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TST Best Bets: October 3, 2026

Mississippi State gets a chance to show how far it has come Saturday, welcoming No. 7 Alabama to Starkville for a matchup of unbeaten SEC teams. Kamario Taylor has helped turn the No. 16 Bulldogs into an early surprise, but keeping up with the Crimson Tide will be their biggest test yet.Over in the Big Ten, No. 14 Iowa returns home after its dramatic win at Michigan to face No. 6 Ohio State. The Hawkeyes will lean on their defense again, this time trying to slow down Julian Sayin and Jeremiah Sm

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Oct 3 • 11:52 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Purplish: ‘The Great Colorado Ballot-O-Rama’ Part II

In the second half of the Purplish live event, the temperature rises on reporters in the host seat as they try to make the many ballot questions more digestible.

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Oct 3 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • kunc.org
Browns beat Steelers, and Verse wants another shot at them

Jared Verse energized the Browns' 27-24 win over the Steelers with relentless trash talk and aggressive play, vowing to continue the rivalry when the teams meet again in Pittsburgh.

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Oct 3 • 5:02 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Madison Square Garden Entertainment (NYSE:MSGE) Upgraded at Wall Street Zen

Wall Street Zen raised Madison Square Garden Entertainment from a "hold" rating to a "buy" rating in a research note on Saturday.

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Oct 3 • 1:37 AM EDT • Entertainment • marketbeat.com
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Memorial and Reitz battle till the final minute

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) — In a battle of undefeated teams, Memorial high school football team beat Reitz in a close one 30-27. Next, the Tigers will travel to Floyd Central to take on the Highlanders. While the Panthers will face Bosse.

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Oct 3 • 12:56 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Mater Dei shuts out Bosse

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) — The Mater Dei Wildcats beat the Bosse Bulldogs, 35-0. The Wildcats will face Harrison next week, while the Bulldogs go up against Reitz.

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Oct 3 • 12:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Heritage Hills picks up a victory over Mt. Vernon

MOUNT VERNON, Ind. (WEHT) — The Heritage Hills Patriots beat the Mount Vernon Wildcats, 25-7. The Patriots will face North Posey next week, while the Wildcats go up against Washington.

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Oct 3 • 12:29 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
North Huskies take down Vincennes

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) — The North Huskies beat Vincennes, 34-17 on Friday. The Huskies will look to keep the wins coming when they face Jasper next week.

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Oct 3 • 12:26 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
A Tiny Piece of Glass Beats Out Data Centers—As the Key to Protecting Human Knowledge for Thousands of Years

This crystal could transform digital data storage, preserving all human knowledge against fire, water, heavy impact, and hacking.

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Oct 2 • 3:35 PM EDT • Science • popularmechanics.com
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Exclusive: Man Utd Win Behind-Closed-Doors Match As Baleba & De Ligt Start

Sully Talkz Exclusive: Manchester United beat Lausanne-Sport 2-1 in a behind-closed-doors friendly during in the international break.

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Oct 2 • 11:35 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Tencent Music Entertainment Group (NYSE:TME) Reaches New 12-Month Low

Tencent Music Entertainment Group (NYSE:TME) Sets New 52-Week Low - Here's What Happened

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Oct 2 • 11:20 AM EDT • Entertainment • marketbeat.com
Voter guide: Prop 134 asks Colorado voters to bar transgender student athletes from certain school sports

Here’s a closer look at Proposition 134, a measure that’s similar to a controversial 2025 executive order issued by President Donald Trump.

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Oct 2 • 11:09 AM EDT • Sports • chalkbeat.org
Coastal forces shape building sciences practice

When Built Environments relocated to Wilmington, the firm’s partners weren’t looking for the lazy tranquility one hopes for when on vacation. Instead, they sought sultry heat. They wanted to understand whipping coastal winds and punishing precipitation – the kind that tropical storms produce. That’s because how materials degrade can reveal a lot about how they can be improved. “We specifically chose the Wilmington market because it does fall within Climate Zone 3A, which is a coastal warm-humid climate,” said Jarrett Davis, who joined Built Environments in 2023 to lead the company’s building science practice. “There’s not a lot of product research in that climate zone, but there are a lot of structures here that get weatherized pretty severely.” Built Environments has provided building science, material testing and code compliance consulting for 25 years, ever since principal materials scientist Steve Doggett founded the company in Minnesota. “There are very few manufacturers that understand fully how their own materials and products work, whereas we know their shortfalls and their benefits out in the real world on jobsites,” Doggett said. “That’s why the original Built Environments was formed, to make buildings better.” He said the 15-employee company is just as comfortable on a jobsite, retrofitting a high-end beachside property, for example, as it is recreating some of the coast’s most intense weather conditions in the great indoors. The company operates an A2LA-accredited ISO/IEC 17025 mechanical testing laboratory on Wright Street. The year-old facility has expanded Built Environments’ in-house capabilities, Doggett said. “We’re able to simulate that hurricane wind (and) rain and perform structural and impact testing on wall assemblies, roof assemblies and glazing assemblies,” he said. “There are certain requirements that those windows and doors need to meet as far as wind ratings and pressure ratings and things of that nature.” Standard Glass Co.-Glass Depots, of Wilmington, is currently testing a new glazing system using Built Environments’ stress testing, the partners said. One method involves what’s called a “large missile cannon.” “We take 8-foot two-by-fours, and we shoot them at assemblies, so they have to withstand that impact,” Davis said. “It’s pretty cool to see, I’m not going to lie.” In many cases, the lab can run a full, wall-scale test of a product in a matter of weeks or months, whereas “it might take midrange manufacturers years,” Doggett said. “We’re nimble. We can cut that time in half.” The lab also develops intellectual property. Doggett, for example, shares a patent with Sustant LLC, of Minnesota, on a fastener patch to increase the air and water tightness within building envelopes. “We have too many ideas and not enough time,” he said. But the partners noted that they or their fellow principals – of which the company has four total, including a principal engineer and a principal codes and standards expert – could be anywhere on a given day, including in the courtroom providing expert testimony in contentious insurance cases. “Let’s say there is a fire on a structure,” Davis said. “We can analyze all the specific materials within that assembly – an exterior wall or something like that – because there are loads that require certain heat release. And so, we can measure each one of those materials, if need be, to say if this was likely or not a code-approved assembly.” Despite what can be inferred in a lab, the partners said nothing beats learning from how materials change over time under real-world strain. Take, for instance, the curious case of the creaking condo. “We recently had a customer that came to us trying to assess a sound issue of a roof. It was making noises that no one could explain or account for. How do you tackle something like that?” Doggett asked rhetorically. “There’s really no generally agreed-upon methodologies.” The problem turned out to be a faulty installation of a commercial roof system. “The building in this particular case was not local,” he said. “In the initial installation, the commercial roofing contractor installed the wrong fasteners in the wrong locations into the deck, and essentially the solar radiation was causing the building to move quite substantially early in the morning when the sun initially hit that assembly after a quite cool evening, causing the threads on the fasteners to kind of jump within the material, within the metal.” Built Environments designed an effective repair methodology that was within budget, the partners said. “We get the bizarre,” Doggett said. “I will say that’s something that has stayed the same over 25 years.” The partners said they are hiring, and that Cape Fear Community College is one of their main recruiting grounds. Davis and Doggett look for talented people who can understand traditional methodologies yet are open to on-the-job training and new understandings, they said. After all, it’s not just weather that can ruin a building. “My favorite saying is,” Davis said, “‘What are the eight most expensive words in construction? That’s how my daddy used to do it.’”

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Oct 2 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • wilmingtonbiz.com
Coastal forces shape building sciences practice

When Built Environments relocated to Wilmington, the firm’s partners weren’t looking for the lazy tranquility one hopes for when on vacation. Instead, they sought sultry heat. They wanted to understand whipping coastal winds and punishing precipitation – the kind that tropical storms produce. That’s because how materials degrade can reveal a lot about how they can be improved. “We specifically chose the Wilmington market because it does fall within Climate Zone 3A, which is a coastal warm-humid climate,” said Jarrett Davis, who joined Built Environments in 2023 to lead the company’s building science practice. “There’s not a lot of product research in that climate zone, but there are a lot of structures here that get weatherized pretty severely.” Built Environments has provided building science, material testing and code compliance consulting for 25 years, ever since principal materials scientist Steve Doggett founded the company in Minnesota. “There are very few manufacturers that understand fully how their own materials and products work, whereas we know their shortfalls and their benefits out in the real world on jobsites,” Doggett said. “That’s why the original Built Environments was formed, to make buildings better.” He said the 15-employee company is just as comfortable on a jobsite, retrofitting a high-end beachside property, for example, as it is recreating some of the coast’s most intense weather conditions in the great indoors. The company operates an A2LA-accredited ISO/IEC 17025 mechanical testing laboratory on Wright Street. The year-old facility has expanded Built Environments’ in-house capabilities, Doggett said. “We’re able to simulate that hurricane wind (and) rain and perform structural and impact testing on wall assemblies, roof assemblies and glazing assemblies,” he said. “There are certain requirements that those windows and doors need to meet as far as wind ratings and pressure ratings and things of that nature.” Standard Glass Co.-Glass Depots, of Wilmington, is currently testing a new glazing system using Built Environments’ stress testing, the partners said. One method involves what’s called a “large missile cannon.” “We take 8-foot two-by-fours, and we shoot them at assemblies, so they have to withstand that impact,” Davis said. “It’s pretty cool to see, I’m not going to lie.” In many cases, the lab can run a full, wall-scale test of a product in a matter of weeks or months, whereas “it might take midrange manufacturers years,” Doggett said. “We’re nimble. We can cut that time in half.” The lab also develops intellectual property. Doggett, for example, shares a patent with Sustant LLC, of Minnesota, on a fastener patch to increase the air and water tightness within building envelopes. “We have too many ideas and not enough time,” he said. But the partners noted that they or their fellow principals – of which the company has four total, including a principal engineer and a principal codes and standards expert – could be anywhere on a given day, including in the courtroom providing expert testimony in contentious insurance cases. “Let’s say there is a fire on a structure,” Davis said. “We can analyze all the specific materials within that assembly – an exterior wall or something like that – because there are loads that require certain heat release. And so, we can measure each one of those materials, if need be, to say if this was likely or not a code-approved assembly.” Despite what can be inferred in a lab, the partners said nothing beats learning from how materials change over time under real-world strain. Take, for instance, the curious case of the creaking condo. “We recently had a customer that came to us trying to assess a sound issue of a roof. It was making noises that no one could explain or account for. How do you tackle something like that?” Doggett asked rhetorically. “There’s really no generally agreed-upon methodologies.” The problem turned out to be a faulty installation of a commercial roof system. “The building in this particular case was not local,” he said. “In the initial installation, the commercial roofing contractor installed the wrong fasteners in the wrong locations into the deck, and essentially the solar radiation was causing the building to move quite substantially early in the morning when the sun initially hit that assembly after a quite cool evening, causing the threads on the fasteners to kind of jump within the material, within the metal.” Built Environments designed an effective repair methodology that was within budget, the partners said. “We get the bizarre,” Doggett said. “I will say that’s something that has stayed the same over 25 years.” The partners said they are hiring, and that Cape Fear Community College is one of their main recruiting grounds. Davis and Doggett look for talented people who can understand traditional methodologies yet are open to on-the-job training and new understandings, they said. After all, it’s not just weather that can ruin a building. “My favorite saying is,” Davis said, “‘What are the eight most expensive words in construction? That’s how my daddy used to do it.’”

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Oct 2 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • wilmingtonbiz.com
Allen seeks to put sloppy play behind him as Bills host Maye and the Patriots

Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen understands he's got plenty to clean up after committing three turnovers in beating the Los Angeles Chargers.

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Oct 2 • 8:50 AM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com
Do the Massillon Tigers play an OHSAA football game tonight?

The unbeaten Massillon Tigers do not play in tonight. Here's what's ahead for the Tigers and where they sit in the OHSAA football playoff picture.

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Oct 2 • 8:03 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Are we getting closer to bringing people back after death? Inside the science of resuscitation

For most of history, a heart that stopped beating marked the practical end of life. Modern medicine has changed that. CPR can keep blood moving, defibrillators can restart certain heart rhythms, machi...

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Oct 2 • 7:22 AM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
Starz Entertainment Corp. (NASDAQ:STRZ) Stock Has Average Price Target of $32.71

Starz Entertainment Corp. (NASDAQ:STRZ - Get Free Report) has earned an average rating of "Moderate Buy" from the nine analysts that are presently covering the firm, Marketbeat Ratings reports. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have issued a hold rating, four have

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Oct 2 • 4:44 AM EDT • Entertainment • marketbeat.com
Browns Get Bad News on Mason Graham After Beating Steelers

The Cleveland Browns got bad news on Mason Graham after he exited early against the Pittsburgh Steelers with an injury. The post Browns Get Bad News on Mason Graham After Beating Steelers appeared first on HEAVY.

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Oct 2 • 3:19 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Pittsburgh Steelers 24-27 Cleveland Browns: Deshaun Watson leads game-winning drive to set up field goal in final seconds

Deshaun Watson led another game-winning drive while Andre Szmyt landed a career-long field goal in the last 10 seconds for the Cleveland Browns to beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 27-24; Aaron Rodgers Rodgers completed 22 of 40 passes for 299 yards with three touchdowns and two interceptions

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Oct 2 • 2:38 AM EDT • Sports • skysports.com
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Prep sports recap for Oct. 1, 2026

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBDWYZZ) — It didn’t take long for Richwoods to get comfortable in the postsseason. Senior Acosia Morris ran on an 86-yard run on the first place from scrimmage as host Richwoods beat Hollsboro, 65-6, in a regional quarterfinal game in girls flag football at Peoria Stadium on Thursday. Morris added a long touchdown […]

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Oct 2 • 12:09 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Texas A&M Looks To Extend Arkansas Dominance At Kyle Field

Texas A&M returns home trying to stop a two-game skid and beat Arkansas for a fifth straight time in a rivalry the Aggies have dominated since 2012.

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Oct 1 • 6:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Nations League: Portugal win first game without CR7, Germany click

Four matches continued another round of the 2026/27 UEFA Nations League this Thursday (1st).The games were valid for Groups 2 and 4.At home, Germany beat Serbia 2-0, with goals from Bischof and Wirtz....

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Oct 1 • 4:44 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Arsenal’s International Break Soured by ‘Bad News’

Arsenal began the 2026/27 season in dominant fashion, unbeaten in all competitions, until before the international break when they faced Brighton in the Premier League and were beaten 3-0. Mikel Arteta’s men will be back in action on October 10 against Leeds United, but the Gunners may have to do it without summer signing Christos …

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Oct 1 • 4:23 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
NFL Expert Picks for Week 4

There’s no way to sugarcoat it: Week 3 was an absolute mess for NFL picks. We had been feeling pretty good about ourselves until Sunday rolled around and slapped us upside the head with the Commanders upsetting the Seahawks, the Steelers beating the Bengals, and Carolina falling to Cleveland. We roll on nonetheless, with a […]

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Oct 1 • 2:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC) Stock Falls 5.2%

AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC) Stock Price Down 5.2% - Should You Sell?

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Oct 1 • 1:40 PM EDT • Entertainment • marketbeat.com
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Entertainment Stocks To Add to Your Watchlist

Warner Bros. Discovery, Walt Disney, Verizon Communications, Take-Two Interactive Software, and Spotify Technology are the five Entertainment stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Entertainment stocks are shares of publicly traded companies involved in producing, dis

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Oct 1 • 1:02 PM EDT • Entertainment • marketbeat.com
Colorado’s 2027 Teacher of the Year is Strasburg science teacher Merci Ames

“Mrs. Ames stands out because she consistently does the right thing, the right way, and gives of herself without expectation, and all for the benefit of her students,” the superintendent said.

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Oct 1 • 12:01 PM EDT • Science • chalkbeat.org
Beatles uncover hidden John Lennon song in archives. What is it?

There is no such thing as a final Beatles song.

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Oct 1 • 10:58 AM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
Jordin Canada Takes Over Fourth Quarter as Dream Sweep Mystics

Jordin Canada scored 13 of her 19 points in the fourth quarter as the Dream beat the Mystics 93-75 to complete a first-round sweep.

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Oct 1 • 9:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Crewe run frustrating but squad is confident

Crewe Alexandra midfielder Joe White says the run of six draws in a row is frustrating but has given them confidence they are hard to beat.

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Oct 1 • 8:21 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
BTIG Research Cuts Flutter Entertainment (NYSE:FLUT) Price Target to $110.00

BTIG Research cut their price objective on Flutter Entertainment from $113.00 to $110.00 and set a "buy" rating for the company in a research report on Thursday.

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Oct 1 • 8:06 AM EDT • Entertainment • marketbeat.com
Lamine Yamal says ‘I don’t care’ after stunning England

Musiu0/Depositphotos Lamine Yamal posts message after Spain win Lamine Yamal, a Barcelona forward, posted “Hate me or love me, I don’t care” on Instagram after Spain beat England 3 to 2 in the UEFA Nations League at Wembley Stadium on Sept. 26, 2026. Yamal scored the opening goal of that match and then shared the…

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Oct 1 • 7:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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What The PENN Entertainment Bears Got Right, And Where It Is Playing Out Again

If you backed PENN Entertainment on the promise of ESPN integration and riverboat-to-land projects transforming the business, the ride since last autumn has been rough. For PENN Entertainment shareholders, the loss over the past year was 23.5%, including dividends. If you were weighing a purchase in late September 2025, with analysts split between upbeat ESPN-led growth and caution over regulation, debt and weak Interactive economics, which of those specific assumptions most clearly missed...

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Oct 1 • 5:17 AM EDT • Entertainment • simplywall.st
September Monthly Review: Health MCP Guy?

For all the time I spend talking about APIs and data exchange, this newsletter has had embarrassingly little interoperability of its own. It’s old-school SaaS, baby - UI or bust. Not all of that is my fault! Substack, for all its popularity, is (as mentioned before) really frustrating as my system of record. The primary user it optimizes towards is the reader, whose attention feeds the app, the Notes feed, and the recommendation network that Substack is actually selling. Health API Guy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe They’re falling into the same trap that Medium once sprinted into, albeit at a much more glacial speed. Younger generations may not remember (or never knew) it, but Medium once lured publications like The Ringer and Signal v. Noise onto its platform, only to lose them as it rebuilt itself around a paywall and an algorithmic feed. Substack’s original pitch circa 2020 was the antidote (you own your list), but every new feed feature chips away at it. I get it: writers are generic supply in the eyes of the Substack product team. Generic supply follows demand, so the consistent pressure on the PMs is to generate demand, which leads to every product cycle going toward discovery (Notes, recommendations, the app, live video). The end result lackluster author tools (laggy and broken analytics are truly crippling) all despite the premium price point. The archive is where it crosses from authorial gripes to actual reader impact, though. Across Substack and LinkedIn, I’ve published 1,218 posts and nearly 900,000 words since 2018. Substack’s native search can see only the 464 posts that live on Substack, and even there it’s woefully inadequate at surfacing relevant content (even for the guy who wrote it)! Readers have the same problem, writ large. Ask the Archive Fixing search (for both my readers and my own use) turned out to be extremely non-trivial, unfortunately: There’s no public API for readers to access content RSS exists for new content notification, but it only carries the 20 most recent posts and cuts paid ones off at the preview The only Substack MCP is an admin tool for analytics The export exists for authors, but it’s painfully awkward and slow. So I built something to work around that: the Health API Guy MCP. It’s a private MCP server holding the full text of everything I’ve written across Substack and LinkedIn. Add it to Claude or ChatGPT as a connector and you can ask things like: It pairs keyword search (for acronyms and case names, of which we have many) with semantic search. Every post is also labeled by topic, form, and court case, so you can pull a lawsuit’s (or multiple cases’) entire docket across Substack and LinkedIn in one query: Hail, Healthapiguyhydra This is also a bit of me eating my own cooking. I’ve spent the year arguing that headless healthcare is arriving and that developers want primitives over abstractions. Last week in Hail, Benihydra, I watched Salesforce plug its platform into Claude and bet that the records underneath outlive whatever interface sits on top: Salesforce must believe that the Hydra’s immortal head is the records, permissions, and business logic (in that they will survive whatever happens to the interface). It felt a bit hypocritical to keep my own archive behind a Substack search bar. The archive is the body. Substack is one head, and now whatever tool you might use is another. Will the EHRs follow my lead? Probably not imminently, but one can hope! Why Founding Members Only The MCP is available to Founding Member subscribers. A few reasons: It costs money and time to run. Hosting, the database, Clerk usage and AI compute for search and labeling are significant operational costs (that increase with usage). Substack gives me no way to automate access. There’s no API to check whether someone is a paid subscriber, so every user is manual operations for now. It’s a beta. We’ll need to improve things and parts will break. I’d rather they break for a small group of dedicated readers who will tell me about it. The Founding tier deserved a real benefit. Until now it was mostly a generous tip. Now it comes with something. If you’re already a Founding Member, reply to this email with the address you’d like provisioned. If you’re not and want in, upgrade here. Larger teams (such as companies) can get access too: group subscriptions at the Founding tier come with the group discount. The admin for the subscription can reply with the list of addresses to provision. Get 20% off a group subscription Pricing Founding membership is now a flat $200 a year, replacing the old suggested $150 that readers could adjust. Existing Founding Members will have access grandfathered in at their previous rate. Month in Review Articles Published Make Networks Dumb Again (Sep 11): AI is making old analog networks cheaper to use and flooding them with machine traffic in the process. A plea for agent-native rails with the intelligence at the endpoints, and for Washington to drag them to ubiquity. Interoperability, Unbuttoned (Sep 29): Interoperability is a series of workflows in a trenchcoat, and this post finally takes the trenchcoat off. A color-coded map shows which provider workflows went digital, which are fragmented, and which still run on fax. Video Content Antitrust’s System of Record Problem (Sep 3): The FTC’s investigation into Epic prompted a ninety-minute webinar, now posted with chapters and a smoothed transcript. We get into why market definition, missing B2B share data, and the SSNIP test leave antitrust poorly suited to systems of record, plus why information blocking may be doing more than any pending lawsuit. The Information Exchange: Cerner Milking Edition (Sep 18): This was so fucking fun. Ryan Tucker, Ryan Brickner, Brad Thorson, and I try an Around the Horn format, complete with points, penalties, and a mute button. We debate whether Oracle Health is dead, who would actually buy Cerner (IBM enters the chat), p(Doom), and why the front desk still hands you a clipboard. Regulatory Ask Not What Your Network Can Do (Sep 23): CDC’s RFI on public health data intermediaries lists use cases already served, unevenly, by eCR, lab reporting, IZ Gateway, and syndromic surveillance. The real opportunity sits in one question about AI: a network that can handle the next emergency without another interface project. Court cases Particle v. Epic: The Naughty Schoolteacher (Sep 4): After a summer-long vigil, the answer on Epic’s early summary judgment bid is two paragraphs and a remedial assignment. Particle advances to the next grade, and market definition gets another year of discovery. The Epic Discovery Files (Sep 8): Texas’s motions to compel arrive with a 251-page appendix of requests, objections, and meet-and-confer letters with Cravath. Inside: Epic using generative AI for document review, denied interoperability requests in scope, and Noerr-Pennington raised against lobbying discovery. Epic v. Health Gorilla: “Working as Designed” (Sep 9): Epic wants nothing to do with the data breach MDL, and explaining why puts fresh discovery on the public docket. The spiciest allegation: Health Gorilla told GuardDog to scrub its law firm business from its website instead of cutting off access. Veeva v. Epic: Legal Bypass Surgery (Sep 15): Veeva asks the Wisconsin Supreme Court to skip the Court of Appeals, while law professors and three policy groups line up as amici. Meanwhile, Epic’s lawyers apologize for another round of citation errors, including a quote that never existed. Texas v. Epic: Behind the Black Bars (Sep 17): The court portal served up Epic’s unredacted filings, revealing a $5 million document review budget and the AI workflow behind it. Also inside: the 200-plus company names Texas wants searched, and one very expensive Zoom invitation. OpenEvidence v. Doximity: Consequences Will Follow (Sep 25): OpenEvidence tells the court it will not comply with a discovery order, and its own lawyers at Quinn Emanuel say they won’t defend the choice. Add years of Slack reported unrecoverable, and Rule 37 sanctions come into view. Health Tech Keeps Choosing Violence (Sep 28): Doximity moves to end OpenEvidence’s case, Epic asks Texas to show its work, and a sleepy Audacious Inquiry patent fight sprouts antitrust and information blocking counterclaims. The main event is a long-sealed Cognizant v. Infosys ruling that hints where system of record antitrust claims can survive. EHRs One Verb for Oracle Health (Sep 14): Oracle’s earnings call quantifies every data center to the decimal point, while Oracle Health gets a single verb: “accelerate.” Panning the few healthcare mentions turns up an agentic care management system, a research-to-care ledger play, and the question of whether healthcare gets Larry’s patience. Epic’s Forretress Under Siege (Sep 30): Judy Faulkner tells a panel Epic paused hundreds of projects to harden its software and calls it a “shame,” while a spokesperson insists the roadmap hasn’t changed. Project Glasswing, a Pokémon-branded QAN sprint, and a trove of Jodel grievances reconcile the two Epics and preview the Jevons paradox coming for all software. Industry Analysis Scanning for a Network (Sep 1): Scan.com raises $220M to build the imaging network labs never got, speedrunning Zocdoc’s consumer-to-B2B pivot. Its wedge to network density may be the most American one available: personal injury litigation. The Front Desk Wants the Damn Whole Building (Sep 16): Hello Patient buys Converse Health, pushing its AI front desk into referrals, chart work, and prior auth. The copilot categories keep blurring, and your distribution partner is still your final boss. Cross-industry Comparisons A Different Patchwork Quilt (Sep 10): Healthcare loves to envy open banking, but the US version has no mandate, a toll booth at Chase, and data quality problems of its own. The grass isn’t greener; it’s another American patchwork quilt, and perhaps a worse one. Hail, Benihydra (Sep 21): Salesforce brings its platform into Claude, Slack, and its own agent, inviting the interfaces that might replace it. Cut off one head and more grow back, so long as the records underneath stay put. Living on A Trade Secret Prayer (Sep 22): Six credit unions are suing Fiserv, the Epic of core banking, by claiming their own member records as trade secrets. Banking has no Cures Act, so its lawyers reach for legal alchemy that healthcare has already tried. Other News None this month External Media Nabla Accelerate NYC: I kicked off fall conference season at Nabla’s Accelerate event in New York, where Delphine Groll opened by asking the room to picture the company it wants to become and the one it doesn’t. I liked her framework of bureaucracy, fear, and ego as the blockers. I also love vendor conferences/events in general - different vibe than industry biggies. Healthcare 101 with Nikhil Krishnan: I briefly guest lectured Out-Of-Pocket’s Healthcare 101 class. Appreciated Nikhil’s takeaways cover whether AI doctors can query HIEs, why healthcare’s data-liberation rules beat most industries’, and the hi-res graphic is in the comments. HCN: Epic Probed by the FTC: I joined the HCN guys to talk through the FTC’s investigation into Epic. Cedric’s new hairdo was an unexpected plot twist. The episode also covers MFN drug pricing, healthcare M&A and Eli Lilly’s acquisition streak. Fall Conferences: At eHealth Exchange’s Annual Meeting in Austin on Oct 27, I’ll moderate a panel on the tensions between AI, HIEs, and timely patient access with Jean Ross (Primary Record), Therasa Bell (Kno2), Byron Crowe (Doctronic), and Michael Marchant (Freenome). Here’s the rest of my schedule if you want to meet up: CommonWell (Redwood Shores, CA): Oct 13-14 Will be participating in a fun Jeopardy event Open@Epic (Madison, WI): Oct 20-23 Will be enjoying Verona, Willy Street, and other local adventures eHealth Exchange and Sequoia Project (Austin, TX): Oct 27-29 Yeehaw HLTH (Vegas): Nov 15-18 Groundhog Day, Venetian Edition RSNA (Chicago): Nov 30-Dec 2 See me at “Governing AI in Breast Imaging: What Health Systems Are Actually Doing” Digital Health Counsel 2026 AI Summit (Seattle): December 2-3 Will likely be speaking to a bunch of lawyers about information blocking Posts I Liked ChatGPT’s Epic integration: game changer or nothing burger?: Joshua Liu, MD offers five thoughts on OpenAI’s Epic launch, starting from the point that it rides the same open APIs available to anyone. He argues read-only access leaves ordering to Art and the ambient startups, and asks why HCA is piloting it alongside Commure. He’s sorta a must-follow at this point - consistently excellent, thought-provoking takes. Epic, Lilly, and the Discovery pass: Seth Chaney reads Epic’s first major Discovery deal (with Eli Lilly), as well as its revised developer terms on commercial displays, as the pipe finally opening between EHRs and pharma. Life sciences and health continue to collide. Scott Rossignol on EHR payer platforms and ePA fees: Scott argues the top ambulatory EHR vendors are turning the prior auth mandate into a per-member-per-year toll on payers, for an API whose operating cost has nothing to do with covered lives. His fix is two lines of regulatory text: put the CRD/DTR/PAS certification criteria in the Base EHR definition, and bring payer-facing ePA connectivity under § 170.404’s cost-based fee rules. It’s a good solution. Health API Guy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe

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GB's Kartal wins on WTA return after six months out

Britain's Sonay Kartal wins on her return to the WTA Tour after six months out with injury as she beats Andrea Lazaro Garcia at the China Open.

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North Huskies advance to sectional semifinals

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) – The North Huskies girls flag football team is moving on to the semifinals after beating Reitz 14-6. The Huskies will take on Castle at the Reitz Bowl, 10 a.m. Saturday kickoff.

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Penguins absolutely beat down Flyers

For the Penguins players, filling the net and more than doubling the shots of their arch rivals, who ended their Cinderella season last May, was the satisfying.

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Sep 30 • 10:19 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Wednesday's Connecticut high school sports roundup: Darien golf beats New Canaan

A look at the Connecticut high school sports scene for Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026.

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Congolese politician is killed for defending Ebola efforts as mistrust complicates response

BUTEMBO, Congo (AP) — Mourners gathered Wednesday to bury a Congolese politician who was beaten to death after publicly defending the government’s response to Ebola, a killing that highlights the mistrust health workers say is hampering efforts to slow the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history.

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Sep 30 • 4:53 PM EDT • Politics • wral.com
Official: Real Madrid name Player of the Month for September

The winner of the award for Player of the Month at La Liga giants Real Madrid has on Wednesday been revealed. This comes amid confirmation that Arda Güler has beaten out the competition to secure the...

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Sep 30 • 4:25 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Micron Technology Tops Lofty Fiscal Q4 Goals, Guides Above Views

Micron Technology beat Wall Street's sky-high targets for its fiscal fourth quarter and with its outlook. Micron stock rose.

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Midwest Access: Lotus Health Foundation - Let’s Beat Breast Cancer: Lifestyle & Prevention

Mei from Lotus Heath Foundation is on a mission and looking to rally support. Find out how you can bang the drum to help beat breast cancer and events happening this October.

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Best Entertainment Stocks To Add to Your Watchlist

Warner Bros. Discovery, Walt Disney, Roblox, Verizon Communications, and Spotify Technology are the five Entertainment stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Entertainment stocks are shares of publicly traded companies involved in producing, distributing, or deliverin

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Sep 30 • 1:02 PM EDT • Entertainment • marketbeat.com
American bought a French chateau; built a successful business

At midlife, I moved out of the US, bought a chateau in France, renovated it, and built a successful business abroad. The pros beat the cons.

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Djokovic wins first match since Wimbledon in China

Novak Djokovic beats Nuno Borges at the China Open to secure his first win since reaching the Wimbledon semi-finals in July.

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Melco Resorts & Entertainment (NASDAQ:MLCO) Sets New 1-Year Low

Melco Resorts & Entertainment (NASDAQ:MLCO) Reaches New 12-Month Low - What's Next?

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Sep 30 • 11:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • marketbeat.com
Water As a Political Weapon: Populism and The Indus Waters Treaty

When Pakistan’s Field Marshal Asim Munir addressed the 276th Corps Commanders’ Conference at General Headquarters in Rawalpindi on 6 July 2026, he stated that the country would take “all [...]

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Browns Rise in ESPN's NFL Power Rankings After Beating Panthers

The Cleveland Browns went up in ESPN's NFL power rankings after beating the Carolina Panthers in Week 3.

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Sep 30 • 10:04 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
MLB postseason turns to wild card Games 2 on Wednesday

The Dodgers could find out their National League Division Series opponent as early as Wednesday, with four more wild card games on the docket on the second day of the 2026 postseason. The Braves beat the Phillies on Tuesday at Truist Park in Atlanta thanks to a three-run home run in the eighth inning by […]

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Fraser Minten shines as late surge lifts the Bruins past the Rangers 3-0

Fraser Minten broke a scoreless tie with just over four minutes left, followed by goals by JJ Peterka and an empty-netter by Mark Kastelic 23 seconds apart, and the Boston Bruins beat the New York Rangers 3-0 on Tuesday night in the season opener for both teams.

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Yankees found an October bat Boston had no answer for

The Yankees didn’t need one more reason to enjoy beating Boston. Ben Rice gave them six. He went 4-for-5 with […]

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Sep 30 • 8:32 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Business Beat : Annual fall harvest event to benefit “Deputy Sarah Irene Haylett-Jones Memorial Fund”

COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - The annual Sarah Irene's Fall Harvest event will return Saturday and Sunday, October 10...

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Liverpool told how they can sign Andoni Iraola favourite

Andoni Iraola has done a decent job as Liverpool's manager so far.The Spaniard has led his team to an unbeaten start across all competitions and, although they may be sixth in the Premier League table...

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Survey: Will the Lions beat the Panthers in Week 4?

Checking in with Detroit Lions fans in our latest SB Nation Reacts surveys.

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Conference League 'very winnable'

Brighton owner Tony Bloom says he is looking forward to seeing what the Seagulls can achieve after results he described as the "best in the history of the football club". In a rare interview, Bloom told BBC South East victory over Manchester United in the Carabao Cup, a 3-0 win over Premier League champions Arsenal and beating Coventry City 5-0 had boosted confidence at the club. Bloom helped transform Brighton's fortunes after he became majority shareholder in 2009, when the team were struggling in the third tier of English football and playing at a temporary ground.

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14 Los Angeles art shows to see this fall off the beaten path

There's a lot to look forward to in the L.A. art scene this fall. So much so that we had to make a second list. Here are our picks for what to check out beyond the typical stomping grounds.

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Sphere Entertainment Co. (NYSE:SPHR) Stock Has Consensus Price Target of $166.00 According to Analysts

Shares of Sphere Entertainment Co. (NYSE:SPHR - Get Free Report) have been assigned a consensus rating of "Moderate Buy" from the fourteen research firms that are currently covering the firm, MarketBeat.com reports. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and twelve have given

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Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. $PLAY Shares Newly Purchased by Bank of America Corp DE

Bank of America Corp DE purchased a new stake in Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLAY - Free Report) during the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor purchased 303,445 shares of the re

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8 seeds to beat a 1 seed in WNBA: Complete history of biggest first-round playoff upsets

The Liberty made history with their first-round upset over the Lynx.

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Braves squander Chris Sale's gem but beat Phillies anyway, thanks to Austin Riley’s redemptive homer
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‘Clarity and consistency’: Idaho senators, college leaders back sports reform bill

The school presidents at Idaho’s three most prominent public universities are beating the drum for the bipartisan Protect College Sports Act.

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White Sox Key to Beating Astros in Wild Card Series
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Tencent Music Entertainment Group (NYSE:TME) Stock Falls 4.7%

Tencent Music Entertainment Group (NYSE:TME) Stock Price Down 4.7% - Here's What Happened

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Madison Square Garden Entertainment (NYSE:MSGE) Shares Gap Up

Madison Square Garden Entertainment (NYSE:MSGE) Shares Gap Up - Here's What Happened

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Web reacts to Otávio's display in Brazil win; see reactions

Brazil had to dig deep to beat Australia 4-2 this Tuesday (29) in a friendly in Brisbane. On social media, goalkeeper Otávio’s performance, as he played in place of Hugo Souza, sparked a debate ove...

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Business Beat : Scooters Coffee Coldwater location to open Monday October 5th

COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Scooter's Coffee has announced it will officially open it's new drive-thru location in ...

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Bears show resilience in primetime win over Eagles

The Bears decisively beat the Eagles on Monday night to improve to 2-1. @jacobinfante24 shares his notes from the game:

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Ben Johnson Takes Hilarious Shot at Jared Goff After Bears Beat Eagles

Ben Johnson jokingly referenced former Lions QB Jared Goff's lack of mobility after the Bears defeated the Eagles on Monday Night Football.

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34 Random Thoughts On Penn State’s Collapse Against Wisconsin

1. Ugh. 2. I love writing for BSD (it was 10 years this past June, by the way) and literally don’t have any plans to ever stop, but I am NOT looking forward to this one at all. 3. I wanted to lie to ourselves for at least two more weeks. Beat Wisconsin, beat Northwestern, […]

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AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC) Reaches New 1-Year High

AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC) Hits New 52-Week High - Here's What Happened

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Keenum stars for Bears on first start since 2023

Veteran quarterback Case Keenum throws for two touchdowns and rushes for another as the Chicago Bears beat the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFL.

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Monday Night Football: Case Keenum, Bears beat Eagles 27-7
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Dave & Buster's Entertainment (NASDAQ:PLAY) CFO Acquires 4,000 Shares of Company Stock

Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLAY - Get Free Report) CFO Cory Hatton purchased 4,000 shares of the business's stock in a transaction dated Monday, September 28th. The shares were acquired at an average price of $6.50 per share, for a total transaction of $26,000.00. Following the acquisition, the chief financial officer owned 104,475 shares of the company's stock, valued at $679,087.50. This trade represents a 3.98% increase in their position. The purchase was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website.

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Sep 28 • 7:08 PM EDT • Entertainment • marketbeat.com
Stock Traders Buy High Volume of Call Options on AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC)

AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:AMC - Get Free Report) saw unusually large options trading on Monday. Stock investors acquired 161,950 call options on the stock. This represents an increase of 50% compared to the average daily volume of 107,856 call options.

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Sep 28 • 6:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • marketbeat.com
Should UNC be Three-Touchdown Home Underdogs vs. Notre Dame?

Bill Belichick’s North Carolina Tar Heels face a massive test as three-score home underdogs against unbeaten Notre Dame.

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Takeaways: Nationals finish 2026 with series win vs. Mets

The Washington Nationals beat the New York Mets to complete three straight series wins and close out the 2026 MLB season.

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Sep 28 • 4:31 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bobby Kotick’s lawyers sent me a bad email (and later apologized)

The message I had received was unsettling—for a moment. Then it was just really confusing. Back on January 20 of this year, at 5:15pm ET, I received an email with the subject line “Legal Correspondence re Bobby Kotick.” It was from the law firm Clare Locke, a firm I’d heard had been emailing reporters in recent years about their coverage of Kotick, the former, longtime CEO of Activision Blizzard. The letter was threatening. A lawyer from the firm introduced themselves as “defamation counsel to Bobby Kotick.” They issued a “demand” that I “correct” a Game File article I’d published a week prior. The article that had irked them had been a scoop of sorts. I’d written about a a 2022 lawsuit brought by a Swedish pension fund, AP7, over Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard. The suit wasn’t news, but I was first to review and report about Kotick’s extensive pushback to the fund’s claims. The pension fund’s core contention was that the sale had been rushed by Kotick to avoid the consequences of sexual misconduct scandals swirling around the company in 2021. (He’d not been accused of misconduct himself in those suits, to be clear.) As I wrote at the time, Kotick had denied the allegations of the rushed sale. Beyond that, Kotick used a December 2025 reply to the Swedish fund’s lawsuit to assign blame for those workplace scandals, the bad press and even for the AP7 lawsuit. I’d found Kotick’s arguments novel and newsworthy. Across nearly 3,000 words, I explained Kotick’s take: that a Swedish gaming company was behind the Swedish fund’s lawsuit (the Embracer group; they denied it); that the Microsoft-Activision deal was not rushed and was secured at what Kotick felt history had proven to be an optimal price for shareholders; that he believed a conspiracy of people at unions government agencies, PR firms and the media had spun up claims of widespread workplace misconduct at Activision Blizzard in 2021. The article gave context for all of this, letting readers assess the claims and weigh their credibility. As I’d later write to Kotick’s lawyers: I would be surprised if you could point to any news article about Bobby Kotick in the last five years that has spent more of its wordcount articulating his point of view. He is welcome to do an interview with Game File any time. Nonetheless, there they were in my inbox that Tuesday evening: Clare Locke, the law firm that secured a $787.5 million settlement from Fox News over false statements about voting machines. They were emailing me, threatening that failure to comply with their demand could support a claim of “actual malice,” a legal standard for libel. Unless… Unless, they said, I added a key paragraph to my article. This was a paragraph that I already knew Kotick’s lawyers had been emailing reporters about for at least a year, and it was a paragraph that was already in my article. The paragraph they wanted is from a 2023 settlement that California’s Civil Rights Department struck with Activision Blizzard. The settlement had closed a two-year-old lawsuit over alleged sexual discrimination at the game maker. The paragraph basically said that claims of systemic or widespread sexual harassment—or of execs like Kotick tolerating such behavior—had never been proven. I’d already seen proof that Kotick’s lawyers had pushed for the settlement’s language to be added to reports about 2021 sexual discrimination and misconduct lawsuits brought against Activision Blizzard by California and, separately, by the U.S. federal government (both suits were since settled). I knew that Kotick and his lawyers felt that the California settlement language should be mentioned in the same breath as references to an article he hated and denied, a November 2021 Wall Street Journal article claiming Kotick knew “for years” of sexual misconduct at Activision Blizzard. So, in the Game File article that Clare Locke emailed me about, in the interest of ensuring I was being fair and balanced regarding the person I was covering, I had already included the following excerpt from the California settlement [emphasis added in bold]: (Kotick has repeatedly pushed back against that November article in the Wall Street Journal, citing among other things, language from a court-approved consent decree as part of Activision’s 2023 $54 million settlement over the California suit. It states: “no court or any independent investigation has substantiated any allegations that: there has been systemic or widespread sexual harassment at Activision Blizzard [or] that Activision Blizzard senior executives ignored, condoned, or tolerated a culture of systemic harassment, retaliation, or discrimination.”) On the evening of January 20, I was incredulous. How do you write a four page legal threat about a week-old article and miss this? While scrambling to also make my kids dinner, I wrote a lengthy reply to Clare Locke’s lawyers, basically asking them to cool it with the threats and to start making sense. In part, I wrote: I hope you can understand why I am having trouble understanding what you’re asking for, when the statement you’re demanding to see in Game File’s article already appears in Game File’s article. Actual malice, as you know, refers to a reckless disregard for the truth. I’m not sure what your argument is when my article already states your client’s position. Here is where I should remind you, the reader, that I am an independent journalist. I publish on Substack, and have availed myself of the Substack Defender program that provides writers on the platform with legal support. But I’m no Wall Street Journal or New York Times, nor even IGN or GameSpot when it comes to such things as, well, having a legal department. There are more fun things for me to do as an independent journalist than writing back to a powerful law firm representing a very rich person. On the evening of January 20th, I was just trying to cook some pasta, broccoli and chicken nuggets for hungry twins. Nevertheless, I wrote back to them. Two hours later, I got a reply. Summarizing: A lawyer for Clare Locke said they’d “reviewed an incomplete version” of my article and they “apologize for the confusion.” (My guess: Someone didn’t read past the piece’s paywall, even though they’d had a full week to scrounge up the funds to do so. What I’d published above the paywall was balanced, as was what came after.)1 That was almost that, but something about the situation bothered me. The letter had been marked “confidential.” I hadn’t agreed to that, and I disliked the idea that powerful people on the beat that I cover would act like they could unilaterally control what I might tell my readers about. On the morning of the 21st, having already gotten the powerful law firm to back off, I oh-so-wisely re-approached them with just one more thing. I thanked them for clearing things up the night before but noted that I’d never agreed to keep their letter confidential. I’m all for agreeing with a source to keep things off the record, but that’s the thing. We have to agree. You can’t just declare it. I’m not bound by that. I wrote to Clare Locke’s lawyer and said, in part: I trust the matter is resolved. It was disappointing to have to spend less time with my kids last night in order to address your legal letter. Family time’s precious. I will add, for clarity’s sake, that, while your letter stipulated that it was confidential, I did not agree to those terms. In the future, should you wish to communicate with me confidentially, I am happy to agree to classifying our communication as “off the record” prior to the actual communication—as is standard with any professional journalist. The firm’s lawyer replied, not directly addressing the confidentiality issue but asserting that the matter was resolved. Why I didn’t write about this until now In May, I told this story on an episode of Simon Parkin’s podcast My Perfect Console, but I held off on sharing it directly with Game File readers. I held off to avoid stepping on the toes of another reporter, the journalist Mikhail Klimentov. He’d interviewed me in the spring of 2025 about an investigation he was working on regarding Bobby Kotick lawyers pressing the media to add the California settlement language to stories referencing the 2021 lawsuits. And about how some outlets had changed their stories and how some simply deleted them. Initially, I was a third-party source for Klimentov’s reporting, providing on-the-record context about the state of the games media. I’d heard about the letters but hadn’t put the time into pursuing the story. I thought it was interesting, and I was glad he was covering it. When the outlet that Klimentov was going to run his reporting in dropped the story, I began talking to him about potentially publishing his reporting on Game File. This was tentative. Then, in January, when I got my own Clare Locke letter, I told Klimentov that I didn’t think it would make sense for me to publish him, not with me now being part of the story. I had my own version of this situation to tell. But I wished him well and said I’d refrain from telling my tale until he could get his reporting out there. Last Friday, Klimentov finally ran his investigation, in a nearly 48-minute video report for People Make Games. It covers various Clare Locke letters, how media outlets reacted to them and what to make of all this. His video weighs the merits of Kotick’s request and looks at some of the articles that were changed (one of which had a glaring error). I highly recommend watching it: (Note, I did some editorial consulting for a People Make Games video last year but nothing to do with this report.) While many outlets haven’t left any public evidence that they updated their Kotick coverage at Kotick’s counsel’s request, at least one has. Back in October 2025, the mainstream outlet Reuters applied the most transparent article update I’ve seen. On the 3rd of the month, they published an article about the state of the Swedish pension fund’s lawsuit. Days later, they added this: In an October 7 letter sent after publication of this article, Kotick’s defamation counsel disputed claims of widespread harassment at Activision. “Not a single investigation, court finding, verdict, or ruling ever concluded that there was any merit” to the allegations of widespread harassment at Activision, Tom Clare and Nick Brechbill of Clare Locke wrote. I’ve never added a statement to my article on Game File, because none was needed. Not for fairness’ sake, nor to meet any demands of Kotick’s lawyers. I’ve nevertheless wanted to be transparent with Game File readers. If someone powerful is questioning my reporting, is threatening a lawsuit over it… if that threat is part of a pattern involving other games media outlets and if, in my case, the whole thing ran into a ridiculous ditch, I want you to know about it. I also share this as a real example of how I handle threats to Game File. I stand up for my own reporting, even when it’s not comfortable to do so. (In that same category of standing up for the work I do, I’ll point to an incident in late August. Asocial media post I published to X/Twitter regarding reporting I did about Take Two and GTA VI was hit by bogus copyright claim by a firm working for the publisher. I pushed back and got it reversed; even while a bigger games media outlet let themselves be censored. This is the other reason I’m sharing this story: To emphasize that dealing with threats from powerful people is one of the costs of covering the video game industry independently and as fearlessly as possible. This is where you come in. Your support, through free and paid subscriptions (sign up here!), can help me keep doing that. It can ensure that I’ve got the back-up I need. And it can help make fiascoes like this even less of a worry, so I can spend my evenings dealing with more important things, such as making sure I steam the kids’ broccoli just right. 1 That pension fund lawsuit I wrote about in January has all but gone away. In May, the fund and Activision Blizzard owner Microsoft agreed to settle. Lawyers for the fund brokered a $250 million settlement for former Activision Blizzard shareholders. In the settlement, the fund’s lawyers changed their rhetoric. Where once they’d questioned the meaning of the California settlement language, they adopted a version of it for themselves. Several weeks ago, while seeking to get a court to sign off on the terms of the settlement, they proposed their fee for their work in the case: $60 million.

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Flutter Entertainment (NYSE:FLUT) Shares Down 6.4%

Flutter Entertainment (NYSE:FLUT) Stock Price Down 6.4% - What's Next?

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Six Flags Entertainment (NYSE:FUN) Reaches New 12-Month Low

Six Flags Entertainment (NYSE:FUN) Sets New 12-Month Low - Time to Sell?

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CFOs feeling more optimistic about business

Finance leaders are sounding a more upbeat note lately, according to a pair of new surveys from Deloitte and Grant Thornton.

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How will Chivas Femenil beat FC Juárez?

Chivas Femenil will resume training this week after securing their second straight win against Cruz Azul, a result that allowed them to add three more points to their Apertura 2026 campaign and streng...

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DRC politician beaten to death after radio appearance about Ebola outbreak

Marie-Celestin Karondwa was attacked on Sunday after promoting measures to prevent spread of disease, his party says

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Rep. Button has beat back tough challengers before. Will she do it again?

Lone Star Politics sits down with State Representative Angie Chen Button to talk about the upcoming election for District 112.

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Sep 28 • 11:30 AM EDT • Politics • nbcdfw.com
Marcus Mariota is truly unbeatable against Seattle

Colt McCoy no longer ranks compared to Mariota.

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Sep 28 • 11:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Karl Rove says John Cornyn, not Paxton, could beat Talarico

Karl Rove speaks at the 2026 Texas Tribune Festival, focusing on the comments made by Bo French and the U.S. Senate race.

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Sep 28 • 9:23 AM EDT • Politics • keranews.org
NFL Monday Night Football preview: Bears, without QB Caleb Williams, try to beat undefeated Eagles
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Sep 28 • 9:07 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Steelers’ Aaron Rodgers Singles out Jaylen Warren After Beating Bengals

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers raved about running back Jaylen Warren after beating the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday. The post Steelers’ Aaron Rodgers Singles out Jaylen Warren After Beating Bengals appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 28 • 8:59 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Business Beat : Cole Ford announces annual Trunk or Treat event

COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Cole Ford has announced its 4th Annual Trunk or Treat event, inviting local families an...

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Browns vs. Steelers odds: Opening lines for Week 4 matchup

After winning two straight games, are the Browns favorites to beat the Steelers?

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Sep 28 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Business Beat: Residence Inn in Longview nears opening - Longview News-Journal

A new 100-suite Residence Inn by Marriott in Longview is preparing to welcome guests. Located at 3661 Estes Parkway, the extended-stay hotel is owned by Palisades Hospitality. It was developed […]

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Sep 28 • 6:43 AM EDT • Business • news-journal.com
Honolulu Zoo Elephants Are Healthy, Active And Loved

Mari and Vaigai have also developed strong bonds with the people who care for them.

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Sep 28 • 6:01 AM EDT • Health • civilbeat.org
Neal Milner: Cowardice Isn’t Limited To Trump Sycophants

A new book details the spineless power players in the Trump world. But Hawaiʻi has its own cowardly behavior, rooted in a culture of avoidance.

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Sep 28 • 6:01 AM EDT • Politics • civilbeat.org
Christos Tzolis shines as Greece makes history against Germany

Christos Tzolis has taken his fine form onto the international stage, helping Greece beat Germany for the first time in the UEFA Nations League.The winger moved to Arsenal at the start of this season ...

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Sep 28 • 5:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Brock Purdy Enters Intriguing Conversation After 49ers’ Week 3 Win

The San Francisco 49ers are off to a 3-0 start after beating the Arizona Cardinals in Week 3, 36-20, on Sept. 27 at Levi’s Stadium. Moreover, this start for the Niners has one analyst recognizing starting QB Brock Purdy as arguably one of the best players at his position. Purdy went 15-for-27 on his pass […] The post Brock Purdy Enters Intriguing Conversation After 49ers’ Week 3 Win appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 28 • 2:50 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
São Paulo beat Sfera in their Paulista girls' U13 opener

This Sunday (27), the Under-13 Women’s Team beat Sfera 1-0 at SESI Rio Claro, in Rio Claro, São Paulo, in the opening round of the Paulista Women’s U-13 Championship. Gaby Carleto scored for Tric...

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Sep 27 • 6:05 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Nyland error gifts Portugal the win in Norway

Orjan Nyland made a costly mistake in the Norway goal and Gonçalo Ramos made no mistake. In Jorge Jesus’ second match in charge of Portugal, the coach claimed a second straight win and beat the Vik...

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Sep 27 • 5:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ronaldo left on bench as Portugal beat Norway

Erling Haaland scores for Norway but it is not enough to deny Portugal victory in the Nations League as Cristiano Ronaldo is left on the bench.

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Sep 27 • 4:51 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
'Avengers Endgame: Encore' beats new movies with big box office debut

Earth's mightiest heroes don't need a new movie to top the box office.

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Sep 27 • 3:51 PM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
Xavi gets first win as Netherlands boss, Denmark beat Wales

The Netherlands gave Xavi Hernandez his first win as head coach with a 2-1 Nations League victory over Serbia in Belgrade on Sunday, while Denmark saw off Wales.In League B, Austria made it two wins from two as David Affengruber, Junior Adamu and Carney Chukwuemeka scored in a 3-1 win over Kosovo in Vienna.

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Sep 27 • 2:05 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com