BREAKING: Aditya Mittal, a member of one of India's richest families, has committed to fill a big piece of the $6.1 billion @Celtics sale. He'll be second largest investor, behind Bill Chisholm. More from Scott Soshnick and Kurt Badenhausen 👇 sportico.com/business/team-…

Given today's news re: Trump and Harvard University, here's something that we wrote at Sportico last month about the international students that make up more than 20% of Harvard's athletic department. More with Daniel Libit and Lev Akabas 👇 sportico.com/leagues/colleg…

Interested in Bill Belichick, NBA Playoff aesthetics, or the pope? Then you really should join us at club.sportico.com (We also ranked all 32 NFL Schedule release videos if that's more your thing)

The world's highest paid athlete is now a free agent: sportico.com/personalities/…

NEWS: BELP, MLB's $1.2 billion venture arm, is investing "eight figures" into Athletes Unlimited' new softball venture. It is MLB's biggest investment yet into pro softball. More with Kurt Badenhausen 👇 sportico.com/leagues/baseba…

Ex-players alleging sexual abuse by the multimillionaire founder of New York City’s famed Riverside Hawks basketball program—which pioneered the elite travel-team model of youth sports—critcize legal defenses offered by the defendant, Riverside Church: sportico.com/law/analysis/2….

On today's Club Sportico, I wrote about the curious first year of the NFL's private equity era, which has been dominated by... wealthy individual buyers?? Maybe the league's demand problem was really just a shortfall in supply? club.sportico.com/p/the-nfl-misr…

There were 21 new NFL owners announced in the last few months, and 18 of them were individuals, not institutional funds.

For context: The Louisville men's tennis head coach makes about $155K. The women's tennis coach makes $141k. Women's golf $179K.

The Florida Panthers raised season ticket prices by 36.5% (!) heading into this season. Fans renewed at a 91% clip. Here's how an NHL team with a season ticket wait list monetizes three straight Stanley Cup Final appearances. From Sportico 👇 sportico.com/business/finan…

Not sure the 'Fort Lauderdale Panthers' has quite the same ring 🤣

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BREAKING: Billionaire Justin Ishbia is acquiring a formal path to control the Chicago White Sox. Can happen as early as 2029, he can force sale in 2034. More at Sportico 👇 sportico.com/business/team-…

Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' has major tax implications for pro gamblers--and possibly for recreational bettors like you Pro poker players and sports bettors have been quick to react. Industry operators and trade groups, not so much. More at Sportico 👇 sportico.com/business/sport…

No statement from American Gaming Association today but its CEO advocated for consumer-friendly tax policy in a letter to 2 Congressional committees this spring

Here's Citizens gaming analyst Jordan Bender's assessment of how the new gambling tax code will impact the big regulated sportsbooks. tl;dr -- the gamblers affected by this new tax (i.e., the good ones) are already basically non-grata at the big sportsbooks.