The involvement of billionaire Mitchell Rales in the Josh Harris-led bid to buy the Washington Commanders gives owner Daniel Snyder a “deep-pocketed alternative" to selling to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and "provides the NFL and its team owners with an appealing mix of well-established local roots and an impressive record of business success,” according to the Washington Post. The news of Rales’s inclusion also “arrived at a critical...

The Utah Jazz were founded in 1974 as the New Orleans Jazz, an expansion team based in New Orleans, Louisiana; the Jazz moved to Salt Lake City in 1979.

With the potential sale of the Washington Commanders uncertain, the team’s stadium search appears “similarly stuck in limbo,” but “whenever the stadium discussion resumes, a three-jurisdiction race may become a real possibility,” according to the Washington Post. On Dec. 2, one month after owner Daniel Snyder announced he was exploring the possibility of selling all or part of the team, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told D.C. Mayor Muriel...

After excellent shows in Los Angeles and Wynwood, the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery will be in New York next week for Outsider Art Fair at 125 W 18th Street, NY 10011, from Thursday 2 March until Sunday 5 March.

The return of the XFL on a crowded holiday weekend was lower than the debut/return of other spring football leagues in recent years. ABC, ESPN and FX averaged just under 1.3 million viewers for Week 1 of the XFL on Saturday and Sunday (doubleheaders both days).

After closing on the Arlington Park property, the Chicago Bears maintain a new stadium and development are "still big 'ifs,' dependent on the team getting property tax limits and public subsidies to help build infrastructure for the project," according to the Chicago Tribune. The team in an open letter said that the purchase was "'an important next step' to see if the plan is feasible."

Fox Sports officially sold out Super Bowl LVII ad inventory, selling its final in-game spot in the week before the NFL conference championship games. The network only has two spots left in its pre-kick show that runs right up until kickoff, and it currently is selling spots for an overtime that may not occur.

NFL exec Jeff Miller said that he "wasn’t aware of any conversations about converting conference title games into neutral site affairs," according to Yahoo Sports. Miller, the league's EVP/Communications, Public Affairs & Policy, said, “We haven’t had a conversation, that at least I’m aware of, about neutral site games." He added, “If the ownership wanted to pursue that, I think that they would. ... It’s not a new...

Several groups "submitted bids to purchase" the Washington Commanders before a late December target requested by the investment bank handling the sale, but none reached the $7B "mark that owner Daniel Snyder seeks for the team," according to a source cited by Washington Post. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos "sat out this stage of the bidding."

Business travelers indicate that nearly 70% of their employers have returned to pre-pandemic normal or increased amounts of business travel