{"id":299168,"date":"2025-11-22T07:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/299168\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T07:34:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:34:15","slug":"the-future-of-mlb-the-wnba-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/299168\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of MLB, the WNBA and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"SBJ's Chris Smith and Abe Madkour led the  buy-sell-hold discussion.\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3JAMGNYWUFAMPFVFRSWAWKR6DA.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"532\"\/>SBJ&#8217;s Chris Smith and Abe Madkour led the buy-sell-hold discussion, which found that attendees were confident AI investing isn&#8217;t a bubble. Marc Bryan-Brown <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-finance \">SBJ asked Dealmakers attendees for their thoughts &#8212; submitted anonymously &#8212; on some of the industry\u2019s biggest storylines:<\/p>\n<p>Private equity\u2019s entry to college sports was a hot topic throughout the conference, and half of the crowd was bullish on institutional capital backing teams and conferences. Nearly one-third of the respondents were selling.Is AI investing a bubble? Only 8% of Dealmakers attendees said \u201cno.\u201dThe potential for an MLB work stoppage was the most divisive question: 40% of respondents thought the league will successfully navigate its upcoming labor negotiations, while 47% expected MLB to lose games in 2027.Nearly two-thirds of the crowd was bullish on the WNBA\u2019s long-term prospects, though a not-so-small minority of 18% thought it was time to sell.No topic garnered more consensus than the potential for North American soccer to leverage next summer\u2019s World Cup: Nearly 80% of voters saw more growth to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SBJ&#8217;s Chris Smith and Abe Madkour led the buy-sell-hold discussion, which found that attendees were confident AI investing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,134403,462,82,630],"class_list":["post-299168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dealmakers","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}