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Judge William Jorden granted a preliminary injunction Thursday night that prohibits the NCAA and SEC from punishing schools that put the named plaintiffs on the field, including Dae'Quan Wright and Zxavian Harris (ESPN Murphy / Olson / SDS / WAFB). The SEC says it will defend its no-former-pros standard and plans to appeal. Alabama's federal suit is still unresolved. Friday is the SEC 105 deadline before Saturday Clemson; SDS/Thamel say Wright and Harris expect to be added. Challenge slot empty:
5 sourcesUpdated September 4, 2026
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Judge William Jorden granted a preliminary injunction Thursday night (~9–10:20pm ET per ESPN Dan Murphy / Max Olson / SDS / WAFB) prohibiting the NCAA and SEC from punishing schools that put the named ~42 plaintiffs on the field, including Dae'Quan Wright and Zxavian Harris. SEC late-Thu statement: presidents unanimously say schools should not roster former pros; conference will defend the standard and plans to appeal. Alabama federal suit from Thursday morning still unresolved. Friday SEC 105 r
6 sourcesUpdated September 4, 2026
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The SEC sued LSU and Lane Kiffin in federal court over recruiting former NFL signees from the Browns, Saints, and Buccaneers. Greg Sankey testified the same day in Baton Rouge after a state judge left about 7 of 44 plaintiffs with SEC claims. Wright is practicing but likely sits Saturday vs Clemson under the seven-day acclimatization rule; Friday is the SEC 105 roster deadline.
4 sourcesUpdated September 3, 2026
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On Thursday the SEC sued LSU, coach Lane Kiffin, President Wade Rousse, AD Verge Ausberry, and the LSU Board in the Northern District of Alabama, accusing them of recruiting players who had signed with the Browns, Saints, and Buccaneers. Greg Sankey testified the same day in Baton Rouge after a state judge left about 7 of 44 plaintiffs with SEC claims. Wright is practicing but likely sits Saturday vs Clemson under the seven-day rule; Friday is the SEC 105 roster deadline.
4 sourcesUpdated September 3, 2026
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The Athletic's nearly five-month review found Dianna Russini's relationship with Patriots coach Mike Vrabel was in clear violation of its standards and should have been disclosed. Standards editor Mike Semel reviewed 903 stories, 77 videos, and 204 podcast episodes and did not find a clear link that she used the platform to promote Vrabel or his teams. He did not speak to Russini. The Athletic added editor's notes to four pieces. Russini resigned in April after New York Post resort photos. The A
2 sourcesUpdated September 3, 2026
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Before Green Bay played Philadelphia in Brazil, Dolphins coach Jeff Hafley says Kevin Patullo already had half his pressures on tape from fans who filmed Packers camp and posted it. Hafley was Green Bay's defensive coordinator then. He called it disappointing.
2 sourcesUpdated September 3, 2026
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Dolphins head coach Jeff Hafley said passing-game coordinator Kevin Patullo already had half of Hafley's Green Bay pressures on tape from fan-filmed training-camp video before the Packers-Eagles Week 1 game in São Paulo. Hafley called it disappointing and said he is not sure what you can do about it. Miami's camp rules prohibit audio and video recording.
2 sourcesUpdated September 3, 2026
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Matt Kendrick stepped down as CEO of Good Good, and president Joe Flannery left, after Callaway ended the partnership over a driver ad. Nahid Giga is interim CEO. PGA Tour sponsorship and retail partners had already pulled back.
2 sourcesUpdated September 3, 2026
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Good Good CEO Matt Kendrick and president Joe Flannery are out after the Callaway driver-ad backlash. A Wednesday memo first reported by Business Insider said Kendrick decided to step down and Flannery chose to part ways. Co-founder Nahid Giga is interim CEO. Callaway had already ended the partnership and pledged $1 million to domestic-violence charities.
2 sourcesUpdated September 3, 2026
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Amen Thompson agreed to a five-year, $208 million rookie-scale extension with the Houston Rockets, with a 10% trade kicker, through 2032. Shams Charania reported it Sep 3. ESPN says it is the same percentage of Houston's cap as Alperen Sengun's five-year, $185 million rookie extension in 2024. Thompson, the No. 4 pick in 2023, is the second 2023 draftee to sign a rookie extension after Victor Wembanyama. This is a contract, not a betting line
2 sourcesUpdated September 3, 2026
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A Nature paper published Sep 2 found late-life semaglutide raised median lifespan about 12% in 20-month-old female C57BL/6 mice, from 742 days to 834 days. David Sinclair posted the paper; he is not an author. This is mice only. A human aging indication is unproved.
2 sourcesUpdated September 3, 2026
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Hugging Face agreed to join NVIDIA in a $12,930,300,000 acquisition. NVIDIA's Form 8-K (event date Sep 2, signed Sep 3) lists about $11.9 billion to stockholders plus an equity retention program of up to about $1.0 billion. Close is guided for the first half of 2027, subject to regulatory approvals. NVIDIA says the Hub stays open and compute-agnostic.
3 sourcesUpdated September 3, 2026
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Apple streamed its first live MLB game in Vision Pro Immersive on Aug 28, Yankees vs Red Sox at Yankee Stadium. The feed is a separate 8K production with about a 180-degree field of view, spatial audio, and dedicated announcers, not a TV wrap. Three more September dates remain. The $3,500–$4,100 headset, weight, and battery life still keep it niche. Claims about lapsed fans sitting through a full game are Brodie Brazil's read, not Apple's.
4 sourcesUpdated September 3, 2026
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Y Combinator's video recaps Heart Aerospace's first flight of the X1, which the film calls the largest electric airplane ever to fly: about a 100-foot wingspan, a 25,000-pound takeoff weight, and $5 of electricity. CEO Anders Forslund dates the flight to August 12 in Plattsburgh, New York. The production ES-30 is a hybrid-electric regional. The video itself gives two electric-range figures, 125 miles and 225 miles.
1 sourceUpdated September 3, 2026
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Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash as generally available on September 2 and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber as a Fairwind-gated twin with DeepMind's CodeMender harness. This is the third Flash drop in six weeks, three weeks after 3.7 Flash. The public model keeps the same introductory price as 3.7 through December 31: $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output. Google says Flash Cyber scored about 86.2 percent pass@1 on CyberGym and 3.8 Flash scored 71 percent on Deep SWE 1.1; those are G
6 sourcesUpdated September 3, 2026
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DHH says Omarchy is moving to a streamlined installer for Apple M machines, with a full announcement later today. Higgsfield says a phone can act as a virtual camera for AI video from a Blender scene. World Labs posted Atlas outputting explicit 3D from images, and Justine Moore showed a reshoot from a new angle. Install conversion and reconstruction claims are the labs' and posters' claims.
4 sourcesUpdated September 2, 2026
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Adweek's Kendra Barnett reported a federal judge on Wednesday rejected the Justice Department's push to break up Google's adtech business and ordered behavioral changes instead, leaving core adtech assets in place even after a monopoly ruling. That is the remedy decision as posted, not a full opinion recap.
1 sourceUpdated September 2, 2026
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Governor Gavin Newsom posted that California's regulated cannabis market has generated $8.4 billion in tax revenue for childcare, youth substance-abuse prevention, medical research, and environmental recovery. The $8.4 billion figure is the governor's claim as posted, not a CDTFA table this desk independently totaled, and the tweet does not spell out the start date of the cumulative count.
1 sourceUpdated September 2, 2026
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The Trump administration filed a statement of interest supporting OpenAI against the New York Times. The Justice Department told the court the United States has a strong interest in rejecting any argument that training LLMs on copyrighted texts violates copyright law, including on national-security grounds, and called training extraordinarily transformative and thus fair use. That is the government's argument, not a ruling. The Times says the administration is siding with AI companies at the exp
1 sourceUpdated September 2, 2026
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Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 (generally available) and Claude Mythos 5.1 (invite-only trusted access for vetted cybersecurity and life-sciences work). Anthropic says they are the same model with different safeguards. Matthew Berman's capability rankings are his recap, not independently verified.
7 sourcesUpdated September 2, 2026
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OpenAI says Astra is the first model it has designated at the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under its Preparedness Framework. The company says Astra can find unknown flaws and build exploits across hardened systems without step-by-step human guidance, and that stronger safeguards plus limited alpha access come with the release. Capability numbers and safeguard scores are OpenAI's own claims. Separately, Lauren shipped Dr Eggbot v0.2 with routine health checks for Grok Bots.
2 sourcesUpdated September 2, 2026
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Sam Bowman posted that throwing rubbish in a landfill is usually better for the environment than recycling it, linking a Works in Progress essay by Robert Wiblin and Nick. This page reports that argument as posted. HRVSTR has not independently verified the CO2, cost, or landfill-security figures.
1 sourceUpdated September 1, 2026
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World Labs introduced Atlas as a multimodal world model that generates image and video frames with pixel-perfect camera control and reconstructs them in 3D. A follow post said Atlas can turn a handful of ordinary cameras into a bullet-time multiview capture. Also in this pack: Visko launched Orbis 1.0, a live model; ChatGPT iOS added Codex Remote priority mode; and Levin Stanley posted a live web-native Trello prototype built with Codex.
5 sourcesUpdated September 1, 2026
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Matt Wolfe showed Marketing Against the Grain a Codex dashboard that watches RSS and sitemaps, dedupes AI newsletters from a dedicated Gmail, and flags brand mentions. He put a rebuild on GitHub. API cost is about $25 to $30 a month. The original was built over weeks, not in one sitting.
1 sourceUpdated September 1, 2026
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Thomson Reuters launched Thomson, an LLM that starts from Qwen3.5-397B and is trained on 175 years of the company's proprietary legal, tax, accounting, and news data. Zach Moskow said the company spent $40 million on it. Thomson Reuters' published benchmarks put the model near Claude Opus 4.8; those scores are the company's claim, not an independent test. Also in this pack: Kalpa TTS Beta v0.1 is listed No. 2 on Design Arena's Audio Realism Bench at Elo 1331, ahead of MAI-Voice-2 and Eleven v3 C
3 sourcesUpdated September 1, 2026
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Ole Lehmann posted that China used more cement from 2018 to 2019 than the United States did during the entire 21st century. This is an unsourced X post. HRVSTR has not independently checked the cement figures, and the tweet does not cite a source.
1 sourceUpdated August 31, 2026
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Lenny Rachitsky posted takeaways from Tara Seshan, OpenAI's ChatGPT Work product lead. Tara's heuristic is to build for where the models will be in two to three months, not for today's models or a year out. She also frames the future of work as steering, not rowing, and says OpenAI's culture asks whether teams are mainlining their own product. These are her comments as relayed by Rachitsky, not an OpenAI product announcement.
1 sourceUpdated August 31, 2026
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Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic, CEO Dario Amodei, and co-founder Benjamin Mann in the Northern District of California on Friday, August 28. They ask for up to $150,000 per willfully infringed work and up to $25,000 per alleged copyright-management-information strip. That is the statutory ask, not a verdict. Anthropic told TechCrunch and Axios it disagrees and will defend itself in court.
6 sourcesUpdated August 31, 2026
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Andrew Curran reported that Google Maps renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America inside the US, tied to recent rename talk from President Trump. This has not been independently checked. Google has not confirmed. Scope (all US users vs a glitch) and permanence are open.
1 sourceUpdated August 31, 2026
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OpenRouter said a GPT 5.6 discount was followed by a 13.8x jump in token use. Joshua Gans wrote that the Hugging Face incident is worse than first reported. Sony and Warner sued Anthropic over musical compositions. Alex Lieberman posted a 16-minute Grok Bot walkthrough. None of that is a new model launch.
6 sourcesUpdated August 31, 2026
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Dwarkesh reconstructed three agent groups that ran inside OpenAI; one reached Hugging Face. Satya Nadella said Microsoft is starting to route Copilot, Excel, and Outlook traffic to MAI when it matches or beats other models. Stripe Directory is a public-preview search so agents can find apps and endpoints. This is a recap of those items, not a sports board.
21 sourcesUpdated August 31, 2026
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Sunday after 6pm ET. Odell Beckham Jr. made the Giants initial 53. Titans.com waived Will Levis. Packers.com put Micah Parsons on PUP and listed Kaleb Johnson inbound pending physical. The 49ers put Christian Kirk on IR designated to return. Also newly filed: Cowboys (Nate Thomas to Texans), Cardinals, Bills, Saints, Eagles, Broncos, and a Texans 53 graphic.
11 sourcesUpdated August 30, 2026
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Sunday after 6pm ET. Odell Beckham Jr. made the Giants initial 53. Titans.com waived Will Levis. Packers.com put Micah Parsons on PUP and listed Kaleb Johnson inbound pending physical. The 49ers put Christian Kirk on IR designated to return. Also newly filed: Cowboys (Nate Thomas to Texans), Cardinals, Bills, Saints, Eagles, Broncos, and a Texans 53 graphic.
11 sourcesUpdated August 30, 2026
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Saturday recap. Highlights first. Scores under the videos.
14 sourcesUpdated August 30, 2026
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OpenAI will stop supplying Cursor with GPT models on November 12. CEO Michael Truell said those models are about 5 percent of traffic and the companies are still talking. Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown said Cursor has been a partner since Sonnet 3.5 and Anthropic will keep adding Claude compute. Bundled GPT ends. A bring-your-own API key and the Codex IDE extension still work for local Chat and Agent. They do not cover Tab, Auto, Cloud Agents, Automations, the CLI, or Cursor's API and SDK.
5 sourcesUpdated August 30, 2026
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Books have TCU between 7.5 and 9.5 points over North Carolina in Dublin, with the public about 74/26. The under around 46.5 is the live total. Virginia is -4 to -5.5 vs NC State at 3:30 ET; Howard is -2.5 vs Alabama A&M on ABC at 7:30. After 36 holes at East Lake, Gerard and Hovland share 10-under, with Scheffler two back. The market still prices Scheffler shortest.
6 sourcesUpdated August 29, 2026
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OpenAI notified SpaceX it will wind down the Cursor contract, with a proposed shutoff on November 12. Cursor's CEO said OpenAI models are about 5 percent of user traffic. The WebMCP Challenge still takes entries through September 3, and ChatGPT desktop already consumes site tools. Perplexity shipped Portable Computer on an NVIDIA DGX Spark.
7 sourcesUpdated August 29, 2026
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Luke Kerr-Dineen says elite golf chased fades and more players are gravitating to a tour draw. Grant Horvat, in a TaylorMade clip, talks tempo as sequence: wait at the top.
2 sourcesUpdated August 29, 2026
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Grok Bot templates went live, including an official last30days template. OpenAI is adding WebMCP so Codex can pull tools from a website. Klaassen demoed WebMCP in open-source Thinkroom. Pollen Robotics listed Microduck, a 25 cm open-source robot, at $399.
13 sourcesUpdated August 29, 2026
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Grok Bot shipped desktop grokbot:// plugin-install links; mobile comes later. Van Horn published an August 2026 field guide. Vince demoed WebMCP on a live store. Phonon runs Gemma 4 locally for dictation. Fish Audio shipped its voice studio on iOS. Skild S1 claims one-video robot learning; that is a demo, not a replication.
16 sourcesUpdated August 27, 2026
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Kevin Durant backed Hugging Face at seed. A Grok Bot guide listed 11 day-to-day tips. Roon read the Hugging Face incident as a warning shot for how agent infrastructure gets compromised. The Economist carried Harari on the AI era. $Visualize is a Codex habit, not a product launch.
5 sourcesUpdated August 27, 2026
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Grok Bot shipped desktop plugin-install links and a house-memory pitch that is still a product idea. Vince demoed WebMCP on a live espresso-gear store; Chrome flags are still required. Phonon runs Gemma 4 on-device. Fish Audio shipped a voice studio on iOS. Skild S1 claims one-video robot learning.
14 sourcesUpdated August 27, 2026
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Researchers are connecting lab-grown neural tissue to electrode arrays and studying whether living networks can process information. The work also forces early decisions about donor consent and moral limits.
7 sourcesUpdated August 26, 2026
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Recent research and factory programs focus on the barriers between solid-state battery cells and mass production: dendrites, grain boundaries, sintering, cutting, and inline quality control. None of that yet proves low-cost automotive manufacturing.
7 sourcesUpdated August 26, 2026
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Fervo is applying horizontal drilling, repeated well designs, and modular construction to enhanced geothermal. Sawtooth 7 reached total depth in 21 days, and the company reported drilling rates up 143 percent from the first Cape well. Faster drilling is moving the story from a lab claim toward plant execution.
7 sourcesUpdated August 26, 2026
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The Department of Energy's Genesis Mission is linking national-lab instruments, scientific datasets, supercomputers, quantum systems, and commercial AI tools into a shared discovery platform. The first project portfolio was selected in July 2026.
7 sourcesUpdated August 26, 2026
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Field tests show software can trim AI-cluster power use during grid stress while protecting priority jobs. One demonstration reported a 25 percent reduction during a three-hour Phoenix event. Commercial-scale projects will test whether that holds as a grid resource.
7 sourcesUpdated August 26, 2026
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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has moved from first images into steady survey operations. Its wide-field camera will repeatedly scan the southern sky for a decade-long record of change.
7 sourcesUpdated August 26, 2026
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IBM, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Cleveland Clinic used a hybrid quantum, classical, and AI workflow to model molten salts that could breed fuel inside a fusion reactor. It is a first computation in that pipeline, not proof of advantage over classical methods.
6 sourcesUpdated August 26, 2026
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Doctors built a personalized CRISPR base-editing therapy for an infant with a lethal rare disorder in about six months. The case shows a reusable editing platform can be tailored to one mutation. It is feasibility for an urgent case, not a ready path for thousands of rare variants.
7 sourcesUpdated August 26, 2026
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The FDA has started proof-of-concept trials that expose endpoints and safety signals to reviewers as studies run. The experiment could cut review delays. It does not remove the hard work of sound clinical evidence.
7 sourcesUpdated August 26, 2026
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Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 models connect language, vision, planning, and motor control across humanoids and other robot bodies. The live question is whether those skills hold outside controlled demonstrations.
7 sourcesUpdated August 26, 2026
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ESPN's 2026 open put North Carolina and TCU in Dublin at noon ET on August 29, NC State-Virginia in the same window, and the MEAC/SWAC Challenge on ABC that night. Those snaps are on the official schedule, not a scrimmage.
4 sourcesUpdated August 24, 2026
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The BMW Championship field is 50 players. Thirty get tickets to the Tour Championship at East Lake. The PGA TOUR bubble table still has Rickie Fowler on the number, with Woodland, Kitayama, and Cauley inside a handful of points.
4 sourcesUpdated August 24, 2026
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Wyndham Clark seized the 36-hole lead at the BMW Championship at Bellerive. Golf Channel's round-two piece put U.S. Open winners atop the board. The PGA TOUR posted Round 2 highlights.
4 sourcesUpdated August 24, 2026
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Football Operations required 53 players by 6 p.m. ET on August 30, two days after the third preseason weekend. Preseason snaps still decided bubble jobs, not stars.
4 sourcesUpdated August 24, 2026
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Detroit dealt Tarik Skubal and Casey Mize, then kept winning enough to stay in the American League wild-card race. A.J. Hinch said the season was not over the day Skubal left, and Detroit won its first game after the deadline. The ace is in Los Angeles.
4 sourcesUpdated August 24, 2026
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Fifty players left. Thirty go to East Lake. Round 1 is in the books at Bellerive in St. Louis. McIlroy posted 64. The Open is over. This is the playoff that counts.
4 sourcesUpdated August 24, 2026
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SneakerNews has the Air Jordan 3 Laser at SNKRS on August 22 for $230, Pharrell's Crystal Sand Jellyfish in the same window, and the Air Jordan 8 Black/Chrome still a date on the calendar. The Jordan 2026 dates page is the schedule, not a reseller ticker.
4 sourcesUpdated August 24, 2026
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Thirteen MLS matches were on August 22. Nashville sits on the Supporters' Shield. Miami, LAFC, and the rest of the table are playing catch-up on Apple TV. Nashville hosts Columbus; Miami plays Toronto.
6 sourcesUpdated August 22, 2026