Eric Fisher, US Editor

Team owner Smith is now both a client of and investor in ticketing company

Company says it remains on pace to hit 2022 targets for revenue, adjusted EBITDA

Streaming subscribers continue to grow for ESPN parent, but so do operating losses

Heavy slate of college football airing opposite Astros' clincher blunts final audience

Illinois-based ticketing company posts record revenue for sixth straight quarter

Baseball easily prevails in head-to-head programming battle

In the days immediately following Musk's takeover, he cuts roughly half of the staff, and revamps standards for verified accounts

In this week’s episode, podcast co-hosts Eric Fisher and Chris Russo interview Kash Shaikh, chairman and chief executive of startup pro baseball league Baseball United, and Baseball Hall of Famer Barry Larkin, a Baseball United owner and board member. Fisher and Russo also discuss Dan Snyder’s move to consider potential equity transactions regarding the National Football League’s Washington Commanders, the star-studded investor group for golf technology startup TMRW Sports, new investment for prominent agency Wasserman, a historic high point in North American pro teams up for sale including the National Hockey League’s Ottawa Senators, and business impacts from the marked decline in the market for sports-related non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

More than a decade after first working outside of the United States, prominent American agency CAA Sports has seen its global efforts over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic period become the foremost growth engine of the business. US Editor Eric Fisher reports.

MLB club further extends its run of bullish results