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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Dan Shanoff
Welcome back to MoneyCall, The Athletic's weekly sports business cheat sheet. Name-dropped today: Rory McIlroy, Paige Bueckers, Nico Iamaleva, Elise Devlin, Maxx Crosby, Shedeur Sanders, Caitlin Clark, Jordon Hudson, Ken Griffey Jr., Bill Chisholm and more. Let's go:Driving The ConversationA lot of sports reporting - here at The Athletic and elsewhere - is focused on making sense of the sports world through the quantifiable.
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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Mark Puleo |Dan Shanoff
The Savannah Bananas are officially mainstream. Along with taking their showmanship on a "Banana Ball World Tour" this summer, the exhibition baseball team will have 10 of its games broadcast on ESPN and Disney platforms, the company announced Monday. That slate will include games at Fenway Park, Camden Yards and the Clemson Tigers' Memorial Stadium.
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1 week ago | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Mark Puleo |Dan Shanoff
The Savannah Bananas are officially mainstream.Along with taking their showmanship on a “Banana Ball World Tour” this summer, the exhibition baseball team will have 10 of its games broadcast on ESPN and Disney platforms, the company announced Monday.
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2 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Dan Shanoff
Golf Channel TV analyst Brandel Chamblee was on a Barstool Sports' golf podcast earlier this week, and there is a fascinating clip where Chamblee reviews the words or phrases that TV broadcasters are given guidance on not to utter when covering the Masters. They are replaced with more hifalutin expressions that are more on-brand for the event and its organizers at Augusta National.
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2 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Dan Shanoff
Welcome back to MoneyCall, The Athletic's weekly sports business cheat sheet. Name-dropped today: Jim Nantz, Scottie Scheffler, Judge Claudia Wilken, Stewart Mandel, Azzi Fudd, Alex Ovechkin, Billie Jean King, David Letterman, Ludvig Aberg and more. Let's go:Driving the Conversation Golf is changing dramatically, but the Masters remains the Masters. Dulcet tones of Jim Nantz. No cell phones allowed! Scottie Scheffler the odds-on favorite to win. Azaleas. Cheap eats. The green jacket. (And ...
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3 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Dan Shanoff
Every week, The Athletic staff recommends "can't-miss" games to watch over the weekend. Once again, things start with the exciting men's and women's college basketball tournaments:FridayThe Gamecocks got pushed by No. 9 Indiana, which led by a point at halftime. IU was effective at keeping the Gamecocks off the offensive glass as South Carolina had just five second-chance points, down from 14.4 on the season. If Maryland can replicate that approach, it should keep the game competitive.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Dan Shanoff
| This is to receive MoneyCall directly in your inbox. Read past editions MoneyCall Newsletter 📈 The Athletic's weekly sports business newsletter. Sign up here here. Welcome back to MoneyCall, The Athletic's weekly sports business cheat sheet. Name-dropped today: Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, JuJu Watkins and Paige Bueckers, Sixth Street, Bill Simmons, Savannah Bananas, Charlie Baker, Lindsay Schnell and more.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Dan Shanoff
| This is to receive MoneyCall directly in your inbox. Read past editions MoneyCall Newsletter 📈 The Athletic's weekly sports business newsletter. Sign up here here. Welcome back to MoneyCall, The Athletic's weekly sports business cheat sheet. Name-dropped today: Alex Cooper, Caitlin Clark, Steph Curry, Stephen A. Smith, Ki'Lolo Westerlund, Shohei Ohtani, Drake, Sidemen, Adam Schefter, Jon Rothstein and more.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Tobias Bass |Dan Shanoff
Fanatics has officially entered the ticketing market. The company has teamed up with Ticketmaster to launch the Fanatics Ticket Marketplace. In addition to apparel and collectibles, the Fanatics app will let people buy resale tickets. This partnership is part of a broader collaboration between Fanatics and Live Nation's Ticketmaster, enabling Ticketmaster tickets to be listed on Fanatics while Fanatics merchandise becomes available on Ticketmaster.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Dan Shanoff |Andrew Marchand
| This is to receive MoneyCall directly in your inbox. Read past editions MoneyCall Newsletter 📈 The Athletic's weekly sports business newsletter. Sign up here here. Welcome back to MoneyCall, The Athletic's weekly sports business cheat sheet. Name-dropped today: Charles Leclerc, Serena Williams, Sabrina Ionescu, Jimmy Johnson, Ilona Maher, Ben Stiller, Jessica Gelman, Katherine Legge and more.
