The Florida Panthers have considered becoming the "Fort Lauderdale Panthers" or the "South Florida Panthers"?? Panthers CRO Shawn Thornton is today's @Sporticast guest...

This was a fun convo with @SarahSpain. So much going on in the business of women's sports, in both the @WNBA and @NWSL.

From the latest @Sporticast: A theory on why the @WNBA expansion decisions are taking so long. With the @ConnecticutSun on the market, and very moveable, that's thrown an added variable into the expansion fee and the number of expansion teams.

In today's Club @Sportico, we ranked (and linked!) all 32 @NFL schedule release videos #32 -- Lions #31 -- Steelers ... #3 -- @AZCardinals #2 -- @Titans #1 -- ????? https://t.co/wQhBWpAbUo

Today's Club Sportico is about the world's largest non-sports sporting event: the Conclave! It includes a basketball🏀 office prank by @soshnick, a 🔥 take from @JacobFeldman4, and some beautiful ⛪️@LevAkabas data viz.

One fascinating part of the Belichick/Hudson/UNC drama is all of his former @Patriots players, who he repeatedly told to avoid the distraction of media attention, now taking to social media to give him the same advice....

Quick poll here re: Shedeur Sanders, which came up on tomorrow's @Sporticast podcast: Is it Mel Kiper's main job to: 1) Primarily share his own independent evaluation of prospective @NFL talent? OR 2) Primarily share his read on how @NFL teams are evaluating prospective talent?

Thinking a lot today about this story @epjackson wrote for @Sportico on Shedeur Sanders in December. We've never seen a quarterback prospect--or maybe any @NFL prospect--as online as Sanders. How much does that actually matter in the league today? https://t.co/RyA1HPQBNX

In 2017, seven @NFL owners donated to @realDonaldTrump's Inauguration committee. This year, it appears to be 0. Here are the sports owners/companies who did donate to the $245M effort in January, including some obvious ones, and some surprises 👇

NEW: NBA Playoffs Explained in One Chart Per Team For todays Club Sportico we considered a bunch of different topics ... so we decided to give you all of them. @LevAkabas with 14 pictures worth 14,000 words: https://t.co/sQJZdVFVJD

Six thoughts on today's big $600M deal: - Why are @MLS owners selling before the World Cup? 🤔 - Wild @UtahRoyalsFC appreciation 📈 - Unrivaled's role 👦 - Ryan Smith choosing not to expand Utah sports empire ❌ - Blitzer retains unique sports title 🏆 https://t.co/ualEAhc3QR

For those watching the #MFrozenFour, here's an @NCAAIceHockey stat that surprised me. Western Michigan's hockey team has 5x the ticket revenue of WMU's men's basketball team. By almost all measures, @WMUHockey is the second most important team on campus financially 👇

BREAKING: One of the country's largest Republican donors is asking billionaire sports team owners to call the President and express frustration with America's new trade wars. More on @Citadel founder Ken Griffin's comments 👇 https://t.co/TmRYSsdKnI

Over the course of my career, I've written dozens of stories that I had to delete because of game outcomes. Today we published one of them at Club @Sportico. Here's a rough draft of what we were working on when @UHCougarMBK were up 12 last night 👇 https://t.co/RDVcBafeRd

Is Torpedo Bat Mania more of a baseball story, or a story about modem social media virality?

After more than a year of fighting the sale via multiple avenues, did Glen Taylor ask @AROD and @MarcLore if he could remain an LP in the @Timberwolves and @minnesotalynx??

Seeing a lot of misinformation/misunderstanding out there about these @NCAA women's unit payouts 👇 Simplest form: - A game played in this year's men's tournament (before final) will eventually be worth ~$2 million - A game played in women's tournament will be worth $252,524

SCOOP: The @NHL and @Rogers have agreed on a new Canadian TV deal. 12 years, $11 billion CAD ($7.7B in current USD). More than 2x current deal. Owners vote this week. More details at @Sportico, with @Soshnick 👇 https://t.co/Fr1FHt0M7n

The March Madness units are set, and unsurprisingly, the @SEC has set a new record. The SEC's 35 units eclipse the previous record of 25 (!) by @theACC in 2016. The 35 units will be worth an estimated $70M for the conference. Full data 👇

Come for the sports business talk. Stay for the random @Soshnick tangents.