Chiefs are moving stadiums in 2031

Chiefs are moving stadiums in 2031

December 24, 2025

Chiefs agree to deal to play in dome in state of Kansas in 2031
The Kansas City Chiefs will leave Arrowhead Stadium. Arrowhead Stadium has been their longtime home venue in Missouri. The team will be in a new $3 billion domed stadium that will be built across the Kansas-Missouri state line. The venue will be ready for the 2031 season.
^ESPN

UFC Fight Cards Will Be Cheaper in 2026, Here’s What You Need to Know
The UFC returns on Jan. 24, 2026, at Las Vegas’s T-Mobile Arena. This will mark the beginning of a historic seven-year media rights agreement with Paramount. This deal changes the financial model for viewers, moving away from the traditional pay-per-view system. Fans will no longer need to make individual purchases to watch marquee numbered events. An annual subscription to Paramount+ will cost less than a single ESPN pay-per-view card from this past year.
^{Yahoo Sports}

TGL Preview: Changes make Season 2 bigger and better
TGL is ready for its second season. The tech-infused Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy co-founded golf league will start season two on Dec. 28. There have been no changes to the rosters of the six teams, but there have been a lot of tweaks to the TGL playing field in both the virtual and real worlds. For example, the putting surface has been expanded by 38%.
^SportsNet

Netflix has just discovered brutal Christmas cost of $150M NFL gamble
Netflix agreed to pay roughly $150 million for a pair of NFL Christmas Day games. This has become one of the most expensive and closely watches sports content gambles in recent years. Both games that Netflix is streaming this year involve teams that are either out of contention or on the fringe of relevance
^MSN

European Athletics Becomes the First Major Sports Association to Launch a Fully Multilingual Digital Fan Experience
CAMB.AI is a localization infrastructure company for the internet. It has teamed up with European Athletics to change how sports brands connect and communicate with their fanbase. The company can transform digital content into more than 150 languages through advanced AI-powered translation and dynamic text-to-speech technology.
^CAMB.AI

International Swimming League Planning Return in 2026
The International Swimming League is working with a reshaped commercial model that it hopes will capitalize on the momentum being built toward the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. The plan is for a seven-match season in global locations starting in the fall of 2026. The last time the league held events was in 2021.
^{Swimming World Magazine}

Denver Summit receives council approval for new stadium
National Women’s Soccer League team Denver Summit has received approval from the Denver City Council to move forward with its plans for a purpose-built stadium. The new stadium will be at Santa Fe Yards. It is slated to be ready for the 2028 NWSL season. It will have a capacity of 14,500 seats.
^{The Stadium Business}

Players union gives strike notice to ECHL
The Professional Hockey Players’ Association said a strike authorization mandate was delivered last week as a result of the league’s ongoing unfair labor practices. The union said it filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board earlier this year in response to what it said was unlawful conduct, changes to to bargaining subjects and regressive negotiations.
^{Spectrum Local News}

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The Year Schools Paid Their Players
In 2021, the beginning of the Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) era brought a huge change in college sports. This year, in June, the House v. NCAA settlement allowed schools to directly pay college athletes for the first time in NCAA history. This started the revenue-sharing era. All Division I schools can pay their players up to $20.5 million across the athletic department.
^{Front Office Sports}

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