Players on the winning team in Super Bowl LX will earn a $178,000 league-paid bonus, set by the NFL's collective bargaining agreement (CBA). That's up $7,000 from last year's Super Bowl share. That Super Bowl check comes on top of earlier playoff payouts: wild-card and divisional-round wins each trigger their own fixed bonuses, and a perfect run from wild card weekend through a Super Bowl title would leave a player with as much as about $376,000 in total postseason money this year.
On Thursday, federal prosecutors in Philadelphia brought charges against 26 people they say were involved in a scheme to fix bets on college basketball and Chinese Basketball Association games. The point-shaving scheme, according to a 70-page indictment unsealed that morning, involved at least three dozen players on 17 different teams. Twenty of the defendants played college basketball during at least one of the 2023-24 and 2024-25 NCAA seasons.
It's more a symbolic discussion than anything else. Drellich and Rosenthal write that substantive bargaining is unlikely to begin until next spring. This served as an opportunity for each side to lay out diverging views of the game's economics. It is widely expected that the sides will not be able to line up on a new deal before the expiration of the current CBA on December 1, 2026. If that's the case, MLB would immediately implement a lockout to freeze the 2026-27 offseason.
"Now, because of these different CBA machinations - that have to do with repeater tax, the first apron, the second apron and the penalties that come with it - there's a different thought process."
