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You Thought Kalshi Was Competing With FanDuel. You Might Be Trading Against FanDuel.

Sep 11, 2026

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8 min read

You Thought Kalshi Was Competing With FanDuel. You Might Be Trading Against FanDuel.

One of America’s largest sportsbooks is reportedly supplying liquidity to Kalshi. That does not turn a prediction market into a sportsbook—but it reveals how quickly the two industries are beginning to converge.

Jesse Wilde
Jesse Wilde
Reaction Videos Have a Fair-Use Problem. The DMCA Has a Process Problem.

Sep 11, 2026

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9 min read

Reaction Videos Have a Fair-Use Problem. The DMCA Has a Process Problem.

Anime creators are fighting mass copyright takedowns on YouTube. The harder question is not simply whether reaction videos are fair use—it is who gets to decide before a creator’s business disappears.

Jesse Wilde
Jesse Wilde
$227 Million Cleared. $67 Million Didn’t. NIL’s New Gatekeeper Is Starting to Take Shape.

Sep 11, 2026

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6 min read

$227 Million Cleared. $67 Million Didn’t. NIL’s New Gatekeeper Is Starting to Take Shape.

The College Sports Commission is no longer an experiment on paper. New NIL Go data shows an institution making thousands of decisions about what athlete compensation is legitimate, what it is worth, and where NIL ends and pay-for-play begins.

Jesse Wilde
Jesse Wilde
Underdog Just Sued Five States. The Prediction-Market War Is No Longer Kalshi’s Fight.

Sep 11, 2026

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7 min read

Underdog Just Sued Five States. The Prediction-Market War Is No Longer Kalshi’s Fight.

Five federal lawsuits turn a company-specific regulatory battle into a broader test of whether sports businesses can choose federal derivatives law over state gambling regulation.

Jesse Wilde
Jesse Wilde
A Judge Just Bought LIV More Time. The Players Still Hold the Key.

Sep 11, 2026

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4 min read

A Judge Just Bought LIV More Time. The Players Still Hold the Key.

LIV Golf can now tap $14 million in bankruptcy financing and keep the lights on. But Chapter 11 can fund the restructuring—it cannot make the golfers agree to it.

Jesse Wilde
Jesse Wilde
Breaking the NBA’s Salary Cap Isn’t a Federal Crime. So Why Is DOJ Investigating the Clippers?

Sep 11, 2026

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7 min read

Breaking the NBA’s Salary Cap Isn’t a Federal Crime. So Why Is DOJ Investigating the Clippers?

The NBA has already found that the Clippers used third-party business relationships to generate off-court income for Kawhi Leonard. Federal prosecutors need something different—and that distinction is where this case becomes much more interesting.

Jesse Wilde
Jesse Wilde
One Eligibility Rule, Different Courts, Different Answers

Sep 10, 2026

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6 min read

One Eligibility Rule, Different Courts, Different Answers

Georgia’s latest five-for-five ruling gives the NCAA another appellate win—and shows why college eligibility is becoming a courthouse-by-courthouse system.

Jesse Wilde
Jesse Wilde
The NCAA Appealed. Arizona’s Players Went to State Court Instead.

Sep 10, 2026

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7 min read

The NCAA Appealed. Arizona’s Players Went to State Court Instead.

Mahdi and Harris won federal relief, lost it on appeal, and then found another courthouse. Their case shows why NCAA eligibility litigation is becoming a race against the season.

Jesse Wilde
Jesse Wilde
LIV Golf Spent Billions Buying Players. Bankruptcy May Let It Rewrite the Deals.

Sep 10, 2026

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16 min read

LIV Golf Spent Billions Buying Players. Bankruptcy May Let It Rewrite the Deals.

Chapter 11 does not simply erase Jon Rahm’s or Bryson DeChambeau’s contracts. But it gives LIV a powerful tool to convert guaranteed obligations into bankruptcy claims—and then ask the same golfers to come back as owners.

Jesse Wilde
Jesse Wilde
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