring cycle. It was around that time agents who represent prospective coaching and front office candidates began to forecast what other openings could come available before and even after last week’s Black Monday.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
frontofficesports.com | A.J. Perez |Michael McCarthy
Skip Bayless said plenty about topics from Mike McCarthy’s status with the Cowboys to the NFL playoffs over the last week on social media and his YouTube channel. Joy Taylor appeared as usual on her FS1 show that covered a wide range of topics. Neither, however, has touched the elephant in the room: the blockbuster lawsuit that named Bayless, Taylor, Fox Sports EVP Charlie Dixon, FS1, Fox Sports, and Fox Corp. itself as defendants.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
frontofficesports.com | Michael McCarthy |A.J. Perez
Skip Bayless, Joy Taylor, and Fox Sports did not engage with the news cycle around them the day after Front Office Sports broke the news of a bombshell lawsuit accusing Bayless, Taylor, and FS1 executive Charlie Dixon of sexual battery, wrongful termination, and forging a hostile work environment. But that didn’t stop former on-air talents at Fox, and other sports media personalities, from sounding off on the salacious suit filed by ex-FS1 hairstylist Noushin Faraji in Los Angeles on Friday.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
frontofficesports.com | A.J. Perez
One of the final bills President Joe Biden signed into law makes Washington, D.C. the frontrunner to secure the Commanders’ next stadium. Biden signed the RFK Memorial Stadium Campus Revitalization Act on Monday, days after the legislation took a dramatic route before it made it through Congress. Within 180 days, the land will transfer from federal to D.C. control as part of a 99-year lease that makes a stadium—along with other uses—a possibility for the 170 acres.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
frontofficesports.com | A.J. Perez
The Athletic is pushing to be recognized as a union shop like journalists at its big brother, The New York Times. The Athletic’s more than 200 editorial employees asked to officially join the NewsGuild of New York. The guild, which represents 1,500 Times employees,sent a letter tothe Times’ management asking them to recognize the staffers as part of the union. The New York Times acquired The Athletic in 2022 for $550 million.
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
frontofficesports.com | A.J. Perez
A former Fox Sports hairstylist alleged in a lawsuit that a network executive used “his position to sexually harass women,” as well as that Skip Bayless touched her inappropriately and propositioned her for sex. Noushin Faraji, who says she worked at Fox Sports from 2012 through last August, made a series of troublesome allegations in the 42-page lawsuit obtained by Front Office Sports.
