Nashville Super Bowl in 2030

Afternoon Edition

May 18, 2026

It looks like the Super Bowl is headed to Music City. NFL owners are meeting Tuesday in central Florida and are likely to approve Nashville as the host city for Super Bowl LXIV in 2030, according to industry sources and multiple reports. Selection of the Titans’ home market will give the new $2.1 billion Nissan Stadium—set to open next year—a major boost.

—Eric Fisher

First Up

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Nashville’s New $2.1B Stadium Expected to Land 2030 Super Bowl

The Tennessean

The NFL is poised to set future locations for two of its top events at its spring meeting this week in Orlando.

Team owners, meeting Tuesday in central Florida, are likely to approve Nashville as the host city for Super Bowl LXIV in 2030, according to industry sources and multiple reports. The selection of the Titans’ home market, initially reported by the NFL Network, will help herald the new $2.1 billion Nissan Stadium, set to open next year, and it will be the first time the NFL’s biggest event is held in Music City.

That forthcoming domed facility was supported in part by $1.26 billion in public funding, and the choice continues a long-held league practice of rewarding cities with new stadiums—particularly those aided with taxpayer funds—with a Super Bowl hosting slot. Nashville, meanwhile, drew 600,000 fans when it hosted the NFL Draft in 2019, beginning a run of attendance records for that event that reached another peak this year with 805,000 attending in Pittsburgh.

Expanded Schedule in Play?

What’s unknown with the Nashville Super Bowl, however, is the exact date of that game. The league is still considering a move to an 18-game schedule, something that needs approval from the NFL Players Association, which is reluctant at best on this issue. That would, in turn, alter the date of the Super Bowl, and because of the uncertainty around the 18-game regular season, there aren’t firm dates yet either for Super Bowl LXII in 2028 in Atlanta or Super Bowl LXIII in 2029 in Las Vegas.

That lack of clarity has complicated some of the planning for ancillary Super Bowl events, particularly in Atlanta.

The upcoming Super Bowl LXI will be in Los Angeles, buttressed by a hefty programming and promotional push by game broadcaster ESPN and its parent company Disney.

As for the draft, meanwhile, Minnesota is set to receive the firm nod to host the 2028 event following Washington, D.C., next year. The Vikings’ home market will have a high mark to reach as officials in the nation’s capital are already aiming to beat the attendance record from Pittsburgh, and draw more than 1 million fans across the three-day event.

The Vikings formally tendered their bid for the draft last month, and once the choice is made official, it will complete a run through the NFC North division markets following Chicago in 2015 and 2016, Detroit in 2024, and Green Bay in 2025. Amid the runaway success in Pittsburgh, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said, “We’re going to probably have to start allocating the drafts a little further in advance.”

Other League Business

While those two event placements will highlight the spring meeting agenda, there are other pressing matters at hand.

League owners will formally approve a lease deal between the Commanders and the District of Columbia to build a new stadium on the grounds of RFK Stadium. The D.C. Council formally approved a stadium funding plan last September, and the Commanders unveiled an initial design in January inspired by the team’s former home.

There will be an update on a Bears stadium situation that has stalled in the Illinois legislature in recent weeks, as some Chicago leaders, including Mayor Brandon Johnson, are still trying to keep the team in the city. That’s happening despite repeated statements from the team, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, and the NFL that the stadium site choice is down to either Hammond, Ind., or Arlington Heights, Ill., and has been for months.

The league could also move to increase its number of international games in 2027 to 10, upping the total from a current record of nine that are set for the 2026 season. With the Jaguars’ separate agreement to play in London, the vote could position the NFL to play as many as 11 global games next year.

The NFL will additionally be reviving its accelerator program, which seeks to “advance talent from underrepresented groups,” but had been paused in 2025. Among the names in the 34-person pool is Chargers offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel, the head coach of the Dolphins from 2022 to 2025.

Contract Dispute

Dec 12, 2021; Nashville, Tennessee, USA; Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Urban Meyer on the sidelines against the Tennessee Titans during the second half at Nissan Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Steve Roberts-USA TODAY Sports

Steve Roberts-Imagn Images

$30 million

The amount the Jaguars saved by winning the grievance the team’s former head coach Urban Meyer brought against the franchise. Jacksonville fired Meyer after just 13 games amid a 2021 season in which his conduct generated negative headlines for the franchise. As a result of the ruling, the Jaguars won’t be required to pay the three-time college football national champion head coach the remainder of the reported four-year, $36 million contract Jacksonville signed him to when they hired him in 2021. Read the story.

LOUD AND CLEAR

Proxy Battle

Holliday shoppers stand in line for Black Friday deals at Lululemon in the Fashion Mall at Keystone on Friday, Nov. 29, 2024, in Indianapolis.

The Indianapolis Star

“His actions have been damaging to the brand and harming the very stakeholders he claims to represent: shareholders, guests, and employees.”

—Lululemon wrote in a letter to shareholders about the company’s founder Chip Wilson, who has been calling for a change in leadership at the athleticwear maker. This marks the first time Lululemon has issued public comments responding to Wilson’s criticisms that ramped up last year. Wilson this month escalated his proxy fight against the company, outlining a series of pillars he said its board has neglected, such as focusing on core consumers, and raised concerns about the company’s recent appointment of former Nike executive Heidi O’Neill as CEO.

Wilson previously nominated three directors for Lululemon’s board. “Electing any of Mr. Wilson’s nominees would endorse his misguided perspectives, significantly downgrade the Board’s skills and expertise, and jeopardize the ability of the leadership team and our incoming CEO to effectively build on and accelerate Lululemon’s ongoing action plan at a critical time for the business,” the shareholder letter said.

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STATUS REPORT

One Up, One Down, Two Push

Tennis - Italian Open - Foro Italico, Rome, Italy - May 17, 2026 Italy's Jannik Sinner celebrates with the trophy after winning his men's final match against Norway's Casper Rudd

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Jannik Sinner ⬆ The world No. 1 beat Casper Ruud to win the Italian Open on Sunday, completing the “Golden Masters,” or winning all nine ATP Masters 1000 tournaments. At age 24, Sinner became the youngest and just the second man to complete this feat after Novak Djokovic pulled it off at 31. Riding a 29-match win streak, Sinner enters next week’s French Open tournament as the heavy favorite to complete the career Grand Slam in rival Carlos Alcaraz’s absence.

NCAA softball ⬆⬇ The regionals of the NCAA softball tournament took place this past weekend, the first one in the new format that seeded 32 teams instead of 16. There were several upsets in the bracket—three top-16 host seeds in No. 3 Florida State, No. 4 Oregon, and No. 4 Texas A&M all failed to make it out of their regional. Meanwhile, all four No. 8 seeds (Wisconsin, Louisville, Southeastern Louisiana, and Kansas) and two No. 7 seeds didn’t reach their regional finals as projected.

Mallard Creek High School ⬇ The North Carolina school’s boys track team fell just short of a state title last weekend, after its 4×400 relay anchor, Nyan Brown, was disqualified for celebrating right before he crossed the finish line. Brown, who held up five fingers on his hand to signal his school’s fifth championship, was called for unsportsmanlike conduct by officials. Mallard Creek was just two points short of a title, with the relay disqualification being the make-or-break.

Pelicans ⬆⬇ The NBA franchise hired Jamahl Mosley as its new head coach Monday on a five-year contract. Mosley was previously the head coach of the Magic for five seasons, guiding the team to three consecutive playoff appearances before getting fired in May after blowing a 3–1 first-round series lead to the Pistons. New Orleans finished the 2026 season with a 26–56 record—its second straight with fewer than 30 wins.