The median NBA salary is $2.5 million per year. “Median” means about the same thing as “typical.” It gives a better view of how much an NBA player makes than average because “median” is literally “middle.” In other words, half the players in the NBA make more than $2.5 milli...
Backup catcher Garrett Stubbs is the commissioner of the league with his Philadelphia Phillies teammates.
matches averaged 343,000 TV viewers, nearly the same as an NHL game. The MLS 2022 final had more viewers than the 2020 Stanley Cup final. Astonishingly, three of the four lowest-rated Stanley Cup Finals were in the last four years–yet NHL rights are valued twice as much as MLS rights...
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver hated the idea of fans rooting for their team to lose, he wanted to change the narrative and create drama and jeopardy for teams at the back end of the playoff chase. The NBA did it with the play-in — seeds No. 7 and 8 no longer automatical...
Bryce Young poses with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell after being selected first overall by the Carolina Panthers during the first round of the 2023 NFL Draft. David Eulitt | Getty Images Sport | Getty Images Team:Carolina Panthers Contract:4 years, $37.9 million ...
whose April 18 event had been canceled after execs from broadcast partner ESPN asked UFC president Dana White to "stand down," called too. It was looking for information to help make good on White's declaration that the UFC would be "the first sport back."Each league had ...
Daniel Murphy, Mets second baseman:You’re feeling a lot of sympathy and empathy for Flo in that moment. He’s having to deal with real world, real life problems on a national stage, basically. Here he is, laid bare for the whole world. There wasn’t much you could do to make the...
In recent years MLB's Hot Stove has been kind of lukewarm. Even with big ticket free agents on the market, the pursuit of free agents dragged well into the New Year each winter. But ESPN's Jeff Passan tells today's host, David Dennis Jr., that won't be the case with Juan Soto ...
“It’s time for WNBA players to get a higher percentage of the league’s basketball-related income,” the Los Angeles Sparks’ Chiney Ogwumike said in a blog post onThe Players Tribune. “They deserve much more than the 10% that the players earn no...
For the first time since 2016, fans will be able to purchase tickets to watch Clark, Reese, Kardoso, Brink and all of this year's draftees hear their names called and walk up to the podium to shake WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert's hand. How long is the WNB...