Former UCLA basketball player Ed O’Bannon was drafted ninth overall in the 1995 NBA Draft and spent nearly a decade playing professional ball. Years after O’Bannon retired, one of his
The Denver Broncos and the Las Vegas Raiders have accomplished this summer what no other National Football League teams have been able to do – diversify their highest-ranking leadership positions.
Play ball! After tense labor negotiations between Major League Baseball’s ownership group and its players’ union prompted a labor lockout forcing the first week of the season to be postponed,
For years, as Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime and over-the-top (OTT) streaming services have upended the world of film and television, live sports broadcasts have remained firmly entrenched on more traditional
If a professional sports team relocates to a new city, what are the likely economic benefits? Professional sports teams impact a local economy in four different ways, according to the
Effective July 1, 2021, NCAA athletes were allowed to profit off of their name, image or likeness (NIL) for the first time ever. This means that, while these athletes are
On Sept. 9, the first day of the 2021 NFL season, Arizona became the 23rd state in the U.S. to legalize sports gambling. At least 16 sportsbooks are now open
Sports business in 2021 and beyond Sports venues across the U.S. and around the world continue to reopen as the vaccine rollout continue. Many fans have viewed this momentous occasion
The Arizona economy yielded a gross domestic product of $350 billion in 2018, 3% of which — $10.5 billion — came from the state’s tourism industry. In turn, 3.5% of
When star point guard Chris Paul joined the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2019, a few journalists seized on an under-the-radar storyline: Paul was returning to the city where he began
Like all cultural institutions, sports are subject to the twists and turns of the global economy. The first part of this series discussed how journalists can use state income tax
This summer, quarterback Patrick Mahomes signed the largest contract in sports history, committing himself to the Kansas City Chiefs for the next decade. The deal was a $503-million whopper that
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