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PHOENIX (AP) — That was quite a dinger for Harrison Bader, who left a mark with his first home run for the San Francisco Giants this spring training.
Bader’s 408-foot homer to left field in the Giants’ 13-12 loss against Milwaukee on Wednesday put a visible dent near the top on the side of a food truck. After exiting the game, the center fielder visited that concession area, met the truck’s owner and — instead of partaking in an acai bowl — added his autograph just below where the ball hit on the fly.
After climbing up, Bader signed his name along with his number and added: “Sorry.”
“It’s just a random, funny thing,” Bader told reporters.
Bader, who is set to play for Israel in the World Baseball Classic, joined the Giants last month after agreeing to a $20.5 million, two-year contract.
The 31-year-old, a Gold Glove winner with St. Louis in 2021, batted .277 with 17 home runs, 54 RBIs and a .796 OPS in 146 games with the Minnesota Twins and Philadelphia Phillies in 2025.
New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing Valve for “illegally promoting gambling” through the loot box systems it has built for video games like Counter-Strike 2, Team Fortress 2, and Dota 2, according to a press release. The attorney general seeks to “permanently stop Valve from promoting gambling features in its games, disgorge all ill-gotten gains, and pay fines for violating New York’s laws.”
“This loot box model that Valve has developed — charging an individual for a chance to win something of value based on luck alone — is quintessential gambling, prohibited under New York’s Constitution and Penal Law,” the lawsuit says. Valve has made “tens of millions of dollars” selling loot box keys to “thousands” of New York residents and has “made millions of dollars more in commissions from New Yorkers who sold virtual items obtained from loot boxes.” The company’s loot boxes are also “particularly pernicious” because they’re popular with children and adolescents, according to the complaint.
Users can purchase keys to open loot boxes in some Valve games and receive randomly-selected virtual items as rewards. If they want, users can then sell those rewards on the Steam Community Market and on third-party marketplaces; the rarer items can be worth “thousands of dollars,” the lawsuit says. These systems, however, require that users pay Valve $2.49 plus tax to open the loot boxes, and users often get items that are “worth less than what the user spent on the key”. The lawsuit also notes that Valve’s experience for opening a loot box in Counter-Strike 2 resembles that of a slot machine.
Valve didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment.
Jeff Galloway, a member of the 1972 U.S. Olympic team who for decades inspired elite athletes and countless everyday runners by promoting a run-walk-run strategy, whether in a marathon or just a neighborhood jog, died Wednesday at age 80.
Galloway had a hemorrhagic stroke and died at a hospital in Pensacola, Florida, daughter-in-law Carissa Galloway said.
His influence was evident in the final days of his life: Throngs of people posted videos online, hoping for Galloway’s recovery from emergency neurosurgery and thanking him for advice that boosted their confidence and took them to race starting lines.
Galloway’s family announced the surgery on Feb. 20 and invited the public to express support.
Jim Vance, an elite endurance sports consultant in San Diego, said Galloway was a “pioneer” in getting people to run.
“He removed the barrier to entry, which was mostly mental,” Vance told The Associated Press. “Running isn’t supposed to be a suffer-fest. It should be something peaceful, something enjoyable, so people can enjoy running and not dread it.”
Galloway survived heart failure in 2021 and was still hoping to complete another marathon after logging more than 230 during his lifetime.
“My mission now, at the age of 80-plus, is to show that people can do things that are normally not done, and can do them safely,” he told The New York Times in December.
Galloway’s run-walk-run method began in 1974 when he agreed to teach a running class through Florida State University, two years after competing in the 10,000 meters at the Olympics. He figured it might attract customers to Phidippides, his new store for runners.
“None had done any running for at least five years. So we started walking with a few one-minute jogs,” Galloway said on his website.
“I spent some time with each group, during the runs, to adjust the frequency of walk breaks so that no one was huffing and puffing — even at the end,” he said. “Walk breaks kept the groups together. Everyone passed the final exam: finishing either a 5K or a 10K with smiles on their faces.”
Galloway believed walking during a run reduced the risk of injury, conserved energy and kept confidence afloat.
“I’ve been using them ever since,” he said, “continuing to fine-tune the ratios of running to walking based upon pace per mile and individual needs.”
And Galloway even had his own recipe. He walked through every water station during the 1980 Houston marathon and finished with a faster time, 2:16:35, than his previous run-only 26.2 mile (42.1 kilometer) races, the Times reported.
He shared his running philosophies through books, websites and retreats. Galloway was the official training consultant for runDisney, a series of races at Walt Disney Co. resorts, and would be among the runners. Many admirers went online to offer tributes after his recent surgery.
“I never thought I would be a runner. I never thought I’d run a half marathon,” Karen Bock-Losee of Jacksonville, Florida, said in a video. “I’m 70 years old and I’ve run several since my 60th birthday when I discovered Galloway running. I just want to say thank you.”
Susan Williams recalled seeing Galloway as she struggled toward the end of a half marathon in Murray, Kentucky, in 2011.
“You passed me, and my butt was cramping,” she said. “You turned around and came back. You talked me through it. It was awesome.”
Bobby McGee, a Colorado-based running coach, said Galloway’s run-walk-run approach made running more accessible to the masses.
“When a group of people in any kind of run — from marathons to fun runs — get together afterwards they talk about their time,” McGee said. “Nobody asks them if they ran the whole thing.”
Galloway is survived by two sons and six grandchildren.
The search for Nancy Guthrie continues.
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In their second year in the Big Ten, the UCLA Bruins are closing in on a milestone. With a victory at longtime rival USC on Sunday, the Bruins will be just the fourth program to finish with a perfect regular season in Big Ten women’s college basketball.
The last to do it was Maryland in 2015, the season the Terps joined the Big Ten and advanced to the Final Four for the second year in a row. The others were Purdue in 1999, when the Boilermakers won the national championship, and Ohio State in 1985. That was coach Tara VanDerveer’s last season with the Buckeyes before she went on to a legendary career at Stanford. Ohio State lost to eventual national champion Old Dominion in the Elite Eight in 1985.
The Big Ten began sponsoring women’s basketball in the 1982-83 season. The league’s makeup has changed a lot since then, including the addition of former Pac-12 teams UCLA, USC, Oregon and Washington in 2024-25. USC won the regular-season title last year at 17-1. The Bruins were second at 15-2, then won the league tournament title over the Trojans and made the women’s Final Four for the first time in the NCAA era. (UCLA won the AIAW national championship in 1978).
This season, UCLA’s only loss was to Texas at the Players Era Championship in Las Vegas on Nov. 26. The Bruins’ 21-game winning streak is the third-longest active streak among Division I women’s teams, behind UConn’s 29 games this season and 45 dating to last season and North Dakota State‘s 23.
The Bruins — No. 2 again in this week’s ESPN women’s college basketball Power Rankings — will take a 55-54 all-time series lead vs. USC after their 80-46 victory at home over the Trojans on Jan. 3. JuJu Watkins‘ absence as she rehabs a knee injury has changed the dynamic this season for the Trojans. But they have won six of their past seven and would love a chance to keep their rivals from having a perfect league mark.
There also are a few other longtime rivalries coming Sunday to finish regular-season play in the Power 4 conferences, including Duke at North Carolina (noon ET, ESPN) and Vanderbilt at Tennessee (2 p.m. ET, ESPN). And the Tar Heels have climbed back into the Power Rankings this week at No. 16.
Previous ranking: 1
Next seven days: vs. Georgetown (Feb. 26), @ St. John’s (March 1)
There hasn’t been much drama for the Huskies this season, but they had a little last Wednesday when they trailed at halftime for the first time in 2025-26. They came back to beat Villanova 83-69, a respectable outcome for the Wildcats. UConn followed that with the customary pummeling of Providence 81-38. Guard Azzi Fudd is averaging 17.9 points and shooting 49% this season. For her seven games in February, those numbers have bumped to 21.6 points and 52.2%.
Previous ranking: 2
Next seven days: @ USC (March 1)
UCLA secured its first outright conference regular-season title at 17-0 on Sunday with an 80-60 win over Wisconsin. That followed an 82-67 victory over Washington on Thursday. Center Lauren Betts combined for 42 points and 22 rebounds. The Bruins’ only previous league championship for a regular season came in the Pac-10 in 1999, when they tied with Oregon.
Previous ranking: 3
Next seven days: vs. Missouri (Feb. 26), @ Kentucky (March 1)
The Gamecocks have won eight in a row, beating Alabama 76-57 and Ole Miss 85-48 last week. Center Madina Okot, who has been working on her 3-point shot, was 5-of-5 from behind the arc in those games. Her bread and butter are still inside, though, with forward Joyce Edwards, who had a combined 44 points and 18 rebounds in those contests, while Okot had 33 points, 26 rebounds and eight blocks. South Carolina has clinched at least a share of its fifth consecutive SEC regular-season title at 13-1 and can claim it outright with another victory.
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South Carolina blows out Ole Miss by 37 points to clinch at least a tie for the SEC title.
Previous ranking: 5
Next seven days: vs. Georgia (Feb. 26), @ Alabama (March 1)
Admittedly, Texas faced two very overmatched foes last week in Arkansas and Mississippi State. Still, the consistency of its effort in the 93-62 and 92-42 victories had to please the Longhorns. Forward Madison Booker had a combined 44 points on 65.4% shooting, while guard Rori Harmon combined for 18 assists.
Previous ranking: 4
Next seven days: vs. Alabama (Feb. 26), @ Tennessee (March 1)
The Commodores beat Kentucky 81-79 on Sunday behind guard Mikayla Blakes‘ 35 points, her 10th game this season scoring 30 or more. Vanderbilt (11-3) remains tied with Texas in second place in the SEC and is battling the Longhorns for the final NCAA No. 1 seed. The Commodores’ regular-season finale foe, Tennessee, has a huge 80-12 series edge vs. Vandy. But the Commodores won both matchups last season (at Vandy and at the SEC tournament) and enter this matchup as favorites, as the Lady Vols have lost seven of their past nine. However, Vandy has won only once in Knoxville in 2019.
Previous ranking: 6
Next seven days: vs. Tennessee (Feb. 26), @ Mississippi State (March 1)
LSU was in trouble at Ole Miss on Thursday, trailing 63-54 after three quarters. But in the final period, the Tigers held the Rebels without a field goal (0-for-17) and won 78-70. Then they showed no mercy against Missouri, winning 108-55. MiLaysia Fulwiley combined for 48 points and 18 rebounds in the victories. The Tigers are in fourth place in the SEC; the top-four seeds get a double bye into the quarterfinals of the league tournament.
Previous ranking: 10
Next seven days: vs. Arkansas (Feb. 26), @ Missouri (March 1)
The Sooners have won four in a row, beating ranked teams Georgia (71-67) and Tennessee (100-93) last week. National Freshman of the Year candidate Aaliyah Chavez had a combined 48 points and nine assists in the victories, while forward Sahara Williams combined for 33 points, 15 rebounds and six assists. Oklahoma is in fifth place in the SEC at 9-5, although there is still an outside shot at finishing fourth.
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Previous ranking: 12
Next seven days: @ Cincinnati (Feb. 25), vs. Baylor (March 1)
The Frogs had no trouble with Houston last Wednesday, winning 72-50 behind forward Marta Suarez‘s 21 points and nine rebounds. But things were tighter against Iowa State on Sunday until guard Olivia Miles took over the fourth quarter of an 80-73 win. She had 17 of her points in the final period and finished with her fifth triple-double of the season (26 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists). TCU can claim its second consecutive outright Big 12 regular-season title with two wins this week.
Previous ranking: Not ranked
Next seven days: vs. Illinois (Feb. 26), @ Wisconsin (March 1)
After hitting a three-game skid in late January and early February after a season-ending injury to guard Taylor McCabe, the Hawkeyes seem to have figured things out again. They have won four in a row, including 83-74 last Thursday at Purdue and their biggest victory thus far this season, 62-44 over then-No. 6 Michigan at home Sunday. The Hawkeyes and Wolverines are tied for second place in the Big Ten.
Previous ranking: 7
Next seven days: @ Ohio State (Feb. 25), vs. Maryland (Feb. 28)
For one of the rare times this season, Michigan didn’t seem in sync Sunday, with a season low in points in its 62-44 loss at Iowa. It seemed to be an out-of-character game for the Wolverines. They are tied with Iowa in second place in the Big Ten but have a tougher closing schedule this week than the Hawkeyes.
Previous ranking: 8
Next seven days: vs. Florida State (Feb. 26), @ North Carolina (March 1)
Duke beat nearby rival NC State 83-65 on Thursday for its 17th victory in a row. But that streak ended with a 53-51 loss at Clemson on Sunday, Duke’s first defeat since Dec. 4. Louisville was also upset by an unranked team Sunday, so Duke stayed in first place with a one-game lead in the ACC.
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Toby Fournier muscles in an and-1 for Duke.
Previous ranking: 9
Next seven days: @ Georgia Tech (Feb. 26), vs. Notre Dame (March 1)
Louisville was stunned 74-72 at home by Virginia on Sunday. The Cavaliers really needed the win for their NCAA tournament hopes, but it cost the Cardinals a chance to move into a first-place tie in the ACC with Duke. Louisville remains in second place and will finish the regular season against Notre Dame, which is tied for eighth place in the ACC and lost to the Cardinals earlier this season. However, Notre Dame has won five of its past six.
Previous ranking: 11
Next seven days: vs. Michigan (Feb. 25), @ Michigan State (March 1)
After a 74-61 loss at Minnesota last Wednesday, Ohio State came back with an 88-83 win over USC at home. Guard Jaloni Cambridge had a combined 56 points. The Buckeyes are trying to finish in the top four in the Big Ten, but they must go through the Michigan schools this week to do that.
Previous ranking: 15
Next seven days: @ UCF (Feb. 25), vs. Cincinnati (March 1)
In their only game last week, the Mountaineers dominated Oklahoma State 72-40 and kept alive their hope of getting a share of the Big 12 regular-season title. Their last two foes of the regular season are in the league’s bottom four.
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Jordan Harrison sinks it from downtown.
Previous ranking: 16
Next seven days: vs. Northwestern (Feb. 25), @ Michigan (Feb. 28)
The Terps are seventh in the Big Ten but have won five in a row, beating Purdue 99-66 on Sunday behind Oluchi Okananwa‘s 26 points. The season finale against the Wolverines has high stakes.
Previous ranking: Not ranked
Next seven days: @ Virginia (Feb. 26), vs. Duke (March 1)
The Tar Heels moved back into the Power Rankings and are in third place in the ACC after winning 10 of their past 11. On Thursday, they battled to a 63-60 overtime win at Virginia Tech and then beat Pitt 78-50 at home. North Carolina is 12-4 in the league, but there are three teams at 11-5, including the Tar Heels’ next opponent Virginia.
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The Pentagon’s private-sector A-Team
This morning, in advance of a meeting between Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, my colleague Hayden Field and I published a story about the Pentagon’s hardball contract renegotiations with Anthropic. The stakes are higher than it should reasonably be, with the Pentagon continuing to designate Anthropic a “supply-chain risk” if the company doesn’t comply with their demands about their acceptable use policy.
In a post-meeting readout, Axios reported that Hegseth brought several other senior Defense officials to the meeting in an attempt to show that the Pentagon was taking the dispute “seriously.” But in a post-DOGE Trump administration run by broligarchs, it’s always worthwhile to check the attendees’ bios. Some of them were normal senior officials who’d spent their careers in government and military work, but the others have somewhat unusual backgrounds:
Pentagon CTO Emil Michael, who we reported has been spearheading negotiations with Anthropic. Michael may be familiar to longtime Verge readers and followers of Silicon Valley corporate drama as the former second-in-command at Uber when Travis Kalanick was CEO. Michael was pushed out in 2017 after an investigation found that he, and several other top executives that called themselves the “A-Team,” perpetuated a culture of sexual harassment at the company.
For anyone curious about his history on surveillance: During a 2014 dinner with several journalists, Michael suggested that Uber hire opposition researchers to gather personal “dirt” on reporters publishing unfavorable news, suggesting that he’d wanted to target one female reporter who had recently criticized the company for its culture of misogyny. This was also around the time that Uber drew controversy for an internal tool known as “God Mode,” which employees used to track the movements of its users, including one BuzzFeed journalist who was writing about an Uber executive.
Deputy Secretary Steve Feinberg, the founder of the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, which manages roughly $65 billion in assets and specializes in “distressed properties.” Feinberg, who’s widely blamed for the death of the auto manufacturer Chrysler, was also an early supporter of Donald Trump, donating to his 2016 presidential campaign and serving on the president’s intelligence advisory board in 2018. During his 2025 Senate confirmation hearing, Feinberg touted Cerberus’ investments in several companies involved in national security, saying he had “significant experience with the Pentagon as a contractor and understand[s] how it functions and is organized.”
At the time, Democrats raised concerns that Feinberg would have conflicts of interest due to Cerberus’ numerous investments in defense companies such as DynCorp. (That year, DynCorp settled a lawsuit with the Department of Justice over allegations that it had “knowingly inflated subcontractor charges under a State Department contract to train Iraqi police forces.”)
In 2023, while Feinberg was still at Cerberus, the firm launched Cerberus Ventures, a venture capital arm that invests in early-stage companies that address national security issues in critical infrastructure.
Hegseth’s chief spokesperson, Sean Parnell, an Army veteran who, in 2021, attempted to run for an open Senate seat in Pennsylvania. While he won Trump’s endorsement in the heated Republican primary, he was forced to drop out in November after his ex-wife made several allegations of serious physical and psychological abuse during a custody hearing. She was afforded full legal custody. (Dr. Mehmet Oz, now serving in the Trump administration, subsequently won the nomination.)
Feinberg and Michael’s presence should draw eyeballs. Yes, they both have some amount of defense industry experience: Michael was a White House fellow during the Obama administration, and spent two years as a special assistant to Defense Secretary Robert Gates at the Pentagon, which isn’t nothing. Feinberg has clearly spent time with defense contracts. But one must fully appreciate the rapacious business mindset that private sector types love to bring into the government — especially with high-stakes negotiations such as this. Parnell’s presence, meanwhile, makes sense within the context of “being the spokesman for Pete Hegseth.”
The single-supplier shuffle
One topic Hayden and I didn’t get to explore more was the “single-supplier vulnerability” issue, but it’s turning into a crucial factor in negotiations.
In 2024, the Biden administration released a national security memorandum on the use of artificial intelligence, which laid out several directives regarding the protection of the supply chain. Among them was a directive for the Department of Defense to maintain contracts with at least two frontier AI labs that were cleared to handle classified information, in order to prevent a scenario where one compromised vendor could take down an entire IT system. But as early as the summer of 2025, I’m told, the Trump administration was trying to address that vulnerability. While they had signed separate contracts with Anthropic, Google, xAI, and OpenAI, only Anthropic’s model was cleared for classified use when Hegseth published his memo outlining his new AI policy in January.
This has placed the Pentagon in a tight situation: Even if they successfully cut out Anthropic and go through the arduous process of making every defense contractor remove Claude from their workflows, they would risk being out of compliance with the Department’s own guidelines, to say nothing of common sense. (Avoiding single-supplier vulnerability is a very basic practice in the tech industry.)
It certainly provides more context to the Pentagon’s decision last night to suddenly grant xAI’s Grok access to classified systems, even though Grok is widely considered the least capable of the available models. While The New York Times reported that Google is also close to signing a deal allowing the Pentagon to use Gemini for classified work, defense insiders view Gemini as a quality rival to Claude, while xAi’s Grok “is not considered as advanced or as reliable as Anthropic’s.” OpenAI is not close to a deal, as the company reportedly believes that it must improve ChatGPT’s safety features before deploying it on classified networks.
So let’s do the math. You have four AI models, and you’re required to work with two of them. Your choices are:
1) A company with a pretty good AI model and increasingly flexible morals
2) A company with the best AI model, but which refuses to let you use it for autonomously killing people without human input
3) A company whose AI model isn’t secure enough to deploy yet
4) A company whose AI has racist hallucinations and generates child porn, and that you don’t consider “advanced [or] reliable”
If you can’t contract with companies 2 and 3, you’re stuck with companies 1 and 4, which even Defense officials admit is not optimal from a national security perspective. “The only reason we’re still talking to these people [Anthropic] is we need them and we need them now. The problem for these guys is they are that good,” a Defense official told Axios ahead of the meeting.
The latest Clarity Act negotiations between finance and crypto last week inadvertently turned into the latest episode of recurring segment I’m now calling: “Why is Laura Loomer tweeting about obscure deep-cut tech issues as if they are MAGA loyalty tests?”
Last Thursday, a small group of powerful crypto and finance players met at the White House to continue hashing out draft language over stablecoin yields. Coinbase, which sparked these negotiations after it withdrew support from Clarity over stablecoin yields, was in attendance. Prior to the meeting, however, Loomer tweeted a classic banger that demonstrated the tactics she uses to wield influence over Trump: Cast the target as someone who once supported Trump’s enemies and is therefore disloyal.
Though Loomer tweeted a similar sentiment about Coinbase last June, it seems to have had no impact on whether Coinbase has access to Trump, and likely won’t for a while: I’m told that CEO Brian Armstrong was at Mar-a-Lago the day before Loomer tweeted, attending a World Liberty Financial event.
A wild Trumpworld character has appeared!
If you followed the saga of Logan Paul auctioning off his Pokémon card collection, you may be aware that one of those cards sold for a record-setting $16.5 million last week. But who’s that Pokémon purchaser? It’s AJ Scaramucci, the son of the one and only Anthony Scaramucci, the New York financier and former Trump ally who famously served as Trump’s White House Communications Director in 2017 for 10 days.
We can’t believe that a court has to tell you this, much less the Southern District of New York: If you put correspondence between you and your lawyer into a publicly available AI platform, it is no longer protected by attorney-client privilege and becomes subject to discovery!!!!
In any case, have a pleasant State of the Union watch party (if anyone does that anymore) and see you next week.
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Goldie and Bill’s first child was born Sept. 7, 1976.
Like Kate, Oliver was raised by his mom and her longtime partner Kurt Russell, but he said on Larry King Live in 2018 that he and Bill were “trying” to maintain communication.
“I had posted something that was darkly comedic and it blew up into something, and actually it helped us with our relationship,” the Rules of Engagement alum recalled. “So now we’re kind of keeping in touch.”
But Kurt will forever be his dad.
The Miracle actor is “not my blood father,” Oliver told Us Weekly in December 2025, “but I have a lot of his mannerisms. He’s just got so much life force in him. And when he loves, he loves hard, and when he laughs, he laughs hard.”
As for his mom, “I have all of her sensitivity,” Oliver noted. “I feel a ton, you know—too much. That’s why I’m on 20 milligrams of Lexapro.”
On his own home front, Oliver married Erinn Bartlett in 2006, and they share sons Wilder Books Hudson, born Aug. 23, 2007, and Bodhi Hawn Hudson, born March 19, 2010, as well as daughter Rio Laura Hudson, who was born July 18, 2013.
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The search for Nancy Guthrie continues.
