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Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media! This post is free for everyone thanks to our premium subscribers, who you can join here for just $5 a month or $50 a year. Now, on to the piece... The SEC actually expelling LSU seems unlikely, but it's wild that this debate has gone this far A Sankey v. Kiffin image from The Sports Judge on Facebook. If you're in SEC territory, your first "sound and fury" thought might be William Faulkner's 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury, about a group of Mississippi...

Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media! This post is an exclusive for our premium subscribers, who you can join here. Now, on to the piece... What role did Pablo Torre's reporting play in the Clippers' punishment? A key challenge for sports leagues compared to other businesses is the importance of fair competition between their component members. Yes, restaurant or retail companies with a lot of locations or franchisees might encourage some friendly competition between those stores on hitting...

Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media! This post is free for everyone thanks to our premium subscribers, who you can join here. Now, on to the piece... Shaq teams with Credit One and Medium Rare for credit education and DJ sets on Credit Tip Off Tour A poster for the Credit One Bank Credit Tipoff Tour. (Medium Rare.) Shaquille O'Neal stands out from most sports analysts in many ways, but one is about the many things he's involved with beyond just talking about sports. Yes, the NBA star turned...

Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media! This post is an exclusive for our premium subscribers, who you can join here. Now, on to the piece... College football's Week 0 may go out with a bang A Week 0 graphic from Fox Sports on X. The college football season both somewhat starts and doesn't start this week. It's the "Week 0" of the season, which in its modern sense (there were some one-off early games in prior decades) began in 2014 with a FCS kickoff between Eastern Washington and Sam Houston...

Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media! This post is free for everyone thanks to our premium subscribers, who you can join here. Now, on to the piece... Split Zone Duo dives into volleyball coverage with 'Six Zone Duo," hosted by Erin Sorensen and Amie Just A 'Six Zone Duo' logo. (Six Zone Duo.) Volleyball has received perhaps one of the largest coverage bumps of any sport in the last five years, especially when it comes to the women's indoor game in the U.S. at both the college and pro...

Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media! This post is an exclusive for our premium subscribers, who you can join here. Now, on to the piece... The Lakers haven't gained $2.5 billion in business value in a year The Lakers' 2024 NBA Cup court. (Image from Troutfarm27 on Wikimedia Commons.) It is a truth universally acknowledged (well, it isn't, but it should be) in all of the pieces on the $12.5 billion sale of the Los Angeles Lakers from Mark Walter to Thrive Capital CEO Joshua Kushner and...

Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media! This post is an exclusive for our premium subscribers, who you can join here. Now, on to the piece... Pablo Torre's exposure of the Daktronics angle to the Kawhi Leonard case shows wider issue with salary caps' max contracts, notable around current MLB discussions Kawhi Leonard with the Toronto Raptors in the 2019 NBA Finals (Chensiyuan/Wikipedia.) One of the more interesting sports business stories over the past year-plus has been about alleged NBA...

Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media! This post is free for everyone thanks to our premium subscribers, who you can join here for $5 a month. Now, on to the piece... The latest Netflix 'Untold' installment looks to put a spotlight on Vince Young's wild ups and downs Key art for Netflix's "Untold: The Testimony of Vince Young." From this corner at least, many of the most interesting sports documentaries are the ones that fully cover highs and lows. It can be tempting to focus in more on the...

Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media! This post is an exclusive for our premium subscribers, who you can join here. Now, on to the piece... FIFA gives up on private equity sale after major confederation pushback, but it could still hurt Infantino FIFA president Giovanni Infantino at the July 19 FIFA World Cup Final. (Bryan Berlin/Wikipedia.) A rising trend in the sports world over the past decade-plus has been private equity investment. We've seen that with individual teams and with media...

Welcome back to Bucholtz Sports Media! This post is an exclusive for our premium subscribers, who you can join here for just $5 a month. Now, on to the piece... World Cup Final draws 62.8 million U.S. viewers, way ahead of anything to date Spain raising the 2026 FIFA World Cup trophy (Bryan Berlin, WikiPortraits, via Wikipedia.) When I wrote about the FIFA World Cup Final's ratings potential, my conclusion was "A record for any match not involving the U.S. seems almost certain, and perhaps...