Bloomberg Business of Sports

Your fantasy football draft is probably over. Now your searching the waiver wire and combing through the free agent pool to bolster your team right before week 1.Who do you pick up? Who do you stay away from? Who do you stash for a later dater?Well Michael Barr, Damian Sassower and Rich Trueman clue you in to some pick ups.Also Rich and Michael are looking to spice up their team names? Any ideas send them to Barr at Big Barr Sports on twitterCheck out Rich's weekly column that comes out every Thursday on the Bloomberg Terminal.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An empty Arthur Ashe Stadium isn't stopping the U.S. Open from being one of the most important sporting events of the year. Tennis Channel President Ken Solomon joins Jason, Michael and Mike to talk about how his sport has survived -- and even thrived -- amid the pandemic. He discusses both the social distance, and the social activism, that have defined tennis for decades, and his hope for a new generation of empowered players to continue the legacy of Ashe and Billie Jean King.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Football, and the world, have changed a lot since Amani Toomer stopped playing. The former New York Giants and University of Michigan great weighs in from Denmark on the pending NFL season and the trickiness of non-bubbled pro football. He also talks to Jason, Michael and Mike about the gross inequalities built into college athletics and how social media has radically transformed what it means to be an athlete.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What's the best strategy for picking a fantasy football team when we might not have any football at all? Michael Barr and Mike Lynch speak with our in house fantasy football experts, Bloomberg Intelligence's Damian Sassower and Bloomberg Radio producer Richard Trueman. Do you diversify picks among NFL teams? How many backup quarterbacks do you hold? Do you change the structure of your league? Our team will answer these and many other questions and prepare you for your upcoming drafts so you'll end up holding the trophy at the end of the season. Don't forget to catch Rich Trueman's Fantasy Football column released every Thursday during the season. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

He’s the co-founder of the Home Depot who’s now better known as one of the most influential team owners in the U.S. Arthur Blank joins Jason Kelly to talk about his new book, and the lessons along the course of decades in business. Blank talks about the advice he got from Robert Kraft, Michael Vick’s remorse and the role his adopted hometown plays in a time of massive tumult and discussion around racial injustice.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The first four days of Jason Wright's new job as the Washington Football Team's new president are even more challenging than anyone thought they could be, and that's saying something. The first Black man to run an NFL team is facing scandal in his own organization, and social unrest in the broader world; he'll draw on every experience as a former NFL player and a McKinsey & Co. partner to tackle them. Wright talks to Jason, Michael and Mike between conversations with head coach Ron Rivera and ahead of an all-hands meeting with his team, about changing the team's culture, coping with structural racism and running a major franchise all at the same time.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How the Dodgers left Brooklyn has spawned a cottage industry of books, but very little has been written about how they got to Los Angeles -- and how the city picked a site for the ballpark. "Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between" is Eric Nusbaum's gripping new history of one of sport's iconics ballparks and it's a must-read, detailing the lives torn apart ahead of the baseball's team arrival. Jason Kelly, Michael Barr and Mike Lynch talk with Nusbaum about how many of the issues around inequality unfortunately resonate today, and how sports fans can be more than an "armchair GM" and think about their home team critically.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

She was a ball kid for the Dallas Mavericks, and cut her teeth in social media at the Cowboys and ESPN. Now Neeta Sreekanth is the chief operating officer at INFLCR, where she's working with hundreds of colleges and thousands of college athletes to get smart about engaging the world at a time of increased empowerment. She talks with Jason Kelly, Mike Lynch and Michael Barr about what college sports may look like this fall, making big waves with a small following, and that Luka Doncic buzzer beater.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After months of being shut down, gyms in New York have a timeline for reopening. Retro Fitness CEO Andrew Alfano wasn't even a year into the top job when Covid-19 ravaged the economy and shuttered his franchises. He tells Jason Kelly, Michael Barr and Mike Lynch about the demand for fitness centers, the biggest hurdles to reopening, and the attention the pandemic has brought to health and wellness.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Author, screenwriter, and former pro hockey player Bill Keenan joins the podcast to discuss his transition from playing professional puck in Europe, to investment banking, and everything in between. He speaks with Michael Barr, Mike Lynch, and Scarlet Fu about pro hockey in a Covid-19 world, and adapting his first book, Odd Man Rush, to film.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.