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Go to Source Author: Eric Fisher A formal vote on the Oakland A’s proposed relocation to Las Vegas is now targeted for November.MLB commissioner Rob Manfred intends to bring the measure before team owners for ratification during league meetings scheduled for Nov. 14-16 in Arlington, Texas. Approval requires support from at least 23 of 30 clubs. If approved, the move would formalize MLB’s first club relocation since the Montreal Expos became the Washington Nationals in 2005, and just the second in the last 51 years after the Washington Senators became the Texas Rangers in 1972. Las Vegas will be the A’s fourth home since the franchise’s 1901 founding after prior stops in Philadelphia, Kansas City, and Oakland. An MLB relocation committee led by Milwaukee

Go to Source Author: David Rumsey The WNBA’s quest to expand beyond the league’s current 12 teams appears to be off and running.Golden State Warriors owner Joe Lacob is reportedly leading a group that’s set to bring a new team to the Bay Area. The WNBA franchise would play at the Warriors’ Chase Center and have headquarters at the NBA team’s practice facility in Oakland. An announcement is expected in October.WNBA expansion has been anticipated for some time now. Earlier this year, commissioner Cathy Engelbert said the league was eyeing a short list of 10 cities for new teams and hoping to add multiple franchises by 2025.In addition to the Bay Area, other cities likely still under consideration include Nashville, Toronto, Austin, Charlotte,

Go to Source Author: Andrew Cohen Amazon has opened the NFL season with its two highest audiences for Thursday Night Football since Prime Video started streaming NFL games in 2017.Thursday’s Week 3 matchup between the New York Giants and the San Francisco 49ers averaged a 6.5 rating and 13.92 million viewers on Amazon Prime Video, making it the second-most watched NFL game ever on Prime Video, per SportsMedia Watch. It trails only the prior week’s Minnesota Vikings-Philadelphia Eagles game on TNF, which drew 15.05 million viewers as the most-streamed game in NFL history.Thursday Night Football is now averaging 14.48 million viewers through two games, a 21% increase over last year’s first two games (11.95M), and 71% more than the viewership for 2021’s

Go to Source Author: Eric Fisher The tentative deal to end the Hollywood writers’ strike after nearly five months will be welcome news for several sports-related companies and networks. TBS and TNT parent Warner Bros. Discovery previously projected a $300 million to $500 million hit in annual adjusted earnings due to the Hollywood strikes. French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault recently completed his $7 billion acquisition of Creative Artists Agency — one of the largest agencies representing both athletes and Hollywood personnel — and can now begin to approach full operations.Late-night talk shows, which for decades have been an active promotional spot for sports figures, could return to new episodes in a matter of days and be among the first affected programs back on the

Go to Source Author: David Rumsey For Texas and Oklahoma, the price of leaving the Big 12 in 2024 and joining the SEC a year early could’ve been much higher.In 2021, when the two schools announced their decisions to leave the Big 12 in 2025, reports pointed to $160 million in forfeited TV revenue if the Longhorns and Sooners joined the SEC any earlier. However, earlier this year, when the Big 12 announced Texas and Oklahoma would depart in 2024, the cost was stated as $100 million combined.Now, new details of the buyout reported by USA Today are showing the convoluted nature of the agreement — and frustration from remaining Big 12 members.Texas and Oklahoma have continued to receive full revenue shares,

Go to Source Author: Michael McCarthy ESPN and Fox Sports went head-to-head with the so-called Deion Sanders Bowl last weekend with the former scoring a television win.Sanders and Colorado are the hottest story in sports, as evidenced by CBS News’ storied “60 Minutes” sending a crew to profile “Coach Prime” in Boulder, Colorado.On Saturday, ESPN and Fox — the ruling TV duopoly of college sports — both sent their pregame studio shows to Boulder to hype the Rocky Mountain grudge match between Colorado and Colorado State.But “College GameDay” more than doubled the audience of Fox’s rival “Big Noon Kickoff,” according to sources.With analyst Lee Corso making his 400th headgear pick, “College GameDay” averaged 2,267,000 viewers, peaking at 2,994,000 during its final hour