Daily Cover: Athletes Unlimited

Author:

Emma Baccellieri

Publish date:

Feb 26, 2021

Video Rating:

TV-PG

Video Duration:

2:24

The foundation of Athletes Unlimited: team sports reimagined to focus on individual players, with no head coaches, no club owners and no locked rosters. The novel new outfit is led by its performers, both in the sense that they draft their own teams and develop their own game strategies, and in the sense that they each have an ownership stake in the league. Sports Illustrated's Robin Lundberg spoke with Emma Baccellieri about the league and why it launched around women's softball.

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