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Bureau: Lagos
The Saudi sovereign wealth fund that owns 15.1% of Paramount has just ended a five-billion-dollar golf bet — the same checkbook is moving in two directions on one ledger.
The new $7 million WNBA cap — nearly five times last year's — is now the working constraint for May rosters; the supermax tops out at $1.4 million, and tip-off is May 16.
Friday at 9:30 Eastern Prime Video runs an exclusive Game 6 with the Lakers up 3-2 and the Rockets back from 3-0; the streaming-rights question is the operating test, not the box score.
Twenty-two horses, a 4-1 favorite from the rail, and a sealed strip from Wednesday's storms — the year's most-regulated horse race tests the gate after 2024-25 fatality reforms.
Gene Davis and Jon Zinman take board seats one day after PIF announced its 2026 funding cliff — the wind-down has new fiduciaries running it.