The 4th Quarter Show

This week on The 4th Quarter, Fanatics & American Express launch the Fanatics American Express Card with 500+ Topps-style card designs & why its FanCash could become the SkyMiles of sports, LeBron's & KD's companies team up with Gary Vee, Derrick Rose & SC Holdings to launch the Futures Basketball League with 100 of the top U18 players in America, LeBron & Luka Dončić send cease-and-desist letters to Y Combinator-backed Bron AI over its viral ad, LIV Golf winds down after BC Partners walked away from an up-to-$300M rescue, Silver Lake & Saudi Arabia's PIF are reportedly in talks to buy Unity at about $25B, Gotham FC raises $100M at a reported $350M valuation, MSG Rangers stock jumps 35% since splitting from the Knicks, and more

This week on The 4th Quarter, LA Dodgers owner Mark Walter is shopping his Cadillac F1 team $3B+ amid a federal probe into his insurance companies, Blackstone & Apollo are in preliminary talks to buy into NFL teams, and a record 61,146 runners just finished the New York City Marathon, RedBird Capital & Sound Ventures team up to invest up to $1B in tech, media & culture, UT Austin launches 'Bevo Lab', an AI front office with Dell, Google Cloud & SHI, the WNBA weighs prediction market deals, and more.Thanks to our partner for helping make this happen: Novig - https://novig.com/

This week on The 4th Quarter, we went on the road to the University of Michigan Sports Business Conference, where we sat down with a few of the biggest dealmakers in sports business.American Conference Commissioner Tim Pernetti, legendary VC & team owner Roger Ehrenberg, 3 Arts Entertainment co-CEO Brian Weinstein, and Gasol 16 Ventures CEO Ferran Prieto all came through, plus a surprise drop-in from Nikhil Panu, Head of Growth at Novig.We discussed whether colleges should take $30-40M from private equity now and why college sports is 30 years behind the pros commercially, the NFL’s fund with $120B General Atlantic and his advice for staying young and hungry, 3 Arts Sports' NIL venture with Travis Kelce and how sports and Hollywood are merging, Why not every athlete fund can win and how a coffee in Barcelona landed Ferran an opportunity at Pau Gasol’s investment platform, and how Novig’s Sydney Sweeney campaign tripled the business.

This week on The 4th Quarter, a special in-studio sit-down with Tyler Webb, the 700K-follower sports business creator behind the 24-hour coolest jobs in sports series, what his day actually looks like, and turning social media freelancing into Uncle Charlie, his sports marketing agency. He talked the art of the thumbnail, and every job he's worked from minor league groundskeeper in St. Paul and Zamboni ride-along to NHL arena executive chef and NBA broadcaster. We also asked him on how he would go from 0 to 100K followers if he had to do it all over again.

This week on The 4th Quarter, Sportico's 2026 NBA team valuations led by the Golden State Warriors at $14.5B, EuroLeague's shareholder clubs reject the NBA's merger offer short of $3B, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander to become a shareholder in Atlético de Madrid, Chris Paul to launch an athlete-led sports media company with Genius Sports and Connor Schell's Words + Pictures, MLB's leaked 34-page lockout memo & salary cap drama, NVIDIA brings 3D body pose tracking, AI slow motion, the Miami Heat partner with GTA VI, Adam Silver tells CNBC the NBA wants access to prediction market data & control of the market, and more

This week on The 4th Quarter, Nike adds Bernard Arnault's son & deputy CEO of Moët Hennessy, as 12th board member, MSG Sports' board approves the spinoff of the Knicks and Rangers into two separately traded public companies, Paramount closes its $110B takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery to form Skydance & why David Ellison named former Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz co-CEO, Todd Boehly's Eldridge leads a strategic investment in Overtime, LeBron James commutes between New York & Sixers games on a Fanatics helicopter, Novig is raising at a reported $2B valuation, 4x its valuation from February, Public launches AI agents that trade prediction markets, and more

This week on The 4th Quarter, T4Q crosses 10K followers on Instagram, Manchester City was found guilty on 114 of 115 Premier League financial charges, Steven Bartlett & Authentic Brands launch $400M creator fund, fans may soon be able to trade futures on all 30 MLB teams, Stephen Ross advances talks to sell a 20% stake in the Miami Grand Prix to Otro Capital, FutureSports partnering with MLB on performance indexes for all 30 clubs with CME Group, DLA Piper litigator John S. Gibson takes over as Clippers interim CEO & governor after Ballmer's suspension, Chris Paul joins Owl Ventures as a venture partner, the NBA Launchpad opening applications for its sixth cohort with its first ever Asia track, Magic AI raises $11M Series B, Genius Sports launches Prediction.com to compare contract prices across every prediction market in real time.

This week on The 4th Quarter, the NFL's 32 Equity in talks to build a much larger fund with institutional partners, Tottenham launching Hotspur Labs with athlete-led VC firm The Players Fund, our first ever call-in guest: System Founder & CEO Adam Steinle on the $20 million he raised from Patron Fund, Courtside Ventures, Will Ventures and others to build a next generation peptide brand, three Transfer Portal moves in Russell Westbrook becoming co-founder and chief strategy officer of Project B, WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert retiring after seven seasons, and Íñigo Aznar leaving the Rafa Nadal Academy to become CRO of Inter Miami, Colin Cowherd buying into Ipswich Town FC at a roughly $450 million valuation, the 14 minority investors revealed in the Khosla family's Seahawks purchase, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy's TMRW Sports raising north of a $1 billion valuation, Nike officially falling out of the S&P 100 on September 21st after a 77% five-year decline, whether Shaq's Dunkman can be a billion-dollar league, and an AP Prediction Markets segment on the advertising war between LeBron and Polymarket, Betr's Entourage reunion, and Sydney Sweeney's campaign for Novig, and much more.

This week on The 4th Quarter, Stan Kroenke agrees to buy a controlling stake in the Los Angeles Angels at a reported MLB-record $4 billion valuation, BlackSun Private Equity is raising $1 billion for sports investments, Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman's $250,000 Hugging Face investment now estimated to be worth more than $60 million, Harrison Barnes buys a bank for $25M, is the US Open is worth more to New York than the Knicks? Oura chairman David Shuman buying a minority stake in the New York Islanders, CNBC finds 52% of Gen Z investors are redirecting investment dollars into sports wagering, Authentic Brands Group acquiring 51% of Drake's OVO, Unrivaled Basketball's $100 million Series C at a $650 million valuation, and an AP Prediction Markets segment on the Ninth Circuit's 3-0 ruling on Kalshi, and more.

This week on The 4th Quarter, Dragoneer founder Marc Stad buys control of the Minnesota Timberwolves and WNBA's Lynx from Marc Lore at a $4.5B valuation, Makers Fund is closing a $250M Fund IV to bring AUM to $1.5B, Arctos Partners buys 10% of the Atlanta Falcons at a $10.6B enterprise value, New York Jets owner Woody Johnson buys a minority stake in Aston Martin's F1 team, Roger Goodell telling German TV he has no doubt multiple NFL franchises will one day be based outside the United States and floats an international Super Bowl, Travis Kelce launches TEKTA with Publicis Sports and 3 Arts Sports to fix a fragmented $4.5 billion NIL market, Swish Basket raises a $3.2M Pre-Seed led by Aristagora VC for a lidar sensor that turns any hoop into a connected court, and an AP Prediction Markets segment on Aldrin's weekly competitive intel report.

This week on The 4th Quarter, Josh Kushner and Bob Iger are buying the Los Angeles Lakers from Mark Walter for a record $12.5 billion, the insurance-loan disclosure probe that may have forced the sale, the Buss family tag-along vote and Jeanie Buss's legal reversal, Serena Williams rebrands Serena Ventures into Starfire Ventures with 16 unicorns and five exits, Jeff Bezos and Eduardo Saverin join Amit Bhatia's 1892 Holdings consortium to buy roughly a third of Liverpool FC at a $7B+ valuation with an option to take control at $8B, Mark Walter and Todd Boehly open talks to sell their 12.8% Chelsea stakes to Clearlake, LeBron James launches a YouTube golf channel that did 1.9M views in two days, CardVault by Tom Brady adds JAY-Z, Aaron Judge, Connor McDavid, Dana White, Gerry Cardinale and The Kraft Group to fund a 100-store push, the Cooper Flagg 1-of-1 debut patch auto pulled on a Rhode Island livestream with a $1.5M Goldin advance and a 32-year Mavericks bounty on the table, a jam-packed Prediction Markets segment, and more.

This week on The 4th Quarter — a special one — we visited Novig's Fifth Avenue HQ in New York City. The 11th-gen CEO of Becle buys a 6% stake in LAFC at a $1.25B valuation , LIV Golf signs a term sheet for $250M, Disney sells out Super Bowl LXI ad slots at record speed with roughly $8M a spot, then a full sit-down with Novig Co-Founder & CEO Jacob Fortinsky on becoming the fastest federally designated prediction market in U.S. history & Novig SVP of Growth Nikhil Panu on the New York Mets deal, becoming an MLB authorized prediction market & why he decided to sign a deal with T4Q!

This week on The 4th Quarter, FIFA considered spinning its commercial arm into a $20B entity; UEFA's 55 member associations voted to boycott, Larry Berg leaves LAFC to become the next MLS commissioner, Stephen Jones says the Cowboys wouldn't rule out a minority sale and Jerry names Mark Cuban as the partner he'd want, Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora assembles a consortium prepared to pay over $1B for NBA Europe's London franchise, a 29-year-old finance guy building the Zillow for New York City gyms with $0 in marketing, Underdog sells to London's IG Group for up to $1.3B, Notre Dame and SoFi strike the richest deal in college athletics history at $18M-$20M a year, Jake Paul's Most Valuable Promotions merges with the PFL, and more

This week on The 4th Quarter, Providence Equity nears a deal for 100% of The Team (formerly Wasserman) at a 15.8x EBITDA multiple, Jeff Bezos is linked to Amit Bhatia's consortium bid for Liverpool FC, Mark Cuban's Harbinger Sports makes its first investment in the Athletics, Red Bull rejects a $3B Abu Dhabi-backed bid for the Racing Bulls, Fanatics buys a CFTC-licensed exchange, Jake Paul launches a family office, and more

This week on The 4th Quarter, Vinod Khosla buys the Seahawks from Paul Allen's estate at a record $9.6B, David Beckham's IM8 lands $1B in financing from General Catalyst, FIFA's World Cup brings in $15B to become the most lucrative sports event in history, and more.

This week on The 4th Quarter, Novak Djokovic takes a job on Wall Street as a strategic advisor to $126B growth equity giant General Atlantic, hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin makes headlines for bankrolling Team USA's World Cup Head Coach Hire, Monster Energy becomes the first-ever conference-level entitlement partner with a ~$20M/year Big 12 deal, and more

This week on The 4th Quarter, FIFA's new three-minute hydration breaks at the World Cup turn into a $250M ad windfall for Fox, Peyton Manning's Omaha Productions partners with ESPN to bring the World Series of Poker back to TV, the Pittsburgh Penguins selling to the Hoffman family for $1.7B, Bill Foley formally bids for an NBA Vegas expansion team, KKR's Arctos teams up with RVX Ventures to build entertainment districts around college stadiums, Sony invests $100M into Cosm, CVC Capital takes a stake in Chess.com, The Chainsmokers' new VC fund, Jake Paul's Anti Fund closes $100M, the Sumo Championship League is launching in US arenas, and more

This week on The 4th Quarter, L Catterton enters exclusive talks to take a major stake in Hyrox, Fanatics takes 8,000 orders per minute and projects $100M in Knicks championship merch sales, the University of Utah's first-of-its-kind $100M+ deal with Otro Capital to create Crimson Brand Partners, the 2026 World Cup opener becomes the most watched soccer match in American history at 27.5M viewers, and more

This week on The 4th Quarter, FIFA pulls off the most aggressive media distribution land grab in sports history? Nike signs Twitch streamer Marlon, Marc Lasry's plan to bring an MLB team to Raleigh at a $4B price tag, World Cup hotels are sitting half empty across US host cities, Peloton acquires Pilates startup Skōp to chase a $19.2B market, Sportradar's new Kalshi partnership, the iconic OG Anunoby game-winning trading card, Professor Peramanu's debut, and more (06/11/2026)

This week on The 4th Quarter, Steph Curry signs a $400M deal with Chinese brand Li-Ning, Luka Dončić buys an Italian basketball team as a Trojan horse for NBA Europe, Melinda French Gates buys into the Seattle Kraken, Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman to launch a Disney+ docuseries on their SailGP team, a viral Meta Ray-Bans running game is built on Strava's MCP in a single weekend, and more (06/04/2026)

This week on Enhanced Games' first event in Vegas and what Wall Street reactions, Kyle Kuzma goes viral on VC & tech Twitter, Gucci becomes the first luxury fashion house to title sponsor an F1 team at $150M, an insane week in collectibles - a $5.1M Wemby rookie card, a $1.35M Josh Allen card that doesn't physically exist yet, and a $1M Ronaldo card, and more (05/28/26)

This week on The 4th Quarter, billionaire Tom Dundon lays off 20% of Portland Trail Blazers staff, FIFA caves to China for the 2026 World Cup at a fraction of its asking price, the New York Knicks' playoff run projects $140M in revenue, McDonald's buys its first-ever stadium naming rights, and more (05/21/2026)

This week on The 4th Quarter, Google's Fitbit Air takes aim at the $10B WHOOP with Steph Curry as the face, Fanatics steals the FIFA collectibles deal from Panini after 60 years, Drake helps Venezia FC raise $118M, Enhanced Games goes public at a $1.2B valuation, and more

This week on The 4th Quarter, we dove into Apollo Sports' $225M pickleball rollup, the Rajasthan Royals $1.65B sale, the Golden State Valkyries becoming the first billion-dollar women's sports team, Fox One and Michelob Ultra's wild World Cup stunt marketing jobs, and more

This week on The 4th Quarter, we talk our new partnership with Yahoo Sports' Sports Business Hub, Nike's 11-year stock low, the NFL partners with Skydance to launch a Hollywood studio, a new $500M athlete investment fund with Cooper Flagg, and more

This week on The 4th Quarter, Nike stock is down 30% YTD and we break down why, the San Diego Padres sell for a record $3.9B, Lewis Hamilton launches a global trading card empire, the PWHL hits 1M fans, plus the latest sports real estate deals, M&A, and more

This week on The 4th Quarter, we covered the latest in LIV Golf's potential collapse, the NBA's 24-year viewership high, the DOJ investigation into the NFL, FIFA charging fans for historically free events, Overtime's CEO & President stepping down, Asia's new University Basketball League, and more

This week on The 4th Quarter, we delve into the NFL's newly announced flag football league & why everyone is involved, WHOOP's gargantuan funding round, what we can expect from the new international 'Project B' league, and more