Irving Mejia-Hilario

Dallas

General Assignment Reporter at Sports Business Journal

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Articles

Alex Morgan takes minority stake in San Diego Wave

2 days ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Irving Mejia-Hilario

Two-time FIFA Women’s World Cup champion and Olympic gold medalist Alex Morgan becomes the latest retired athlete to take a stake in a women’s sports franchise as she joins current controlling owners, the Levine-Leichtman family, as a minority investor in the NWSL’s San Diego Wave FC. Wave FC declined to share the exact amount of Morgan’s stake, the cost of the investment or if an outside firm consulted Morgan through the deal.
Jenna McLaughlin’s rise to lead Priority Sports’ Women’s Division

2 days ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Irving Mejia-Hilario

Priority Sports’ Jenna McLaughlin, never planned to become the Head of the Women’s Sports Division for the Chicago-based agency. She was familiar with Priority and its founder and CEO, Mark Bartelstein, through her work as a Sector Leader for Korn Ferry, where she would run searches for basketball coaches.
Rally Department carves out Southwest partnerships, plots growth strategy

3 days ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Irving Mejia-Hilario

The agency's breakout moment came with activation work for regional grocery chain H-E-B.
Collegiate Sports Connect hires John Morris as CEO

1 week ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Irving Mejia-Hilario

Technology platform Collegiate Sports Connect has hired former Tufts AD JOHN MORRIS to be its first CEO. Morris will be based out of Boston and will report to Connect’s board of directors.
Latinos in Sports makes a mark in Miami

1 week ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Irving Mejia-Hilario

Xavier Gutierrez and Pedro Guerrero’s pursuit to introduce more Latinos to sports celebrated its one-year anniversary at the same place it started, in Miami during F1‘s Miami Grand Prix weekend. The event, hosted by Latinos in Sports and presented by Amerant Bank, united 175 key figures in the sports industry such as: Marissa Solis, SVP/Global Brand Marketing for the NFL; Cesar Conde, NBCUniversal News Group chairman; Alina T.
MLBPA certified agent Chris Leible launches full-service baseball agency

2 weeks ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Irving Mejia-Hilario

Former Rep1 Baseball VP Chris Leible is launching Smooth Baseball, an agency that will represent collegiate and professional baseball talent. Leible is launching the agency with the help of lawyers Matthew Blit and Russell Moriarty acting as partners as well as an advisory board comprised of former MLB talent such as Jose Reyes, Edgardo Alfonzo, Doc Gooden and Endy Chavez. Leible will be based out of the N.Y. and N.J. area.
Hulk Hogan, Eric Bischoff launch Real American Freestyle wrestling league

2 weeks ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Irving Mejia-Hilario

Former WWE and WCW on-screen personalities Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff are back with the launch of Real American Freestyle, an unscripted freestyle wrestling league. Hogan will serve as one of the league’s commissioners while Bischoff, who was the SVP of WCW in the 1990s, will be the league’s Chief Media Officer. The league has already raised “millions” of dollars according to Chad Bronstein, a business partner of Hogan through his beer brand and RAF title sponsor, Real American Beer.
GameChanger debuts first national brand campaign

2 weeks ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Irving Mejia-Hilario

Youth sports platform GameChanger has announced its “For the Sport of Love” brand campaign, its first national spot. GameChanger, a Dick’s Sporting Goods company, will air the campaign across Meta, YouTube, CBS Sports, Bleacher Report, ESPN, Conde Nast, Hearst and social media platforms starting today. The spot was directed by WOLVVS production company founder Curt Morgan and was filmed across the greater Los Angeles area shortly after the wildfires.
Mother and daughter tackle the challenging role of NFL agents

2 weeks ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Irving Mejia-Hilario

NFL-certified agents Edy Lawson-Jackson and Samira Jackson are history makers, laying claim as the first mother-daughter agent pair in NFL history. They’re building a business in a crowded field that features more than 1,000 certified NFL agents, of which just more than 70 are women and less than 5% of those are Black women.
Athletes First wins second round with eight NFL Draft picks

2 weeks ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Irving Mejia-Hilario |Emma Jimenez

After representing the second-highest number of first-round picks of the 2025 NFL Draft in Green Bay, Athletes First represented the most selections of the second round with eight picks. CAA Sports, which had the most first-round picks this year with seven, finished second in round two with three selections. Klutch Sports Group, Priority Sports, Rosenhaus Sports, WME Sports and Wasserman all tied for third with two selections each.