What’s bothered me, though, is how its backers have anchored their messaging around a lot of misleading generalizations about the state of college sports.
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Stewart Mandel,
New York Times,
14 Sep. 2026
At that public meeting, several parents said Adams should have been fired for misleading them and misrepresenting the condition of the Earl Warren ATP facilities.
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Marsha Sutton,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Sep. 2026
The Bucs couldn’t ask for a better bounce-back opponent after dropping their opener in Cincy, a somewhat deceiving result because of all the Baker Mayfield turnovers.
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Hank Gola,
New York Daily News,
18 Sep. 2026
The public deserves to know which of his points were defensible and which were deceiving.
But the current state of geopolitics appears to be distorting what being open means.
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Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
19 Aug. 2026
China’s aircraft engineers have warned that artificial intelligence could feed false data into military intelligence, potentially distorting the design and operation of advanced weapons.
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Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Aug. 2026
Just as O’Malley and Rahill’s work is infatuated with toxic masculinity and fratty hopecore, Bensinger’s is obsessed with sheepish dude-empaths hiding beneath layers of uneasy bravado.
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Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
21 Sep. 2026
The pursuit eventually led officers into the forest outside Sacramento, where 44-year-old Derek Spencer held them at bay by hiding and firing from behind a berm until he was shot and killed, authorities said.
The judge in Lindsay Clancy's high-profile Massachusetts murder trial has extended his order concealing the names of jurors in the case.
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Matt Schooley,
CBS News,
15 Sep. 2026
The Quebec duo’s face-concealing masks, geometrical hats and polka-dot fashion schemes might scream novelty, but its virtuosic, largely instrumental fare is the genuine article.
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