BEREA, OH – JULY 27: Deshaun Watson #4 of the Cleveland Browns laughs throughout Cleveland Browns coaching camp at CrossCountry Mortgage Campus on July 27, 2022 in Berea, Ohio. (Photograph by Nick Cammett/Getty Photographs)
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On this week’s SportsMoney Playbook: the world’s highest-paid golfers, a dear NFL stake sale, and a WNBA star turns into a soccer workforce proprietor. Plus: advertising and marketing specialists weigh in on Deshaun Watson’s future.
Professional Soccer
The pending sale of a minority stake within the Raiders values the workforce at $6.5 billion. That is nearly double Forbes’ estimate from final 12 months—however there are caveats.
Dealing with a suspension from the NFL over sexual misconduct allegations, Deshaun Watson has change into untouchable for sponsors, advertising and marketing specialists inform us.
Amazon might be providing a number of alternate streams every week for its Thursday Evening Soccer broadcasts, together with one that includes the stars of a well-liked YouTube channel.
Soccer
Retiring WNBA legend Sue Hen is shopping for a minority stake in NWSL franchise Gotham FC. She tells us she did not want any convincing from her fiancée, soccer star Megan Rapinoe.
A matchup between newly topped Ladies’s Euro champion England and the USWNT has change into the fastest-selling ladies’s soccer recreation in historical past exterior a significant worldwide match.
Baseball
Regional baseball broadcasts are dominating prime-time viewership of their native markets, making MLB a scorching property amongst advertisers.
Motor Sports activities
McLaren races in Method 1, IndyCar and the off-road electrical automobile collection Excessive E, and it’ll quickly be a part of Method E. CEO Zak Brown tells us that that variety is key to the group’s sponsorship success.
The 2 greatest motocross collection are partnering for a brand new championship that can include the game’s biggest-ever prize, $10 million.
School Sports activities
A current court docket ruling on Penn State trademark infringement portrays the multibillion-dollar licensed merchandise business as a home “constructed on sand.”
MMA
The Skilled Fighters League plans to launch divisions in each Europe and the United Arab Emirates throughout the subsequent two years, hoping to establish the following stars for its world roster.
Featured Story
LIV Golf has redefined golf’s financial panorama.
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The World’s Highest-Paid Golfers 2022: LIV Golf Reshuffles Prime Earners And Sends Pay Hovering
Due to Saudi Arabia’s bottomless properly of petrodollars, LIV Golf has boosted the earnings of the highest ten golfers by an estimated $370 million since June, bringing their mixed haul to a file $650 million over the past 12 months. Try our rating of the ten highest-paid golfers.
Sizzling Reads
Upon Additional Overview
After a record-breaking 2021, Cooper Kupp has a profitable contract extension with the Rams and is seeing a big spike in merchandise gross sales. Nonetheless, it will be an uphill climb for Kupp to earn as a lot because the NFL’s high quarterbacks, who claimed seven of the ten spots on our 2021 rating of the league’s highest-paid gamers. A large receiver hasn’t appeared on that record since 2019.
The Final Phrase
“I believe it’s like a automobile. Your physique makes use of numerous mileage, and it’s more durable and more durable to maintain going.” — Kevin De Bruyne
Kevin De Bruyne is taken into account the most effective soccer gamers of his era, however at 31, the Manchester Metropolis midfielder has needed to rethink how he spends his offseasons. Discover out why De Bruyne says he didn’t prepare in any respect this summer time.
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