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From car dealerships to political-action committees, organizations big and small are striking endorsement deals with college athletes—known as name, image, likeness arrangements—that despite marketer enthusiasm remain a largely untested…

Budweiser is proceeding carefully with its on-the-ground sponsorship of the upcoming FIFA World Cup in Qatar, an emirate with strict regulations on the sale and consumption of alcohol.The Anheuser-Busch InBev SA…

Molson Coors Beverage Co. will run at least one commercial during Fox’s Super Bowl broadcast in 2023, marking the first time in more than 30 years that the maker of Coors Light and Miller Lite beer has…

Pursuits from space soccer to Martian mountaineering are already in early planning stages. “People going into space are competitive thrill-seekers,” says Allison Dollar, co-founder of the Space Tourism Conference, an annual event organized…

A venture of a New York investment firm and a U.S. residential developer has agreed to pay $1.75 billion for six Manhattan rental apartment buildings, according to people familiar with the matter, the highest price tag for a New York…

When Donna Jones and her husband looked to rent a home in Northern Virginia in February, they often received the same response: Sorry, but someone else offered to pay more rent.“We didn’t even know you could do that,” Ms. Jones said.…

Imagine a stadium where ultra-high-resolution video feeds and camera-carrying drones track how individual players’ joints flex during a game, how high they jump or fast they run—and, using AI, precisely identify athletes’ risk of injury in…

The U.K. government signed off on a deal to sell soccer club Chelsea FC for £4.25 billion, equivalent to around $5.3 billion, to a group led by Los Angeles Dodgers part-owner Todd Boehly.…

Rapidly rising mortgage rates and record home prices are cooling the U.S. housing market, as April sales dropped for the third straight month and fell to their weakest pace in nearly two years.Existing-home sales slipped 2.4% in April from…

PITSEA, England—The great names of English soccer ring with the echoes of Britain’s industrial past—Liverpool’s docks, the railway works that gave birth to Manchester United, the foundries that built West Ham.Then there’s Hashtag United.…