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Damar Hamlin’s Collapse Put ESPN at the Center of the News

It was 8:55 p.m., the early stages of a hotly anticipated National Football League game, when it seemed as though a run-of-the-mill injury had interrupted the game.“Another Bills player down,” […]




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YouTube in Advanced Talks for N.F.L. Sunday Ticket

Google’s YouTube is nearing a deal to acquire the rights to the National Football League’s Sunday Ticket package of games, according to three people with knowledge of the talks, a […]




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NFL Sends Sunday Ticket Talks With Apple and Google Into Overtime

Roger Goodell, the National Football League’s commissioner, flew to Sun Valley, Idaho, this summer for Allen & Company’s annual media conference, confident that the N.F.L. was close to announcing its […]




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Draftea kicks off LatAm fantasy football with NFL partnership, fresh funding

Draftea, which calls itself the first daily fantasy sports company in Spanish-speaking Latin America, is taking fantasy football (not fútbol) to the region in a new partnership with the National […]







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Why Big Tech Is Making a Big Play for Live Sports

LOS ANGELES — More than a decade after Apple disrupted the music industry and Amazon upended retail, the tech heavyweights have set their sights on a new arena ripe for […]




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ESPN+ is getting a big price hike

On August 23, the price of ESPN+ will jump from $6.99 to $9.99 per month, and the annual plan is going up from $69.99 to $99.99. The steep 43% increase […]




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The NFL is looking to launch its own streaming service this summer, says report

The National Football League is expected to launch its own streaming service, NFL+, as early as July, according to a report from the NFL owner meeting in Atlanta by Sports […]




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AiFi adds new funding into its cart to expand autonomous retail footprint

Contactless stores are gaining traction, more so in Europe, but there are some trickling into the U.S., including Atlanta’s Nourish + Bloom Market that opened in January. In that article, […]




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Bosses Have a New Headache: How Long Should Sick Workers Isolate?

Barbara Sibley’s four New York restaurants had already weathered the city’s initial Covid-19 wave, the prevaccine surge last winter and this summer’s Delta spike when last weekend it finally happened: […]