Know What Is Next

About Know What Is Next

Want to learn more about the most talked about topics and trends in the sports business industry from the sports business executives who run it? Join Next League’s CEO David Nugent, a sports technology industry veteran and thought leader with over 20 years experience in the ever-changing technology services business. Tune in every week for insightful and engaging discussions on everything from artificial intelligence and fan engagement to the changing media landscape and the growth of women’s sports with the sports industry’s leading executives. For more on Next League, visit our website (https://nextleague.com/) or follow us on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/next-league/).

Publisher

Next League

Category

business · sports · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 Jan 2025

Latest episode

20 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

87 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Oct 2026

   The “Share the Gains” Strategy Behind Drew Sheinman’s Sports Private Equity Firm

   Money keeps pouring into sports, much of it chasing the same assets: teams, leagues, and media rights. Drew Sheinman, Founding Partner at Brand Velocity Group, is investing around them instead, with a model that gives 10% of his firm’s carried interest to the employees of the companies it buys. Drew joins Dave to explain how BVG works as an independent sponsor instead of a traditional fund, raising capital deal by deal from institutions, family offices, and athletes. He draws on a career spen...

2. 

   13 Oct 2026

   The U.S. Open Tech Strategy: Temporary Infrastructure, AI, and 50TB of Championship Data

   A U.S. Open can bring more than 200,000 fans to a golf course with no permanent network, limited infrastructure, and none of the technology you would expect at a major stadium. Anthony Santora, Managing Director of IT at the USGA, joins Dave to explain how his team turns that into a functioning championship operation. Anthony walks through what happens months before the first fan arrives, from planning the network and monitoring critical systems to deploying hundreds of access points and tele...

3. 

   6 Oct 2026

   How NASCAR Is Using Netflix, YouTube, and Fan Data to Grow Fandom with Tim Clark

   NASCAR has spent years experimenting with new platforms, content formats, race environments, and ways to understand its fans. But one of its biggest lessons has been knowing what NOT to change. Tim Clark, EVP and Chief Brand Officer at NASCAR, joins Dave to talk about the tension at the center of modern fan engagement: evolving how people discover, experience, and interact with a sport without losing the identity that made its most loyal fans care in the first place. He shares how NASCAR is t...

Who has been a guest on Know What Is Next

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Jayne Bussman-Wise
• Luis Goicouria
• Brian Herbst
• Perkins Miller
• Liz Moore

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.4 / 5

7 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 38 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

63

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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