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Polymarket defends its decision to allow betting on war as ‘invaluable’

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It might be World War III, but at least I won $20. | Image: Polymarket / The Verge

Polymarket has been allowing people to bet on when the US would strike Iran next. Obviously, now that it’s actually happened and people have died, the prediction betting market is feeling some pressure. The site has been at the center of controversy before, including suspicions of insider trading on the Super Bowl halftime show and the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

In a statement posted on its site, Polymarket defended its decision to allow betting on the potential start of a war, saying that it was an “invaluable” source of news and answers, before taking shots at traditional media and Elon Musk’s X. The statement reads:

Read the full story at The Verge.

Michigan loses L.J. Cason for rest of season with torn ACL

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Michigan guard L.J. Cason suffered a torn right ACL and will miss the rest of the season, the school announced Saturday.

The injury occurred in the Wolverines’ win over Illinois on Friday night.

“This isn’t how I wanted my season to end, but I trust God’s plan, and I’ll attack rehab the same way I approach everything — with focus and determination,” Cason said. “We’ve got many goals as a team, and I’ll be locked in supporting my brothers every step of the way.”

Cason, a 6-foot-2 sophomore, had emerged as one of the premier backup guards in college basketball this season, providing a consistent boost off the bench for No. 3 Michigan. He was averaging 8.4 points and 2.4 assists in 18.6 minutes, making more than 40% of his 3-point attempts. Cason had nine points and two assists in just 13 minutes against Illinois before suffering the injury.

He had scored in double-figures in four of his last six games entering Friday night, including an 18-point performance in the Wolverines’ comeback win against Northwestern earlier this month.

“First and foremost, our hearts hurt for L.J.,” coach Dusty May said. “You never want to see a young man who has poured so much into this program have something like this happen. However, if there’s anyone equipped to handle this and the rehab process, it’s L.J. He’s resilient, he’s disciplined, and he has an incredible support system around him.”

With Cason out, the point guard duties will fall almost solely on Elliot Cadeau. Cadeau has made major strides since transferring from North Carolina last spring, but Cason’s consistent play has limited Cadeau. He has played more than 30 minutes just twice since January. The junior guard is averaging 10.1 points and 5.5 assists, shooting a career-best 38.4% from 3.

Michigan, which clinched the outright Big Ten regular-season title Friday, wraps up the regular season with games against Iowa and Michigan State next week.

Dolly Parton Honors Ozzy Osbourne

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Louis Osbourne & Jessica Osbourne

Ozzy’s oldest kids from his marriage to Thelma admittedly didn’t spend a lot of time with the rocker, who was often away on tour.

“My recollection from my childhood with dad is that he’d be away for very long periods of time, and there’d always be a period of adjustment when he came home, and then it’d get to normality and then he’d go again,” Jessica said in the 2011 documentary God Bless Ozzy Osbourne. “So, it was a very erratic chidhood with dad.”

And when he was home, he’d frequently go to the pubs.

“When he was around and he wasn’t pissed, he was a great father,” Louis added. “But that was kind of seldom really.”

After Ozzy and Thelma split, he and his kids still kept in touch. In fact, there was an episode of The Osbournes where Ozzy received a call that Jessica had given birth and he was a grandfather for the first time. Louis has also shared that he sees Aimee, Kelly and Jack sporadically.

“I don’t travel half as much as I used to and they are in America,” he told Birmingham Live in 2012. “There is more chance of us seeing each other in a random New York hotel than us all getting round a table for a Sunday lunch. We meet on special occasions.”

He and his dad, however, made it a point to check in on the regular.

“Dad usually calls on a Sunday afternoon for a catch up and when he comes over to the UK we take the kids down,” Louis added. “Dad is great, very much a doting grandad.”

Little has been shared publicly about Louis and Jessica’s brother Elliot.

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Joe Lunardi’s men’s Bracketology March Madness watch guide

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By the time Selection Sunday arrives, there will have been plenty of movement in the projected field of 68 for the 2026 NCAA tournament, regarding the teams that are in, as well as those looking to get in.

While our Tuesday and Friday Bracketology updates allow us to look at the race to March Madness holistically twice a week, results every day matter and can affect teams — whether they’re playing or not.

Men’s bracketologist Joe Lunardi is tracking every relevant game every day — and why shouldn’t you?

Here, we provide an inside look at the headlines and upcoming matchups that inform Joey Brackets’ calculations on any given day, as he projects the teams that could have their names called on Selection Sunday (March 15).

A couple of housekeeping things: This page will update every day between Monday and Saturday, with some exceptions. Games are listed in order of importance to bracket movement. A team’s projection on that day is listed in parentheses if not otherwise noted.

Scores available here. All times Eastern

Projected field of 68 |
NCAA tournament details |
Bubble Watch |
Champ Week schedule

Saturday, Feb. 28

HEADLINES

  • Last full Saturday of the regular season: And the schedule features 19 of the top 20 teams on the seed list, plus 14 of the 16 current bubble teams.

  • In with a win: San Diego State and New Mexico will face off for a spot in the next bracket. California (vs. Pittsburgh) and TCU (at Kansas State) are also playing for at-large positions.

  • Out without: Seton Hall (at UConn), USC (vs. Nebraska), Santa Clara (vs. Oregon State) and Virginia Tech (at North Carolina) are each at risk of falling out of the next bracket or off the First Four Out and Next Four Out bubble with a loss.


GAMES THAT COULD IMPACT THE BRACKET

  • (4) Virginia at (1) Duke. If the Blue Devils lose, they could turn over the No. 1 overall seed back to Michigan. 12 p.m., ESPN

  • (3) Kansas at (1) Arizona. The Wildcats can effectively lock in the 1-seed out West with a revenge win over the Jayhawks. 4 p.m., ESPN

  • (6) Louisville at (9) Clemson. Key seeding game for two ACC teams heading in the wrong direction. 2 p.m., ESPN2

  • (10) Texas at (10) Texas A&M. The loser drops to “Last Four In” status. 4 p.m., ESPN2

  • (11) San Diego State at (First Four Out) New Mexico. Only the winner has a shot at being in our next bracket on Tuesday. 2 p.m., CBS

  • Pittsburgh at (First Four Out) California. The Golden Bears have a real shot at their first bid in a decade. 4 p.m., ACC Network

  • (Next Four Out) Seton Hall at (1) UConn. The Pirates must win to keep their slim at-large hopes alive. 12 p.m., FS1

  • Tennessee State at UT Martin. Nolan Smith’s Tigers can clinch no worse than an OVC tie with a victory. 2 p.m., ESPNU

  • (3) Nebraska at (First Four Out) USC. The Trojans are playing for their season at this point. 4 p.m., Big Ten Network

  • Howard at (16) Morgan State. Winner-take-all for the top spot in the MEAC. 4 p.m., ESPN+

Defense secretary Pete Hegseth designates Anthropic a supply chain risk

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This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon.

Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic’s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic.

Instead, @AnthropicAI and its CEO @DarioAmodei, have chosen duplicity. Cloaked in the sanctimonious rhetoric of “effective altruism,” they have attempted to strong-arm the United States military into submission – a cowardly act of corporate virtue-signaling that places Silicon Valley ideology above American lives.

The Terms of Service of Anthropic’s defective altruism will never outweigh the safety, the readiness, or the lives of American troops on the battlefield.

Their true objective is unmistakable: to seize veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military. That is unacceptable.

As President Trump stated on Truth Social, the Commander-in-Chief and the American people alone will determine the destiny of our armed forces, not unelected tech executives.

Anthropic’s stance is fundamentally incompatible with American principles. Their relationship with the United States Armed Forces and the Federal Government has therefore been permanently altered.

In conjunction with the President’s directive for the Federal Government to cease all use of Anthropic’s technology, I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic. Anthropic will continue to provide the Department of War its services for a period of no more than six months to allow for a seamless transition to a better and more patriotic service.

America’s warfighters will never be held hostage by the ideological whims of Big Tech. This decision is final.

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College baseball 2026: Why Jack Ohman chose to stay at Yale

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JACK OHMAN WAS anxious last spring. Not because he was a freshman navigating his first collegiate baseball season. Not because his dominance — and scoreless innings streak — was making national headlines. Not because his classes at Yale were overwhelming.

It was because his phone was blowing up. Nonstop.

Name-brand college programs, realizing the 6-foot right-hander, who barely pitched in high school, was the real deal, were trying to convince him to transfer, with promises that they were the right place for his development and bank account. Agents, seeing dollar signs, thirsted to represent the pitcher who had crashed on the national scene possessing a mid-90s fastball with elite carry. Friends and family constantly pinged him to ask if — and where — he was going to transfer.

Ohman admitted he considered leaving the Ivy League for a Power 4 school. And who would blame him? The facilities to improve his skill set there are palatial. The exposure to reach the pros is brighter. The money — unlocked by recent advances in players capitalizing on their name, image and likeness — is tempting.

With rules relaxed in recent years, the transfer portal has made player movement far more common and ethics optional. As Ohman became a top target for the best programs, the onslaught became so intense that his father, Will, considered changing Jack’s phone number.

“The noise was incredible,” said Will Ohman, a former major league left-hander who made 483 relief appearances across 10 seasons.

But Jack Ohman didn’t switch phone numbers — and he didn’t transfer. He notified his coaches last spring, in the midst of one of the greatest freshman seasons in NCAA history, that he was staying in New Haven.

“I talked to a lot of people about it because I didn’t know what to do exactly,” Ohman said. “But I think what fueled my decision was it’s a great group of guys I’m very, very close with. It’s more of a loyalty thing. I think that’s a little bit of a forgotten trait, I guess, in college sports. You don’t see it very often. But I think it’s huge.”

Ohman finished the season with a 1.34 ERA, tops in the nation, across 73⅔ innings, as Yale went 31-14 and won the Ivy League regular-season title. He was named a second-team All-American — the first Yale baseball player to earn an All-America nod since Ryan Lavarnway, a future big league catcher, in 2007 — while vaulting from unknown to a potential first-round pick in Major League Baseball’s 2027 draft.

Last Friday, he launched his sophomore campaign by holding Bethune-Cookman to one earned run in five innings and striking out 10 in Yale’s season-opening loss, putting the Ivy League — and the country — on notice again.

“My coaches took a flier on me,” Ohman, 20, said. “It happened to work out. I became a great pitcher. It would be a little bit disrespectful if I up and left after one year and just threw that all to the wayside because they took a risk on recruiting me. And I’m glad that risk paid off.”


OHMAN WAS ALMOST exclusively a position player at Brophy College Prep in Phoenix. He was a utility man and batted nearly .400 as the team’s leadoff hitter his senior season. He moonlighted as a spot starter and closer, logging 18 innings as a junior and 25 innings his senior season. He showed flashes on the mound but lacked consistency. And yet his father believed he would go furthest as a pitcher.

“It was very obvious, to me, that the ceiling was much higher as a pitcher,” Will Ohman said. “There’s a lot of 6-foot, 170-pound college players. You have to look for separators. His arm was his separator.”

Will Ohman, who runs a baseball training facility in Phoenix, didn’t send his son to showcases until he believed he had sufficient skills to display. So his son attended just two. Yale pitching coach Chris Wojick, also the program’s recruiting coordinator, first saw Ohman pitch at one of them — a showcase for academic standouts the fall before his senior season.

Hardly recruited, Ohman made two official visits to schools: Seattle University and Yale. He committed to Yale soon after traveling to Connecticut. Success did not appear imminent.

“When he arrived at Yale,” Bulldogs head coach Brian Hamm said, “he still had a ways to go in terms of being able to pitch at the college level, let alone make an impact.”

Ohman, according to Wojick, was the worst pitcher on the Bulldogs’ roster during fall workouts in 2024.

His delivery began with a high leg kick resembling former major leaguer Bronson Arroyo that made repeating his delivery difficult, rendering his command inconsistent. He didn’t throw enough strikes, certainly not enough to start games in the Ivy League. His best off-speed pitch was a loopy curveball that popped out of his hand for hitters to recognize and crush — on the rare occasion it found the strike zone.

Then Ohman returned to campus after winter break as a different pitcher.

“The first pitch he threw in live indoor sessions in January was 96 [mph],” Wojick said. “And he was like 91, 92 in the fall. I remember going to our hitting coach, like, ‘Hey come here.’ After that, I sat down with the coaching staff and was like, ‘Hey, Jack’s no longer hitting. He’s going to pitch for us now.’

Ohman eliminated the leg kick, creating a more compact delivery that was easier to repeat. He was stronger from the regular workouts that come with being a Division I athlete. But his curveball was still a problem. He wanted to continue featuring it. Wojick wanted him to try a slider. So in early February, with the season opener around the corner, Wojick sat Ohman down and gave him an ultimatum: Listen to me and become a weekend starter or stay on this path and pitch the fifth inning of inconsequential midweek games.

“It was like, ‘You’re going to pitch garbage innings, period,'” Ohman said. “Like, ‘You suck and we have to pitch you and we have to develop you. But, yeah, you’re going to pitch garbage innings.’ He was trying to light a fire under me and I appreciate that. Clearly, it worked.”

Two days later, Wojick said, Ohman, whose feel for the game as the son of a former major leaguer draws rave reviews, learned a new slider in 10 minutes. The first one he threw during live batting practice was clubbed for a home run. But Ohman made a slight adjustment and struck out the next five hitters. He took the pitch into his first career outing, in relief against Queens University, and notched four strikeouts over 2⅓ innings.

The pitch was different enough from his fastball to generate misses, but Ohman thought there was more room for improvement. So he slightly changed the grip again for his next appearance. The plan was for him to come out of the bullpen again. But when Yale’s scheduled starter for its series finale against The Citadel was too sick to pitch, Wojick told Ohman that morning he was getting the ball.

“My coach came up to me and he’s like, ‘Hey, just give me one inning,'” Ohman recalled. “‘Then we’ll reevaluate. We’re using you as an opener.'”

The pitching plan for that day — and the season — quickly changed. Ohman allowed one hit, walked two and struck out five over five scoreless frames. He earned a rotation spot with the start and did not slow down. Behind the new slider and a mid-90s fastball that, according to Wojick, features an average of 22 inches of induced vertical break — comparable to New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole‘s offering — Ohman didn’t surrender a run over his first 35⅓ innings.

“He kind of Wally Pipp’d the guy that was our starter,” Wojick said. “And then we went from there.”


OHMAN MADE HIS second career start in Yale’s series finale at Rice, where his twin sister Annabel studies physics. With his family in the stands, Ohman shut down the Owls. He yielded three unearned runs on six hits with seven strikeouts across seven innings in Yale’s series-sweeping win.

“It was his big I’m-on-the-scene game,” Will Ohman said. “It was a family reunion. We’re sitting in the stands and he just goes off. And I was like, ‘Oh, my. What I’ve seen on TV, I have seen now live. I can confirm it. Things are going well.'”

Ohman surrendered his first earned run in his sixth start — and seventh appearance — against Brown to snap his streak of 35⅓ scoreless innings to begin his career. By then he had sprung into national prominence.

“Every team in the top 25 was calling me asking if he’s going to go into the portal,” Brophy Prep head baseball coach Josh Garcia said.

The calls and messages flooded Ohman’s phone. SEC coaches, Wojick said, reached out from burners. Agents attempted to persuade him to hop into the portal with them as his representation. The spotlight quickly sprouted from flattering to distracting.

“It was actually getting pretty out of control,” Wojick said. “I would tell you there’s a Big 12 team that was the most aggressive, to the point where they offered his high school coach money to get him into the transfer portal, then offered him a job on their staff if he got him to transfer to that school, plus NIL money.”

Ohman said he made his decision to stay before the end of the season. The accolades soon followed. He was named the Ivy League Pitcher of the Year, the Perfect Game Freshman Pitcher of the Year, a freshman All-American and a Golden Spikes Award semifinalist. When the dust settled, he was in the top 10 of Baseball America’s 2027 MLB draft board.

“I’m extremely proud of him,” Will Ohman said. “He has some really interesting stuff, and we’re going to find out over time if it plays.”

An economics major, Ohman wants to work in baseball when his playing career is over, whenever that is, and hopes to one day become an MLB general manager. To put him on track, he was connected with Theo Epstein, a Yale alum and the architect of two curse-breaking World Series titles in Boston and Chicago, and Ohman has picked his brain.

For now, he’s focused on pitching. While he might pinch hit or enter games as a defensive replacement, most of his work will continue to be on the mound. Yale and Columbia are the favorites to win the Ivy League. Individual expectations are high for Ohman too. He was a consensus preseason All-American and landed on the Golden Spikes Award preseason watch list. He plans on throwing a kick change, a pitch he added to his arsenal last season, more often. Wojick called the pitch “a game changer.”

Last week’s returns were promising. On Friday, he’ll pitch at Pepperdine, his father’s alma mater, in front of his family again. And he’ll do it in a Yale uniform.

“My goal for this season is to prove that I developed last year as a pitcher,” Ohman said. “I’m so much better. I’m a lot better pitcher now than I was a year ago — as I should be.”

Transfer rumors, news: Man United, Chelsea, PSG watch Genk trio

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Arsenal are looking to sign Newcastle United winger Anthony Gordon ahead of Liverpool and Manchester United, while scouts from clubs including Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United and Paris Saint-Germain watched three young Racing Genk stars play on Thursday. Join us for the latest transfer news and rumors from around the globe.

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TRENDING RUMORS

– Belgian side Racing Genk drew 3-3 with Dinamo Zagreb in the Europa League on Thursday and 23 scouts from some of Europe’s top clubs were in the stadium to watch their top talent, says Belgian outlet Sporza. While 18-year-old star midfielder Konstantinos Karetsas was injured, Zakaria El Ouahdi (24), Yaimar Medina (21) and Matte Smets (22) were on the agenda for Chelsea, Ajax, Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle, Napoli, Borussia Dortmund and PSG.

Arsenal are ahead of Liverpool and Manchester United in the race to sign Newcastle United winger Anthony Gordon, according to The Sun. The Gunners believe the 25-year-old would be happy to move to London, with a fee of around £75 million expected to be enough, despite the Magpies demanding £95 million to sign the England international. Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta is a long-time admirer of Gordon, although signing him could see Brazil winger Gabriel Martinelli leave the Emirates.

– Liverpool and Chelsea are showing serious interest in Nottingham Forest center back Murillo, as reported by TEAMtalk. A summer move is increasingly likely for the 23-year-old if an offer of over £60 million is made, and the Blues are leading the chase as they have conducted extensive groundwork in the last 12 months. Manchester United have shown interest more recently, while Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur are also monitoring the situation. In Europe, Bayern Munich have a major interest, and Real Madrid and Barcelona have previously been linked.

Dusan Vlahovic is prioritizing a move to Barcelona, with the Juventus striker preparing to become a free agent when his contract expires in the summer, according to TEAMtalk. Negotiations regarding a contract renewal have repeatedly stalled, despite the 26-year-old maintaining a positive relationship with the Serie A club. That has resulted in widespread interest in the Serbia international as Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea, AC Milan, Bayern Munich, Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid, Internazionale and Roma have all been linked.

Victor Osimhen wants to move to Juventus, but negotiations are difficult because Galatasaray would have to pay Napoli a penalty of up to €70 million if they offload the Nigeria striker to a Serie A club, as reported by Gazzetta dello Sport. The clause lasts two years and would drop to €50 million in the second of those, but it currently makes signing the 27-year-old an “impossible dream” for Juve.

EXPERT TAKE

ESPN’s Sam Tighe on a possible move to Arsenal for Newcastle’s Anthony Gordon.

The left wing is an obvious area for Arsenal to target in the transfer market this year. Gabriel Martinelli has struggled to kick on and take that next step, Leandro Trossard is a good option but isn’t that top-level gamebreaker, while manager Mikel Arteta has seemingly designated Ebere Eze as a central attacking midfielder — not a wide man.

The easiest way to elevate this team is to target a top player in this position, and there’s a case that Gordon fits the bill. He’s scored 10 Champions League goals this year, is a regular fixture for England and, crucially, has blazing speed: He’s hit 36.1 km/h this term, per Gradient Sports, a mark that tops all other Premier League players.

The concern here, understandably, should be the fee. After very few of the nine players who transferred between English clubs for £50 million or more this term have proved anything close to good value (so far), £75 million or more takes things up another notch. Gordon would have to be spectacular to prove worth that sort of outlay.

OTHER RUMORS

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– Atletico Madrid forward Antoine Griezmann is one step away from joining MLS club Orlando City. (L’Equipe)

– Manchester City’s Rodri is the midfielder Real Madrid want to sign this summer. The club will evaluate Rodri’s physical condition between now and the end of the season, with City likely to expect a fee of around €50 million. (Ramon Alverez de Mon).

– Newcastle are looking at Brighton & Hove Albion goalkeeper Bart Verbruggen and Manchester City’s James Trafford as they aim to sign a long-term successor for Nick Pope. (iNews)

– Aston Villa and Fulham are among the Premier League clubs interested in Manchester United attacking midfielder Mason Mount. (Football Insider)

– Napoli will trigger the €16.5 million option in their loan deal for Alisson Santos to permanently sign the winger from Sporting CP. (Gazzetta dello Sport)

– Chelsea are willing to let Liam Delap leave with Everton among the Premier League clubs interested in the striker. (Football Insider)

– Borussia Dortmund and one Saudi Pro League club have asked for information on Benjamin Pavard, with the France defender no longer in the plans of Internazionale or loan club Marseille. (Nicolo Schira)

– Juventus are already looking at options to offload Jonathan David in the summer having been left unsatisfied by the striker’s performances. (Nicolo Schira)

– Backup goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili is seriously considering requesting to leave Liverpool on loan in the summer. (TEAMtalk)

– Newcastle United are interested in Wolverhampton Wanderers left back Hugo Bueno after being approached by his agent. (Football Insider)

– AC Milan are willing to listen to offers for left back Pervis Estupinan amid interest from Bologna, LaLiga and the Premier League. (Calciomercato)

– Newcastle United are monitoring 21-year-old Royale Union Saint-Gilloise winger Anan Khalaili. (Daily Mail)

– Two Premier League clubs are interested in Club Brugge midfielder Aleksandar Stankovic, but the 20-year-old dreams of Internazionale triggering their clause to re-sign him. (Nicolo Schira)

Michail Antonio is set to sign a short-term deal with Qatar Stars League club Al Sailiya to play the final six games of their season. (BBC)

– There are clubs hoping to sign Mauro Icardi as a free agent in the summer, but the striker’s agent will hold a meeting with Galatasaray in April to decide his future. (Nicolo Schira)

– Lens and some English clubs are looking at Al Fayha forward Fashion Sakala, who will be a free agent in the summer. (Rudy Galetti)

– Former West Ham center back Kurt Zouma is in advanced talks to join UAE Pro League side Al Wasl on a free transfer. (Fabrizio Romano)