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NBA Signs Kalshi and Polymarket Deals as Prediction Markets Gain Another Major League

The league is giving both exchanges official data and marketing rights while imposing trading safeguards. A separate CFTC agreement adds an integrity-monitoring framework. The National Basketball Association is getting into the prediction market business, even as states try to push the industry out. The league named Kalshi and Polymarket its Preferred Prediction Market Exchanges on Monday, giving both platforms access to NBA intellectual property, promotional opportunities and official data. The NBA also signed an information-sharing agreement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and expanded its existing DraftKings relationship to include prediction markets and nationwide promotion. Financial terms were not disclosed. The announcement is another major commercial win for an industry still fighting over whether state gambling regulators can restrict its sports contracts.…

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How every Alabama offseason transfer has performed so far this season

This past offseason, the Alabama Crimson Tide saw a little over 20 players depart Tuscaloosa via the NCAA transfer portal. When taking a look at that list of players, there were a few starters from a year ago included in that group, as well as multiple prominent backups. This came on both sides of the ball, with some considered among college football's top transfers at the time during the offseason. With the college football season now set to enter Week 9, which of those transfers have since gone on to make an impact with their respective new teams, and are any having breakout seasons? Let's revisit the offensive and defensive players who transferred from Alabama over the offseason to see how each has performed so far during the 2026 season. Young has seen action in only four games this season at Colorado, doing so in a similar backup role to what he had while at Alabama. Across those…

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Japanese manga artist Tetsuya Chiba, known for his boxing masterpiece 'Ashita no Joe,' dies at 87

Legendary Japanese manga artist Tetsuya Chiba, who caused a national sensation with his boxing series "Ashita no Joe" or "Fighting for Tomorrow," a story about an orphan becoming a professional boxer, has died. He was 87. Chiba's masterpiece series became so popular that fans even attended a mock funeral for the protagonist Joe Yabuki's rival. Chiba died at a Tokyo hospital last Thursday, his publisher Kodansha Ltd. said Tuesday, without specifying the cause of his death. While he depicted aspiring young athletes fighting for their life and career, Chiba was a vocal supporter of peace and freedom of expression, telling stories of his harrowing memories of war as a child in autobiographical stories and manga. Months after he was born in Tokyo in January, 1939, his family moved to northeastern China and Chiba spent his early childhood there during Japan's occupation in the region, where…

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Trump promised to revive American manufacturing, but is it working? What the data says ahead of midterms

President Donald Trump has announced some new factory investments ahead of midterm elections, but our Get the Facts Data Team found that manufacturing jobs have fallen slightly nationwide since the beginning of his second term. President Donald Trump has pointed to new investments as evidence that his policies are reviving American manufacturing in the lead-up to midterm elections, but our analysis found that employment in the sector has remained relatively steady since the start of his second term. Experts say it'll take several years to fully evaluate how Trump's tariffs and tax reforms will influence job numbers nationwide. Voters had mixed views about his approach in the battleground state of Michigan, the heart of America's automobile industry. Detroit Axle ships thousands of packages carrying automotive parts directly to consumers each day. Mike Musheinesh, the chief executive of…

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