Sports Management

NWSL refreshes finances as teams 19 and 20 wait

Jessica Berman says the NWSL has no fixed deadline to award teams 19 and 20.

Rice renames stadium in 20-year deal ahead of $120M renovation

Rice Stadium is now First Community Stadium. The 20-year deal bundles campus banking and internships, and much of it could run in a smaller renovated venue.

GameChanger adds tiered scorekeeping, highlight pages and club messaging for basketball

GameChanger's new basketball tools give club administrators a way to share information with all their teams at once.

JMI Sports keeps Penn's multimedia rights five more years under a new revenue share

JMI Sports extends its Penn multimedia rights deal five years with a new revenue-share model; it also includes Penn Relays rights, per Sports Business Journal.

Pollstar names winners of 2026 Excellence in Concessions Awards

Pollstar published its 2026 Excellence in Concessions Awards on Sept. 2, recognizing venue food, beverage and hospitality programs across the U.S.

US Open’s million-plus crowd is turning event tech into data ops

USTA’s startup program and Deloitte’s US Open work point to the same shift: major events are buying and governing a data-operating model, not just event tech.

Presidio’s Resonate uses agentic AI to turn sports archives into searchable inventory

Presidio is pushing agentic AI into sports media ops, pairing Captivate fan experiences with Resonate back-end search, tagging, and clip generation on AWS Media

30% of high schools have canceled games for referee shortages, AB survey finds

Athletic Business survey data shows officials are the bottleneck in prep sports, while colleges keep building. That’s shifting spending toward flexible systems

Fastbreak AI is quietly becoming the scheduling engine for 50-plus pro leagues

Fastbreak AI says its software now schedules 50+ pro leagues. For ops teams, the real shift is treating schedules like constrained optimization, not calendar wo

Turf equipment makers are selling less downtime

New 2027 equipment messaging is shifting to productivity and fleet visibility, while turf teams tie machine decisions to soil moisture, salinity, and ET data.

$2.3 billion Rays stadium plan highlights how venues are starting to resemble utilities

Tampa's $2.3B Rays ballpark deal restructures an $80M piece into a 35-year revenue-sharing plan for city infrastructure, part of a wider look at how venues manage funding, automation, and sustainability.

Telestream and ScorePlay pipe live sports feeds into the media library

Telestream Vantage ingest now feeds ScorePlay’s media platform, turning live feeds into searchable clips faster and raising the bar for monitoring and metadata

Orchestrating Excellence: The Symphony of Teamwork

One leader's approach to aligning diverse talents creates harmony that drives exceptional results across every project

ESL Gaming Goes Global with Coupa

The esports giant standardized its spending operations globally, unlocking new organizational agility across every business function

Revving Up the Fan Experience with Mark Faber

A legendary speedway executive reveals how community connection transforms the fan experience beyond the racing itself