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🙏
The Washington Mystics moved tonight’s game against Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever from their normal 4,200-seat arena to the 20,356-seat Capital One arena.
However, the 16,000 extra seats weren’t a problem, as tickets sold out in 30 minutes.
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 👇
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 🤯
Kristen Faulkner (
@FaulknerKristen
) has one of the craziest stories at this year's Olympics:
• Grew up in Alaska
• Rowed at Harvard
• Moved to NYC after school
• Started working for a venture capital firm
• Took a beginner's cycling class in Central Park
• Started cycling
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 🤯
One of the best traditions in sports is the fact that the Pittsburgh Penguins use players to hand-deliver season tickets.
Imagine Sidney Crosby walking up to your house!
(🎥:
@PensInsideScoop
)
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 👇
The WNBA’s Atlanta Dream typically play in a 3,500-seat arena.
But for tonight’s game against Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever, they moved it to the nearby NBA arena.
The game sold out and set a franchise record with 17,575 fans in attendance.
Crazy.
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.
Real Madrid's underground greenhouse is insane.
They store the pitch there when it isn't being used and keep it in perfect condition with fully automated air conditioning, irrigation, mowers, and LED lighting.
Easily one of the world's most impressive venues.
(📸:
@rgguti
)
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,
The WNBA has released a report saying...
• Attendance is up 156% from last year, and more than half of all WNBA games this year have been sellouts.
• About 400,000 fans have attended WNBA games this season, filling WNBA arenas to 94% capacity.
• This year's televised games
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
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 🤯
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.
Paris spent $1.5 billion to clean up the Seine River for the Olympics.
However, excess rain this past weekend swept millions of gallons of sewage into the river, and triathlon swim training has been canceled for the second day in a row due to E. coli levels.
What a *shit* show.
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 🙏
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.
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
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.
Monaco is home to nearly half of all Formula 1 drivers:
• Lewis Hamilton
• Max Verstappen
• Charles Leclerc
• Lando Norris
• George Russell
• Valtteri Bottas
• Sergio Perez
• Nico Hulkenberg
• Alex Albon
This is primarily because of three reasons.
Taxes: Monaco has no
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.
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
)
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.
Politics aside, Bryson DeChambeau's Break 50 video with Donald Trump is an incredible piece of content.
• 4 million views in 24 hours
•
#1
trending video on YouTube
• Bryson gained 300,000 subscribers
Trump is 78 years old but made a solo eagle against the US Open champion.