Polymarket is no longer banned in the U.S.

Sport & Story Daily December 8, 2025: After nearly four years, Polymarket returns to the U.S.

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Kelsey Middleton
December 08, 2025

Polymarket is no longer banned in the U.S.

December 8, 2025

Polymarket Returns to U.S. After Nearly Four Years
The world’s largest prediction market platform is returning to the U.S. Polymarket announced that users can get on the waitlist for the app. The company will start by offering sports betting with “markets on everything” to follow. Polymarket was banned in the U.S. following backlash from regulators in early 2022. The company was offering betting contracts without the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s approval. Earlier this year, U.S. prosecutors and the CFTC dropped their investigations and the company received regulatory approval.
Fortune

MLS Cup sees steady drop in get-in ticket price, international interest surge
The get-in price for the Inter Miami F and Vancouver Whitecaps F game slowly became more affordable for fans. The first 48 hours after Inter Miami clinched its title-game spot last Saturday, average ticket prices for sideline and corner/end seats on the second market dwarfed prices for the same windows of the 2023 and 2024 title games. The highest get-in price was $831 on Nov. 29. In three days’ time, that figure dropped to $344.
Sports Business Journal

Netflix to acquire WBD’s content business in US$83bn deal
Netflix agreed to an $82.7 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros Discovery’s (WBD) studio and streaming business. Netflix won the deal over Comcast and Paramount. Netflix gains access to films and TV shows as well as HBO Max. TNT Sports US and Eurosport will join the new broadcasting arm. The transaction is expected to close next year. It does not include WBD’s broadcast arm.
SportsPro

WNBA’s Proposed Early Start, Draft Combine Draw Pushback
In addition to proposing a seven-figure max base salary, the league withdrew team-paid housing, suggested an earlier start date to the season and added a draft combine to the table. Players have not been in favor of removing team housing or an earlier start date. Players believe the league should not interfere with outside earning opportunities unless its ready to compensate them in a way that warrants their exclusivity to the WNBA.
Front Office Sports

Peacock, NFL+ Dish Up Reality TV-Flavored ‘Sunday Night Football’ Altcast
Sunday night’s football game had an altcast with Survivor and The Traitors alum Rob Mariano, Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Heather Gay, TV and podcast host Justin Sylvester (E!’s Daily Pop) and Kate Chastain of Below Deck and The Traitors. The NFL and its broadcast partners have leaned into alternate telecasts in the past few years with Nickelodeon, Disney+ and the Manning brothers.
Yahoo News

Roy Kramer Passes Away At 96
Roy Kramer passed away on Thursday at age 96. He was the sixth commissioner of the Southeastern Conference as well as the athletic director at Vanderbilt University. He was the architect of the first conference championship game in NCAA Division I-A history, after the SEC expanded to 12 teams in 1992. Kramer was the commissioner from 1990-2002.
VU Commodores

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Big 12 title game sets Power Four attendance mark
The Big 12 Championship between Texas Tech and BYU had 85,519 fans at AT&T Stadium. This marked the largest crowd ever for a Power Four football title game. Last year’s title game between Arizona State and Iowa State only drew 55,899 fans. The SEC game between Georgia and Alabama was the second-most attended title game this 2025 season, with 77,247 fans.
Sports Business Journal

Michigan State receives $401M gift, including $390M for athletics
Michigan State received a $401 million gift from Greg and Dawn Williams. This is the largest donation to the school and one of the richest in college sports history. The gift includes $390 million for the athletic department $1 billion fundraising campaign.
ESPN

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