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He will become the first athlete in North American sport to average $71 million per season, and stands to be the first to bust through the $75 million a year ceiling when his deal balloons to over $78 mill in the final year of the extension five years from now.
Since 1969, 2,594 OHL players have been selected – about 20 per cent of all players chosen, the most of any league in the world. A similar share of today’s NHLers also developed through the OHL.
As hopes for a successful Canadian portion of the World Cup permeate, the reality of the costs of staging what FIFA President Gianni Infantino calls “104 Super Bowls in one month” have surfaced.
Just a few days after the start of the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs, the league announced its partnership with Ndax, one of Canada's largest crypto trading platforms. This marked both the NHL's first-ever collaboration with a crypto company and Ndax’s first partnership with a professional sports league.
On Sunday, May 11, the Intercounty Baseball League’s Toronto Maple Leafs will open their season with Japanese sensation Ayami Sato – a world-renowned ace and the league’s first-ever female player – starting on the mound.
In 2021, the expansion Scarborough Shooting Stars became the first CEBL club to secure private ownership, beginning the next phase of economic growth for the league.
Even with the exponential surge in popularity of the league and women’s basketball in the past three years, questions remain about the league’s profitability. Revenue is increased, and a semi-lucrative television deal is a year from fruition.
Founded in 1919 with just four teams – Galt, Guelph, Stratford, and Kitchener – the IBL has steadily grown and now features nine teams across southern Ontario.
Six teams paid a CDN $1 million franchise fee and each will be expected to pour in eight to ten times that amount over the first five seasons in investment capital.
The PTPA, co-founded in 2019 by Djokovic and Pospisil, is a union for tennis players; however, it is not officially recognized as such because tennis players are not classified as employees.
Wimbledon’s major expansion plan includes adding an 8,000-seat stadium with a retractable roof and 38 other grass courts at a former golf course across the street that would allow the All England Club to move its qualifying event and hold it on-site to boost attendance and revenue.
Among other things, it includes an 84-game regular season with less exhibition play, shorter maximum contract lengths, a playoff salary cap, no mandatory dress code for players and the creation of a full-time traveling goaltender position to eliminate the practice of emergency backup goalies, or “EBUGs," from entering games.
The NFL and senior leaders of the NFL Players Association struck an unusual confidentiality agreement that hid the details of an arbitration decision from players, including a finding that league executives had urged team owners to reduce guaranteed player compensation, multiple sources told ESPN.
