An outstanding third game. And Emma Hayes seems to have the team on schedule. So great.

USA 3-0 Japan (Apr 17, 2026) Final Score - ESPN

Pope Leo XIV enters to the Chicago Bulls’ Anthem YouTube video by palenkeflux

The algorithm is being influenced by the news cycle

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Student-Visa Denials Are Up One in three applicants was refused a visa in 2025, new data show.

These numbers are scary. 60% of student visas applicants from India are rejected? Denial rates were 64 percent in Africa and 41 percent in Asia. However, less than 10 percent of European applicants didn’t get a visa. Dumb, racist, and bad for America.

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In any event, a lot to unpack (and fun), which is of course what antitrust lawyers and economists do. And it's not all that's going on. Many complain American is much less profitable than United and Delta. Probably not a "failing firm," but the current market may not be as stable as it appears.

Chicago is probably not the only place to be considered. LAX, LGA, and DCA (on first look) also seem to have significant United/American overlap (though Delta seems to have much more LGA and DCA than at ORD). And EWR is much closer to LGA and IAD to DCA than MKE to ORD/MDW.

But int'l brings in non-US carriers, such as the Gulf carriers, and whether it's relevant to definition that consumers might have to book a trip on two airlines. And Chicago might be not just ORD and MDW, but also MKE.

If one relevant submarket is carriers with comprehensive US and int'l networks, then Southwest drops out, and the merger is from 3 to 2 players. If another relevant submarket is Chicago, where United and American together have about 80% of the ORD gates, Southwest's Midway presence comes back in.

United-American mega deal could raise fares and face antitrust roadblock A potential deal between United ​Airlines and American Airlines would create an industry behemoth and invite extraordinary scrutiny from regulators, labor unions and consumer advocates, all wary of hi...

Hard to imagine this going through (though perhaps not as hard as in other times), but the various market definition issues would be incredibly fun. One interesting Chicago-centric illustration is how to treat Southwest. www.reuters.com/business/uni...

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Tell me you practiced law *before becoming an academic,* without telling me you practiced law.

Hegseth Invokes Divine Purpose to Justify Military Might

The US was sort of founded on the idea that “divine right” was bullshit, yes?

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Almost a surprise there is no order that we all watch.

Preserving America's Game By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

Now the FCC will take away broadcast licenses if stations show any college football game at the same time as the Army Navy game?? (sec. 2b) Not on my bingo card, even in this crazed time for media law. Naturally, the FCC has no authority to do so.
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Stuck in an hours-long security line at the airport?

It’s because Senate Republicans blocked Democrats’ bill to fund DHS agencies that don’t conduct immigration enforcement, like TSA.

That’s how dead set they are on allowing ICE to keep terrorizing communities with impunity. Remember this.

Although I disagree with most of it, I think it's one of the most important pieces in ad law. Except for the part where he says nothing will ever change. Even he couldn't see the Court swinging as far as it has.

Serious suggestion: Read Gary Lawson, The Rise and Rise of the Administrative State, Harv L Rev 1994. It will give you the mood/vibe/meta of the current supermajority, in terms of what they think they are fighting against and what they are doing. The current pieces will make a lot more sense, imo.

It's a Twain paradox: The more you review their explanation, the less you understand it. It's not you. I walk students all the way through the cases that the Court cites and it just doesn't add up.

all of this *increases* participation in the labor market. This is just another attempt to intimidate law firms.

firms have any market power in a relevant economic market, with 42 firms getting the letter and there being 400,000 firms and 1.2 million lawyers in the U.S. Fourth, this is the same (and even more innocent than) the NFL's Rooney Rule. And, if anything, ...

Here's what I said about this meritless letter to the American Lawyer. First, the letter does not specify the alleged agreement. Second, the agreement, if any, cannot be per se, like the no poach agreements. Third, there is no possibility that the Mansfield ...
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Billboard Staff’s Greatest Pop Stars of 2025: No. 1 — Bad Bunny Bad Bunny is the Billboard staff's No. 1 Greatest Pop Star of 2025 for his 'Debí Tirar Más Fotos' album, concert residency and all-around greatness.

Having Bad Bunny is just good business, and the NFL knows that. He’s bigger than anyone. www.billboard.com/music/pop/ba...

No colorable allegations of an agreement. No allegations of market power of the 360 participating law firms.

The FTC Chair comes for Diversity Lab and law firms participating in Mansfield Certification. The Chair's letter suggests collusion, but wouldn't survive a motion to dismiss in any court.
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CFB buzz: What we're hearing about playoff expansion, conference title games and bowls Multiple playoff scenarios are on the table ahead of critical meetings this week.

The only thing we learned from the last round of expansion is that there are alread too many teams in the playoff www.espn.com/college-foot...

Not that I'm aware of, but I only knew of this by happenstance.

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Courier has not been the same since the LaserJet III model was retired--or really since the Selectric II. I will die on this hill.

Next up, Cannonball Run and then Gumball Rally??

Agree. A central part of Fred Schauer's argument in "Thinking like a Lawyer" iirc.

Doctor, it hurts when I do this ….