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Bloomberg
22-05-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
How Mellody Hobson Decided to Invest Big in Women's Sports
Like any good investor, Mellody Hobson knows that the numbers have to back up an instinct. So when she had a hunch about the hypergrowth in women's sports, she went to the data. 'I started to study women's sports like an 11-year-old studies baseball statistics,' Hobson, the president and co-CEO of Ariel Investments, says on the latest episode of The Deal with Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly. 'And I got dangerous in seeing up arrows, up arrows, up arrows on what was happening in attendance, in sponsorships, in media rights, in girls playing starting at young ages.'

Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Kalen DeBoer talks Alabama football roster retention for 2025 season
Falcons president Greg Beadles joins 'GMFB' to discuss growth of high school girls flag football Atlanta Falcons president Greg Beadles chats with "Good Morning Football" host Jamie Erdahl about what the Falcons are doing to support the growth of high school girls flag football participation in the state of Georgia. 3:07 Now Playing Paused Ad Playing