Chris Smith

NWSL club Angel City FC has finalized terms for Disney CEO  Bob Iger  and his wife,  Willow Bay , to acquire a controlling interest in the team. The deal gives the club an enterprise value of $250M, far and away a record for a women’s sports team, and...

Pollack Films has announced that it’s developing a new basketball documentary series, “Hoops Without Borders,” about a group of 109 global basketball players represented by Andy and Cindy Bountogianis. The company is currently producing a pilot episode and is in touch with potential streaming partners, according to George Veras,...

Nike this week sued L.A.-based custom sneaker business The Shoe Surgeon, seeking over $60M in damages for what it’s called an “egregious display of widespread [trademark] infringement that has even crossed into willful counterfeiting of iconic Nike products,” including the counterfeit of more than 30 Nike trademarks. The lawsuit,...

OneTeam Partners is seeking a general partner to help launch a $75M fund that will “invest in growth stage and opportunistic early-stage companies that have the potential to change the athlete paradigm,” according to an investor deck prepared by OneTeam. The document, reviewed by SBJ, highlights...

When Uninterrupted raised nearly $16 million from Warner Bros. and Turner Sports nine years ago, LeBron James said he wanted to transform the nascent multimedia platform into a “place for athletes to go to connect with fans and share their stories in a different...

Rebrand NY, a newly launched business strategy firm, has aims to help collegiate and pro athletes navigate their entry to off-field and post-retirement ventures. The company is led by Chris Bernard, the former Knicks and The Players’ Tribune executive, and American Exchange Group CEO Alen Mamrout. The...

Australian sports tech firm TGI Sport has finalized a deal to acquire London-based virtual advertising company Supponor. Financial details were not disclosed, but a source familiar with the transaction said TGI will acquire the entirety of Supponor at a €100M valuation (or around $108M). The transaction, intended...

The Comcast NBCUniversal SportsTech accelerator has added Notre Dame as a program partner. SportsTech, which is operated jointly by Comcast and Boomtown, pairs an annual class of ten sports startups with a group of advisor companies either owned by or partnered with Comcast and its subsidiaries. Notre...

LEAD Sports and Health Tech Partners will today announce the addition of Danny Cortenraede and his InStudio Ventures as LEAD’s newest general partner. LEAD sits over a collection of accelerator programs and investment funds, giving shareholders in the firm exposure to sports and health tech...

Athletes Unlimited has brought on KIM NG as a senior advisor ahead of the launch of the Athletes Unlimited Softball League, the planned team softball league that will debut next year with at least 18 games broadcast across ESPN networks. AU co-founder and...