Source: Week 1 for Barkley in jeopardy if no deal Running back Saquon Barkley’s availability for Week 1 will be in serious question if he doesn’t reach a long-term deal with the New York Giants by Monday, a source told ESPN’s Dianna Russini.

The UK — which blocked the Microsoft-Activison deal — is ready to negotiate. Here’s what happens next Britain’s competition regulator, the staunchest opponent of Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of gaming giant Activision Blizzard, may be ready to negotiate.

Microsoft’s Activision deal could face ‘new merger investigation,’ UK regulator warns Illustration: Alex Castro / The VergeThe UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is throwing caution over the idea of a quick resolution to its concerns around Microsoft’s proposed Activision Blizzard acquisition. Microsoft and UK regulators were extremely quick to issue statements over their intention to pause their Activision battle to ne…

What the Microsoft-Activision Ruling Means for Deal-Making Corporate leaders are feeling emboldened by another legal defeat for the Federal Trade Commission, though the agency may still fight to block the takeover.

Mavs’ Irving partners with ANTA on shoe deal Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving has partnered with Chinese sports brand ANTA on a new shoe deal, it was announced Tuesday.

This Inflatable Hot Tub Is the Only Prime Day Deal I Truly Care About A few years ago, I bought an inflatable hot tub. It changed my life, my brand, and my soul. I lived in that thing, floating around while chemically altered, sipping on frosty cans of Diet Coke. It was dirtbag luxury at its finest, and I thought the good times would never end. Then tragedy struck, in more ways than… Read more…

Transfer Talk: Paul Pogba could exit Juventus for €100m Saudi deal Al Ahli have offered Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba a three-year contract worth €100 million plus bonuses. Transfer Talk has the latest.

Microsoft-Activision deal moves closer as judge denies FTC injunction request The U.S. government can now bring the judge’s decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

You Can Tell If a Prime Day Deal Is Just Hype Prime Day 2023 runs from Tuesday, July 11 through Wednesday, July 12, and has more deals than you can count. Expensive tech like TVs, Apple devices, bluetooth speakers, and Xboxes will be a fraction its original cost, most on a time-limited basis. There will be a pressure to buy something right then and there, lest… Read more…

The Best Prime Deal Deals on Smart Home Devices Prime Day is here, and we’re rounding up the most discounted smart devices. You’ll be able to control most of these devices by voice with an Amazon Echo, which you can get discounted during Prime Day here. We’ll also tell you the lowest price it’s been this year so you can gauge how good of a deal it is. Read more…

PGA Tour Wanted Greg Norman Ousted as Part of Saudi Deal The American circuit’s efforts were made public in documents that Congress released on Tuesday.

What Messi’s MLS, Apple, Adidas deal means for everyone else The deal, unique in its structure, raises interesting questions about revenue splits for superstar athletes and the cascading impact on media rights negotiations.

How do you deal with travel regrets? E.g. you realize your itinerary was stupid and you should have organized it differently. Have you had experiences like this? How do you deal with the sense of lost opportunity, wasted money, or other regrets? submitted by /u/writingontheroad

Foxconn drops out of another big factory deal, this time in India Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeiPhone assembler Foxconn is dropping out of a $19.5 billion deal with a major Indian company to build a semiconductor factory in the country, according to Reuters. The canceled Foxconn deal was part of a joint venture with the large oil and metal corporation Vedanta. Foxconn provided a vague explanation as …

U.S. and E.U. Finalize Long-Awaited Deal on Sharing Data The agreement ends legal uncertainty for Meta, Google and scores of companies — at least for now.

Randall Stephenson’s Exit From PGA Tour Casts Pall on Saudi Deal In resigning from the body’s board, Randall Stephenson said he could not support the group’s potential tie-up with its Saudi-backed rival.

Report: Tour board member quits over PIF deal Randall Stephenson resigned from the PGA Tour’s policy board over concerns about the tour’s proposed partnership with Saudi Arabia’s national wealth fund, The Washington Post reported Sunday.

How To Deal With Mars Opposite Saturn Busy week ahead. Mars will ingress into Virgo tomorrow morning. This is not a slacker Mars! Meantime, Saturn is retrograde in Pisces. The opposition is applying from both ends. Saturn pressures things. Mars acts. This can go exceedingly well so … Read More…

Sources: Popovich signs 5-year deal worth $80M Gregg Popovich signed a five-year deal worth more than $80 million with the San Antonio Spurs, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.

Deal offering me 20k in advance. How to make the most of it? I’m an artist based in California and a record label reached out offering me $20,000 as an advance for a 2 year lease on my back-catalogue of music at a 70/30% split (artist/label). After deliberating, I’m leaning towards taking the deal and need your help making the most of this opportunity because I’m pretty financially shaky at the moment. Mu…