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WNBA's $7M Salary Cap Revolution & NCAA social highlights limited
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WNBA CBA quadruples salary cap to US$7m in new revenue sharing agreement – SportPro *
WNBA increases salary cap significantly.
WNBA, Finance, Revenue, Women's Sport
The big calls needed to fix Newcastle United – Howe's future, striker signings, brutal transfer decisions and more – The Athletic *
Newcastle United's critical strategic decisions.
Sports Management, Soccer, Strategic Management
What will Caitlin Clark, Paige Bueckers and more WNBA stars on rookie contracts now make? – The Athletic *
Salaries for WNBA stars emerging.
WNBA, Contracts, Sports Management
World Cup 2026 Security Funding Finally Arrives, but the Delay Tells You Plenty – Culture of Sport *
Delayed security funds for World Cup 2026.
World Cup, Security, Funding, Politics, Event Management
I Vibe Coded The Epstein Files Podcast With Claude and Hit 100K Downloads in a Week – Levy's Newsletter
AI drives podcast success rapidly.
AI, Podcast, Marketing, Technology, Media
Professional Sports
Athlete Financing Firm Gets Backing From Former Endeavor Chiefs – Bloomberg
Endeavor executives support athlete financing.
Athlete Financing, Sponsorship, Investment
India sports economy 2025 crosses $2 Billion driven by cricket and media spending – Sport Mint
India's sports economy reaches milestone.
Sports Business, Marketing, Media Rights, Sponsorship, Cricket
Digital & Social
Why Teams Aren't Posting Their Own March Madness Highlights – Front Office Sports *
NCAA limits team highlight postings.
NCAA, Marketing, Media Rights, Social Media
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Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI agent to help him run Meta – The Wall Street Journal
AI aids executive management at Meta.
AI, Management, Innovation, Business Strategy
Why We Actually Use Vectors: The Conceptual Link Between Linear Algebra and Machine Learning – Medium
Vectors' link to machine learning explained.
Machine Learning, Data Analysis, Sports Technology
AI
OpenAI is throwing everything into building a fully automated researcher – MIT Technology Review *
OpenAI focuses on automated research.
AI, Research, Technology, Sports Analytics
Make you think
Okara – The world's first AI CMO – X
Agentic CMO replacing marketing teams?
AI, Marketing, Business, Technology
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Portland Blazers Sale, WNBA CBA & Vibe-coded podcast gets 100K downloads
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Tom Dundon's Group Buying 80% of Blazers in Deal's First Phase – Front Office Sports *
Explores the dynamics of sports team ownership.
NBA, Business, Investment, Sports Teams
Multi-Screening March Madness – Front Office Sports *
Examines March Madness' media innovation.
March Madness, Sports Media, Technology
World Baseball Classic Final Draws Record 10.78M Viewers – Boardroom TV *
Record viewership for World Baseball Classic.
World Baseball Classic, Viewership, Sports Broadcasting, Marketing, Sponsorship
Sports creator Florian Marliere buys the broadcast rights to France's premiere rugby league – BBC *
Influencers in sports broadcasting rights.
Sports Media, Broadcasting Rights, Rugby
Professional Sports
WNBA, WNBPA Sign Term Sheet for 7-Year CBA – Front Office Sports
New CBA signifies progress in women's sports.
WNBA, Labor, CBA, Women's Sports
The business of the IPL 2026: Cricket's billion-dollar juggernaut enters a new commercial era – SportPro
IPL's massive economic impact examined.
IPL, Sponsorship, Media Rights, Cricket
Digital & Social
AI Won't Replace Strategy: It Will Expose It – Medium
Explores AI's role in strategic planning.
AI, Strategy, Sports Technology, Marketing
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NVIDIA Wants to Own Every Layer of the AI Economy and GTC 2026 Was the Blueprint – Neuron Daily
NVIDIA showcases its ambitious AI goals.
AI, Technology, Business Strategy, Sponsorship
Adobe Firefly lets creators train AI on their own images to scale a signature style across video and photo projects – Adobe Blog
Explore Adobe's AI for personalised branding.
AI, Content Creation, Marketing, Multimedia, Branding
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I Vibe Coded The Epstein Files Podcast With Claude and Hit 100K Downloads in a Week – Levy’s Newsletter *
How AI can build new content, amazing use case
AI, Vibe Coding, Podcast
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Cricket's Gambling Controversy, MLB Private Equity Targets & the WNBA's New CBA Deal
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Cricket boards at loggerheads over ‘deeply disturbing' gambling proposal – Crikey *
Cricket's controversial gambling revenue discussion.
Cricket, Gambling, Sponsorship, Sports Marketing, Revenue
Japan-Australia innovative sport and health partnership.
International Collaboration, Innovation, Sports Technology, Health, Government Partnerships
MLB's Low Valuations May Make Teams Private Equity Targets – Sportico *
MLB as target for private equity due to low valuations.
MLB, Finance, Private Equity, Investment, Business
Professional Sports
WNBA, WNBPA Agree to New CBA with Increased Salary Cap, Player Pay – ESPN *
CBA increases salary cap and player pay.
WNBA, Sponsorship, Marketing, Business
Venezuela Team Gets Biggest Share of $37M WBC Prize Pool – Front Office Sports
WBC prize pool boosts Venezuela's share.
WBC, Prize Money, Sports Economics
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Cursor Trains Models to Self‑Summarise Context – Cursor
Self-summarising AI can aid sports analytics.
Artificial Intelligence, Data, Technology, Analytics
AI Is Great, Except When It Gets Everything Wrong All The Time – The Age
Explores challenges of AI in sports contexts.
AI, Marketing, Technology, Data, Sports Business
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Why Sport Has An Analogue Advantage Over Artificial Intelligence – Notice Sports
Highlights sports' unmatched human experience.
Sports, Marketing, AI, Human Connection
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Ohtani's $125M Sponsorship Empire, WNBA's New CBA & AI Content access
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NWSL 4.0: On the Big New Bets Investors Are Making on NWSL – The Athletic *
Big investments shaping the NWSL future.
NWSL, Investment, Women's Sports, Market Growth
MLB's Highest-Paid Players 2026: Ohtani Earns $125M Via Sponsors – Sportico *
Shohei Ohtani's massive earnings reveal sports marketing trends.
Athletes, Sponsorship, Marketing, MLB, Brand
Professional Sports
WNBA and WNBPA New CBA Agreement – Front Office Sports *
Details on new bargaining terms shaping the WNBA.
WNBA, CBA, Sports Negotiations, Marketing, Sponsorship
Fifa and YouTube ‘preferred platform' agreement includes live World Cup streaming – SportsPro
World Cup going digital with YouTube streaming.
FIFA, YouTube, Broadcasting, OTT, World Cup
Explained: Could Iran's World Cup games be moved from the U.S. to Mexico? – The Athletic
FIFA debates relocation of key matches.
World Cup, Soccer, Sports Management, International Sports
Inside Callaway's Tech-Bending Search for Golf's Next Big Driver – The Athletic
Golf's tech-driven transformation with Callaway.
Golf, Technology, Callaway, Innovation
Media & Entertainment
News sites are locking out the Internet Archive to stop AI crawling. Is the ‘open web' closing? – The Conversation *
Debate on digital content access and media rights.
Media, Technology, Digital Content, AI
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NVIDIA Wants to Own Every Layer of the AI Economy – The Neuron *
NVIDIA aims to dominate in the AI market.
AI Economy, NVIDIA, Technology
GPT-5.4 Mini and Nano – OpenAI
Efficient AI models for high-volume data workloads.
Artificial Intelligence, Marketing, Data, Technology
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YouTube – Oscars Cold Open – YouTube
Engagement strategies on multimedia platforms.
YouTube, Media, Digital Content, Engagement
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F1 Parasocial Bonds, NBA Expansion & AI Agent Learning
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Parasocial on the paddock: can you humanise millionaire F1 drivers? – It's Face Time *
Explores F1 fan relationships.
F1, Marketing, Athlete Branding
AI will smash jobs in communications – Mumbrella *
AI's impact on jobs in focus.
AI, Communications, Technology
Professional Sports
NBA Expansion Talks Heat Up Ahead of Owners Meeting – Boardroom *
Potential NBA expansions discussed.
NBA, Expansion, Media Rights
Mat Ishbia in Talks to Buy Suns Stakes From Minority Partners Who Sued Him – Front Office Sports
NBA ownership disputes in focus.
NBA, Ownership, Investment
Cat Macario Signs Record NWSL Contract With San Diego Wave – Sportico
Record NWSL contract signed.
NWSL, Women's Soccer, Contracts
Digital & Social
Episode 317: Jaelyn Arndt on the NCAA's Social Strategy, Storytelling Across Divisions, the Proud Auntie Voice, March Madness, and More – Digital and Social Media Sports *
NCAA's digital storytelling explored.
Sports Marketing, Social Media, NCAA
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Princeton researchers find a way to make agents learn in real time – The Decoder *
Real-time learning in AI spotlighted.
AI, Technology, Real-time Data
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