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Prior to going out and acquiring James Harden from Philadelphia, the Los Angeles Clippers were already championship contenders in the minds of many. Adding Harden to a roster with Kawhi Leonard, Paul George, Russell Westbrook, and Ivica Zubac has turned them into a legitimate force.
On paper, that is.
Having too many cooks in the kitchen is a very real thing, and the walls can get tight in a hurry when Harden is the one being thrown into the mix. We’re talking about a player making $35 million this season who is now suiting up for his fourth different team since 2021.

Coaches around the Big Ten are putting pressure on conference commissioner Tony Petitti to punish Michigan in the wake of the investigation into the school for potential sign-stealing, according to a report from ESPN’s Pete Thamel.
On a 90-minute league-wide conference call on Wednesday, a “vast majority” of coaches in the Big Ten voiced their frustrations with the investigation. Harbaugh was present on the call for 60 of the 90 minutes, according to Thamel.

With so many intriguing NFL games on the Week 9 slate, I nearly fell into the trap of favoring over bets this week.
Sure, a few of them will likely turn into shootouts, such as Dolphins vs. Chiefs in Germany. But Bengals vs. Bills could easily turn into a slow, physical battle between two evenly matched teams.
After another week of finishing 3–2, I’m going to stick to my method of more under bets, especially with scoring being down this season.
I don’t like finishing 3–2, which has been the case the past two weeks, but I’m still on the winning side.

In this week’s Overhang column, Nate Tice hands out his hardware for the NFL season’s first half. Four AFC quarterbacks are vying for the top honor, but only one can take it home.

The Diamondbacks’ thrilling, improbable postseason run ended Wednesday night with a 5–0 loss to the Rangers in Game 5 of the World Series. 
Arizona got strong starting pitching throughout the series, but ultimately couldn’t match Texas’s timely hitting despite manager Torey Lovullo’s best attempts to find a solution. 
The effort was emotionally draining for Lovullo, which he expressed in a weirdly candid fashion to reporters after the Game 5 loss. Reporters may never get a response like this from a manager during the World Series ever again.

Would you believe me if I told you the entire Big Ten West has an offense problem?
Well, buckle up and sit down because class is in session for OutKick readers.
Iowa recently announced Brian Ferentz won’t return next season as OC, and it was an obvious move for the team to make. It was also likely inevitable because his contract required the team to average 25 points per game and earn seven wins.
I stumbled across a tweet from Bud Elliott that pointed out not a single team in the Big Ten West is averaging the required 25 points needed for Ferentz to keep his job.

It took Antonio Pierce about 45 seconds to win his first press conference as the Las Vegas Raiders new interim coach.
“It’s a new day, it’s a new chapter, it’s a new era, it’s a new mindset,” Pierce said unprompted Wednesday afternoon. “What is that mindset? It’s that of the Raider pride, the commitment to excellence, and making sure our alumni, our fan base, and Raider Nation are proud of what they see on the field.

The Bank of England held interest rates at a 15-year peak as it kept up its fight against the highest inflation among the world’s big rich economies, and it stressed that it did not expect to cut them any time soon. Despite publishing forecasts which now show the British economy now skirting close to a recession and flat-lining in the coming years, the BoE held Bank Rate at 5.25% for the second meeting in a row after 14 back-to-back increases.

Iron Mountain missed third-quarter revenue expectations on Thursday as businesses reined in tech spending due to high interest rates and economic uncertainty. Peers of the company, including Digital Realty and Equinix, trimmed their revenue projections for the year, highlighting weakness in demand for some cloud-based infrastructure such as data storage. Iron Mountain also announced that it will buy electronic recycling company Regency Technologies for an initial purchase price of $200 million, with $125 million to be paid when the deal closes and the remainder in 2025.

Britain’s Rishi Sunak will meet representatives from the United States, the EU and U.N. on Thursday to discuss the steps needed to deliver safe AI, a day after he secured China’s backing for an international effort to manage the risks of the technology. The British prime minister is leading talks on the final day of the inaugural Artificial Intelligence Safety Summit at Bletchley Park in England before a conversation with tech billionaire Elon Musk in central London.