NWSL’s big opportunity, plus Steph Curry joins college sports’ GM era

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Running the conversation: Can NWSL finally take advantage of speed?

After an interesting challenge cup last week, the regular season of 2025 NWSL begins on Friday.

The league business is fast. Just a glimpse:

All this is not perfect, and my colleagues Melania Enzade and Meg Line Han have recently detailed a lot of issues within the Bay FC, in addition to the last month’s $ 5 million league settlement around the scandal.

Overall, in the first 90 days of 2025, the latest manifestation of women’s sports investment has been seen, which has praised the decade. Consider: Unprecedented January, February Women’s Flag Football Super Bowl Promotion and the launch of the women’s NCAA tournament on Sunday, on the way to setting a TV audience record – even more than the Catalon Clark era.

Now NWSL’s biggest season is here. I contacted Line Han to give answers to two questions:

What is the biggest opportunity before the league in 2025?

Mag: NWSL’s actively new and comfortable fans are coming to court and has shared goals around the story and cultural compatibility. Right now, it’s very easy: Make sure people know about the league, and transform them into viewers and ticket buyers for constant development.

What is the biggest potential threat to this year that will stop this pace?

Most of the professional league is probably watching the US economic approach very closely, but a sign of recession can affect everything from the ongoing and potential brand partnership to the power to buy fans.

Lucknow’s essential “state of league’s state” will continue Athletic Friday Morning – Search! (For now, read this season’s preview from full time, our free women’s football newsletter.)

Get caught: College GM’s Year continues, plus unhealthy MLB hats

Sports Business Industry Big Speakers:

Stef Curry, Davidson Basketball Assistant GM: I was already due to the GM of this college sports. Curry’s new role with Davidson is noteworthy for his global celebrity and his ability to help raise funds.
According to the intellect: Davidson’s revised Nile Budget for men and women’s basketball programs now stands on it. Million more than 10 millionWhich completely changes their speed in the Nile era.

Expect many NBA players to sign in roles like loose government GMs with their alma meters. (And a fellow Carolina team recently hired an NBA agent for a similar position.)

Related-Ash: Power Rankings
I would like to see highly paid NBA Players as College Assistant GMS/Nilezar:

1. Leh: CJ Mac Colum (2025 Salary: $ 33,333,333)

2. Williams: Duncan Robinson (, 19,406,000)

3. Weberg State: Damine Lillerd (, 48,787,676)

4. Vitta State: Fred Van Vallet (, 42,846,615)

5. Ikran: Libron (, 48,728,845)

MLB rays for sale? My fellow Ivan Droelich is the best explainer read about the situation of this situation – the stadium contract is the most important issue.
MLB’s latest pepper Snifo: See the jerseys are out. There are designs of non -consulting hat. You have to see it.
Stephen A. Smith, $ 100m YarkerNothing shows that Stephen A is better than last week’s side -line spots than the bridge of Gravity of Stephen A, about the coverage of Smith, which first turned into a debate on T -Tech, SAS’s own pods and sports media landscapes.
MLS Executive Survey Results: Incredible access to my colleagues-and rare candles from Front Office executives. (Except, in particular, on a title: Ability to occupy USL’s MLS – almost half the respondents will not comment on it.)
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Remembering Junior Bridge Man: Business success and a forward payment model after court career is over.

Other current obsession: Rebok golf shoes… Shohi Ohtani in Fortnite… the first recipient of the Flag Westerland, The Flag Football Scholarship… Cell GP, F -One out of seven oceans… Keller Felivic, Wooford Player that shoots Grani -style free throw and will make us charming next week…

Ta Edge: How is the owner of your bracket pool

The selection is Sunday a few days, and when the brackets come out, we are all looking for every benefit. My is to go AthleticThe teams’ annual bracket breakers are most likely to be upset. There is gold in the pre -election pre -election… Drake!

They are among the 21 teams in the country that force businesses, force aggressive recovery and loot defense recovery, which makes them a widespread edge of property.

Drake also plays the country’s best pace, which makes it more clear from this occupation. Nevertheless, in a game where each team has a ball less than usual, each trip is more important than the top or below the floor.

Add all this, and add Drake Profiles as an epic undergree: Their under -dug rating is almost twice than any team that has made the previous year’s field 11 badges or less.

How good is the college basketball team Drake? Great it is currently the most famous “Drake” in the consciousness of the sports world. Next week, too much march madness on the site.

Bags

Electricity period.

Elevator Pitch: ‘Sideman’ is the future of sports

Last weekend, 90,000 fans packed the Wimily Stadium to watch the “Side Man Charity Match 2025”, “packing football mega influenians against each other on the pitch. As long as you have 22 million views of the match, the match is not checked.

In November, Jack Paul combine the side -man event with the audience for Mike Tyson Netflix Fight and the number of other funny audiences is regularly made through influence such as Soccer Selen Depot (44m+ YouTube subsidies), and which you realize that this is Massive opportunities for TV rights around the events that are particularly characterized by the influence of sports.

Save Date: November 15, 2025

Kados named the Women’s College Basketball Power Houses as “Real SC” for agreeing to the two -year series of South Carolina and southern California. Jojo Watkins vs Dawn Steli’s team is a great way to finish the new college hoops season in Crypto Arena in LA in November.

Data Point: Hope at 95.5 %

A year ago, Mattis fans ranked 23rd in MLB fans for “candidates” – 38.4 % of the fans expected. In this season? It is expected at 95.5 % – Mattis fans! It’s good at the fourth number AthleticEnlightenment Annual MLB HIMBION CATING.

Review: ESPN app internal warnings

Monday’s Twitter/X Impoliation, the way the NFL “legal tampering” began was a matter of an interesting use for Adam Shepheter’s ESPN app alerts.

Betterly (if not practically), the Sheft should always post to ESPN users, then X, but in this case, its auxiliary – had to go straight to the ESPN app (other than IG and Bluesky), and it was a bit cool like social media.

A Nut Puk: Alerts were written for counting of Twitter words, not ESPN’s mobile information, which is not G …