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GLP-1 Use Hits 11 Percent of U.S. Adults, Gallup Finds. Cost Drove Most of the Switch to Compounded Versions.
BYU-Arizona: The Spread Hit -7.5, Then Gave Ground. The Total Fell Three Points.
Ohio State-Texas: The Spread Never Left -1.5. The Total Climbed Two Points.
The Falcons-Steelers Line Moved From -3 to -5.5/-6 After Tagovailoa Was Ruled Out
Oklahoma Closed -5.5 Over Michigan. The Home Underdog Won Outright, 17-10.
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Alcorn State's own roster has sophomore guard Kriston Edwards at 345 pounds — 90 pounds less than the number that's been repeated as fact since June.
Photo by Warren LeMay from Chicago, IL, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSocialism 2026's GLP-1 Backlash and a Marketing Campaign Both Ran on Black Voices. The Women With the Most at Stake Went Largely Unasked.
The panel's viral line checks out. What this desk couldn't find, in the coverage it could actually read, was a single Black woman quoted on the record.
Photo by Kushie In Vietnam on PexelsThe Rams Closed -3.5 Over the 49ers in Melbourne. San Francisco Won by 20.
The line that moved off a Myles Garrett trade and Aaron Donald's return held at -3.5 through kickoff. The 49ers then won the season opener outright, 27-7.
Photo courtesy of the Ebony Williams for Judge campaignEbony Williams Couldn’t Afford Housing After Law School. Now She’s on the Ballot for the Court That Hears Eviction Appeals.
The Houston attorney unseated a two-term incumbent by 33 points in March, campaigning on one idea: that people who show up without a lawyer should be able to understand what is happening to them.
Photo by Joaquin Carfagna on PexelsKING Folded in 2009. Smooth Didn't. The Difference Was the Ad Market.
KING folded in 2009 when ad revenue collapsed, not its curvier covers. Smooth, founded in 2002, is still around — just not as a magazine.
Photo by kaboompics.com on PexelsMeta's $17.1 Billion Settlement Bans Filters and Like Counts. The Algorithm We Reported On Gets an Opt-Out, Not a Fix.
The settlement bans cosmetic filters and restricts like counts for teens. It doesn't require Meta to change what its algorithm recommends by default.
Photo by Mikhail Nilov on PexelsCigna Stopped Covering Its Own Employees' Weight-Loss Drugs in July. Starbucks Follows in October.
PepsiCo has made the same cut. The employer survey behind the trend traces to one source, and its own numbers don't quite match what's being repeated.
Photo by Journalist 2nd Class Zack Baddorf, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsA CFL Scout Is Posting His Offensive Line Notes in Public
Mike Rittelmann evaluates linemen for the Calgary Stampeders and the College Gridiron Showcase — and posts exactly what he's watching for on X.
Photo by jenaragon94, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMichelle Carter Took Shot Put Gold in Rio 2016. Her Father Took Silver in the Same Event, 32 Years Earlier.
Michael Carter took shot put silver in 1984. His daughter Michelle took gold in the same event 32 years later, the first American woman to do it.
Photo by Dustin D. on PexelsNew York City's Body-Size Discrimination Law Has Had Its First Court Test
A judge rejected the City's argument that telling a probation officer applicant to lose 95 pounds was a medical call. No decision on the merits has been published.
Photo by SounderBruce, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSeattle Opened Week 1 as a 4-Point Favorite Over New England. The Market Has Them at 3.5.
Seattle's Week 1 line drifted from -4 toward -3.5 over the summer — a move about roster uncertainty on both sides, not a forecast on the champion.
Photo by 4300streetcar, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsFirst Circuit: Obesity Alone Isn't a Disability Under the ADA's Insurance Rules
The appeals court upheld a health plan's exclusion of weight-loss drugs, ruling the plaintiff hadn't shown obesity limited a major life activity.
Photo by cottonbro studio on PexelsMeta's Own Research Found the Algorithm Feeds Struggling Teens More Body Content. What Happens to Plus-Size Content on the Same Platforms?
An internal Meta study reviewed by Reuters puts a number on it: three times the disordered-eating content for teens already feeling bad about their bodies.
The Pocket Monster Award: We Rank the Trenches, Not the Hype
Tackle, Guard and Center of the Week — every week, on tape alone, from the Power conferences to Division II. Then five of them take the Pocket Monster Award when the season ends.
Photo by Arina Krasnikova on PexelsOld Navy's Sales Slipped 4 Percent. Here's the Reason Gap Actually Gave — and the One It Didn't.
Gap's CEO called it Old Navy's first negative quarter in 11 quarters — outside counts differ. Neither the release nor the call mentioned size or GLP-1s.
Photo by Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsTwo Bills, Not One: What's Actually Pending in the New Jersey Assembly on Weight Discrimination
A companion bill this newsroom never reported has sat five months, and the sponsoring caucus's own vote count doesn't match the chamber's record.
Photo by Chris Pruitt, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsWeight Watchers Erased $1.15 Billion in Debt in 49 Days. Was It Really All Ozempic?
WW International wiped out $1.15 billion in debt in a 49-day bankruptcy last year and blamed GLP-1 drugs. Its own revenue had been falling since 2012.
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels352 Pounds, 12th Overall: Inside the NFL Line's Rising Size Floor
Kadyn Proctor weighed in at 352 pounds and still went in the draft's first round. Draft-weight data going back to 1974 shows why nobody blinked.
Photo by Artem Podrez on PexelsTwo Years After Stopping GLP-1s, Epic Says Most Patients Held. It Calculated "Stopping" From Refills.
Epic Research counted 188,722 patients as having stopped a GLP-1. Its two-year tirzepatide figure rests on 145 of them.
Photo by Blackcurrant Great on PexelsSouthwest Recommends Buying the Second Seat. It Doesn't Require It — and We Said Otherwise.
Our August 17 explainer said Southwest required buying a second seat in advance; its Customer of Size page recommends it. What we got wrong, and how we know.
Photo by Lucas Borges on PexelsEvery Clydesdale and Athena Title: The Milwaukee Nationals Results
Phillip Young won Clydesdale overall in all three Milwaukee races, August 7–9. The divisions' separate start wave ran in two of the three — and wasn't a first.
Photo by Haberdoedas Photography on PexelsThe Muscle Warning About GLP-1s Leaves Out What the Placebo Group Did
In SURMOUNT-1's body-composition substudy, about a quarter of the weight lost was lean mass — in the tirzepatide group and the placebo group alike.
Photo by RDNE Stock project on PexelsRetail's GLP-1 Forecast Assumes the Weight Stays Off. The Evidence Still Doesn't Agree.
The $5 billion forecast on falling plus-size demand came from a software vendor. The trial evidence and the real-world evidence answer different questions.
Photo by Antony-22, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsWeight Discrimination Bills Keep Passing One Chamber and Dying in the Other
Michigan enacted the only state ban in 1976. New Jersey's Senate has passed its own twice, and the Assembly has not voted on it either time.
Photo by cottonbro studio on PexelsDating Apps' New AI Photo Rules: What Tinder, Bumble and Hinge Actually Require
Tinder's face-matching check is now mandatory in eight markets. Bumble and Hinge have their own rules — and none of the three mention body size.
Photo by Thomas on PexelsSouthwest's Customer of Size Policy, Explained: What Changed Twice in Four Months
Southwest tightened its extra-seat rule in January, then partly reversed it in May after backlash. Here is what the airline's own policy says today.
Photo by Mathias Reding on PexelsTarget's Plus-Size Selection Fell 37 Percent in a Year, as Old Navy's Slid Too
Extended sizes fell 37 percent at Target and 12 percent at Old Navy over the past year, as GLP-1 drug use climbed toward 10 million Americans in 2025.
Photo by Julia Larson on PexelsBuilt from the Ground Up: The Gyms and Gear Actually Designed for Bigger Bodies
A Portland gym rates its equipment to 500 pounds. An activewear brand fit-tests every piece through size 42. Real design, not a resized afterthought.
AI Image Generators Almost Never Draw "Good" People as Fat, Study Finds
A peer-reviewed study of 4,000 DALL-E 3 images found positive words like "virtuous" rarely drew fat figures, while negative ones like "greedy" often did.
Photo by Sasha P on PexelsTorrid's Store Count Has Dropped From 632 to 463 in a Year
The largest plus-size specialty retailer closed more than a quarter of its stores since mid-2025, and its own filings show sales kept declining.
Photo by Gregorio Dorta Martin on PexelsUSA Triathlon's Clydesdale and Athena Racers Get Their Own Start Wave
At August's Milwaukee nationals, triathletes in the 220-plus and 165-plus-pound divisions left the line as their own start wave.
Photo by Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsNew Jersey Senate Passes Bill to Ban Height and Weight Discrimination
S1631 would add height and weight to the state's Law Against Discrimination, making New Jersey the second state to bar the practice outright.
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