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Electronic Arts is close to reaching a $50 billion deal that will turn it into a privately held company, according to The Wall Street Journal. The video game company filed for an IPO way back in 1990 and has been public ever since, but now a group of investors are in talks with the company to take it private. Those …

Electronic Arts (EA), the video game giant behind franchises like Madden and FIFA, is approaching a deal to go private, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The deal, valued at around $50 billion, would be the largest leveraged buyout in history. SEE ALSO: Review: ‘Ghost of Yotei’ proves that the PS5 is still a winner According to the Wall Street …

A group of financial investors are in “advanced talks” with EA to go private with a valuation worth around $50 billion (£37.5 billion). According to the Wall Street Journal (£), the investors – thought to include equity firm Silver Lake, Affinity Partners, and Saudi Arabia’s controversial Public Investment Fund (PIF) – could announce a deal as soon as next week. …

The big announcement that Tom Brady teased on Sunday landed on Monday without nearly the hoopla he surely had anticipated. Possibly because Brady’s presence in the Raiders’ coaching box on Monday night became the Tom Brady “A” topic for Tuesday. Regardless, it’s a big deal. After multiple years of speculation that Saudi Arabia will inevitably turns its attention — and …

Tom Brady will return to competitive football, sort of. The seven-time Super Bowl winning quarterback was announced on Monday as the headliner for a new flag football event featuring both active and retired NFL players that will take place March 21, 2026 — in Saudi Arabia. According to Fanatics, the sports merchandiser partly behind the event, Brady will make his …

With Tom Brady announcing on Monday that he’ll be staging (and playing in) a Saudi Arabian flag-football tournament featuring current NFL players, an obvious question arose. Are the teams that currently employ the current NFL players OK with it? We’ve contacted the various teams whose players were listed in the release: Eagles running back Saquon Barkley, Cowboys receiver CeeDee Lamb, …

Tom Brady’s current professional activities feel less like the post-playing exploits of a seven-time Super Bowl winner and more like the origin story of the villain in a 007 movie. Lost in yesterday’s a-ha moment regarding his Fox/Raiders conflict of interest is that Brady will be pocketing a presumably large amount of Middle Eastern oil money to stage flag-football games …

The N.F.L. Is Coming to Saudi Arabia, Where Soccer Is King  The New York Times Tom Brady Is Coming Out of Retirement for a Third Time! Everything You Need to Know About His Return to the Field  People.com Tom Brady is returning to the field for a flag football tournament in Saudi Arabia  NBC News Brady to play with NFL stars in Saudi …

Saudi Arabia’s inevitable football play has begun. It’s beginning with a March 2026 flag football tournament, headlined by Tom Brady. During Fox NFL Sunday, Brady teased a “great announcement” to come on Monday. And the announcement is that Brady will headline a flag football classic that will consist of a three-team round robin tournament, to be televised by Fox. (Whether …

49ers’ Christian McCaffrey agrees to play football game in Saudi Arabia  SFGATE Brady to play with NFL stars in Saudi flag tourney  ESPN Saudi Arabia gets involved in football, with 2026 flag tournament  NBC Sports The N.F.L. Is Coming to Saudi Arabia, Where Soccer Is King  The New York Times Tom Brady is not coming out of retirement, but he will play flag football …