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The Club Book Review: How Big Money Conquered English Football

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The Club Book Review: How Big Money Conquered English Football

The Club by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg reveals how England’s top football clubs broke away in 1992 to build a multibillion-pound global empire. Combining Wall Street financial reporting with British football history, this review examines how television rights, foreign billionaires, and American private equity transformed the beautiful game into the world’s most lucrative entertainment … Read more

The Netflix Gamble: How WWE Raw Leaves Cable Behind To Reshape Modern Sports Entertainment

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The Netflix Gamble: How WWE Raw Leaves Cable Behind To Reshape Modern Sports Entertainment

WWE on Netflix: When Monday Night Raw premiered on American television in January 1993 from a smoky ballroom in Manhattan, nobody envisioned that three decades later the ring ropes would be untethered from cable television altogether. The five-billion-dollar partnership bringing World Wrestling Entertainment’s flagship show exclusively to Netflix is not merely a broadcasting rights swap. … Read more