Vegas’ Sports Boom, Little Britain, The Biden Disaster

Happy Monday, and welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon roundup of Puck’s best new reporting.

Today, we lead with Matt Belloni and John Ourand’s brilliant Super Bowl sidebar on the current fixations of the sports-entertainment-media industrial complex: the rights deals, Amazon-Diamond, that super streamer, Endeavor’s divestments, and much more.

Plus, below the fold: Bill Cohan appraises Adam Neumann’s surreal bid to pluck WeWork out of bankruptcy. Dylan Byers evaluates this generation of media leaders from across the pond. On Somebody’s Gotta Win, Tara Palmeri and Meghan McCain dig into the fallout from Biden’s special counsel shocker. On The Town, Matt and Lucas Shaw welcome esteemed guest Jimmy Kimmel on the show to trade notes and impressions on the Vegas sports boom. And on The Powers That Be, Peter Hamby and Jon Kelly weigh in on the Biden media mess, and debate the merits of the new sports super-streamer.

MATTHEW BELLONI & JOHN OURAND

After spending the better part of a week in Vegas for the Super Bowl, here’s what everyone in the sports-entertainment-media industrial complex is obsessing over: the next wave of rights deals, a super-streamer, Amazon-Diamond, what Endeavor is divesting, and if the NFL’s biggest showcase will return to Las Vegas (yes!).

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WILLIAM D. COHAN

Does one of the world’s most disgraced entrepreneurs actually want to buy back his old company, or is Adam Neumann’s seemingly fake bid for WeWork just his latest P.R. ruse?

DYLAN BYERS

News and notes on the micro-crises roiling CNN, what to expect from the legacy players, the Zaz-Iger-Lachlan super-streamer, and much, much more.

MATTHEW BELLONI

Live from Las Vegas, Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw and special guest Jimmy Kimmel to discuss the state of sports television, the NFL’s dominance in an otherwise struggling television landscape, the future of late-night television, and more.