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Newsweek
2 days ago
- Business
- Newsweek
MLB Could Limit Playoff Viewers With Apple TV+ Deal: Report
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Major League Baseball is enjoying strong growth this year, though a major aspect of the near future is in doubt. After ESPN announced it would be ending its partnership with MLB three years early, questions about how commissioner Rob Manfred would make up that revenue going forward have risen. "Major League Baseball is off to its best start in years," according to Lucas Shaw and Hannah Miller of Bloomberg, who reported that ESPN, TBS and Fox are all enjoying double-digit viewership lifts this year, while game attendance hit a seven-year high in 2024. "And yet, the league is scrambling to find a buyer for a major TV package that includes 30 regular season games, the Home Run Derby, the Wild Card playoff round and up to 10 spring training games." Without ESPN, MLB is left to scramble for a new partner to broadcast some of its most popular events, particularly the wild card playoff round. And it might have found that new partner in a broadcaster whose reach is not nearly as wide as ESPN's. NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 11: Rob Manfred, Commissioner, Major League Baseball speaks onstage during the Growing the Game panel, at the Fortune Global Forum on November 11, 2024 in New York City. (Photo... NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 11: Rob Manfred, Commissioner, Major League Baseball speaks onstage during the Growing the Game panel, at the Fortune Global Forum on November 11, 2024 in New York City. (Photo byfor Fortune Media) More Countess/Getty "Major League Baseball is close to announcing a new TV deal for the package that ESPN opted out of from 2026-2028, and a source indicates that Apple TV+ is currently the highest bidder," per Boston Red Sox reporter Sean McAdam of MassLive. "Baseball is, like most sports, out to make a deal for the most revenue possible, but if MLB puts an entire round of its postseason on a streaming service with just 45 million subscribers, it deserves all the grief it's going to catch." MLB and Apple TV+ recently partnered on a "Friday Night Baseball" package that gives the streamer exclusive rights to high-profile matchups each week. Those broadcasts can frustrate fans of the involved teams as they require a subscription to watch. But as Manfred seeks a profitable replacement for ESPN, he seems likely to move the package to whichever partner makes the highest offer. Soon, that could mean some of baseball fans' favorite moments will require a new subscription. More MLB: Phillies 'Bench Bat' Becomes One of Team's Best Pitchers Amid Downward Skid
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
What to know about Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen's kids
Tom Brady is a football legend who is also a proud father of three children. The former NFL quarterback shares two children, son Benjamin and daughter Vivian, with his ex-wife, Gisele Bündchen. Brady is also the father of son John "Jack" Edward Thomas Moynahan from a previous relationship with actress Bridget Moynahan. At the start of 2025, Brady shared a photo of his three kids on Instagram, writing, in part, "I couldn't have imagined a better way to ring in the new year than with the loves of my life. Reflecting on last year and thinking about the year ahead, there's no better perspective than looking at these three and always trying to be better for them each day, and helping to guide them in whatever way possible." The Super Bowl-winning quarterback spoke candidly about the difficulties of parenting at the 2024 Fortune Global Forum in New York City. "[People] in the room know that being a parent is probably the hardest job all of us have, and we screw up a lot, and I've screwed up a lot as a parent," Brady admitted, according to a clip shared on X. "So, I don't want to seem like I'm some expert in parenting, because I'm certainly not that." Brady went onto to say that he focuses on simply supporting his three kids, whom he described as "amazing." "I just try to be there. I try to just be dependable and consistent for them," he said, adding that he models his support after his parents, whom he said supported him early on when he was a backup quarterback. "And honestly, whatever our kids choose, as we know, to do whatever they want to do in life, we got to support." Bündchen and Brady announced their decision to divorce in 2022, after 13 years of marriage. Since then, Bündchen -- who welcomed her third child, a son, in 2025 -- has spoken openly about co-parenting with Brady. "It's natural that [they] have different rules and then kids just adapt," Bündchen told ABC News' Robin Roberts in an interview that aired in March. "I can only control what I do. There's easier days than others, but I think the kids -- they're super smart children. They know what they can get away with." Benjamin Rein Brady was born Dec. 8, 2009. The now-teenager was seen by his dad's side throughout his legendary NFL career and appears to have inherited his dad's football instincts. On Dec. 8, 2024, Brady marked Benjamin's birthday on Instagram, writing, in part, "I'm so proud of the young man you are... You're a student, artist, athlete, musician, and teammate… but most of all you're the best brother and son anyone could ask for. You pour so much into everything you do, and it shows in the way you inspire others around you." One of the photos Brady shared on Instagram to mark Benjamin's 14th birthday in 2023 showed the teen in a football uniform with the number 12, the same number Brady wore during his NFL career. Brady has said previously on his SiriusXM show, "Let's Go! With Tom Brady, Larry Fitzgerald and Jim Gray," that he practices "throwing the ball" to Benjamin in the backyard. "He's gonna be a little beast," Brady said, adding that Benjamin chose to play tight end instead of following in his dad's footsteps as quarterback. MORE: Tom Brady shares photos with kids Benjamin and Vivian at Walt Disney World In a separate Instagram post, Bündchen noted that Benjamin, her eldest child, now stands as tall as she does, writing, "One day your baby will stand as tall as you are. And you won't be ready for it." Bündchen told People magazine last September that at Benjamin's first football game, she heard from others about his kindness. "He just started, and his first game was so nice," she said. "It was nice to go because I had all the little friends come to me and be like, 'Oh my God, I love Benny. I love Vivi. They're so nice. He helped me with this.'" Vivian Lake Brady Vivian Lake Brady was born Dec. 5, 2012. MORE: Gisele Bündchen opens up about Tom Brady divorce, co-parenting and more: 'We are a team' Brady marked Vivian's 12th birthday in 2024 with a photo of her smiling and sweet note in the caption, calling her "my forever baby girl." "Watching you grow and chase after your dreams are the proudest moments of my life," he wrote. "Your love, compassion, and joy fill up every room that you're in, and will always make your daddy smile. You light up my life! ... Here's to a great day filled with all the laughter and love that you deserve. I love you infinity x infinity!!! ❤️❤️❤️." John "Jack" Edward Thomas Moynahan John "Jack" Edward Thomas Moynahan Brady was born Aug. 22, 2007, to Brady and Moynahan. Brady celebrated Jack on his 17th birthday in 2024, writing on Instagram, "Happy 17th birthday to the kindest, sweetest, most thoughtful 17-year-old, I know. You are truly a blessing in my life and I am so grateful to watch you mature into a young man." Throughout his childhood, he has split his time between his mom and Brady, who began dating Bündchen the same year Jack was born. Bündchen has referred to Jack as her "bonus son" and posted a tribute to him on Instagram last August to mark his 16th birthday. "I am so lucky to have you in my life and I will always be here for you no matter what! Love you so much!" she wrote then. Bündchen also described her co-parenting relationship with Moynahan as a "team," telling Vanity Fair in March, "I put myself in her shoes and I was like, 'How can I support her?' Because in the end of the day, we are team players in 'How are we going to do this so [Jack] can have the best life?'" Like his younger brother Benjamin, Jack is also an athlete, excelling at basketball, according to Brady's Instagram posts. What to know about Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen's kids originally appeared on
Forbes
30-04-2025
- Sport
- Forbes
NBA Announces Round 2 Schedule in the East with Notable Change This Year
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 11: Adam Silver, Commissioner, National Basketball Association speaks ... More onstage during the Growing the Game panel, at the Fortune Global Forum on November 11, 2024 in New York City. (Photo byfor Fortune Media) The Boston Celtics dispatched the Orlando Magic on Tuesday night at TD Garden. After a taxing 4-1 series, the reigning NBA champions earned nearly a week of needed rest before round 2. They'll await the winner of the first-round series between the New York Knicks and Detroit Pistons. The former, who returned home after taking both games in the Motor City, had a chance to join the Celtics in punching their ticket to the Eastern Conference Semifinals. However, Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden didn't go as the Knicks envisioned. With 2:57 left and New York trailing 97-95, the hosts subbed out Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart due to injuries. Not wanting to burn their final timeout, the two watched as an extended run without a stoppage in play unfolded. When they finally returned, 27 seconds remained, and the Pistons had seized a 103-97 lead. A pair of Cade Cunningham free throws with 5.1 seconds left sealed a 106-103 win for the visitors. Cunningham registered 24 points, eight rebounds and eight assists. Ausar Thompson provided 22 points and stellar defense, while Tobias Harris scored 17. Including regular season contests, Detroit is now 4-1 at the world's most famous arena in the 2024-25 campaign. But the Pistons have lost nine-straight home games in the playoffs, dating back to 2008. Interestingly enough, whether they snap that streak on Thursday at Little Caesars Arena has no bearing on when the winner of this series will start their second-round matchup vs. Boston. If a Game 7 at Madison Square Garden is required to determine who advances, it will take place on Saturday. Even if the Knicks end this series with a third consecutive victory in Detroit, round 2 against the Celtics won't start until Monday. That creates the possibility the NBA misses out on a weekend playoff game. That's a significant change in course from a year ago when the league took the opposite approach. If the Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Lakers rally from 3-1 series deficits, New York wins Game 6, and the Denver Nuggets eliminate the Los Angeles Clippers on Thursday, the NBA would either have to flex a matchup to Saturday or accept a weekend date without a playoff contest. As for the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Indiana Pacers, who have booked their ticket to the Eastern Conference semifinals, the schedule calls for their best-of-seven to start on Sunday in Cleveland. Here's a look at the NBA playoff schedules for the series' for the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs, courtesy of Jared Weiss of The Athletic.
Yahoo
19-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
The U.S. can't slash education funding and think it can compete with China
The trade deficit with China in the current tariff war is overshadowing another important shortfall — our country's education deficit with China. As the Trump administration threatens American universities, guts crucial research programs, slashes education spending and threatens to kill the Department of Education, Chinese leaders are steaming ahead to improve their vast nation's education standards and outcomes. And China is doing this with a laserlike focus on programs around science, technology, industrial innovation and AI. Meanwhile, the U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon confused the abbreviation for artificial intelligence with A-1, the popular steak sauce brand. The contrast could not be more stark, and the consequences should worry all of us. China graduates almost twice as many STEM-oriented Ph.D.s in science and technology programs than the U.S. — an estimated 77,000 versus 40,000 according to the Center for Security and Emerging Technology. But those numbers don't tell the whole story. If you exclude international students from that count, then China outpaces the U.S. 3 to 1. Their advantage doesn't end with science and technology Ph.D.s. China has also been forging ahead to create stronger undergraduate engineering programs and vocational engineering disciplines to create a massive workforce of factory and innovation, with workers that have mastered specialized hands-on technological, problem solving and math skills. There is a 2015 video with Apple CEO Tim Cook that has been re-circulating recently that explains why China is so attractive to foreign manufacturers. Here's the newsflash: It's not just about cheap labor. In that interview with former Fortune executive editor Adam Lashinsky at the Fortune Global Forum, Cook spells out why China is so important to Apple's global supply chain for computers, iPads, iPhones and other products. He says, 'The popular conception is that companies come to China because of low labor costs…. but the truth is China stopped being the low labor cost country many years ago. That is not the reason to come to China from a supply point of view. The reason is because of the skill and the quantity of skill in one location and the type of skill it is.' Cook said in that video that 'the products we do require really advanced tooling and … the tooling skill is very deep here. In the U.S., you could have a meeting of tooling engineers … and I am not sure you could fill the room. In China, you could fill multiple football fields. It is that vocational expertise is very deep, very very deep here, and I give the education system a lot of credit for continuing to push on that even when others were de-emphasizing vocational.' He said workers there demonstrate an 'intersection of craftsman kind of skill and sophisticated robotics and sort of the computer science world, that intersection that is very rare to find anywhere.' Trump defends his torrent of tariffs by promising that such economic saber rattling will bring American manufacturing roaring back. However, his team does not seem to have a plan to rebuild a new model of American manufacturing that is based on brains as much as brawn, as well as the ability to keep up with rapid technological and engineering changes that require precise skills and advanced training. Whether companies are creating washing machines or weather instruments, the manufacturing models that have become so attractive in China (and also increasingly in places like Vietnam and Indonesia) are based on those advanced skills Cook was talking about. That requires prioritizing academics and investing more in education at all levels — pre-K, K-12, vocational programs and higher education. It also requires investing in the government research programs that partner with universities. But Elon Musk's DOGE brigade is enthusiastically ravaging the agencies and departments that support such partnerships. Trump has been all bark and no long-term strategy. What's sad is that America could continue to be the greatest economic global powerhouse. The ingredients for success are here, but Trump and his team seem hell-bent in destroying the educational and research infrastructure that could insure growth and dominance in the economic sphere. It's like attacking the fuse box with a blow torch and expecting that the lights and the oven and the computers will all keep running. It just doesn't make sense. In truth, America's struggles with education predate Trump. Tuition rates have soared to levels that are hard to justify, and almost impossible for most families to finance without steep sacrifice. American students lag behind their international counterparts in several disciplines. A 2019 study conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics found that American 8th graders ranked 16th in math and 14th in science. As the Asia Times put it, our kids 'were outclassed by students from Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Canada, Dubai and several European countries.' The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's 2018 Program for International Student Assessment found China to rank first — and far ahead of the U.S. — in reading, math and science, but even if we eliminate China's cherry-picked data, the Asia Times reported, 'the US still ranks 34th in math and 15th in science.' It rightly calls that 'an appalling result for a country with the world's best universities.' Even though China has sometimes presented an overly flattering portrait of its students' academic achievements, the truth remains that the country has put muscle into building a world-class compulsory education program for young people at the lower rungs of the economic ladder. They're no longer primarily plowing the best resources into educating the social elite class at the expense of everyone else. Kishore Mahbubani, the Singapore-based scholar and author of several books on Asia, including 'Has China Won?,' argues that the economic standoff between the U.S. and China will be won and lost in the heartland of both countries and that education is the thing that will make the biggest difference. 'At the end of the day, the outcome of the geopolitical contest between the US and China will not be determined by which society is doing a better job at taking care of its bottom 50 percent and by which society's kids can read, write and count,' Mahbubani argued in the Asia Times. When you poll voters about what matters to them, they always put education high on the list, but our spending and strategic priorities as a nation don't reflect that. The education stories that break into the news cycle are more often about school shootings, book bans, restrictions on transgender athletes and debates over critical race theory. Instead of building America's world-class education system, President Trump spends his time picking fights with universities or threatening to withhold funding from schools that allegedly teach concepts like white privilege or have what he considers to be 'illegal DEI programs.' We have an administration that acts like America's educational infrastructure is more of a whipping post than a whopping piston of growth. A country that wants to stay ahead of or even keep up with China doesn't treat its advanced education system with this kind of disdain and scorn. This article was originally published on
Yahoo
06-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Gisele Bundchen's new baby is a boy
Gisele Bundchen's new baby is reportedly a boy. People are reporting that Gisele's third child is a boy. Although his first name hasn't been revealed, his middle name is believed to be River. The name continues the tradition of her children having water-themed middle names. Her 15-year-old son is Benjamin Rein, while her 12-year-old daughter is Vivian Lake. News broke earlier this week that the 44-year-old supermodel had given birth, with TMZ the first to report the news. This is Gisele's third child, but her first with partner Joaquim Valente. She shares her two older children with ex-husband Tom Brady. Gisele and Joaquim, who is a Jiu-Jitsu instructor, were first linked in 2022, but they didn't confirm their relationship until 2023. Gisele was married to Tom between 2009 and 2022. Tom also has a son Jack, 17, from a previous relationship with Bridget Moynahan. Last year the former NFL star admitted that he hasn't always been a perfect father. At the 2024 Fortune Global Forum in New York City, he admitted that he "screwed up a lot as a parent." When Gisele's pregnancy was announced, he shared a cryptic quote on his social media accounts, writing, "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better," he posted. "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again."
