Alex Silverman

The NHL is taking over downtown Nashville for the next four days, bringing its annual NHL Awards and Draft to the same location for the first time since 2006 when they were both held in Vancouver. The offseason double feature, which is tied together by a three-day country music...

When Zach Leonsis was 16, his father, Ted, asked him what he wanted to do when he grew up. Zach wasn’t sure, but like many teenagers, his vision involved leaving home and carving his own path. He told his father he wanted to move to New York...

When two-time Ivy League player of the year Charles Altchek hung up his cleats after graduating from Harvard in 2007, he thought he was done with soccer. He joined Goldman Sachs, but quickly realized that life as a fixed income analyst wasn’t for him. “I...

Danita Johnson’s résumé reads like a verse out of the famous road trip anthem “I’ve Been Everywhere.” Since starting her career in 2004 as an intern with a now-defunct NBA D-League team in her hometown of Fayetteville, N.C., Johnson’s work in the business of basketball — and...

When Tom Braun moved to L.A. so his wife could take a “dream job,” he took the opportunity to change his own career trajectory. After working his way up to associate vice president at a Washington, D.C., investment bank for more than six years, the former late-round...

As an unpaid intern with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2007, scheduling a meeting with the club’s new COO was a nerve-wracking proposition for Keira Emerson. After three seasons with the team and with graduation near, she hoped to land a full-time job that would allow her...

T he U.S. will host the first 32-team edition of the FIFA Club World Cup in 2025, an event that could serve as a test of the country’s readiness for the higher-profile 2026 World Cup national team competition a year later. FIFA announced the selection of...

CONCACAF, the governing body for soccer in North America, Central America and the Caribbean, has retained sports marketing agency Sportfive for a variety of digital services for its national team competitions, including last week’s Nations League Final and the 2023 Gold Cup group stage, which begins this weekend. In...

The NHLPA is rolling out a new program focused on the personal development of its members. The NHLPA UNLMT initiative will offer players on-demand access to resources aimed at helping them develop a wide range of non-hockey skills, such as finance, real estate, personal branding, leadership and foreign languages....

Inter Miami’s compensation package for Lionel Messi will be worth $50-60M per year, according to a source with knowledge of the terms of the club’s pending deal with the Argentinian superstar. That package includes his annual salary, as well as a signing bonus and equity...