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What Dan Le Batard’s $50M DraftKings deal means for sports media’s future


Ex-ESPNer Dan Le Batard’s new company, Meadowlark, announced a deal with the sports gambling platform DraftKings. The agreement was for three years and $50 million. Let’s go over what this all means and where things are going. The continued trend in media, especially in opinion and entertainment spaces, is to cut out the middleman. (New York Post)

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What Dan Le Batard’s $50M DraftKings deal means for sports media’s future