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Big Ten dominates 2026 preseason college football QB rankings

Jayden Maiava is one of four Big Ten quarterbacks to appear in a preseason list of the nation's best signal-callers. See which other QBs are there:

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Apr 12 • 11:43 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Sports Roundup: Girls Tennis Wins At Home, Baseball & Boys Lax Win…

Nantucket Current is the island's leading online news source. We deliver the news, stories, and people of Nantucket, unbiased and unfiltered.

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Apr 12 • 11:25 AM EDT • Sports • nantucketcurrent.com
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UNC basketball under Michael Malone: Insiders reveal transfer portal news, 2026 recruits, roster, best targets

TarHeel247, the 247Sports affiliate of the North Carolina Tar Heels, shares its latest college basketball transfer portal news

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Apr 12 • 10:57 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
Duke basketball under Jon Scheyer: Insiders reveal transfer portal news, 2026 recruits, roster, best targets

TheDevilsDen, the 247Sports affiliate of the Duke Blue Devils, shares its latest college basketball transfer portal news

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Apr 12 • 10:49 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
Braves vs. Guardians prediction, odds, time: 2026 MLB picks for Sunday Night Baseball from advanced model

SportsLine's model reveals Atlanta Braves vs. Cleveland Guardians picks, MLB best bets for Sunday Night Baseball

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Apr 12 • 10:23 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
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Hearing aids can seem like a big step. This NYC Ballet principal dancer doesn't regret taking it.

According to the National Institutes of Health, less than a fifth of American adults aged 20 to 69 who could benefit from wearing hearing aids have ever used them.

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Apr 12 • 9:57 AM EDT • Health • boston.com
Trey McKenney discusses game-sealing shot in National Championship

At the national championship celebration, Michigan Basketball G Trey McKenney discussed his game-sealing shot vs UConn and how he “blacked out” in the process:

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Apr 12 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
⚠️ Concern for Mbappé! Not training with the squad after eyebrow stitches

Real Madrid completed training this Sunday with an absence that raised alarm bells, although the club is conveying complete calm. According to several media outlets, Kylian Mbappé did not go out onto...

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Apr 12 • 7:51 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
📺 Sunday schedule (12): Brasileirão, derbies and crackers in Europe

Sunday (12) features big rivalries across Brazil and plenty of European football. Check the schedule and where to watch, and plan ahead!Brasileirão 🇧🇷11am - Athletico vs. Chapecoense: Premiere...

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Apr 12 • 5:43 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
New Orleans all-metro girls basketball team headlined by state champion from John Curtis

A John Curtis senior headlines the 2026 New Orleans all-metro girls basketball team.

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Apr 12 • 5:35 AM EDT • Sports • nola.com
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Tension at OGC Nice amid relegation battle

Amid fears of relegation to Ligue 2, tension is rising at OGC Nice, according to a report from Nice-Matin.The club host Le Havre AC on Sunday afternoon, 24 hours after AJ Auxerre’s draw against FC ...

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Apr 12 • 5:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Yankees news: Boone angry with ABS failures

Yanks worst in baseball at challenges; bottom of lineup a Problem; farewell to Winquest; RIP to an old-timer.

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Apr 12 • 5:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Today’s Papers – Shocking Milan, Juventus celebrate

La Gazzetta dello SportInter in Como for the Scudetto. Pio must do a LautaroNapoli in Parma with the comeback dream. Conte: ‘Let’s put pressure.’Great LadyWins in Bergamo and narrows the Champio...

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Apr 12 • 3:50 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
SPFL prepare for Old Firm play-off

The Scottish Professional Football League is preparing for a potential Old Firm Premiership play-off should the title race end in a deadlock between Rangers and Celtic. Daily Record) Lawrence Shankland looks increasingly likely to stay at Heart of Midlothian until the end of the 30-year-old Scotland striker's current contract despite long-standing interest in his signature from Rangers. (Football Insider)

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Apr 12 • 3:46 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Sunderland vs Tottenham Hotspur – Match preview and team news

Roberto De Zerbi makes his Premier League return as Tottenham Hotspur visit Sunderland at the Stadium of Light today.The Italian manager replaces Igor Tudor after a dismal run left Spurs one point abo...

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Apr 12 • 3:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
April baseball means snowflakes and very brave parents

Attending spring sports games in upstate New York often means cold weather. Here's how to stay warm and entertained.

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Apr 12 • 3:00 AM EDT • Sports • democratandchronicle.com
'Unique piece of women's football history' restored

Restorer Chris Shaw said the book was "a fascinating delve" into Dick, Kerr Ladies football team.

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Apr 12 • 2:16 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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How to watch the 2026 San Antonio Sports All-Star Basketball Game on April 12

More than 100 of the top high school basketball players in and around San Antonio will suit up on April 12.

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Apr 12 • 1:49 AM EDT • Sports • ksat.com
Illinois football hosts Mom’s Weekend practice

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — Illini football took a break from the traditional spring practice for one that featured a special twist. Amidst mom’s weekend on the U of I campus, players’ moms took to the practice field with their sons for a second straight season. These football families are grateful for the quality time together […]

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Apr 12 • 12:20 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Pastors Scott Bottoms, Victor Marx win spots in Colorado GOP’s gubernatorial primary at party assembly

Two pastors from Colorado Springs qualified Saturday for the Republican gubernatorial primary ballot at the Colorado GOP’s state assembly in Pueblo in a party meeting that dragged late into the night. State Rep. Scott Bottoms, who is known as one of the legislature’s most conservative members, won top line on the June ballot, while missionary […]

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Apr 11 • 11:41 PM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com
Women’s Basketball: Utah G Avery Hjelmstad commits to TCU

The Horned Frogs have now added four players through the portal.

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Apr 11 • 11:35 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ballon d'Or Favorite? England, Bayern Munich Star Harry Kane Tabbed As Frontrunner

Harry Kane is currently playing at a level that few are able to match, cementing his status as the premier marksman in European football.

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Apr 11 • 9:38 PM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
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Tigres thrash and outclass Chivas at El Volcán!

Tigres made a statement at El Volcán, thrashing Chivas 4-1. The felines controlled much of the match, handing the Liga MX leaders one of their most painful defeats of the Clausura 2026. The party st...

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Apr 11 • 9:38 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Iowa women's basketball lands All-SEC transfer portal guard

Iowa women's basketball picked up its first impact player out of the transfer portal, landing first-team All-SEC guard Dani Carnegie.

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Apr 11 • 9:36 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
🚨 Atlético Nacional line-up confirmed

Atlético Nacional plays its second match of the week and arrives at the Atanasio Girardot as the away side for the Clásico Paisa. El Verdolaga will defend the outright lead against DIM on Matchday 1...

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Apr 11 • 9:13 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Football fans are being taken for a ride by the NFL — the DOJ could stop that

Nobody should be surprised that the Justice Department has opened an investigation into the NFL’s antitrust exemption — but it’s far from clear how this game will end.

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Apr 11 • 8:56 PM EDT • Business • nypost.com
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Legendary basketball coach, broadcaster Dick Vitale reveals health status

The basketball world has come together to support one of its most legendary figures. Former NCAA and NBA coach and current broadcaster Dick Vitale has faced challenges larger than basketball. Recent reports revealed that Vitale has been dealing with numerous…

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Apr 11 • 8:05 PM EDT • Health • sports.yahoo.com
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Bullpen took care of business for the Hens

The Official Site of Minor League Baseball web site includes features, news, rosters, statistics, schedules, teams, live game radio broadcasts, and video clips.

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Apr 11 • 7:59 PM EDT • Business • milb.com
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Diggins signs with the Sky; Sabally joins Liberty

Skylar Diggins is headed to Chicago while Satou Sabally is coming to New York as WNBA free agents can officially sign Saturday. Diggins spent the past two seasons with the

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Apr 11 • 7:12 PM EDT • Sports • santafenewmexican.com
Late-Inning Pushes Lift Shenandoah Past Lynchburg in Doubleheader Sweep

The University of Lynchburg softball team dropped both ends of an ODAC doubleheader against Shenandoah on Friday at Moon Field, falling 11-7 in game one and 6-5 in game two.

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Apr 11 • 7:08 PM EDT • Sports • lynchburgsports.com
🚨 Tigres v Chivas line-ups confirmed

Tigres hosts Chivas this afternoon at El Volcán in one of the most attractive matches of the weekend. Guido Pizarro’s side will look to take all three points from the league leaders, which would he...

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Apr 11 • 6:35 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Saturday Sports: The first Watertown girls’ flag football game and more

Here’s a recap of your North Country sports this Saturday.

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Apr 11 • 6:22 PM EDT • Sports • wwnytv.com
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Saturday Sports: The first Watertown girls’ flag football game and more

Here’s a recap of your North Country sports this Saturday.

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Apr 11 • 6:21 PM EDT • Sports • 1011now.com
Saturday Sports: The first Watertown girls’ flag football game and more

Here’s a recap of your North Country sports this Saturday.

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Apr 11 • 6:21 PM EDT • Sports • fox8live.com
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High school sports results for Saturday, April 11, 2026

SATURDAY’S RESULTS Baseball NON-SECTION Albert Gallatin 4, Steel Valley 0 Toronto, Ohio 20, Carrick 0 Softball WPIAL CLASS 5A Section 2 Kiski Area...

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Apr 11 • 5:31 PM EDT • Sports • post-gazette.com
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Phillies 22-year-old enters MLB's top prospects list

Philadelphia Phillies right-hander and fourth-ranked prospect, Gage Wood, has entered MLB's top 100 prospects list after Chicago Cubs Moises Ballesteros graduated.

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Apr 11 • 4:44 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
College basketball transfer portal tracker: Fit grades for every top commitment from the 2026 cycle

Tracking and grading the major commitments as the 2026 college basketball transfer portal season heats up

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Apr 11 • 3:32 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
L.A. Times readers celebrate UCLA women's basketball's title win

Times readers cheer UCLA coach Cori Close and players Gabriela Jaquez, Kiki Rice, Lauren Betts, Gianne Kneepkens, Angela Dugalic and Charlisse Leger-Walker.

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Apr 11 • 3:12 PM EDT • Sports • latimes.com
Tennessee softball ace Karlyn Pickens throws no-hitter in Game 1 win at Kentucky

Tennessee softball ace Karlyn Pickens threw a no-hitter in the Lady Vols' 5-0 win over Kentucky in Game 1 on April 11. Pickens had 12 strikeouts.

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Michigan, men's basketball coach Dusty May agrees to contract extension
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Apr 11 • 3:01 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Michigan, men's basketball coach Dusty May agree to contract extension
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Postal Service, Under Pressure, Now Faces Trump’s Mail Ballot Order

President Trump’s executive order, which has been challenged as unconstitutional, would limit the Postal Service to sending only the ballots of voters deemed eligible.

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Apr 11 • 2:40 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Federal judges say White House ballroom construction can continue, for now

President Donald Trump has claimed that a building pause poses a risk to national security.

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Apr 11 • 1:32 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Coaching search shows UNC Basketball still an elite job

The extraordinary events around the search Hubert Davis’ replacement reveal just how unique the UNC job is.

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Apr 11 • 1:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Spring volleyball: Nebraska tops Iowa State in Sioux Falls

Nebraska volleyball handled business in its first spring match against Iowa State on Saturday, April 11, inside the Sanford Pentagon. Before the match, the two teams agreed to play four sets, as the Huskers won all four (25-17, 25-16, 25-16, 26-24).

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Apr 11 • 12:36 PM EDT • Sports • dailynebraskan.com
Appeals court says Trump White House ballroom construction can proceed for now

A federal appeals court said Saturday that President Donald Trump can move ahead for another week with construction of a massive new White House ballroom while judges consider the project.

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Apr 11 • 12:31 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Local View: Parable of three donors illustrates money in politics

From the column: "If the candidate takes the cash, it will be commingled into one larger snowball of contributions to make larger buys with diminishing marginal returns in voters per dollar."

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Apr 11 • 12:05 PM EDT • Politics • duluthnewstribune.com
Boom Ball blends baseball, high-energy entertainment for night of family fun in Birmingham

The touring baseball show announced Friday that they’re brining their one-of-a-kind family entertainment to Regions Field.

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Apr 11 • 11:51 AM EDT • Entertainment • wbrc.com
Chelsea Star Speaks On Exit From Manchester United

Garnacho, Chelsea Move Signals Reflection After Man United ExitThere is often a moment, quiet and uncomfortable, when a young footballer begins to understand that talent alone does not carry a career....

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Apr 11 • 11:50 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
“AI polls” are fake polls

A few weeks after Donald Trump’s second presidential win, I took the train up from London (where I was living at the time) to Oxford to attend a conference on polls and forecasts of the 2024 election. Most of the attendees were pollsters or academics, but I also watched presentations from Aaru and Electric Twin, two companies that do what is interchangeably called synthetic sampling, silicon sampling, or synthetic audiences. Stripped of startup jargon, that means they use large language models (LLMs) to simulate responses to public opinion polls by having AI agents take on the role of survey respondents. I had already heard of Aaru thanks to some articles with eye-catching headlines like “No people, no problem: AI chatbots predict elections better than humans” in the months leading up to Election Day. The founders were making some big, some might even say far-fetched claims, such as: “within two years, we will simulate the entire globe — from the way crops are grown in Ukraine to how that impacts production of oil in Iraq, trade through the strait of Malacca, and elections for the mayor of Baltimore.” When Semafor asked Aaru’s cofounders — Cameron Fink and Ned Koh — about my boss, they said “we respect all those who came before us.” Nate (as he so often does) shared his thoughts on Twitter: Fink and Koh were relatively good-natured about this back-and-forth when we spoke at Oxford. They even offered to mail me one of the t-shirts featuring Nate’s quote they apparently had made. I never took them up on the offer, which I now somewhat regret. These synthetic sampling companies fell off my radar for a while, but they do still exist. In fact, Aaru recently received a $1 billion valuation. Is what they’re doing anywhere close to the most important frontier in AI development? Not by a longshot, especially when Anthropic just developed a model so adept at exploiting software vulnerabilities that it’s only being released to 40 companies. Still, silicon sampling is increasingly finding its way into public polling. Axios reported in March that “a majority of people trust their own doctors and nurses” based on findings from Aaru — without mentioning that the “people” in that sentence were actually LLMs. Around the same time, the Public Sentiment Institute “boosted” their online sample of 373 real survey respondents with 114 AI agents.1 (Spoiler alert: even the co-founder of Electric Twin doesn’t think that’s a particularly defensible approach.) Polling companies like Qualtrics and Ipsos are also developing synthetic data panels. So, what should we make of these … “polls”? Let’s get one thing out of the way: whatever they are, they’re not polls in the way that term is usually defined. Subscribe You can’t replace polls with AI On one hand, using LLMs to essentially make up fake survey respondents sort of sounds like the dumbest idea ever, one that will at best imperfectly replicate real polls while introducing all sorts of biases. On the other hand, with LLMs improving at a remarkable, perhaps even alarming rate, maybe that means I’m a dinosaur at the ripe old age of 24 because I still want to rely on polls that talk to actual people. I’m not going to argue that synthetic samples are completely useless. In fact, as I’ll return to later, there is evidence that some techniques can replicate topline survey results quickly and cheaply. But the marketing from certain companies can be slightly optimistic. “No traditional poll will exist by the time the next general election occurs,” said Fink in 2024. We’re just 206 days away from the midterms, and based on the fact that I still have to collect a bunch of polls every day, I’d say he should have run that prediction by a sample of AI agents before the interview.2 To see why synthetic samples can’t replace polls, here’s a quick primer on how they work. The simplest version of these models involves taking a LLM (like ChatGPT or Claude), giving it a demographic profile (e.g., a white, college-educated woman who lives in Utah and makes $70k a year), and then asking it to respond to a survey question. You repeat that process a few thousand times using different demographic profiles and end up with a sample of synthetic survey responses. The actual models used by private companies are more sophisticated than this, usually because they incorporate more hypothesized demographic characteristics for each agent and provide them with extra information. Aaru, for example, feeds agents a diet of news and information they’d be likely to consume, while Electric Twin incorporates their customers’ proprietary data about the audience they’re trying to replicate. The way Ben Warner, the co-founder of Electric Twin, explained it to me was “we have a large amount of data on […] for instance, 5,000 people. Can we make an accurate prediction of how they would respond to another question?” Still, it should be obvious why synthetic samples can’t replace polls. Polling is fundamentally a data collection process. We might use surveys to make predictions by feeding them into election forecasts, but the main purpose of a poll isn’t prediction, it’s gathering new data about what people think and how they feel. Silicon sampling, on the other hand, produces no new data. It’s simply a model: you input LLM training data, demographic prompts, and a bunch of other information, and it spits out a prediction for what a poll would say. We love models here, but models aren’t polls. That difference is an important philosophical sticking point for most pollsters I talk to. “I think politics should stay away from [synthetic sampling], because we’re trying to […] represent the voice of the people,” said Natalie Jackson, a vice president at GQR Insights. Democratic pollster John Hagner told me: “I think I’m just incredibly skeptical of this idea. I don’t think it’s research. At that point, you’re asking the machine to tell you what you already believe.” Hagner has seen some presentations of early synthetic sampling experiments, but so far, “if it’s being used in a campaign, people are keeping it incredibly quiet.”3 But Eli, I hear you saying, aren’t polls themselves increasingly governed by modeling decisions? Indeed they are: pollsters’ choices on which sampling method to use, how to define their likely voter models, and how to weight their samples can and do lead to dramatic differences in the results they publish. Aaru even referenced these limitations in the methodology statement included with that maternal mortality “poll” — although I’m using the term “methodology statement” loosely here, because it doesn’t really explain how the model works at all. We can ignore the (frankly preposterous) implication that synthetic sampling isn’t subject to a separate set of biases. The important point is that there’s still a meaningful difference between using weighting and other statistical techniques on actual polling data and using a model to predict what a poll would say. The latter is far closer to election forecasts or techniques like MRP — potentially useful models, but not a replacement for polls.4 To be fair, other synthetic sampling companies are perfectly happy with the distinction between polls and models. Warner compared polling and synthetic sampling to different tools in a toolbox. “The mistake I think we make is we think that these new tools should either work in exactly the same way or somehow replace these old tools,” he said. “Rather than thinking of it as, okay, so we’ve always had the hammer, we’ve always had the screwdriver, now we’ve got a saw. But don’t use a saw to try [to] do the job of a hammer.” A quick comment from Nate Eli didn’t ask me for a comment — rather rude of him, don’t you think? But since I’m editing this story, I figured I’d add a few quick thoughts rather than putting words in his mouth. Beyond the frequently misleading marketing, what bothers me about the AI “poll” hype is that as AI tools make statistical inference cheaper and/or better (note that these are not synonyms) that actually increases the comparative value of collecting original data. You might be able to train a model to make a reasonable estimate of what some hard-to-reach poll respondent would say — say, a young Black man who voted for Trump. (Such a person checks a number of boxes for a voter who is usually hard to reach in surveys.) Indeed, this is closely related to what models like the Silver Bulletin forecast already do. They essentially smooth out the kinks in noisy survey data by making inferences based on past voting patterns or national polls or surveys of other states. But you don’t actually know what these voters think unless you’re reaching them directly. If there’s a shift in opinion among this subgroup, you’re not going to detect it. So if I were running a campaign, I’d invest more in going the extra mile to find a representative sample of those voters. And then I’d hire some smart quants — or Claude? — to figure out the implications for campaign strategy based on proprietary data that my competitors didn’t have access to. -Nate Silver Are these models any good? If synthetic surveys are just a new type of model, the next obvious question is whether the models are at least accurate. The answer very much depends on who you ask. On one end of the spectrum, you have the maximalist argument that synthetic sampling is more accurate than actual polls. “It’s an incredibly challenging problem to go to someone and say ‘hey, we’re going to be more accurate at predicting human behavior than you, even when you talk to your customers directly’,” Koh recently told CNBC. In his view, synthetic sampling isn’t a saw to polling’s hammer, it’s “magic.” There’s certainly evidence that synthetic samples can replicate certain survey toplines. But if Aaru does have any examples of their approach outperforming the polls, they’re keeping those to themselves.5 Aaru’s 2024 election model, for example, had Kamala Harris leading in Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin on November 4th. And although they’ve since taken down their forecast page, they gave Harris a 50.5 percent chance of winning the race on November 2nd.6 After the election, Fink told Semafor he was happy enough with those results because they were “within margin of error,” a term that is completely meaningless when applied to a “sample” of AI agents. And of course, Aaru says their models have improved since 2024, so supposedly now they’d be more accurate than the polls? Still, their stronger argument is on cost: “We are significantly faster and cheaper than traditional polling, and still more accurate,” said Fink. The first two claims are undeniably true, but the third brings us to the opposite end of the spectrum. Both Jackson and Hagner are skeptical that these models are reliable for anything beyond replicating common survey toplines. “I just […] don’t think the machines are what we want when we’re looking for nuanced views. My example on this is people in Arizona and Nevada in 2024 who voted for Trump and voted for expanding abortion in their states on ballot initiatives,” said Jackson. Hagner identified another issue. Maybe the synthetic respondents, like sycophantic LLMs, are inhuman in one important way: they’re too nice. “The reports that have come through at the meetings that I’ve been at are that the early experiments on this, they cannot get respondents to be as racist or sexist or, frankly, as negative as human respondents,” he said. Academic research mostly agrees on this point. While there are some papers that show promising results when using LLMs to replicate polling data, most show that LLMs suffer from various quirks like producing too few “don’t know” responses and can seriously overpredict the favorability of politicians like Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. They also seem to struggle with too little variation between demographic subgroups, so the difference in predicted opinion between Democrats and Republicans, for example, is too small. When I asked Warner about these studies, his response to these papers was that just because academics can’t get synthetic sampling to work doesn’t mean that the technique doesn’t work in general. “Actually, the argument is, okay, yours does not [work]. That does not mean […] for this complex set of machinery, which uses a lot of investment, a lot of time, a lot of money, you can’t get it to work.” Cards on the table, I’m somewhat sympathetic to this argument because academics aren’t exactly great at making election forecasts. Usually, the people with skin in the game are the most accurate. Warner’s argument is that the approach Electric Twin takes — which includes, for example, making multiple predictions for each synthetic respondent using different models and prompts and subsequently averaging those to get a final prediction in a sort of ensemble forecast — produces better results than the simpler academic models. Warner shared a comparison between his method and the method from a recent academic paper with me, and Electric Twin was indeed able to get more accurate replication. But even still, he acknowledged that synthetic sampling “is not a crystal ball.” “If you asked me, do I think using other data sources will be more accurate than asking somebody who they will vote for, I would probably say no. But if you asked me ‘would your system be useful for our turnout modeling today?’ I would say yes.” For better or worse, it looks like the method is already getting more popular in the market research world. Most of the clients Aaru touts these days are businesses like EY and McDonald’s. And AI will probably begin to pop up in other parts of the political polling process. Pollsters are already using it to code open-ended survey responses, and some firms, like YouGov, are testing using LLMs to ask survey respondents questions. More worryingly, one danger to actual polls is that AI agents can be used to infiltrate online surveys. Most online polls use various checks to prevent that from happening, but there’s conflicting evidence on how effective those filters are and how prevalent AI agents currently are in online panels. If those agents ever become impossible to detect, it might spell the end of online polling, but the solution isn’t to replace all of your respondents with ChatGPT. Silver Bulletin is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe 1 That particular poll obviously doesn’t meet Silver Bulletin standards for aggregation. But we exclude all Public Sentiment Institute polls from our averages because we classify them as an amateur polling firm. 2 You could argue that Fink meant the next presidential election, but (a) I’m also confident we’ll still have real polls in 2028 and (b) in that case he should have asked an LLM to define “general election.” 3 Quick caveat: that’s reporting from a Democratic pollster. It’s possible that Republicans are more willing to use AI in political campaigns. 4 Indeed, Silver Bulletin does not include “polls” produced by MRP in our forecasts or averages, and we think it’s extremely misleading when their practitioners describe them in a way that suggests original data had been collected among a large number of states or Congressional districts. 5 A recent report from Aaru and EY did show two examples of a synthetic estimate being closer than a survey to a real-world benchmark — but I’d take those findings with a grain of salt because the report reads more like an ad and didn’t involve any sort of prediction being made ahead of time. 6 For comparison, our odds for Harris on the same day were 48.2 percent.

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Apr 11 • 11:38 AM EDT • Technology • natesilver.net
Allegri explains Milan changes with new 4-3-3 experiment

Max Allegri explains how his Milan team changes with a 4-3-3 formation against Udinese and why they must ‘give Rafael Leao the right service’ as a centre-forward.It kicks off at San Siro at 17.00 ...

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Apr 11 • 11:35 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Photo Of Cameron Brink, LeBron James Grabs Basketball World's Attention

WNBA star Cameron Brink was at Crypto.com Arena on Friday night to watch LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers square off against the Phoenix Suns. Unfortunately for the Lakers, this month hasn't been very kind to them. A few days ago, All-Star guard Luka Doncic suffered a grade 2 hamstring ...

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Apr 11 • 10:38 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani breaks Ichiro Suzuki all-time MLB record

Shohei just keeps making baseball history.

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Apr 11 • 9:43 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
College football's most experienced players in 2026: Penn State's Rocco Becht leads among QBs

As eligibility stretches careers, snap counts provide a clearer look at which players have truly logged the most time on the field

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Apr 11 • 9:19 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
Demons and pinball are a perfect match

A match made in hell.

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Green Bay area high school sports results for Friday, April 10

High school baseball, softball and soccer teams were in action.

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Apr 11 • 6:05 AM EDT • Sports • greenbaypressgazette.com
This dreadful run that's weighing Mbappé down 🥶

The black cat?This Friday evening, Real Madrid were held to a 1-1 draw at home by Girona on matchday 31 of La Liga.If Barcelona win this Saturday, the Catalans would move nine points clear of Madrid a...

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Apr 11 • 5:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bielema, Gies, associate athletic director share insights on world of college sports

Alumnus and donor Larry Gies, who first “fell in love” with UI by attending a football game with his father, said that athletics often serve as a university’s “front door”

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Apr 11 • 5:30 AM EDT • Sports • news-gazette.com
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📺 Today’s guide: Saturday packed with Brasileirão, Bundesliga on OF +

Brasileirão Série A - 11th Round4:30 PM - Remo x Vasco da Gama - Globo and Premiere 4:30 PM - Vitória x São Paulo - Globo, Premiere and YouTube (GE TV) 6:30 PM - Mirassol x Bahia - Premiere 8:00 P...

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Apr 11 • 4:58 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Commanders must achieve one primary goal in 2026 NFL Draft

The 2026 NFL Draft is rapidly approaching and it's clear what the Commanders need to accomplish.

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Apr 11 • 3:50 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Burnley XI vs Brighton – Predicted lineup and team news

Burnley host in-form Brighton today, aiming to narrow a ten-point gap to Premier League safety.The Clarets have moved closer to relegation after winning only once in 22 league games. Manager Scott Par...

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Apr 11 • 3:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Enzo Fernandez Future Back in Spotlight After Chelsea Peace Talks

Enzo Fernández and Chelsea Reconciliation Signals Crucial Turning PointDisciplinary drama resolved behind the scenesThere is something quietly significant about reconciliation in elite football. It r...

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Apr 11 • 1:50 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Borussia Dortmund vs Leverkusen

Borussia Dortmund prepares for matchday 29 of the Bundesliga as they welcome Bayern Leverkusen to the Signal Iduna Park on Saturday afternoon.Although Dortmund remains in second position in the table ...

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Apr 11 • 1:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Barcelona vs Espanyol – Predicted lineup and team news

Barcelona will look to make it seven La Liga wins in a row when they host Espanyol at the Camp Nou on Saturday.The Catalan giants have dominated this fixture in recent years — Espanyol haven’t bea...

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Apr 11 • 1:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Juventus predicted lineup and team news vs Atalanta

Juventus make the trip to Bergamo this Saturday night to take on Atalanta in Serie A.Only four points separate the two sides — Juventus sit fifth with 57 points from 31 games, while Atalanta are sev...

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Apr 11 • 1:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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AC Milan vs Udinese – Match preview and team news

AC Milan and Udinese meet in a matchday 32 clash of Serie A at the San Siro on Saturday.AC Milan sits in third position at the Serie A table with 63 points from 31 matches, while Udinese are currently...

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Apr 11 • 1:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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FSU softball falls to Stanford on walk-off grand slam

The Stanford Cardinal beat the FSU with a walk-off grand slam to snap their 25-game winning streak.

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Apr 11 • 12:47 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Brittney Griner to sign with Connecticut Sun, AP source says

Brittney Griner is finalizing a deal to join the Connecticut Sun, according to a person familiar with the negotiations | 97.3 The Sky

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Apr 10 • 11:47 PM EDT • Sports • audacy.com
Lots of players rest and lots of playoff seeds are locked up on a 15-game Friday in the NBA

Plenty of players sat out as NBA teams played their second-to-last games of the season | 97.3 The Sky

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Apr 10 • 11:12 PM EDT • Sports • audacy.com
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Democrats denounce Trump’s plan to use foreign steel in White House ballroom

A New York Times report that the president was accepting a donation of foreign steel for the ballroom was seized on by Democrats.

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Apr 10 • 10:04 PM EDT • Politics • seattletimes.com
A’s Win Third Straight, Beat Mets 4-0

Quality baseball all around, love to see it

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Apr 10 • 9:43 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Yankees Not Making Excuses Over Brutal Offensive Showings

The New York Yankees haven't been playing the type of baseball they were expected to when entering the season over the past few days, and it's resulted in some tough losses. Offensively speaking, the Yankees only scored seven runs in the three games against the Athletics, including a shutout in the third game of the set.

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Apr 10 • 9:25 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Memorial Health Foundation fashion show raises over $142K

The Memorial Health Foundation 21st annual Fashion Show, this year with a Masquerade Ball theme, drew a large crowd and raised more than $142,000, with proceeds supporting local cancer patients and related health initiatives. The annual fundraiser supports the foundation’s cancer patient emergency fund and breast health initiatives, helping individuals undergoing treatment with expenses such […]

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Apr 10 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • mariettatimes.com
Good Sports: Fresno City College baseball aiming for championship

It's a group the Fresno City staff has a hard time comparing to any other Rams squad, and pitching coach Eric Solberg has pretty much seen it all.

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Apr 10 • 7:58 PM EDT • Sports • abc30.com
Three Colorado players needing big spring game performances

Colorado football's spring game is a chance for new players to shine. Here are three returning players who could use a big day to quiet some noise.

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Apr 10 • 7:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Third annual Castle Softball Invitational at Deaconess Sports Park

Third annual Castle Softball Invitational presented by Peoples Bank at Deaconess Sports Park in Evansville, Ind., Friday, April 10, 2026.

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Apr 10 • 7:17 PM EDT • Sports • courierpress.com
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Dick Vitale releases update on latest health battle: 'Hope & pray for good results'

Legendary college basketball broadcaster Dick Vitale shared an update on his latest health battle. Here's what he said.

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Apr 10 • 6:51 PM EDT • Health • sports.yahoo.com
Women's basketball transfer portal tracker: Latest news as Audi Crooks, other big names look for new teams

We're keeping tabs on every major move with the transfer portal open in women's college basketball

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Apr 10 • 6:24 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
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Pirates get 1st hit off Cubs' Thielbar in 7th inning after Imanaga departs

Shota Imanaga pitched six sharp innings for the Chicago Cubs before Ryan O’Hearn led off the seventh with a single to right off Caleb Thielbar for Pittsburgh’s first hit of the game | 97.3 The Sky

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Apr 10 • 3:55 PM EDT • Sports • audacy.com
Texas exodus as women's Final Four team sees key players hit transfer portal

From Final Four to roster rebuild | 97.3 The Sky

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Apr 10 • 3:33 PM EDT • Sports • audacy.com
How to Capture the Moments That Matter (in Life and in Business)

I'm a CEO and also the videographer for my son's football team. Here's what that experience has taught me about documenting processes and motivating teams.

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Apr 10 • 3:00 PM EDT • Business • entrepreneur.com
College basketball transfer portal fill up with more than 2,000 men's players

Mid-major conferences are being hit hard by transfers, but so are the Power Conferences as more than 320 players enter from P-4 schools

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Apr 10 • 2:02 PM EDT • Sports • usatoday.com
Democrats Denounce Trump’s Plan to Use Foreign Steel in White House Ballroom

A New York Times report that the president was accepting a donation of foreign steel for the ballroom was seized on by Democrats.

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Apr 10 • 1:03 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
What’s next for Big Ten, and college sports, after big 3 sweep?

The Big Ten won the NCAA football and men's and women's basketball championships in 2025-26. What's next for the conference and college sports?

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Apr 10 • 1:00 PM EDT • Sports • seattletimes.com
Broncos ownership group joins Rockies as minority partners

DENVER -- Penner Sports Group, the family entity of Greg and Carrie Penner that owns the Denver Broncos, has made an investment that will make it the largest minority owner of the Rockies franchise. The move, approved by Major League Baseball, was announced by Rockies owner, chairman and CEO Dick

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Apr 10 • 12:23 PM EDT • Sports • mlb.com
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Denzel Boston adds Ravens to list of pre-draft visits
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Apr 10 • 11:46 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Watching Sports on TV Is More Annoying Than Ever. Can the Government Help?

The Justice Department launches an investigation into the NFL’s media universe. It’s a bigger riddle than football.

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Apr 10 • 11:45 AM EDT • Sports • wsj.com
UNC basketball reaches out to top Arkansas transfer

The UNC basketball program is pursuing Arkansas transfer Karter Knox.

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Apr 10 • 11:44 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
📸 The maddest moments of the European week 👽

UCL, UEL, UECL — this is crazy! A closer look at the most captivating moments from this European week. The kilometer-long tunnel at Bologna’s stadium!When Olise does... ballet!We almost had the a...

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Apr 10 • 11:42 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire: Why is Parker Messick still so widely available?
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Apr 10 • 10:44 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
‘He crushed it.’ Rummel senior’s home run against Jesuit creates 3-way tie for district lead.

Joel Morange didn’t have much reason to think his fly ball to left field would leave the park.

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Apr 10 • 10:28 AM EDT • Sports • nola.com
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Adaptive sports program visits Southern Arizona P.E. classes, wheelchairs in tow

When her class moved outside for P.E., special education teacher Tiffani Jaseph saw the excitement. After coaches and players from Adaptive Sports In Schools, or ASIS, unloaded dozens of wheelchairs at Copper View Elementary in the Sahuarita School District, they told students about racing the chairs and playing wheelchair basketball. Jaseph saw the difference in […]

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Apr 10 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • azluminaria.org
Lacrosse, Flag Football Set to Compete at Women In Sports Day in Baltimore

EMMITSBURG, Md. (April 10, 2026) – Mount St. Mary's host their inaugural Women In Sports Day at the Under Armour Stadium at the House in Baltimore. Women's lacrosse battles Canisius in a crucial Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) game, while flag football resumes play in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) with a contest against Saint Joseph's.

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Apr 10 • 8:04 AM EDT • Sports • mountathletics.com
Maine group asks for changes in ballot language

The ballot question criticism is the latest twist in a controversial effort that began last fall when the group began gathering signatures to call for a public vote on the issue.

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Apr 10 • 7:49 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Group behind transgender school sports referendum opposes drafted ballot question wording

The group 'Protect Girls Sports in Maine' is taking issue with how ballot question is worded, arguing it is "not dutifully faithful to the proposed legislative text and has departed from the most critical language."

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Apr 10 • 7:07 AM EDT • Sports • wmtw.com
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Morning Sports: Softball, baseball, and basketball

Rob Krone has highlights from a busy sports night locally on Thursday.

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Apr 10 • 6:38 AM EDT • Sports • wwnytv.com
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Crossroads District businesses react to Royals stadium proposal near their neighborhood

Local business owners in the Crossroads District reacted to the city's new Royals stadium proposal two years after voters denied a sales tax extension for a downtown baseball stadium.

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Apr 10 • 1:07 AM EDT • Business • kshb.com
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Green Bay area high school sports results for Thursday, April 9

High school baseball, softball, soccer, and track and field teams were in action.

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Apr 10 • 12:11 AM EDT • Sports • greenbaypressgazette.com
How Soccer Assisted Viktor Orbán’s Rise — and Maybe His Fall

Hungary’s strongman has built his regime on a fusion of football and politics. Can it carry him to another term?

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Apr 10 • 12:01 AM EDT • Politics • politico.com
A junior hit 2 home runs and went the distance in the Hahnville-Mount Carmel softball game

The Hahnville-Mount Carmel softball winner was led by a junior's two-way impact

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Apr 9 • 9:50 PM EDT • Sports • nola.com
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