📰 Labour

The Athletic

The Athletic assesses an awful Halloween weekend of Big Ten football and what it means for the conference's College Football Playoff hopes.

College sport · Labour

The Athletic

Further reading from the day's section on What I'm reading next.

College sport · Labour

Business Insider

Microsoft offered voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees, roughly 27% of its workforce, on standard severance terms.

Private equity · Labour

AP

The Dallas Cowboys agreed to recognize a union for their cheerleaders after years of pay disputes.

Labour

The Athletic

LIV golfers owed about $100 million are appealing to Saudi Arabia's PIF for severance after a two-cents-on-the-dollar offer.

Labour

Front Office Sports

The NFL and players' union are discussing an investigation into how the Eagles handled Jalen Hurts's blood clots.

Labour

The Athletic

The NWSL dropped its Rodman Rule criteria in a settlement resolving several players' union grievances.

Women's sport · Regulation · Labour

The Athletic

The Athletic argues college football's audience can absorb playoff expansion while soccer's is still being built.

College sport · Labour

Sports Media Watch

ESPN is reportedly close to keeping exclusive rights to a 24-team College Football Playoff for over $300 million a year more.

College sport · Labour

The Athletic

A 24-team College Football Playoff would pull many winning teams out of the bowl system, leaving historic bowls struggling to survive.

College sport · Labour

Front Office Sports

An expanded playoff could raise pressure on coaches and keep buyouts, estimated at $185 million in 2026, at staggering levels.

Private equity · Labour

Business Insider

Peter Kafka argues Netflix's deepest layoffs in years don't fix its core engagement problem.

Labour

The Athletic

The Athletic's Week 7 projections have a new, shaky top seed, with two SEC powerhouses out of the bracket.

College sport · Labour

The Wall Street Journal

Netflix cut about 1,000 jobs, roughly 6% of staff, in its biggest layoffs since 2022.

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The Washington Post

Union ironworker Brian Poindexter's toss-up race in Ohio shows how hard it is for working-class candidates to run for Congress.

Labour

CBS Sports

SEC presidents adopted uniform NIL and revenue-sharing contracts, though without the antitrust protection of union-bargained deals.

Antitrust · Labour

The Athletic

The Dream moved WNBA Finals games to the larger State Farm Arena, working around a concert and Hawks games.

Women's sport · Labour

Front Office Sports

ESPN analyst Josh Pate criticized a proposed 24-team College Football Playoff as an ATM for bad decision-making.

College sport · Labour

Variety

Netflix may cut about 5 percent of its workforce after acknowledging slower growth.

Labour

CBS Sports

The CFP is set to give ESPN its asking price for a 24-team playoff, with a format decision due December 1.

College sport · Labour

Front Office Sports

The three non-Dodgers LCS teams have a combined tax payroll below the Dodgers' alone, undercutting owners' salary-cap argument.

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TheWrap

NPR's chief content officer told the newsroom a reorganization is coming without job losses.

Press freedom · Labour

The Athletic

CFP expansion talks have moved quickly toward 24 teams ahead of an ESPN rights deadline.

College sport · Labour

Front Office Sports

The CFP's executive director told Front Office Sports a 24-team playoff would be spectacular.

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Adweek

Skydance now controls Paramount and WBD with about $80 billion in debt, and layoffs are coming.

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Front Office Sports

MLB owners are proposing a shorter regular season and expanded playoffs as labor talks continue.

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Front Office Sports

The referees' union will contest the NFL's suspensions of two officials over conduct toward players in Week 4.

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CBS Sports

The CFP is weighing expansion from 12 to 24 teams, though a 2027 start remains uncertain.

College sport · Labour

Status

After cutting more than 90 union jobs across 17 papers, McClatchy has offered staff almost no explanation while promoting new hires for its A.I. content lab.

Labour · AI

Status

Status's earlier reporting on the union fight over McClatchy's push to use A.I. in its newsrooms.

Press freedom · Labour · AI

BBC Sport

A players' union official blamed commercial fixture congestion for the injury list building through the international window.

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Front Office Sports

Atlanta announced 30,127 in a 41,417-seat park and Houston 34,011 against a 40,963 capacity for Tuesday's afternoon wild-card games.

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Deadline

NBCUniversal holds exclusive MLB wild-card rights under a three-year, $600 million deal across NBC, NBC Sports Network and Peacock.

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Bleacher Report

The NHL moves to an 84-game season with mandatory cut-resistant neck protection, playoff cap enforcement, shorter maximum contracts and a ban on deferred salaries.

Labour

The Athletic

Further reading from the day's section on Player Power and the Sports Business.

Labour

Front Office Sports

The league's first season under its new collective bargaining agreement set records for both attendance and viewership.

Women's sport · Labour

NHL.com

The brand becomes an official NHL beer sponsor across the Stanley Cup Playoffs, Winter Classic, All-Star Game and Stadium Series.

Stadium financing · Labour

The Athletic

Michigan-Iowa, Penn State-Wisconsin, Oregon-USC and Washington-Minnesota will clarify the Big Ten's Playoff picture.

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Front Office Sports

Alabama's athletic director says a 24-team College Football Playoff looks inevitable, with a decision on the 2027 format due by December 1.

College sport · Labour

The Athletic

A ranking of the aces and closers each playoff contender will lean on in October.

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The Athletic

A nor'easter projected to hit Boston late this week could disrupt the Cubs-Red Sox series and several playoff games.

Venture capital · Labour

Front Office Sports

Field temperatures on Nashville's artificial turf reached 157 degrees on Sunday, strengthening the union's case for natural grass in the 14 NFL stadiums that use turf.

Stadium financing · Labour

Business Insider

New CFO Hilary Maxson made the remarks a day after Oracle began a fresh round of layoffs.

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Business Insider

Six laid-off employees told Business Insider AI became a bigger part of their roles in the months before the layoffs, sometimes replacing substantial parts of their jobs.

Labour · AI

Defector

The WNBA's Miami Sol folded in 2002 despite good attendance and a playoff appearance after the Heat declined to fund the team under a league restructuring.

Women's sport · Labour

Front Office Sports

Two low-payroll clubs clinched first, giving the players' union an argument that a hard salary cap is not needed for competitive balance.

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Front Office Sports

The WNBA players' union called it deeply disappointing that the NBA left the group off a joint letter to state betting regulators.

Women's sport · Regulation · Labour

Front Office Sports

Allowed contract terms shorten by a year once the new collective bargaining agreement takes effect at midnight.

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