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Ira Boudway @iboudway.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cc: @normcharlatan.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Pop-Tarts Ends BuzzBallz Partnership on Underage Drinking Fears
Mars Inc. is pulling its Pop-Tarts and BuzzBallz collaboration just a month into its rollout over concerns that the product could appeal to underage drinkers.
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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"While it’s still too soon to measure the impact of prediction markets, anecdotal evidence and logic suggest they will only add to the damage. A representative of Gamblers Anonymous, who is also a member in recovery, says the group is seeing more people, especially younger ones, seeking help."
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How a Gambling Addict Relapsed After He Discovered Kalshi
Bettors are stumbling into prediction markets, where it’s harder for users and their families to recognize they have a problem, clinicians say. The company says its model is “significantly healthier” ...
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Ira Boudway @iboudway.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I wrote prediction markets and gambling addiction 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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How a Gambling Addict Relapsed After He Discovered Kalshi
Bettors are stumbling into prediction markets, where it’s harder for users and their families to recognize they have a problem, clinicians say. The company says its model is “significantly healthier” ...
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Ira Boudway @iboudway.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I wrote prediction markets and gambling addiction 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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How a Gambling Addict Relapsed After He Discovered Kalshi
Bettors are stumbling into prediction markets, where it’s harder for users and their families to recognize they have a problem, clinicians say. The company says its model is “significantly healthier” ...
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Ira Boudway @iboudway.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Poch is back www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Pochettino Agrees New US Soccer Contract Financed by Ken Griffin
Mauricio Pochettino has agreed to stay on as head coach of the US men’s soccer team, signing a contract to manage the team through the next FIFA World Cup in 2030.
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Ira Boudway @iboudway.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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Financier Funding US World Cup Soccer Coach Wants Him to Return
As US soccer coach Mauricio Pochettino mulls a new contract offer, at least one of the financial backers responsible for funding his salary is eager for him to stay on.
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Stacey Shick @staceyshick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"The pattern set over the past few decades has held: Once a ball is kicked, fans are swept away in the excitement and romance of the World Cup." www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Clockwise from top left: Watching the US-Belgium match at Joxer Daly’s in Culver City, California; Cape Verde’s goalkeeper Vozinha; Lionel Messi after Argentina’s semifinal win; and Erling Haaland returns to Norway after the tournament.
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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If you regret missing out on the 1899 Cleveland Spiders, can I interest you in a trip to Staten Island? defector.com/a-front-row-...
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A Front-Row Seat To The Worst Team In Pro Baseball | Defector
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — If you regret that you never got a chance to see the 1899 Cleveland Spiders, the losingest team in MLB history, can I interest you in a trip to Staten Island? No wait, come back....
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Paraguay’s electricity mix is 100% renewable, powered almost entirely by large-scale hydroelectric.
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Ira Boudway @iboudway.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The USMNT’s World Cup begins tonight, but the backstory begins two years ago with the disastrous Copa America showing and some fed up (and influential) fans in a chat group:🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The Hedge Fund Manager Behind US Soccer’s Bid for World Cup Glory
Scott Goodwin’s path to becoming a major donor to US Soccer began with an offhand text to friends in the summer of 2024. Now was the chance, he told them, to get a better men’s national team head coac...
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Ira Boudway @iboudway.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The USMNT’s World Cup begins tonight, but the backstory begins two years ago with the disastrous Copa America showing and some fed up (and influential) fans in a chat group:🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The Hedge Fund Manager Behind US Soccer’s Bid for World Cup Glory
Scott Goodwin’s path to becoming a major donor to US Soccer began with an offhand text to friends in the summer of 2024. Now was the chance, he told them, to get a better men’s national team head coac...
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Ira Boudway @iboudway.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Inside the chat group that brought Pochettino to the USMNT: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The Hedge Fund Manager Behind US Soccer’s Bid for World Cup Glory
Scott Goodwin’s path to becoming a major donor to US Soccer began with an offhand text to friends in the summer of 2024. Now was the chance, he told them, to get a better men’s national team head coac...
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Ira Boudway @iboudway.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Inside the chat group that brought Pochettino to the USMNT: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The Hedge Fund Manager Behind US Soccer’s Bid for World Cup Glory
Scott Goodwin’s path to becoming a major donor to US Soccer began with an offhand text to friends in the summer of 2024. Now was the chance, he told them, to get a better men’s national team head coac...
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Ira Boudway @iboudway.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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Men in Blazers Is Coming to Take Over the World Cup
They’re touring the US, hyping up the tournament with big sponsors and home field advantage.
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Stacey Shick @staceyshick.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"Over the past 15 years, Bennett, a 55-year-old Liverpool native with a bald head and a light stubble of beard, has turned his enthusiasm for soccer into a small media empire with more than 100 employees and tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue"
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Men in Blazers Is Coming to Take Over the World Cup
They’re touring the US, hyping up the tournament with big sponsors and home field advantage.
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Ira Boudway @iboudway.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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Evan Drellich @evandrellich.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
President Trump said Friday that Major League Baseball should have added a salary cap "a long time ago." "Don't they sort of have one?" The president has picked a side in baseball's labor talks: the owners'. www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...
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Two Strike Noise @twostrikenoise.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I get it already, I'm old.
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Ira Boudway @iboudway.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
And as long as we are talking draft reform, why even bother with a draft? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The NBA Draft Is Bad for Business
Too many teams lost too many games in pursuit of potentially transformative players.
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Ira Boudway @iboudway.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Since MLB’s salary cap proposal is in the news, a reminder that fans actually enjoy dynasties: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The Dodgers Are Annoying, Greedy—And Good for Baseball
“Competitive balance” is just a cry for owners to grab more money.
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Ira Boudway @iboudway.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Not losing enough money on parlay bets? Try “combo” trades: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Prediction Market Bettors Lagging Sports Gamblers, Citizens Says
Traders on prediction markets fare worse than traditional sports bettors on increasingly popular multi-leg wagers, according to an analysis by Citizens.
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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 29/05/2026
Zohran Mamdani on Arsenal is hilarious and touching in equal measure www.nytimes.com/athletic/731...
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Zohran Mamdani: For Arsenal, the nostalgia of the past has become the beauty of the present (Gift Article)
Arsenal has long been a passion for Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City. Here, he explains what the Premier League champions mean to him
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Good job boys, good process [actually laudatory]
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The lottery should be an email anyways
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David Berri @wagesofwins.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Ira Boudway of Bloomberg argues we should abolish the NBA draft! As noted in the story, I argue that any reward for losing will likely result in more losing. And getting rid of the draft forces teams to think harder about how they want to build a team. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The NBA Draft Is Bad for Business
Too many teams lost too many games in pursuit of potentially transformative players.
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Ira Boudway @iboudway.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
It’s past time to abolish the draft www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The NBA Draft Is Bad for Business
Too many teams lost too many games in pursuit of potentially transformative players.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Just leaving it there before retiring: the over-ruling of the penalty awarded for the foul on Eberechi Eze is incomprehensible. Why VAR intervenes is a mystery. Why the referee does not ask his VAR team if they're joking is another one. I'd say the same if Dominic Solanke, not Eze, had been fouled.
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Ira Boudway @iboudway.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The time Frank Viola got tossed for arguing with the robot ump. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Ira Boudway @iboudway.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
hard agree www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Universities Try to Maintain Secrecy on How They Pay Athletes
Bloomberg asked more than four dozen public universities to disclose details of their spending on student athletes and got little back.
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Ira Boudway @iboudway.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Now that March Madness has properly begun, re-upping this one on how the tournament’s folk heroes cash in on their moment of fame. This is how Jack Gohlke accidentally negotiated $20,000 out of Buffalo Wild Wings in 2024: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
While Gohlke kept circulating-and kept telling his friend he wasn't interested-the friend kept haggling. "We went back and forth two or three times, and I don't know any dollar amounts at this point," Gohlke says, "and finally he comes back to me, and he tells me the dollar amount." As Gohlke would later learn, his friend had negotiated from a starting offer of $5,000 to $20,000.
At that price, Gohlke couldn't say no to doing a simple Instagram post.
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Ira Boudway @iboudway.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Or “How Jack Gohlke accidentally negotiated $20,000 out of Buffalo Wild Wings”
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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
"There’s no time to be fussy because the players’ schedules are packed and the tournament’s viral moments fade quickly. “If anything requires approvals, legal reviews or custom creative, it’s already too slow,” Denton says."
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The Real March Madness Is the Corporate Race to Ink Viral Stars
In this peculiar corner of the influencer economy, speed is what wins.
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Stacey Shick @staceyshick.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
"Although there’s no real way to prepare for March Madness fame, there are a couple of things every player should do before the tournament: Make sure your name is in your social media handles, and put an email address in your bio." bloom.bg/4luhGlF
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The Real March Madness Is the Corporate Race to Ink Viral Stars
In this peculiar corner of the influencer economy, speed is what wins.
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Ira Boudway @iboudway.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
So you’ve gone viral during March Madness? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The Real March Madness Is the Corporate Race to Ink Viral Stars
In this peculiar corner of the influencer economy, speed is what wins.
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Ira Boudway @iboudway.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
So you’ve gone viral during March Madness? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The Real March Madness Is the Corporate Race to Ink Viral Stars
In this peculiar corner of the influencer economy, speed is what wins.
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Most people also won’t finish your 500-word article. So write at whatever length is appropriate for the subject.
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Ira Boudway @iboudway.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The Dodgers have a huge payroll. Biggest ever. The gap between the haves and have-nots is growing. Baseball will be fine. Great, actually. Enjoy it. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The Dodgers Are Annoying, Greedy—And Good for Baseball
“Competitive balance” is just a cry for owners to grab more money.
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Brian Mills @bmmillsy.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Nice article on the Dodgers and MLB's current competitive balance non-problem, with quotes from me! (and a 100+ year old reference I forwarded along that @rodneyfort.bsky.social shared here a while back). www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The Dodgers Are Annoying, Greedy—And Good for Baseball
“Competitive balance” is just a cry for owners to grab more money.
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Ira Boudway @iboudway.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The Dodgers have a huge payroll. Biggest ever. The gap between the haves and have-nots is growing. Baseball will be fine. Great, actually. Enjoy it. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
The Dodgers Are Annoying, Greedy—And Good for Baseball
“Competitive balance” is just a cry for owners to grab more money.
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Ira Boudway @iboudway.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Prediction markets are forcing professional sports bettors to learn to think like their pontine nemesis: the bookmaker. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Gambling Pros Adjust to a Super Bowl on the Prediction Markets
The sudden rise of sites like Kalshi and Polymarket has sophisticated bettors scrambling to adjust their strategies.
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I see people saying that the writers who leave the Post will be fine if they set up their own newsletters and I get that's probably where things are going and I'll pay for them, but... that's not a newspaper. Newspapers are inefficient. They have stuff that's important that's not a money-maker. 1/5
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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying. Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
What we found is bleak. Attorneys told us they’re struggling to get information in to or out of ICE and Customs and Border Protection facilities, which are holding nearly 69,000 people this month. And detainees often are forced to choose between remaining in crowded, squalid conditions or leaving the country immediately.

Judges in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles have ordered the government to facilitate attorney-client communications at Homeland Security buildings. But attorneys say that doesn’t always happen. Even if detainees get the option, some worry they’ll be punished if they take it.
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Ira Boudway @iboudway.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
This lad Own Goal has been a great signing for Arsenal
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national/202...
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Ira Boudway @iboudway.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I wrote about how the college football sausage gets made in the era of NIL Go: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The Business of College Football Has Never Been More Exciting or More of a Mess
The NIL spigot continues to flow despite a revenue-sharing cap.
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Ira Boudway @iboudway.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
For our latest business of sports newsletter, I wrote a love letter to @vermontgreenfc.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Unofficial Bloomberg Business of Sports Awards 2025
The money being thrown at sports teams, leagues, conferences, pickleball, etc, will dry up. But this year, the cash still flowed.
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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
"For prediction market customers, it’s buyer beware. When you trade in sports contracts, you might be up against a counterparty with sophisticated statistical models or even a team of quants on their side. And you might be up against someone with access to information you don’t have."
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Kalshi and Other Prediction Markets Should Scare Sports Leagues
A lack of regulation can leave bettors vulnerable to manipulation.
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Ira Boudway @iboudway.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
The culture of prediction markets around insider trading, at least in their early days, doesn’t fit with the integrity needs of sports leagues. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Kalshi and Other Prediction Markets Should Scare Sports Leagues
A lack of regulation can leave bettors vulnerable to manipulation.
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