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Jan 17, 2025 | 
bvmsports.com | Eric Fisher
The already-mighty Dodgers are becoming even stronger-again. The defending World Series champions are signing star Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki, bringing to a conclusion a high-profile pursuit that initially involved 20 of MLB's 30 clubs. The addition-coming at a massive discount relative to his talent with his signing bonus no more than $8.23 million-further burnishes an already loaded roster that includes fellow countrymen Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
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Dec 25, 2024 | 
bvmsports.com | Eric Fisher
Arguably no athlete in history has delivered on massive expectations the way Shohei Ohtani did in 2024. In the process of his monster season, he solidified his own uniqueness, reset baseball's salary scale, further globalized the sport, and helped affirm the on- and off-field dominance of the Dodgers.
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Dec 22, 2024 | 
bvmsports.com | Eric Fisher
Chiefs superstar quarterback Patrick Mahomes has been no fan of an unusually compressed stretch of three games in 11 days. But Mahomes continues to grit it out while battling an ankle injury, benefiting the two-time defending Super Bowl champions that are closing in another top seed in the AFC playoffs, as well as multiple NFL rights holders.
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Dec 22, 2024 | 
bvmsports.com | Eric Fisher
The College Football Playoff began with a quartet of convincing home victories, but that hasn't done anything to quell the raging debate about who should have been in the expanded tournament format. There was no ambiguity in the opening games of the new, 12-team CFP format as Ohio State, Texas, Penn State, and Notre Dame each prevailed in front of their home fans Friday night and Saturday by an average of more than 19 points.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
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There’s no league better at conjuring new, lucrative media rights out of thin air than the NFL. The league is once again playing the long game, eyeing the eventual sale of a separate international package that could fetch more than $1 billion in rights fees, sources tell Front Office Sports. The NFL declined to comment on potentially adding to its current rights deals, valued at $111 billion over 11 years. But piece by piece, the building blocks are sliding into place.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
basketball.realgm.com | Eric Fisher
The NBA has made a final push to have a lawsuit filed by TNT dismissed. The league is arguing that TNT's purported match of the Amazon deal was instead a counteroffer.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
basketball.realgm.com | Eric Fisher
Following the NBA's announcement they were moving forward with their $1.8 billion per year deal with Amazon instead of TNT, parent company Warner Bros. Discovery's stock price was down nine percent at Thursday's market open and closed at $7.99. With the stock down 5.7 percent, the company lost approximately $1 billion in market value.
WBD shares has lost 36 percent of their value over the past year.
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May 7, 2024 | 
basketball.realgm.com | Eric Fisher
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav confirmed that talks with the NBA to keep games on TNT are ongoing. NBC has offered the NBA $2.5 billion per season to essentially replace TNT as the league's other primary partner alongside ESPN. Amazon will likely enter as a partner for the NBA and broadcast both the NBA Cup and Play-In Tournament.
“We continue to be in constructive negotiations with the NBA,” Zaslav said Monday at the Milken Institute Global Conference in California. “It’s a great league.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
basketball.realgm.com | Eric Fisher
Reed Sheppard is one of the most impressive shooters to come out of the draft in years and has a high floor as a role player and his ceiling could be incredible if he ends up on a team beside a bigger primary playmaker. Deandre Ayton's ceiling is somewhat fixed, due to work ethic, disposition, or the fact that his skills are more alluring than applicable. One Potentially Fatal Flaw For Every NBA Title Contender Depending on who you ask, there are between 10 and 14 contenders this season.
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Sep 7, 2023 | 
basketball.realgm.com | Eric Fisher
Francois-Henri Pinault has completed his $7 billion acquisition of Creative Artists Agency.
Pinault will retain the agency’s existing leadership trio of Bryan Lourd, Kevin Huvane, and Richard Lovett, who will remain co-chairs under new long-term commitments.
“CAA has all the relevant characteristics to be part of the Artémis family, adding increased diversity, both in terms of geographical footprint and business activities, to our other assets,” Pinault said.
