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PTFO - The Sporting Class: Why NFL Owners Want Private Equity Cash

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.98.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to The Sporting Class! Meadowlark Media CEO John Skipper and Nothing Personal’s David Samson are back with another episode with host of Pablo Torre Finds Out ...Pablo Torre! We start in the NFL where private equity has come to play. Private equity is the king of buzz words in sports right now and every sport wants more of it. NFL valuations are sky high and teams need money. Enter PE. What is going on with the NWSL? The women’s soccer league has signed a new CBA. No more trades. No more draft. Guaranteed contract. Why now? Is Venu Sports done? That’s what it looks like. The partnership between ESPN, WBD, and Fox was shut down by the courts because of a lawsuit brought on by Fubo. Now what happens? We end today where we began…the NFL and Private Equity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.

0:06.0

John Skipper just spat water out right after this ad.

0:12.0

You're listening to Draft Kings Network. What is the dog-

0:25.0

David that you're exercised about today?

0:30.0

I am incredibly worked up about the NFL because it's bringing me back to how badly.

0:37.0

That's not what I want to know from you right now.

0:39.0

You're complaining about John's desire to have a beagle as our mascot.

0:43.4

John, his creative mind, we're doing the sporting class as part of Pavittory finds out.

0:48.9

And John has been obsessed with dogs, the sporting class as in... we explain the name I actually would not suggest

0:56.2

obsessed since it hasn't come up a single time on the many shows we've done. The original punting intent of the name was to suggest

1:08.1

sort of best in shows, sporting class, Westminster Dogkennel, but also that of course we are providing something of a class in

1:18.0

sports business. So it's a sporting. Yet you were obsessed with making sure that in our

1:22.1

artwork there was a beagle and I'm just not sure.

1:24.4

Well beagle is very important to me for my childhood where I always had beagles as dogs.

1:30.4

As a country lawyer, a humble country lawyer.

1:32.4

My favorite being Sugar, who was my companion,

1:37.0

the only person who would talk to me for two or three years of my life,

1:41.0

was Sugar.

1:42.0

What goes around around comes around.

1:44.0

And I once had a pair of beagles called Ella and Lewis.

1:47.0

And David, what kind of dogs did you have in your...

1:50.0

I don't like dogs.

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