Sports Edge

ReadingThe next franchise sale—wherever it happens, whenever it happens—will land at least $1.5B higher than comparable 2024 comps. A bottom-quartile team now demands billionaire-consortium entry fees.

ReadingGlenn will be fired before Thanksgiving if the Jets lose to the Patriots and Bills in back-to-back weeks. The coordinator market will reactivate hard in Week 7.

ReadingIf SeatGeek is running $3.5M+ total deployment across the seven, they own the ticketing vertical in the NIL space. That category lock moves the needle on their Series round.

ReadingThis is Antonelli's first win. The Mercedes package is faster than McLaren in the medium-downforce window, which tells you something about chassis balance heading into Monza.

ReadingBy Week 8, at least one top-five pick will have changed coaches. The secondary market for retread coordinators will move hard in October.

ReadingThe fact that SportsLine is publishing its model output as commodity content tells you where the platform extracted margin three years ago. Exclusivity died. Volume is the play now.

ReadingEvery athlete negotiation in the last decade has tried to replicate Jordan's royalty structure. Almost none have succeeded, because their teams lacked the equity leverage he held in 1984.