Emily Caron

Happy Wednesday, SporticoU readers. From all of us at Sportico, we’d like to wish you a beautiful and meaningful Memorial Day weekend. As we honor those who have given their lives in service to our…

Oklahoma softball is no small-time operation. With a budget of nearly $5 million for the 2022 fiscal year—the sport’s biggest in the NCAA, according to numbers from Sportico’s college finance…

The owners of the Chicago Sky have sold 10% of the team to a group of eight investors, most of them women, at an $85 million valuation—the second-highest in the league behind Seattle. The Storm rai…

NBA legend and Chicago native Dwyane Wade has joined the ownership group of the WNBA’s Chicago Sky, buying in at the same $85 million valuation at which the franchise welcomed a group of new minority investors last month. Wade is just the second former NBA player to invest in a WNBA team, after Magic Johnson […]

When the 2023 Women’s World Cup kicks off this week in neighboring hosts Australia and New Zealand, it will mark the start of the first women’s tournament to transcend borders—and the first of any …

Happy Wednesday, SporticoU readers. Here’s a fun fact to start off this edition of the newsletter: 137 college soccer players with NCAA experience—most former, but some current—are competing at the 2023 Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, which kicked off last week. A whopping 76 schools are represented across 21 different national teams. […]

France’s Celine Boutier shot a final round 68 to become the first home-grown winner of the Amundi Evian Championship and a major champion, though the latter may not mean as much as it once did. This year’s iteration marks the 10th since the Evian Championship was designated as the LPGA’s fifth major—a controversial move that […]

When the SEC announced its new $3 billion media rights deal with ESPN in late 2020, it set its member schools up to receive payouts of more than $70 million annually when the new agreement kicks in…

The U.S. women’s national team’s Round of 16 loss to rival Sweden in Melbourne marked the squad’s earliest elimination in history—a shocking departure that will cost its players, and those on the men’s national team, no small sum. Of FIFA’s record $110 million prize pool, the USWNT, which, until this year, had never bowed out […]

Happy Wednesday, SporticoU readers. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably seen at least some of the seemingly never-ending conference realignment news. If you thought things were crazy when Texas and Oklahoma left for the SEC or USC and UCLA decided to ditch the Pac-12 for the Big Ten—this last week was really […]