CSULB Sport Management

🏟️💼 | The official account of the @CSULB graduate program in Sport Management. Sharing relevant #sportbiz news, and program news.

[Front Office Sports @FOS]

Every school from the Pac-12 has fled except for Oregon State and Washington State.

The Mountain West sees the situation as its own opportunity to expand:

“We’ve visited both schools, and we’ve started the conversation."

[ESPN @espn]

Breaking: Joe Burrow has reached an agreement with the Bengals on an 5-year, $275 million extension that includes $219.01 million guaranteed and makes him the highest-paid player in NFL history, sources tell @AdamSchefter.

[Front Office Sports @FOS]

Vanessa Bryant has handpicked six CBB teams to be honored as "Mamba Programs" for the 2023-24 season:

• Duke
• Kentucky
• LSU
• Oregon
• UConn
• USC

The teams will wear Kobe and Gigi’s Nike shoes and may have the Nike Kobe 'Sheath' logo on their jerseys in the future.

[Front Office Sports @FOS]

Colorado signed Deion Sanders to a $29.5M deal — without even having the money to pay for it.

“We don’t have the money yet, but I know we'll have it."

Buffs fans donated a record $28M to the athletic department and sold out season tickets for the first time in 27 years.

Prime just beat last season's national title runner-up in his very first game.

[National Women’s Soccer League @NWSL]

Big home crowd for today’s SD win 🫶

[Front Office Sports @FOS]

Germany's Chiefs-Dolphins game is currently the #2 most expensive game of the NFL season.

Site traffic for the game spiked +753% from Monday to Tuesday.

https://t.co/U8g9LtV16D

[Front Office Sports @FOS]

Tickets for Germany’s second-ever NFL game, Chiefs-Dolphins, went on sale at 12 PM local time today.

Within two minutes, the queue had 1.4 million people in it.

By 12:15, tickets were sold out.

[Sportico @Sportico]

NEWS: @NWSL has upped the prize pool for the NWSL Challenge Cup to $1.1 million.

This increases the prize from $10,000 to $15,000 per player on the championship team, $11,250 awarded to finalists, $7,500 awarded to semifinalists, and $3,750 awarded to quarterfinalists

This is a new record for the league

[Yahoo Sports @YahooSports]

"Hopefully it'll arrive at my house."

Jokić lost his Finals MVP Trophy 😅

(via @malika_andrews)

[Sportico @Sportico]

LIV Golf + PGA Tour + DP World Tour (European Tour) have a combined revenue of roughly $2.4 billion

Based on recent transactions, the combined entities are probably worth more than $10 billion.

https://t.co/8NcA0i9qYf

[SportBusiness @SportBusiness]

Fifa has extended its media rights agreement for the 2023 Women’s World Cup with the EBU, ensuring the tournament will be screened in the major markets of France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK following earlier threats of a blackout. https://t.co/FRpLcP5xTf

[Yahoo Sports @YahooSports]

In every other country in the developed world, three-fourths of a championship team having pregnancy complications would be unheard of.

In America, especially for pregnant Black women, it's reality.

@shalisemyoung writes ➡️ https://t.co/htDrt4xO5e

[Michael McCann @McCannSportsLaw]

The IRS finds NIL collectives organized as tax-exempt nonprofits are usually operating for a “substantial nonexempt purpose"--helping recruits get $$. That's been apparent for some time but with IRS saying it, collectives & boosters will have taxes to pay: https://t.co/gDZwroVPlg

[Forbes SportsMoney @ForbesSports]

Kansas City Chiefs Star Patrick Mahomes Cleverly Promotes Coors Light Again https://t.co/x4cmjE8NqN

[Front Office Sports @FOS]

Lakers guard Austin Reaves is finalizing a shoe deal with Chinese company Rigorer, per @ShamsCharania, expected to be worth over seven figures annually.

[National Women’s Soccer League @NWSL]

Rapid growth for the NWSL just halfway through the 2023 season 📈

[NBA @NBA]

The @nuggets are the 2022-23 NBA Champions!

[Ad Age @adage]

Ad revenues for the 2023 @FIFAWWC are up by 50% from the last tournament in 2019, according to Mike Petruzzi, senior VP of sales for @FOXSports. https://t.co/qufHA5qonL

[Lumen Field @LumenField]

This one is for you, @S10Bird. 💚

This weekend, we light up green to celebrate the retirement of Sue Bird's jersey number with the @seattlestorm. #10Forever

[Sportico @Sportico]

In light of golf's mega merger, the PGA Tour faces an unprecedented public relations crisis, which could soon morph into an even larger legal crisis that unravels their plan.

https://t.co/zjqbTCNOJB