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Jared Diamond

Sports Reporter at The Wall Street Journal

Baseball and more: @WSJSports. Teach: @Mville_College. Author: SWING KINGS (@wmmorrowbooks). Email: [email protected].

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  • 2 days ago | wsj.com | Andrew Beaton |Jared Diamond

    Established by the NFL and MLB players unions, OneTeam produced a licensing windfall. But federal agents are probing whether some of the money it generated for players was siphoned off by union executives. Six years ago, executives from the unions representing National Football League and Major League Baseball players hatched a radical idea to combine their valuable licensing assets into one single business.

  • 2 days ago | wsj.com | Andrew Beaton |Jared Diamond

    Within just a few years, players unions from other sports leagues were racing to sign on, and the company was valued at nearly $2 billion. But now OneTeam has been dragged into a federal investigation over whether some of the windfall it has generated for players was siphoned off by union executives, including MLBPA executive director Tony Clark.

  • 4 days ago | jp.wsj.com | Jared Diamond

    大谷翔平(30)ほど重い責任が肩にのしかかっている野球選手はいない。 大谷にとって、ホームラン数で米大リーグ(MLB)のトップに立ち、ほぼ毎日のように盗塁し、かつて例がないようなことをグラウンドで普通にやってのけるだけでは十分ではない。彼に期待されているのは、巨額のスポンサー収入を生み出し、日本という国のグローバルアンバサダーの役目を果たし、何十年も人気が下り坂だったスポーツを独力で活性化することだ。Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

  • 5 days ago | wsj.com | Jared Diamond

    Facing a rash of injuries to its pitching staff, baseball’s richest team is banking on the 30-year-old Japanese dual threat to resume his role as starting pitcher—and fast. No player in baseball has more resting on his shoulders than Shohei Ohtani. It isn’t enough for him to lead the major leagues in home runs, steal bases on a near-daily basis and generally do things on a field that have never been done before.

  • 2 weeks ago | baseball.realgm.com | Joe Flint |Jared Diamond

    NBC has made an offer to Major League Baseball to take over the package of regular season and postseason games that ESPN recently walked away from. In February, ESPN opted out of its $550 million per year contract after the 2025 season and offered to pay $200 million annually in a renegotiated deal. NBC would air games on Sunday night and would be streamed on Peacock. NBC also owns NFL and NBA games on Sundays and would air some games on NBC as opposed to Peacock.

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Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond @jareddiamond
11 May 25

I wrote about the worst baseball team anybody has seen since the 1899 Cleveland Spiders. 🕷️🕷️🕷️ https://t.co/Tl5aOUgPkj

Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond @jareddiamond
9 May 25

If you need any proof that the first American pope in history is a man of faith, consider this proof: He appears to be a White Sox team -- a team that could desperately use some divine intervention these days. https://t.co/R3zbZk30tn

Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond @jareddiamond
9 May 25

RT @radamsWSJ: From the moment the Roman Catholic Church revealed that its next leader hailed from Chicago, one question dominated the worl…