The best update I've seen on the Little League scandal

is at Sports Illustrated. 

Sounds like Little League told Tulsa and the Texas judge to pound sand, there will be no game.  

And sounds like the Texas judge made his finding solely on the basis that Tulsa would be harmed if they didn't get to play--meanwhile, the other team burned all its pitching on the basis of Little League's ruling and belief no game against Tulsa would be played:

Here are four of the five pages from the court document detailing the Temporary Restraining Order granted to Tulsa National in its dispute with Little League.

The court found that Tulsa National faced probable, imminent and irreparable harm if it was excluded from the Southwest… https://t.co/wFixpuT5nn pic.twitter.com/nYbKV4DrHL

— Maren Angus (@Maren_Angus) August 11, 2026

Today's news and jokes

I would be very interested to see if there are any references to the "Dobby's grave forced a cable to be moved" story from earlier than this year bsky.app/profile/dsqu...

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— Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 8:03 AM

a redditor did some deep diving, and agrees that there doesn't appear to be any evidence that this happened, including the interview the guy allegedly gave BBC which sparked all the "calls": old.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics...

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— pdsc (@gucc.us) August 10, 2026 at 8:11 AM

For some reason people lose all critical judgment when interpreting jokes made by infrastructure people at conferences or on a podcast. This just isn't what happened.

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— Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 1:39 AM

Really conflicted by this story because I am very much against disinformation (it's nothing to do with the grave, a guy made a joke about it at a conference) but on the other hand, anything that radicalises people against Harry Potter adults is a good thing.

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— Jack Tindale (@jacktindale.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 5:11 AM

Related:

Bluesky is saved

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— Cartridge Games (@cartridgegames.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 10:18 AM

"one of the worst designs in hotel history. The elevators rattle uncontrollably, shaking the occupants like a martini all the way up"

"A stay at the decrepit tomb of what was once the Vegas Strip's coolest hotel"

Good logo for "Books are weapons"

I’m reading a book published in 1944 and this logo is so unbelievably tough. I’d absolutely wear a shirt with this exact design.

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— Benjamin Hoffman (@bhh.bsky.social) August 7, 2026 at 4:50 PM

I made a clear backed copy of the image for you. Should go straight onto a custom printed shirt.

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— Dread Pirate Sex Badger (@badgercult.bsky.social) August 8, 2026 at 3:39 PM

Actually, @djinnandtonic.bsky.social has a t-shirt with a variation of this design: wideawakes.army/listing/4390...

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— Tobias Harris (@tobiasharris.bsky.social) August 8, 2026 at 3:37 AM

Tulsa's Little League softball and baseball teams cheated this year?

BREAKING: Tulsa National has been disqualified from the Little League Baseball Southwest Region Tournament, just three weeks after its softball program was removed from the same regional tournament.

The Oklahoma baseball team had already reached the championship game.…

— Maren Angus (@Maren_Angus) August 10, 2026

Tulsa National Little League has been disqualified from the Little League Baseball Southwest Region Tournament.

Little League International determined one player who participated in the tournament was ineligible and declared the team’s previous game a forfeit.…

— News On 6 (@NewsOn6) August 10, 2026

UPDATE: Tulsa National Little League will be allowed to play in the Southwest Region Championship after the 14th district court granted a temporary restraining order.

The game will go on as scheduled Aug. 11 at 6 p.m. against Texas West, with the winner advancing to the LLWS in… https://t.co/1IuJCA1nru

— News On 6 (@NewsOn6) August 10, 2026

I didn't see a good write-up (especially about the judge's decision), but sounds like both teams lied about residency (and maybe falsely represented a player as having a disabled sibling (and maybe tried to manipulate game data)) to add ineligible players to the teams. Amazing it wasn't caught sooner--by that age I'd think the various competing teams in the area are extremely aware of who the good kids are, notice immediately if someone's playing out of zipcode, and are quite eager to report it.

In other sports fraud: 

USA Swimming put CFO Cory Hilliard on leave Monday following his arrest on allegations he embezzled nearly $10,000 while working for the University of Colorado’s athletics program.

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This is USA Swimming’s second hiring scandal in as many years. The group hired ...its new CEO in February 2025. Nine days later, [the new CEO] pulled out from the role after USA Swimming discovered

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This movie is the source of Princess Leia's Shadows of the Empire look.

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— Pablo Hidalgo (@infinata.bsky.social) August 5, 2026 at 9:09 PM

James Cameron tells a good (self-effacing) story about editing Aliens

We got to hear him tell stories about editing ALIENS. This fucking ruled

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— Rocco Botte (@roccobotte.bsky.social) August 9, 2026 at 2:15 AM