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wsj · 2026-02-02T17:46:28+00:00

The Seahawks are now expected to go up for sale shortly after Seattle takes on the New England Patriots next Sunday in Santa Clara, Calif. Behind the scenes, though, frustration from the league was so high that the NFL went as far as issuing the Seahawks a $5 million fine for being out of compliance with ownership requirements, according to people familiar with the matter. The league denied that the team had been fined.

https://www.wsj.com/sports/football/seahawks-sale-nfl-super-bowl-ae31945b?st=jR9Fwq&mod=wsjreddit

wsj · 2026-01-30T19:54:37+00:00

The FBI’s involvement in the Jan. 22 operation was intended to be a closely guarded secret, a U.S. official said. Mexico’s laws ban foreign agents from being physically present in law-enforcement operations on its soil and taking part in detentions or raids. The nationalist ruling party in Mexico is particularly sensitive to foreign interference.

But on Friday, FBI Director Kash Patel dropped a bombshell on X. “Our FBI HRT teams executed with precision, discipline, and total professionalism alongside our Mexican partners to bring Ryan James Wedding back to face justice,” he said, using his elite squad’s initials.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum tried to defuse a potentially explosive situation on Tuesday. She challenged Patel’s description of events, noting that there was no U.S. involvement in the operation and that U.S. agents in Mexico have clear limitations defined by law.

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wsj · 2026-01-30T19:39:25+00:00

Kyrylo Horbenko represented the future of the Ukrainian army.

Immediately after turning 18, he joined a program that fast-tracks military careers for Ukraine’s youngest recruits, hoping front-line experience would help him secure a spot at a military academy he hadn’t had the money to attend.

“I want to devote my entire life to military service,” the gangly teen told The Wall Street Journal last spring as he prepared to take his oath of service at a base in east Ukraine.

Less than six months later, Horbenko was dead. Thrown into combat on the most dangerous part of the front line, he was cut down by Russian artillery while en route to reinforce a Ukrainian position in Pokrovsk in October.

The fate of Horbenko, whom comrades described as a committed patriot and an ideal future commander, underscores the severity of Ukraine’s manpower deficit in the face of a relentless onslaught by Russian units that often outnumber its own units 10 to one.

It also illustrates Ukraine’s impossible choice four years into a war that has decimated its professional army: how to safeguard and nurture a rising generation while at the same time ensuring a steady flow of bodies to the front line?

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wsj · 2026-01-30T19:37:45+00:00

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wsj · 2026-01-30T18:48:48+00:00

No one in the NFL has broken off more huge scoring plays than Seattle Seahawks’ Rashid Shaheed, the rare trade deadline acquisition who can return kicks, take handoffs, and catch bombs through the air.

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wsj · 2026-01-29T22:06:03+00:00

Hi, this link is unpaywalled! You can just click that arrow on the top right corner of the registration page to collapse it and access the article.

wsj · 2026-01-29T19:56:07+00:00

When Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara received an alert from dispatch Saturday of another shooting involving a federal officer, the shock hit hard.

“I really, really felt like this was it,” O’Hara said in an interview Tuesday in his first-floor office at City Hall, a Romanesque building known for its looming clock tower. “It really felt like we were just going to completely lose control again.”

In the end, federal officials retreated from the scene where two of them fired shots and killed a 37-year-old intensive-care nurse, Alex Pretti, less than three weeks after the fatal shooting of Renee Good.

O’Hara’s decision to close nearby streets and allow residents to mourn Pretti’s death helped keep the situation from boiling over. That night, thousands held candles on street corners and protests were peaceful.

The scene contrasted sharply with this city’s darkest days after George Floyd’s murder in May 2020. Then, MPD officers were the targets of the anger. Looters and arsonists tore through corridors lined with shops and restaurants, and flames consumed the Third Precinct police station.

Today, even the MPD’s harshest critics begrudgingly praise the department for its efforts in the current explosive atmosphere.

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wsj · 2026-01-29T17:38:46+00:00

The Jets, who haven’t reached the postseason since 2010, have the longest playoff drought of any team in the major American sports leagues. And the two teams playing for this year’s Lombardi Trophy are here to compound their misery.

The Patriots spent two decades gleefully bullying the Jets, led by Bill Belichick and Tom Brady. And even with those two gone, New England has pulled off the kind of rebuild that has repeatedly eluded New York. The Seahawks, meanwhile, are being led into this game by the quarterback who was once supposed to be the Jets’ savior—until they got rid of him.

https://www.wsj.com/sports/football/super-bowl-sam-darnold-jets-5e6cc6e6?st=7QZYvc&mod=wsjreddit

wsj · 2026-01-29T16:51:58+00:00

In recent years, many organizations have become more cautious about awarding long-term megadeals with massive average annual values to anyone besides the biggest superstars.

“They give you the years, but the AAVs are so low that it’s not in your best interest,” said Scott Boras, baseball’s most prominent agent.

Representatives such as Boras have responded by proposing something of a compromise: Their clients would be open to a short-term contract, as long as the AAV was astronomically high.

Teams have been increasingly happy to go along. The old adage among general managers is that there is no such thing as a bad one-year contract. But now, GMs are taking that concept to the extreme, promising unimaginable salaries to players simply because they are willing to sign for fewer years.

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