Chris Smith has now reported on sports business for more than 13 years. He currently leads Sports Business Journal’s coverage of sports finance, tracking both individual deals and industry-wide trends around team sales, investments and other transactional news. He’s previously reported on the business of collegiate sports, the Olympics and sports entertainment, among other areas. Prior to joining SBJ, Smith spent the first eight years of his career at Forbes, where he worked on the industry’s leading team valuation and athlete earnings lists. Smith is a frequent panel moderator, and he’s appeared as a subject expert on some of the sports industry’s top television shows and podcasts.