The 4th Quarter Show

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

This week, The 4th Quarter attended Ramp's Headquarters in NYC for NFL Biz Week presented by Athlete+Us, where former & active NFL athletes pitched their million-dollar startup ideas

This week on The 4th Quarter, we discuss the motion behind prediction markets Kalshi & Polymarket, the World Cup affordability problem, the $1B thesis for investment in Women's sports & more

This week on The 4th Quarter, we dive into Magic Johnson's NBA ownership ambitions and why a Las Vegas-based franchise might be next, Trump's college sports roundtable, the key attendees & how it seeks to 'save' college sports, and Polymarket's partnership with Palantir to build out a sports integrity platform ahead of the prediction market mania

Welcome to The 4th Quarter Show's first pod. This week, we broke down the Knicks & Rangers' possible spinoff and what that means for each franchise's valuation, the mayhem surrounding the Warner Bros. Discovery sale, and the latest in the WNBA's CBA negotiations.