The business of sport: Warren Tredrea's take on this week's news


Former Port Adelaide AFL star – turned media personality – Warren Tredrea and co-host Jack Hudson explore the business of sport, today discussing:

  • The next AFL broadcast rights $4.5 billion bumper deal for Channel 7 and Foxtel. The contract included a ‘diversity’ clause, sparking fresh debate around corporates being free to hire the ‘best person for the job’;
  • They discuss concussion insurance and Zurich’s decision to omit coverage for these injuries for professionals in high-contact sports. Warren Tredrea and Jack Hudson discuss what that means for the AFL;
  • The Adelaide 36ers’ sacking of coach Scott Ninnis only weeks out from the 2024-25 NBL season, replacing him with his lead assistant coach, American Mike Wells;
  • NBL Sunday games on free to air TV;
  • The Perth Wildcats basketball deal, as fan and tech entrepreneur Mark Arena is now officially the new majority owner of the team;
  • Rumours Amazon executive chair Jeff Bezos might be looking to buy the NBA Celtics – the price tag is reportedly some $6 billion;
  • KFC T20 Big Bash League cricket and David Warner’s Sydney Thunder commitment;
  • Soccer star Kylian MBappe’s quest for €55 million ‘unpaid wages’ from Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), after he debuts with Real Madrid;
  • Paris Olympics gold medallist and US basketball star Kevin Durant’s move to buy a minority stake in the biggest football (soccer) club in France, Paris Saint-Germain (PSG);
  • The new sports streaming service in the US, involving Disney, Fox and Warner Bros;
  • Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund offer of a billion euro package to 24 year-old Real Madrid star Vinicius Jr to join the Saudi Pro League – that’s well above his current 20.83 million euro deal;
  • American rapper Snoop Dogg’s half a million dollars a day pay packet – or nine million in total – to promote the Paris Olympics; and,
  • 12th-placed Olympic pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati’s opportunity: His appendage was blamed for knocking off the bar as he went for 5.7 metres high, a feat which he had previous accomplished. He’s since been offered $390,000 by porn website CamSoda to ‘show off his goods’ in a 60-minute webcam show performance!

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