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Tom Brady is a significant step closer to NFL ownership.
Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis announced on Monday that he and Brady have reached an agreement for the former quarterback to take a minority stake in the NFL franchise. The agreement will now be sent to the NFL for approval by league owners.
"We have come to an agreement for Tom Brady to become a partner in the Raiders, and we have submitted it to the NFL for approval," Davis told ESPN's Paul Gutierrez.
Brady did not publicly address the news upon Davis' announcement.
Terms of the deal were not reported. The agreement will require approval of 23 of the NFL's remaining 31 owners. Any ownership deal requires approval by 3/4 of the league's franchises.
Will Brady still call games for Fox?
An ownership stake reportedly wouldn't prevent Brady from calling games for Fox. Brady has a 10-year, $375 million contract to call games as an analyst for the network that was slated to start in 2023. He announced after his retirement in February that he won't start calling games until the 2024 season, declaring that he wants to "take some time to really learn, become great at what I want to do."
ESPN reports that the NFL prohibits employees with positions of authority at media outlets from having ownership stakes, but that the policy wouldn't apply to Brady's role as on-air talent. Fox has "blessed" Brady's desire to take an ownership stake, according to the report.
The reported plan would create conflict-of-interest issues at Fox as Brady called games with outcomes relevant to the Raiders.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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