Apple and MLS to present all MLS matches for 10 years, beginning in 2023 : r/apple
Apple rumored to be prepping bid for English Premier League football streaming rights - 9to5Mac
Techmeme: buys NFL Sunday Ticket's residential rights for seven years, sources say for ~$2B/year; DirecTV paid $1.5B/year for residential and commercial rights (Wall Street Journal)
Techmeme: Analysis of 1,000 reinstated Twitter accounts: most are deeply partisan, vocal Trump supporters, and spread COVID-19, election fraud, and QAnon misinformation (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)
Apple's rumored NFL Sunday Ticket deal might not happen this year - The Verge
Apple leaves the field in NFL Sunday Ticket negotiations
NFL news: Sunday Ticket might move to Apple TV+ in 2023
Techmeme: The NFL launches its NFL+ streaming service, offering a $4.99/month tier and $9.99/month Premium tier with full game replays; NFL+ replaces Game Pass in the US (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
Apple May Have Already Inked Deal for NFL Sunday Ticket - MacRumors
Apple remains 'front-runner' for NFL Sunday Ticket in 2023, billion-dollar contract talks at a stalemate
Techmeme: How plans to integrate creators into its NFL Sunday Ticket programming, as the company looks to be a “one-stop shop for multiple types of video content” (Ainsley Harris/Fast Company)
Techmeme: How ByteDance and TikTok, which owe their existence to intermingled Western and Chinese ideas, capital, and people, became caught in changing US-China relations (Alex W. Palmer/New York Times)
Apple reportedly backs out of NFL Sunday Ticket negotiations - The Verge
NFL Sunday Ticket: Apple taking streaming football negotiations into overtime over 'rights to the unknown'