Apple has demonstrated that they wanna do sports with their AppleTV service. They've been the sole broadcaster for some MLB (baseball) games and have also seen a spike in subscriptions for MLS (soccer) with Messi playing.

But does Disney wanna sell? Maybe. They're rejigging their streaming services and it might be the time to do it.

Didn’t the Disney CEO say it would be a compliance/anti-competition nightmare? Can imagine Disney wanting to sell as they need to get $20 billion+ somehow to buy the rest of Hulu.

Anti-competition nightmare just for Apple to own ESPN? or more than that? Because I don't see it as much different from the current media landscape.

The killer app/hardware that may drive all this? Apple Vision/VR/AR. If there was ever something where sports would make the most sense (Live, first person, 'be' at a game, view from the field, etc etc) its that.