Sept. 30--An appeals court panel upheld a federal judge's ruling that the NCAA "is not above antitrust laws" but still will allow it to limit athletes' compensation. So even if it isn't above antitrust law, the college sports cartel can keep running around it.
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has offered tax breaks to ConAgra, whose CEO lives in Winnetka, to relocate its headquarters from Omaha to Chicago. It's part of this state's campaign to subsidize companies for doing things they want to do anyway.
Heard about the latest Facebook hoax? Some people who click "like" are actually ambivalent.
The new film "The Walk," based on the Oscar-winning 2008 documentary "Man on Wire," will soon be followed into theaters by "Our Brand is Crisis," a fictionalization of a 2005 documentary of the same name. Hollywood people love true stories the way they love aging faces.
Because selfies apparently figure in more fatalities than shark attacks, maybe Steven Spielberg should consider an updated version of "Jaws." He could call it "Close Encounters of the Worst Kind."
Ralph Lauren will relinquish his CEO role but remain executive chairman and chief creative officer of his eponymous fashion and home decor empire. No need for a golden parachute when you can wrap yourself in something timeless and tasteful that evokes country estates and old money.
DraftKings, one of the sites enabling people to gamble on how NFL players perform, has signed a deal with the league's players union so NFL players can perform in its ads. Now, when "fantasy" bettors throw money away on a player, DraftKings can throw money at the same guy.
This NFL Players Association deal with DraftKings would have seemed unlikely not long ago. Seriously? How is it possible for there to be more fantasy ads?
The Center for Nonverbal Studies, a private nonprofit research enterprise dedicated to the study of human communication in all forms apart from language, opened 18 years ago Thursday in Spokane, Wash. But that goes without saying.
philrosenthal@tribpub.com
