Ryan Glasspiegel

5 days ago | frontofficesports.com | Ryan Glasspiegel

Jackie Redmond is living her life a quarter-mile at a time. She has had a particularly grueling stretch as an interviewer on TNT Sports’s top NHL broadcast team and WWE Raw and Premium Live Events. She spoke to FOS about the wildest part of criss-crossing the continent, how she prepares for the dual roles, and CM Punk tormenting her for being a Maple Leafs fan. Front Office Sports: You’re in the middle of this grueling stretch with the NHL playoffs.

6 days ago | frontofficesports.com | Ben Horney |Ryan Glasspiegel

Sports bettors in Illinois on Saturday logged into their apps and were met with an uncommon warning: the state legislature was considering new taxes. The tax, which passed minutes before midnight local time on Saturday, will be 25 cents for every bet for a licensee’s first 20 million bets, and 50 cents per bet thereafter.

1 week ago | frontofficesports.com | Ryan Glasspiegel

The CW president Brad Schwartz describes the network’s strategy of adding increasing blocks of live sports rights as “compounded interest.” The Nexstar-owned broadcast network had never aired live sports nationally prior to early 2023, when it added LIV Golf (which has since migrated to Fox Sports).

1 week ago | frontofficesports.com | Ryan Glasspiegel

The surprising announcement that Caitlin Clark will miss at least two weeks with a leg injury had a big impact on the WNBA MVP gambling odds. Lynx star Napheesa Collier is now the odds-on favorite to win the award. At Hard Rock, she is -170 (meaning bet $170 to win $100) and Clark still has the second-best odds at +260 (meaning bet $100 to win $260). Prior to Clark’s injury, Collier was favored but the two were in the same relative vicinity in the mid +100 range.

1 week ago | frontofficesports.com | Ryan Glasspiegel

Texas shut off the idea of playing Ohio State under the lights. Fox Sports president of insights and analytics, Michael Mulvihill, confirmed to Front Office Sports that the network had given the green light to Ohio State’s idea of moving the defending national champions’ much-anticipated Week 1 matchup against Texas from Saturday’s noon time slot to primetime on Sunday night. Mulvihill revealed that Ohio State’s A.D. Ross Bjork approached Fox with the idea.