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Matt Dawson and the Art of the Second Career
A dummy made him a Lion. A late break helped make England world champions. Matt Dawson has spent the years since proving that timing matters just as much when the crowd has gone home.
The 123-Year-Old Startup That Put a Clock on Baseball
Thirty rival owners, one shared product, and a rulebook that finally admitted the game was too slow. Inside the business behind the batter's-box logo.
The Mountain Changed Hands
One of the oldest logos in film now belongs to a tech scion with a streaming problem to solve and an $80-billion appetite. Here is how the studio behind Top Gun, SpongeBob and 60 Minutes plans to stay standing.
NESN Is Turning New England's Scoreboard Into a Streaming Business
The network that once aired a Red Sox game almost nobody could watch now sells live Boston sports across cable, apps and free streaming. Its next contest is not on the field - it is keeping regional fandom valuable after the bundle.
Pro Padel League
Pro Padel League (PPL) is North America's premier professional padel league, founded in 2023 by CEO Mike Dorfman. It runs a city-based franchise model of 10 teams across the U.S., Canada and Mexico, each fielding both men's and women's sides, with a season of multi-city events culminating in the City's Cup Finals. Backed by a $15M Series A led by Charlotte Hornets governor Rick Schnall, PPL is building the commercial and broadcast infrastructure to capitalize on padel's rapid growth in the American market.