Sports

A league's sportsbook revenue and its player-betting rules are not in tension. They are two defences of the same asset, mounted from opposite directions — which is why the response to a $400 joke looked so disproportionate to the joke.

League-wide, ABS challenges succeed 53% of the time — a coin flip. That aggregate hides the actual finding: most challengers are guessing, and a small number of catchers are not.

In four days, three NFL teams reset the running back ceiling three times. The deal structure, not the dollar figure, is the actual argument — and it concedes most of what the analytics case claimed.

MLB, the NHL, MLS and the UFC now have prediction-market partners. Their integrity frameworks address manipulation. The exposure that actually grows is jurisdictional.

Legal sports betting was supposed to create an integrity problem on the field. The exposure turned out to be in the newsroom.

Women's pro baseball landed ESPN. The structure underneath the announcement is the more instructive document.

ESPN's acquisition of NFL Network for $3 billion ended Karl Ravech's 33-year career, left Ryan Clark finding out live on air, and reshaped who covers the NFL. Here's what the merger is actually doing to sports media.

Clark scored 45 points with 10 assists on July 17 — the first such game in WNBA history. Twelve days later, it's still a culture war. Here's the analysis underneath the noise.

LeBron James signed with the Philadelphia 76ers at 41, calling it his 'last decision.' Here's what it means for the NBA's competitive and business landscape.

August 3 at 6 PM ET. Six days. Tarik Skubal is the most coveted trade piece in baseball — and the growing sense is he stays. Here's who's buying, who's selling, and what actually moves.

Spain beat Argentina 1-0 on July 19. Eight days on, here's the technical debrief: which AI systems worked at tournament scale, which were aspirational, and what it means for live sport.