A man bet $110 on an NFL game and thought he had turned it into $82,610. FanDuel refused to pay, blamed a technical glitch, and offered him $500 and tickets to three New York Giants games instead. – Anthony Prince from Newark, New Jersey, was watching the Denver Broncos play the Oakland Raiders in September 2018. – With just over a minute left, the Broncos were trailing 19-17 but had moved into range of a potential game-winning field goal. – FanDuel was updating its live betting odds as the game unfolded. – But something went wrong. – For approximately 18 seconds, FanDuel’s system displayed the Broncos at 750-to-1 odds to win the game. – Prince spotted the odds and placed a $110 bet on Denver. – At those odds, his betting ticket showed a potential payout of $82,610. – Other bettors reportedly managed to place similar bets during the same brief window. – Then the Broncos kicked a field goal with six seconds remaining and won the game 20-19. – Prince had picked the winning team. He went to collect his money. – But FanDuel refused to honor the $82,610 payout, saying a technical error had generated incorrect odds. – According to FanDuel, the Broncos should have been heavy favorites at that point, not 750-to-1 underdogs. – Instead of paying the amount printed on his ticket, the company offered Prince around $500 and tickets to three Giants games. – Prince rejected the offer and said he planned to get a lawyer involved. – New Jersey gambling regulators began examining the incident, raising questions about how the sportsbook’s system had produced such wildly incorrect odds. – With prediction markets, payouts are governed by the contracts traders agree to and the rules for resolving them. – FanDuel initially stood by its decision, arguing that its rules allowed it to correct obvious pricing errors. – But the story attracted widespread media attention, and the company consulted with state gambling regulators. – On September 20, FanDuel reversed its decision and announced it would pay Prince the full amount, along with other customers affected by the same glitch. – The company acknowledged that the error had spoiled the experience for its customers and said it would honor the erroneous tickets. He risked $110 and appeared to win $82,610 in the final seconds of an NFL game. FanDuel blamed a glitch and offered him $500 and football tickets instead. But after regulators got involved and the story made headlines, the company changed its mind and agreed to pay him the full amount.

The majority of Americans like the cheesecake factory. It's a very profitable business. People go there on dates, for family meals, and to hang out. A good speechwriter or strategist would know this.

The guy in the cowboy hat next to LeBron spends about $500,000 a year on courtside seats, and he pays for it with rent from retirees who can't take their homes and leave. His name is James Goldstein. He's been to more than 5,000 NBA games, and he owns trailer parks in Southern California. Here's the thing about trailer parks most people never think about. You own your home, but you rent the little patch of dirt it sits on. And "mobile" homes almost never move. The Supreme Court looked at this back in 1992 and noted that only about 1 in 100 ever gets moved once it's set down. Moving one can eat a huge chunk of what the house is even worth, and a lot of parks won't accept older homes anyway. So if the landlord raises your lot rent, you can pay it, or you can walk away from a house you own outright. That's basically the whole business model. It's why more than 100 cities and counties in California put rent control on mobile home parks, and it's why Goldstein has spent decades fighting them in court. In 2006 he bought Colony Cove, a park for seniors in Carson, for about $23 million, most of it borrowed. The next year he asked the city to let him raise rent $618 a month per lot. The city said no. He's sued Carson at least eight times since, including a $78 million claim a state judge threw out. A federal jury gave him $3.3 million in 2016, and an appeals court took it back two years later. In Palm Springs he tried something smarter. He moved to break his El Dorado park into individually owned lots, which can knock out local rent control and leave residents choosing between buying the ground under their own house or paying market rent. The city paid him $937,500 to settle, and the appeals ruling from that fight gave park owners all over California a legal path to do the same thing. It took a new state law in 2013 to let cities block those conversions when residents don't want them. To give him his due, Goldstein argues rent control is unfair to owners, and when it comes to apartments a lot of economists would back him up. Trailer parks are where that argument gets a lot harder to make, because leaving means hauling your house down the freeway. Now do the math on that 2007 raise. $618 a month comes out to about $7,400 a year per lot. The raise on roughly 67 lots would pay for an entire season of his courtside seats.

This is a delicacy in my country

It's over. The higher ed dam has broken: Clemson is offering a voluntary separation program (VSP) to 452 eligible faculty and staff. Eligible employees who accept the offer will receive a lump-sum payment equal to nine months of their base pay.

1/ Trump called “tariff” the most beautiful word in the dictionary. He somehow made it the most hated word in politics. He has thus endangered would could have been a legacy-defining shift in American trade policy. My column: wsj.com/economy/trade/how-ta…

Collapsing while “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” is playing. Can’t make this stuff up. @BGHockeyFans

“The Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders are unionizing” via @NBCNews nbcnews.com/sports/football/…

No matter the sport, Michigan loves to beat Western Michigan with no time on the clock.

TKO could reportedly suffer $70–$90 million in financial losses if Crown Jewel is canceled, equivalent to approximately a quarter of its quarterly profits. (h/t @PWMania)

This is not bad news for humans in the journal review process: used right, LLMs can provide editors and reviewers with more information, and allow more reasoned judgment with less drudgery. Might also help the dire straits many journals are in wrt recruiting reviewers

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As of now, the plan is to go ahead with Crown Jewel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, despite all the security alerts. (PWlnsider)

“I don’t have a clue what I am doing, but I’m doing it anyway.” (arxiv.org/abs/2610.28575)

Lea Michele will return as Rachel Berry for the ‘GLEE’ reboot. (Source: variety.com/2026/tv/news/lea…)

Churchill could have shortened WW2 by years if he had just “done a deal” with Hitler. George Washington could have done a deal to end the American Revolution. Zelenskyy is in good company.

Q: Ramaswamy put out a controversial ad featuring his opponent's mother. Do you think the ad was appropriate?  Vance: Whether the ad was appropriate or not is not really my concern. I am a little bit disgusted when I see Republicans across the country who are whining more about that ad… My message to my fellow elected Republicans: stop whining about an ad