Nike brought back the Air Diamond Turf 2 in Deion Sanders' original 49ers colorway on September 4 for $170, its first retro since 2012. The pair stays close to the 1994 original apart from a black lining and a new full-length foam midsole.
FC Barcelona's Nike Kobe 3 Low Protro releases September 4 at $200, Team USA opens the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup against China in Berlin, and OpenAI's Astra becomes the first model to cross its Critical cybersecurity threshold.
The Converse SHAI 001 Lace Up "Cheetah" drops today at $120, college football Week 1 opens tonight with Colorado at Georgia Tech at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN, and Uber is cutting 3,300 jobs as it pivots toward robotaxis.
JENNIE's first adidas Originals collaboration releases today in Korea at $150, Mariano Navone put Novak Djokovic out of the US Open in the first round, and Coyote vs. Acme opened to $15.5 million three years after Warner Bros. shelved it.
The Salehe Bembury x PUMA Velum 2 NITRO releases today at $160 in Terracotta and Alloy, Aaron Donald unretires on a one-year, $20 million deal with the Rams, and Amazon closes Mechanical Turk on September 30.
Westside Gunn's Saucony Grid Jazz 9 "Awesome God" releases at $225, Chris Sale strikes out 11 in a 1-0 shutout to sweep the Dodgers, Alabama Shakes return after 11 years, and a judge voids the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk label on Anthropic.
Officials restored one second after a Hail Mary that TV showed ending at 0:00, and Michigan beat Western Michigan 13-12 on the replayed down. The Big Ten says the Broncos' Micah Davis touched the ball with a second left; Western Michigan will ask the MAC whether the ending can be reviewed.
Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000, the platform where 18 million developers share more than 3 million open models. Jensen Huang says NVIDIA compute will not be required to build or deploy there, and the deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027.
Thirteen MLB games on Sunday. The Yankees and Padres play the rubber match at Petco Park at 4:10 p.m. ET as a DraftKings pick'em, the Rays visit Texas with the day's best record at 85-57, and the White Sox host Minnesota on NBC at 6:20.
Suno pulled an advertisement featuring Mary J. Blige after saying she never authorized it and that the company had struck the deal with someone falsely presenting themselves as her official representative.
Atlanta takes a five-game NL East lead into Citizens Bank Park at 6:05 p.m. ET, with Zack Wheeler starting for Philadelphia. Carlos Rodon faces Robbie Ray in San Diego, and Jacob deGrom draws the Rays in Texas.
Atlanta brings a four-game NL East lead into Philadelphia for a four-game series, with Chris Sale facing Cristopher Sanchez at 6:40 ET on ESPN. Sixteen MLB games on the slate, including Brewers at Reds and a 9:40 ET Yankees-Padres window.
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