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_Afternoon Edition_

_October 8, 2026_



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==As MLB labor talks continue, team owners are now ==proposing arguably the largest change to the annual schedule in more than 65 years, with a reduced regular season and an expanded playoffs.

==—==[Eric Fisher]([link removed])


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## **First Up**

* ==ICE has ==[detained a Mississippi Valley State basketball player]([link removed])==,== one of several college athletes arrested by ICE in recent months.== ==

* The [Titans fired three business execs amid the team’s 0–4 start]([link removed]) to the season, continuing a trend of recent instability within the NFL franchise.

* Jeanie Buss’s [siblings called her August petition]([link removed]) to stop them from selling their Lakers shares “a meaningless academic exercise.”

* Caitlin Clark said the Fever’s [priority should be re-signing four-time All-Star Kelsey Mitchell]([link removed]), who had commented on the challenges of playing for the team.


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###### ONE BIG FIG

## NFL’s Prediction-Market Plea

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## $1.8 billion

That was the amount of prediction markets’ trading volume related to the NFL on the first Sunday of this football season alone. Total trading volume that day was about $3.3 billion. 

The league cited the figure in an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to [weigh in on the issue of sports event contracts offered by prediction markets]([link removed]). The NFL said it believes they should be regulated at the state, not federal, level, but criticized what it called a “laissez-faire approach to regulation by the industry.”


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###### LOUD AND CLEAR

## Open for Business

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_**“It’s a possibility.”**_

—Sergio Garcia said this week when asked whether he would consider returning to the PGA Tour. Garcia, who has played the past five seasons with LIV Golf, became the first player to have his contract with the league officially terminated Wednesday through [LIV’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy process]([link removed]). Without a special deal, the earliest he would be eligible for PGA Tour events would be August 2027—one year after his most recent LIV event.

Garcia, 46, was speaking ahead of this week’s Spanish Open on the DP World Tour, which began Thursday. He mentioned one day potentially competing on the PGA Tour Champions circuit, which is for golfers ages 50 and older, as well as his goal of making the 2027 European Ryder Cup team.


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###### STATUS REPORT

## One Up, One Down, Two Push

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**Tyrese Haliburton** **⬆ **The All-Star Pacers guard was back on the court for the first time in 472 days, playing 16 minutes and scoring 7 points in Indiana’s 123–112 preseason victory over the Timberwolves. Haliburton last played in Game 7 of the 2025 NBA Finals, when he got off to a blistering start in the first quarter before tearing his right Achilles tendon and watching from the bench as the Pacers lost to the Thunder. The exhibition was held at Iowa State’s home arena in Ames, and Haliburton bought out the entire student section so Iowa State students could attend for free.

**Gianni Infantino ⬆⬇** The 54 African soccer federations in FIFA “unanimously and unconditionally” support the current FIFA president in the upcoming election, the head of its continental federation [said Thursday]([link removed]). Meanwhile, the European confederation released a statement calling for Infantino to be replaced, saying it has “lost confidence in the current FIFA leadership.”

**Formula One ⬇ **The FIA, the governing body that oversees F1, confirmed Thursday after a full investigation that a software bug caused several cars to grind to a halt during the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia on Sunday. Due to wet weather conditions, a number of drivers, including Lewis Hamilton, had power issues and were forced to pull over to the side of the track. A software fix was hastily written to allow the race to continue after a nearly hour-long delay, and the FIA said that code will remain in place at this weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix. 

**Australian Open ⬆⬇** The widely acclaimed 1 Point Slam will be back and “bigger than ever,” according to the tournament’s 2027 launch press release. Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, and Coco Gauff have all signed up to play the event, which sees professionals and amateurs face off in a bracket of one-point matches for a $1 million prize before the main tournament begins in Melbourne. That rollout was undermined, however, by new tournament director Andrew Abdo, who committed a series of gaffes including calling Sinner “Jacob” and mispronouncing the name of WTA world No. 1 Elena Rybakina. 


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###### YOUR NIGHTLY WATCH

Stephen A. Smith’s apology, everything to know about the new Nick Saban doc, CFP director weighs in on if it should go to 24 teams

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