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Thursday, October 1

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Brian Sugar

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Ogunbowale's 45 points was not a rescue mission, it was a referendum: the WNBA playoffs arrived Sunday with a viewership floor so high that even the consolation bracket holds the audience the league used to dream about. The sport stopped asking for permission to matter somewhere between the first round and the second. Ben Affleck's careful explanation of AI use on his new film signals the industry debate has already moved past whether and into the harder question of how.

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Fast & Furious TV Adaptation Ordered to Series by Peacock, Eyed for 2028 Premiere

Peacock greenlit a Fast & Furious TV series with a 2028 target, betting that the franchise's gravitational pull survives the leap from theatrical releases to streamer episodes.

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    'I'm a Cowboy': Porter hopes to make debut for Dallas on Sunday

    Joey Porter Jr. gets his Cowboys debut Sunday against Houston, the kind of defensive cornerstone move Dallas makes when it believes the window is now.

    ESPN
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    Michael Jordan's Ferrari 550 Maranello Sold for a Record $2.7 Million

    Michael Jordan's Ferrari sold for $2.7 million, more than double its estimate, because the collector market no longer separates the car from the icon attached to it.

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    There Is Precedent for Taylor Swift's 'Cleveland!' Making the World Go Crazy: Paul McCartney's 'Silly Love Songs' Era

    Taylor Swift's "Cleveland!" did what the internet mostly pretends to do, what it rarely executes, what McCartney's "Silly Love Songs" proved possible, it made monoculture briefly real again.

    Variety
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    Ronaldo's Portugal future in doubt after walkout

    Cristiano Ronaldo walked out on Portugal's training at 41, a move that reads less like a negotiation tactic and more like a player testing whether the sport still needs him more than he needs it.

    Yahoo Sports

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Sugar Rush is the daily commerce + culture brief from Sugar Capital, a seed-stage venture firm investing at the intersection of consumer, commerce, and culture.

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