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Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) is scheduled to report its fiscal Q3 results after market close on August 9. BTIG’s Richard Greenfield mentioned that there were concerns associated with the company’s growth in fiscal 2017 and beyond, and listed key questions for management. Questions For...

Under Armour Inc (NYSE: UA) was very bullish on its future prospects in the basketball market on its Q3 earnings call this week, and its expanse is far stretched. Considering the California basketball market for one, it's no surprise that Under Armour is a big brand in the Bay Area, with the brand'...

It's merely a matter of time before an online content distributor will become a major media partner of the National Football League. Traditionally, football viewers tune in to NBC, CBS (CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS)), Fox (Twenty-First Century Fox Inc (NASDAQ: FOX) (NASDAQ: FOXA)) or ESPN (Walt...

StubHub announced this week it won a major contract with MLB's New York Yankees. The news is notable as the eBay Inc (NASDAQ: EBAY)-owned ticket selling company edged out rival Ticketmaster. According to AM New York, the deal involves a 6.5-year revenue-sharing agreement with the Yankees to resell...

The 2016 NBA draft is underway and with longtime consensus #1 pick Ben Simmons going to the Philadelphia 76ers. Simmons, a versatile 6'10" forward from Australia has been projected as the top selection in the league for some time. At the NBA draft, Commissioner Adam Silver announced the 2016 NBA...

Stifel analysts Scott Devitt, Lamont Williams and Ansel Parikh provided some key insights into eBay Inc (NASDAQ: EBAY) as the online auctioneer reaches the halfway point of its 18–24-month transformation effort. The transformation journey seeks to make eBay the best choice, most relevant and...

Brock Lesnar is an American professional wrestler currently under contract with the World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE). Lesnar signed with the WWE in 2000 and made his television debut in March 2002. He left the WWE organization in 2004 to try out for the NFL and soon join the New...

Think the cord-cutting trend was an overblown fad? Think again. According to a Nielsen N.V. (NYSE: NLSN) analysis by Fox Sports, ESPN lost 1.5 million subscribers in a four-month span from February to May of this year. That increases the number of dropped subscribers to 10 million since 2013...

Deutsche Bank reiterated its Buy rating on Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), saying its 2017+ sum-of-the-parts valuation suggests about 50 percent upside to current levels. The brokerage's 50 percent upside to current levels estimate is based on: 1. "Potential for AKAM'...

Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) has released Q2 earnings, and the company reported a rare miss, with EPS coming in at 1.36 vs consensus estimates of $1.40 per share. Revenue in the second quarter came in at $2.1 billion. Despite delivered double-digit growth in adjusted EPS for the 11th consecutive...

With a market cap of more than $173 billion, Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) may be the largest and most-recognizable international entertainment company in the world. Most people likely think of Disney as a movie company before all else, but Disney actually has a number of extremely profitable business...

Former baseball ace Curt Schilling's departure from Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS)'s ESPN segment has certainly been well publicized and full of controversy. However, Schilling isn't the only big name to have left the company in recent history. Bill Simmons Bill Simmons is a sports columnist that wrote...

Apparently, Mike Tirico doesn't think so. He's leaving the flagship network for NBC, Sports Business Daily reported on Monday. Tirico, a 25-year ESPN veteran, covers the entire spectrum of sports from the fast-paced NBA to stagnant golf events. He will reportedly be easing into the role...