NBA: New 11-year media rights deal with Disney, NBC and Amazon worth $76B
Under the deal, the 2024-25 NBA season will be the last for TNT after a nearly four-decade run, but a legal fight could be in the works.
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Pacers agree to 3-year, $59M deal with Nembhard, source says
The second-year guard started 47 games in 2024-25, most playing alongside All-Star point guard Tyrese Haliburton. He averaged 9.2 points and 4.1 assists.
WNBA All-Star Game smashes viewership record
The game was the third-most viewed WNBA event ever and the drew the largest audience for the league since its first two nationally televised games in 1997.
CrowdStrike blames bug for letting bad data slip through, leading to global tech outage
The outage caused days of widespread technological havoc, highlighting how much of the world depends on a few key providers of computing services and drawing the attention of regulators who want more details on what went wrong.
Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament returning to Indianapolis
The semifinals and championship game of the WBIT will be played in Hinkle Fieldhouse on the Butler University campus for the second straight year.
Attorney: Full settlement agreement of antitrust lawsuits involving NCAA expected to be filed Friday
The NCAA along with the Atlantic Coast Conference, Big Ten Conference, Big 12, Pac-12 and Southeastern Conference agreed on May 23 to the framework of a $2.77 billion settlement of multiple antitrust lawsuits that were challenging limits on college athlete compensation.
U.S. investigating Delta’s flight cancellations, response to global tech outage
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday announced the investigation into Delta’s response to the outage, which he said has affected more than half a million of the airline’s passengers.
Election officials fear Postal Service won’t be ready for ballot surge
State election directors from across the country voiced serious concerns to a top U.S. Postal Service official Tuesday that the system won’t be able to handle an expected crush of mail-in ballots in the November election.
Google makes abrupt U-turn by dropping plan to remove ad-tracking cookies on Chrome browser
Chrome is the world’s dominant web browser, and many others, including Microsoft’s Edge, are based on the company’s Chromium technology.
Secret Service director stepping down after assassination attempt against ex-President Trump at rally
Kimberly Cheatle’s resignation comes a day after she appeared before a congressional committee and was berated by hours by both Democrats and Republicans for the security failures.
Secret Service director, grilled by lawmakers on the Trump assassination attempt, says ‘we failed’
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said Monday that her agency failed in its mission to protect former President Donald Trump, as lawmakers of both major political parties demanded during a highly contentious congressional hearing that she resign.
CrowdStrike CEO called to testify to Congress over cybersecurity firm’s role in global tech outage
The scope of the disruptions has also caught the attention of government regulators, including antitrust enforcers, though it remains to be seen if they take action against the company.
NASCAR’s restart rules questioned after Larson takes advantage of unusual Brickyard 400 finish
Ryan Blaney thought he was perfectly positioned to win the Brickyard 400 on Sunday, but the restart rule worked against him.
Airlines says cancellations continue as they try to recover from tech outage
Total cancellations within, into or out of the U.S. on Sunday clocked in at 1,461, according to the latest data from FlightAware.
Small businesses still dealing with tech outages created by CrowdStrike
Businesses from airlines to hospitals have been grappling with a faulty software update that caused technological havoc worldwide on Friday, and its repercussions continued through the weekend.
Trump’s campaign quickly pivots to Harris after Biden announces decision to leave the race
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign advocates spent weeks preparing for the possibility that Biden might exit the race, readying a bevy of attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris that they unleashed Sunday.
Kyle Larson races to his 1st Brickyard 400 victory, making a late charge through the field
Larson has won three of NASCAR’s crown jewel races, missing only the Daytona 500. And his return to Indy was every bit as exciting as it was in May.
What happens next: Biden wants to pass the baton to Harris. Here’s how that might work
The path ahead is neither easy nor obvious, even with President Joe Biden endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris. There are unanswered questions about logistics, money and political fallout.
Biden drops out of presidential race, endorses Harris as successor
President Joe Biden’s backing helps clear the way for Vice President Kamala Harris, but a smooth transition is by no means assured.
NIT to hold 2025 men’s semifinals, championship at Hinkle Fieldhouse
Indianapolis is already set to host the NIT semifinals and final in 2026, along with the NCAA Division I, II and III men’s title games.