NCAA

Today is the first day of spring and it's also National Corn Dog Day, held on the first Saturday of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. If you think there's no connection to stocks, think again. Here are three stocks with exposure to the treat, albeit through the version...

After the COVID-19 pandemic shut down March Madness in 2020, many people are excited for the 2021 NCAA Basketball tournament kicking off this weekend. Sports fans, sports bettors and advertisers are among the parties ready for games to take place. Here's a look at some publicly traded...

Market Madness is a new event conceived by Wolf Financial, an up-and-coming social networking and investment research platform. The Market Madness Bracket: Market Madness is a spinoff of March Madness. Instead of college basketball teams, participants vote on stocks, ETFs ...

One of the most requested video games of the last seven years is making a return. What Happened: A NCAA college football game is in development with Electronic Arts Inc (NASDAQ: EA) announcing an exclusive deal with CLC, the nation’s leading collegiate trademark licensing company. “We...

One of the leading sports betting names in America is teaming up with a media company to launch an interactive Super Bowl prop bet show. What Happened: Bleacher Report, owned by AT&T (NYSE: T), and DraftKings Inc (NASDAQ: DKNG) are continuing their media partnership with an exclusive Super Bowl...

Having college and professional athletes play sports during a pandemic can create logistics problems with social distancing and COVID-19 testing. Two small cap companies have won contracts to help leagues with testing. Opko Health: BioReference Laboratories, owned by Opko Health (NASDAQ: OPK), was...

Benzinga routinely examines a stock that might be considered a little under the radar. You may have never heard of the company before, but chances are you're pretty familiar with the line of work it's in. We call these the "things behind the thing." What Happened: Genius...

One of the storied college football rivalries will see a streak of more than 100 years come to an end in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. What Happened: The University of Michigan has canceled its scheduled football game with Ohio State University. The cancellation comes after Michigan shut...

It's a September morning, a few hours before the scheduled kickoff of the first home game of the season for the University of Michigan Wolverines football team. It's an unseasonably hot day, sunny and humid, especially for early fall in Ann Arbor. My college roommate, who has attended a...

With live sports mostly on hold across the United States and in much of Europe, TV networks are considering the possibility of losing some of their most popular programming, a big key to keeping audiences with many other types of programming moving increasingly to streaming platforms. The networks...

Andrew discusses defendant tactics with prominent trucking defense attorney, Joe Pappalardo. Then Ryan Schreiber of CarrierDirect joins him to talk about how the coronavirus is impacting his clients. Lastly, Andrew and Ryan battle over Quibi and whether March Madness will happen this year. Check...

If you are in the business of feeding assembled masses of people, what do you do if no masses assemble? In places where people gather in large groups, they often eat. And when big gatherings don't occur in an effort to slow the spread of a pandemic virus, whether at a stadium, a convention...

Buffalo Wild Wings is hosting a promotion in which two winners will live inside one of its restaurants for two nights. Yes, seriously. What Happened Buffalo Wild Wings announced Wednesday one of its stores in Chicago will double as a bed and breakfast-style hotel, dubbed "BnB-Dubs." Two...

No matter which team of Tigers wins Monday night’s College Football Playoff Championship game, the coaches of both LSU and Clemson are cashing in big on the title runs. Both LSU Coach Ed Orgeron and Clemson Coach Dabo Swinney have already benefitted from performance bonuses baked into their...

NCAA President Mark Emmert would be open to a possible return of Electronic Arts Inc.'s (NASDAQ: EA) popular college sports video games, but laid out several conditions recently that effectively mean you won’t see it too soon. EA used to sell NCAA Basketball and NCAA football games, but...