Join hosts Michael Barr, Damian Sassower and Vanessa Perdomo for a look at some of the latest headlines and stories in the business of sports.

Major League Baseball reached new broadcast agreements with Comcast Corp.’s NBC Sports, Walt Disney Co.’s ESPN and Netflix Inc., clinching three-year deals valued at $800 million.
Under the accords announced Wednesday, NBC and its Peacock streaming service will have Sunday night games and the wild-card playoffs in a $200 million-a-year deal starting next season, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

Netflix took the Home Run Derby and the opening day game in a $50 million-per-year deal, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the terms aren’t public. Netflix also won the rights to the Field of Dreams game, which is played where the movie Field of Dreams was made in Iowa. ESPN will air around 30 regular-season games, as it did previously, and now also has the rights to market MLB.TV as part of its ESPN streaming service. MLB.TV lets subscribers watch games outside the markets where they live. ESPN also gets in-market games for six teams.

On this episode, hear from:

• Bloomberg News media reporter Hannah Miller joins to discuss MLB's new media deals
• Betr founder and CEO Joey Levy joins to discuss his sports & gaming platform
• PGA Tour star and three-time major winner Jordan Spieth joins to talk about his foundation's annual charity golf tournament and the state of pro golf

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Join hosts Michael Barr, Damian Sassower and Vanessa Perdomo for a look at some of the latest headlines and stories in the business of sports.

Cleveland Guardians all-star pitcher Emmanuel Clase pleaded not guilty to charges he participated in an alleged scheme to rig bets based on pitches he threw during Major League Baseball games.
Michael Ferrara, a lawyer for Clase, entered the plea on his behalf at a federal court hearing on Thursday in Brooklyn, New York. US Magistrate Judge Joseph Marutollo released Clase on $600,000 bond and restricted his travel to New York and Ohio.

Federal prosecutors charged Clase, 27, and teammate Luis Ortiz, 26, last week of conspiring with bettors to throw specific types and speeds of pitches in exchange for bribes. On some occasions, Clase allegedly bet on his own pitches.

On this episode, hear from:

• Bloomberg US sports business reporter Randall Williams for the latest on the MLB betting scandal
• Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo, entrepreneur, venture capitalist and co-owner of the Red Bull Italy SailGP team
• Bloomberg TV anchor Dani Burger on her conversation with tennis superstar Serena Williams at the American Business Forum in Miami

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An average of 51 million people across the US, Canada and Japan tuned in to see the Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Toronto Blue Jays in the final game of baseball’s World Series on last Saturday.
The entire seven-game series had an average of 34 million viewers across the three countries, marking the largest audience for the championship since 1992 and a 19% increase from last year, according to Major League Baseball.

The series was an international contest between Canada’s only MLB team and the Dodgers, whose roster includes Japanese baseball stars Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto.

On this episode, hear from:

• Sara Gotfredson, founder and CEO of Trailblazing Sports Group, a boutique firm specializing in the creation of women’s sports marketing initiatives and partnerships
• Briana Scurry, former USWNT goalkeeper, National Soccer Hall of Famer, two-time Olympic gold-medalist and member of the iconic 1999 Women’s World Cup champions sits down for a one-on-one with Vanessa Perdomo on goalies and more as part of our new Business of Soccer series
• Al Leiter, MLB Network Analyst, and a 19-year Major League veteran and two-time World Series champion talks a wild finish to the MLB season with a highly watched World Series and looks ahead to a busy offseason

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