This week's expanded deals with the NFL and a new partnership with WWE provides ESPN with more inventory and offerings, which it hopes will bolster the company in a landscape that is divided among cable, satellite and streaming.

In the precarity of the streaming era, there’s one sure bet every platform is chasing: Sports. Roku’s got the X Games, Apple has F1, Netflix has WWE and is edging in on some football games. Disney’s got a major head start with ownership of ESPN,

The National Football League's deal with Walt Disney in which it will gain an equity stake in ESPN in return for prime media assets is expected to face scrutiny from the U.S. Department of Justice, according to legal experts and industry sources.