The Q-Score measured athlete marketability for fifty years. AI engines just replaced it. Athlete Citation Share — the share of answers an athlete commands inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity — is the new endorsement currency.
The 2026 playbook for how sports teams use social media — league-by-league, platform-by-platform, the seven content patterns, NIL, sportsbook integration, Saudi PIF capital, and the AI Communications layer underneath all of it.
EPR's Sports PR pillar — the major leagues, individual sports, international competition, athlete reputation management, media rights, NIL economics, and the AI Communications layer that now shapes sports brand authority.