This is wild — BMW is now selling a monthly subscription service for heated seats in your car.
• Monthly fee: $18
• Annual fee: $180
The car will come with all the necessary components, but payment is needed to remove a software block.
Welcome to microtransaction hell.
The Wrexham story is INSANE:
• Bought for $2.5M
• Produced docu-series on FX
• Added 1M+ social media followers
• Tripled season ticket purchases
• Signed sponsorships with TikTok, Expedia, etc.
And now they've been promoted back to the EFL for the first time in 15 years.
Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney paid $2.5 million for the world's third-oldest football club.
But the team is in the 5th division of the English football pyramid and has almost no chance of making it to the Premier League.
Still, it was a genius move.
Here's why 👇
When Allyson Felix decided to start a family in 2018, Nike offered a contract that was 70% less & had no guarantees if her performance declined due to pregnancy.
So she left Nike, signed a deal with Athleta, has a 2-year-old daughter & just won her 10th Olympic medal.
Legend 🙏
The Elon Musk hate is so weird to me.
He is the greatest entrepreneur of our lifetime, and he is attempting to solve the world's most challenging problems (climate change, multi-planetary living, etc.).
He should be the role model for an entire generation.
It's legal to recreationally smoke weed in 19+ states, including the one where Richardson tested positive, while the NFL, NBA, and MLB have softened their stance.
But we're still going to stop an Olympian from competing due to a non-performance-enhancing drug?
Makes no sense.
Jeremy Reaves played at South Alabama.
He went undrafted in 2018, and eventually signed with the Eagles.
He has been a final roster cut each of the last four season, but finally made Washington’s 53-man roster this year.
And now he’s in the Pro Bowl 🙏
The NFL has spent two years preparing the grass for tonight's field at the Super Bowl.
The grass was grown at a local sod farm in Phoenix.
It was installed two weeks ago, and the field has been rolled out each morning for daily sunshine.
Total cost = $800,000
Matt Turner didn't start playing soccer until high school.
He walked on at Fairfield University, was on ESPN as the
#1
Not Top 10 Play in 2013 & went undrafted in Major League Soccer.
But now he's at the World Cup & hasn't conceded a non-penalty goal in 3 matches.
Incredible🙏
Kelvin Kiptum set a new world record marathon time today at 2:00:35.
That’s a 4:36/mile pace…for 26.2 miles — and he beat Eliud Kipchoge’s previous record by 34 seconds.
He is only 23 years old!
That’s one of the greatest athletic achievements ever.
Ten years ago, LeBron James created the "I Promise" program to help Akron students graduate high school.
This year, the inaugural class graduated, with all 193 students awarded free tuition to either the University of Akron or Kent State University.
That's life-changing 🙏
Kyrie Irving is extremely generous:
· Bought George Floyd's mom a house
· Paid tuition for 9 HBCU students
· Bought 200+ kids Christmas presents
· Provided 250k Thanksgiving meals in NYC
· Donated $1.5M to WNBA players
It's sad to see him called selfish for a personal decision.
David Beckham shocked the world when he left Real Madrid in 2007 to sign with the LA Galaxy of MLS.
He was just 31 years old and accepted a 70% pay cut.
But his contract included two unique clauses that eventually helped him earn more than $500 million.
Here's the story 👇
The Pittsburgh Penguins have been using players to hand deliver season tickets since 2007, which has to be one of the coolest traditions in sports.
Imagine Sidney Crosby walking up to your house!
David Beckham's move to MLS is one of the best sports business deals ever:
• Earned $255M over 5 years
• Purchased Inter Miami for $25M
• Inter Miami is valued at $600M
And now they have Lionel Messi, which will push the club's valuation toward ~$1 billion.
Incredible 🤯
Cost Of A 30-Second Super Bowl Ad:
1967: $42,500
1970: $78,000
1975: $107,000
1980: $222,000
1985: $525,000
1990: $700,000
1995: $1.2 million
2000: $2 million
2005: $2.4 million
2010: $3 million
2015: $4.25 million
2021: $5.5 million
2022: $6.5 million
2023: $7 million
Crazy 🤯
Conor McGregor has taken delivery of the $3.5 million Lamborghini yacht he purchased last year.
• 63-feet long
• Two-bedrooms
• 4,000 horsepower
• 70-mph top speed
The yacht is 1 of 63 that were made, with McGregor receiving
#12
in honor of his Proper 12 whiskey.
This video is incredible. A Chinese speed skater takes off at the beginning of a longer race. Her teammate then sprints to the front, confusing everyone on the “final lap” and easily securing Gold and Silver medals for the team. Watch until the end. Great teamwork.
Pat McAfee left millions of dollars on the table when he retired from the NFL.
He wanted to start creating content & people thought he was insane.
Now, just 4 years later, he has signed a ~$120 million deal with FanDuel, or roughly 8x what he made in the NFL.
That's legendary.
The Chiefs used a B-2 for last night's flyover.
The B-2 is the world's most expensive plane ($2B+) & its wingspan stretches half a football field.
The plane can carry 16 nuclear bombs & reach anywhere in the world within hours.
Only 21 were ever built.
The Savannah Bananas are the best story in sports.
Their owner went $1.8 million in debt to build the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball — and it's working.
The team now makes $200,000 per home game and is about to embark on a 70-game tour across 22 states.
Here's the story 👇
Estimates suggest Reggie Bush would make between $4 million to $6 million annually with the new NIL rules.
Yet the NCAA took away his Heisman Trophy because he accepted $300k under the table while USC made millions of dollars off his success.
It's time to return him the trophy.
The people complaining about this are lame. Of course the Bills could hire a company to come shovel snow. But if I was in high school, getting paid $20/hour to hangout at my team’s stadium while shoveling snow sounds like the best day ever.
The Wynn Golf Club is one of the most expensive public-access courses in the country ($600+).
And now you must stare at a 366-foot tall and 516-foot wide fake eyeball while you play.
They can’t be happy about that.
Phoenix Suns owner Mat Ishbia announced earlier this year that the team would remove its games from cable.
By making the games free to watch on local channels, roughly 2 million more people could watch Suns games.
“We're not focusing on money. We're focusing on winning,…
One of the worst things about US sports leagues continuously maximizing profit over passion is that the world’s best players don’t get to compete in environments like this. Real fans get priced out and the atmosphere at games becomes much less fun.
Robert Saleh's brother was working in the South Tower on 9/11 and survived the attack.
But it made Saleh rethink his life.
So he quit his 9-5 job and got into coaching.
And 22 years later, on 9/11, he'll open the season on MNF as the New York Jets head coach.
That's poetic.
Pat McAfee starting his own show & signing a ~$30M annual deal with FanDuel is wild.
But the fact that he donated $6M of it on Day 1 to youth programs, children's hospitals, domestic violence shelters & other charities makes it that much more amazing.
Congrats
@PatMcAfeeShow
!
BREAKING: The Iowa-South Carolina national championship game averaged 18.7 million viewers.
That makes it the most watched basketball game — men's or women's, college or professional — in five years.
What a MASSIVE month for women's basketball.
Dawn Staley to the crowd:
"I want to personally thank Caitlin Clark for lifting up our sport. She carried a heavy load for our sport... She's gonna lift that league [WNBA] up... You are one of the GOATs of our game and we appreciate you.”
Super classy 👏
At 12.3 million viewers, last night's Iowa-LSU game had more viewers than:
• Any women's CBB game ever
• The 2023 NBA Finals
• The 2023 World Series
• The 2023 Orange Bowl
• The 2023 Big Ten Championship
• The 2023 Cotton Bowl
• The 2023 Pac-12 Championship
• The 2023…
Meet Gelje Sherpa.
He was taking a private client up Mt. Everest when he noticed someone dying just 500 meters from the summit.
So he ran over, wrapped him in a sleeping mattress, gave him oxygen, put him on his back, and hiked him 6 hours down the mountain to safety.
LEGEND.
LeBron James says he wants to own an NBA team in Las Vegas, and I think I know how he's going to do it.
It's a series of calculated chess moves that has seemingly been in the works for over a decade.
Here's the breakdown 👇
Travis Kelce has had a busy 24 hours:
• 7 catches for 69 yards and a TD
• Gained 300,000+ social media followers
• +400% increase in merchandise sales
• Top 5 selling jersey in the NFL
That's the Taylor Swift effect 🤯
Vince McMahon shut down the XFL 3 years ago after reportedly burning through $200M.
But Dwayne Johnson & his partners purchased the assets for $15M out of bankruptcy, and the league officially returns today.
Add in the USFL, and 46 of 52 weekends in 2023 will have pro football.
Kristin Juszczyk gained 100,000 followers on Instagram last night, and women's clothing has been the NFL's fastest-growing merchandise category for much of the last decade. The NFL should partner with her. There is demand, and this could be a legitimate business.
Make hundreds of millions of dollars playing against inferior competition while living in a nice city where you can go to the supermarket without being swarmed by thousands of fans asking for autographs and pictures?
Safe to say Lionel Messi made the right decision.
Mark Wahlberg has sold his Beverly Hills home for $55 million.
• 30,500-sq-ft
• 12 beds & 20 baths
The backyard has a pool, skate park, tennis/basketball court & a 5-hole golf course.
Wahlberg bought the property for $8.25 million in 2009 and completed construction in 2014.
Nicole Lynn sent Jalen Hurts a "hail mary" Instagram DM after his college career ended:
"Hey, have you picked an agent? If not, I'd love to link."
Hurts then signed with her, and Lynn has now made him the highest-paid player in NFL history (5-yr, $255M).
Shoot your shot 🙏
If you have an NFL MVP vote and you can't separate what Aaron Rodgers does on the field vs. what he does off of it, you probably shouldn't have an NFL MVP vote.
Formula 1 was acquired by Liberty Media for $4.4 billion in 2016, and it's now one of the fastest-growing sports globally.
They are up billions of dollars on the investment already, and it's one of the best case studies in business.
Here's the story 👇
Deion Sanders brought in 80+ new players after taking over a 1-11 team.
They are now 2-0, selling out games, and a top 20 program in the country with multiple Heisman candidates, including his son Shedeur Sanders.
This is UNPRECEDENTED.
Coinbase just spent $14 million for a color-changing QR code to bounce around on the screen for 30-seconds during the Super Bowl…
And the website crashed.
Jack Dorsey sold his 1st-ever tweet as an NFT last year.
It was bought for $2.9 million, which he converted to Bitcoin & donated to COVID-19 relief in Africa.
But last week, the buyer relisted it for $48 million & the auction ended with a top bid of just $280.
(h/t
@CoinDesk
)
Florida has passed legislation that will now make it mandatory for all high school students to take a class on financial literacy before graduation.
That's fantastic, and every other state should do it also.
The new $2.7 million Mercedes-AMG ONE is incredible.
• Only 275 made
• 1,063 horsepower
• 0-125mph in 7 seconds
They put an F1 engine in a road car, and no one in the United States will be driving one...because they didn't want to sacrifice performance to meet regulations.
Sara Blakely sold fax machines door-to-door and started Spanx with $5,000 in savings & no experience.
She never raised money & has now sold a majority stake in the brand at a $1.2 billion valuation.
The best part?
The gift she gave her 500+ employees to celebrate.
Amazing 🙏
It's pretty crazy that Serbia is responsible for just .1% of the world's population, yet they produced two of the world's most dominant athletes today: Novak Djokovic & Nikola Jokić.
Netflix is releasing a documentary about the 2006-2009 Florida Gators football team on August 23rd.
Those teams included:
• Urban Meyer
• Tim Tebow
• Aaron Hernandez
• Cam Newton
• Percy Harvin
• Riley Cooper
• Joe Haden
• Major Wright
• Ahmad Black
• Brandon Spikes
•…
Patrick Mahomes asked the Chiefs to turn Arrowhead Stadium into an Election Day voting site, but the election board said no due to a lack of voting machines.
Instead of giving up, Mahomes bought new machines — splitting the "six-figure investment" with the Chiefs.
He gets it.
Google says most people are put in a cast or walking boot for 12 weeks after Achilles surgery.
But Aaron Rodgers had his surgery just two and a half weeks ago and is already walking like this.
It's crazy that he might actually be back this season.
Baker Mayfield becoming a better NFL quarterback after the Browns ditched him to sell their soul and hand out $230 million in guaranteed money to Deshaun Watson is objectively hilarious
John Cena has granted over 650 wishes to children battling life-threatening illnesses through the make-a-wish foundation since 2004.
That's almost one per week for 16+ straight years.
Here's his interaction with a fan after SmackDown last night...Incredible 🙏
(🎥: u/wsda10)
The University of Tennessee—a school with a $1.34 billion endowment and $150 million in annual athletic revenue—setting up a GoFundMe for fans to buy them new goalposts is one of the funniest things I've ever seen
Coco Gauff went from dancing at the US Open as an 8-year-old to winning her first career Grand Slam at the same tournament 11 years later as a 19-year-old.
What a performance!
She is the youngest American US Open champion since Serena Williams in 1999 🤯
Real Madrid's new stadium is a game-changer.
It includes a fully retractable pitch that can be stored beneath the stadium with the push of a button.
The storage space includes ventilation, air conditioning, irrigation systems, LED lighting, control cameras, and ultraviolet…
Alvin Kamara says he hasn't spent any of his $75M NFL contract, choosing to live off endorsement income instead.
“I’ve always known the value of a dollar...As a kid, I saw my mom work multiple jobs only to be able to afford the bare essentials.”
Smart man.
(h/t
@uninterrupted
)
Dude Perfect has set a new World Record for the highest basketball shot.
They spent three days on top of The Strat Tower in Las Vegas — and finally made it on their last hour of the trip.
It ended up being 856 feet (or nearly three football fields).
Shoutout to Dan Orlovsky for not just saying thoughts & prayers but actually stopping NFL Live to bow his head, close his eyes, and pray for Damar Hamlin.
Kudos to you,
@danorlovsky7
👏
The PGA Tour convinced many of its players that taking Saudi money from LIV Golf was immoral.
But now the PGA Tour is merging with LIV, creating a new entity with Saudi's sovereign wealth fund as the only outside investor.
The players that turned down the money must be PISSED.
Red Bull spent a year building a custom drone to keep up with its Formula 1 car (driven by Max Verstappen) around Silverstone.
The drone accelerates 2x faster than an F1 car, hitting 186 mph in just 4 seconds and a top speed of 217 mph.
Red Bull's marketing team strikes again.
How did MLS & Inter Miami land Lionel Messi?
He's set to receive a MASSIVE compensation package that includes a share of Apple's revenue generated by MLS Season Pass and also a share of Adidas profits from his MLS arrival.
That's absolutely insane 🤯
(h/t
@TheAthletic
)
Not enough people are talking about the fact that Trey Mancini was diagnosed with colon cancer last year, missed the entire season while undergoing chemotherapy, was declared cancer-free in November, and now leads the MLB in RBIs just 5 months later.
Absolutely incredible.
LeBron turns 37 today.
Investments
• Blaze Pizza
• Liverpool FC
• Boston Red Sox
• Pittsburgh Penguins
• SpringHill Company
• Lobos 1707 Tequila
He's also the 1st NBA player to cross $1B in earnings while active & will send 1,500+ kids to college for free.
Legendary 🙏