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NYPR CMO Lisa Baird wasn't surprised that Spotify is eyeing The Ringer. “The Bill Simmons podcast is consistently rated among Apple’s most popular sports podcasts, [Simmons] has a large and stable audience, talk shows are cheap to produce [relative to true-crime or investigative reporting] and the company has a back catalog of shows [that can be monetized].”

Stubhub has notified at least 100 employees that they are being let go.

While fans in Atlanta and New York have come to believe that paying for the right to buy a season ticket is “a scam”, the people of Las Vegas have been receptive to the stadium funding mechanism; the Raiders have raised $478.3 million in PSL sales to date, nearly twice their initial $250 million projection.

Former NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL executive Andy Dolich sees a future where ownership groups are building “condominiums, shopping centers and lifestyle centers - separate from their team’s venue (as the A’s are considering) - to pad bottom line profits.”

The dramatic increase in salaries over the last 10-15 years is a byproduct of the real problem facing college athletics; an economic model that systematically encourages acceleration in athletic department spending.