(00:30) Feel good stories
- Sport Clips Haircuts held an event where they also donated $1.5M toward veterans' scholarships.
- NBA forward Kyle Kuzma is donating $1 million to the YMCA in his hometown of Flint, Michigan.
- The Green Bay Packers are donating $100,000 to provide 80 Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs) to schools in Wisconsin.
(02:05) - Business of Athletes/Sports
- Olympic gold medal-winning sprinter Usain Bolt is missing more than $12.7 million from an account with a Jamaican private investment firm.
- Harris Blitzer Sports and Entertainment announced that it has purchased a major stake in Ripken Baseball.
- Deal Box is launching a $125M venture arm, where they will look at “FunTech”, which includes action sports.
- LIV Golf has finally found a home on American TV after striking a deal with the CW Network.
- The Tennis Channel has deepened its partnership with Major League Pickleball and will now air the league's semifinal and finals.
- Sports-focused NFT company Candy Digital announced a Series A extension funding round following reports Fanatics was selling of its 60% stake in Candy Digital.
- EP Golf Ventures has invested in Sensible Weather, a climate risk technology company that has a partnership with the PGA.
- Courtside Ventures has completed a $100M sports fund, their 3rd which includes athletes investors such as Larry Fitzgerald and Shaquille O’Neal.
(07:15) - Name, Image, and Likeness
- Curastory is partnering with Tempus Ex Machina to allow Pac-12 players to post content on their social media platforms and earn 50% of the ad revenue they generate.
- Penn State’s NIL collective, Success With Honor, has secured contracts with at least 1 athlete from all 31 varsity sports teams.
- The College Athlete Protection Act was presented in California, which would require the state's college sports programs to share revenue with their athletes.
