2022
Every article published by the Journal in 2022 — 6 in total.
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20 DEC2022Opinion
A World Cup in December, and the Calendar It Broke
Moving the game’s largest event to midwinter was presented as a scheduling adjustment. It was a demonstration that the international calendar is set by whoever is paying.
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20 OCT2022Technology
Wagering’s Infrastructure Problem
Legal sports betting expanded faster than the data, integrity and settlement infrastructure it depends on. The gap is where the losses will appear.
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25 AUG2022Athletes
The Agency Roll-Up: Who Owns the Representation Business
Player representation has consolidated from a cottage industry into a handful of capital-backed platforms. The conflicts this creates are structural, not incidental.
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30 JUN2022Media
The End of the Broadcast Bundle
Out-of-market packages migrating to streaming platforms mark the point at which sport stops subsidising the cable ecosystem that carried it for forty years.
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28 APR2022Leagues
The Forced Sale and the Limits of the Ownership Test
A sanctioned proprietor, a licence to operate, a court-supervised auction: this year produced a template for divesting a sporting asset under duress that nobody had drafted in advance.
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17 FEB2022Markets
Sovereign Capital and the Repricing of Trophy Assets
State-linked investment has changed the marginal buyer in elite sport. The effect is not merely higher prices — it is the removal of a valuation ceiling that private capital had enforced.
