Roger Yu

.@BLaw is hiring for several senior and junior legal reporter positions, including a remote reporter to cover Northern California courts. None of the positions are on my team but happy to try to connect you with the right people bloomberg.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Bloomber…

Sports Illustrated is dead. Again. BUT, you always online kids don't know. Hell, nobody under 35 knows... But dads & 80s/90s sports fans KNOW... There was nothing like rolling home from school on a Wednesday or Thursday and grabbing that sweet, fresh issue of Sports Illustrated out of the mailbox... Yeah, the physical mailbox. Tangible. In print & glorious. Who was on the cover? What was Rick Reilly's column about? Did Gary Smith write something? What's Ralph Wiley covering? Did Steve Rushin write from Greenland? What about Jackie Mac? Or Gammons? Or Pearlman? Do we know any of the Faces in the Crowd? I'm telling you... every SI mail day was an event. Titans wrote for the magazine. Legends were on the cover. New voices wrote new stories. If your favorite team or player had a feature it felt like you won something. You'd read the whole thing, always back to front, because of Reilly. You looked forward to the preseason rankings... to finding out who'd be on the cover after a championship or major... to the march madness breakdown... ...and getting the swimsuit issue in the middle of a cold, barren new england winter was a mini-holiday for young dudes. We had the commemorative issues, the goofy sweatshirt giveaways, the SI phone... We had it all. It mattered. The writing, the photos, the covers, the feel of it... It spoke to millions of us. It meant something. It was a weekly shared conversation for a generation of us. You could walk into any group of dudes in school, at the basketball court, at the mall, wherever... and just say, "you see SI this week?"... and you'd have a 30 minute conversation. And now it's gone. Again. How many times has it "died" now? Five? Six? Once was too many. The magazine deserved better. RIP again, SI. If you're nodding your head reading this, and you once read every Reilly column for a decade, then share this and follow me @Jon_Finkel. And subscribe to my Books & Biceps newsletter for updates on my Macho Man Randy Savage biography that you're gonna love.

Coaches, What are your thoughts on development vs. trying to win games at a young age? Great stuff from @jj_redick

JUST IN: Rite Aid, one of the biggest pharmacy chains in the US, files for bankruptcy as it looks to restructure debts including opioid liabilities trib.al/t20UMdn

I’ll be joining @BloombergRadio in a few to talk about this story, why “hot tub” maybe isn’t the best term for a courtroom hearing, and how judges think about economics in antitrust cases. news.bloomberglaw.com/antitrust/cour…

Journalism students: Bloomberg Industry Group is hiring news interns for the summer of 2024. Chase stories. Break news. Earn clips. Get paid. We offer housing in D.C. Apply now; details here: lnkd.in/eV86MsMy #journalismjobs

Interested? Shoot me a DM! More than happy to talk about how to apply, what to expect, and the perks of the Pantry.

Your timeline is probably flooded with stories about Tuesday’s Google search trial. Here’s my contribution, on a slightly different tack: An as-yet undecided sanctions motion over Google’s deletion of evidence has hung a “Sword of Damocles” over the case. news.bloomberglaw.com/antitrust/goog…

Byju’s, one of India’s hottest tech companies, allegedly hid $533 million in an obscure hedge fund that once said its principal place of business was an IHOP trib.al/X5y16YN

i enjoy reading bankruptcy court declarations because, when done well, they describe a company's problems very succinctly. see: China Evergrande

Kansas prosecutor says police should return computers and cellphones seized in raid on newspaper apnews.com/article/marion…

An influx of mainland Chinese taking advantage of a new visa program to work in Hong Kong is helping buoy rents to the highest level in almost two years bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @markets

It was “Vicky’s” job to defraud people through social engineering. But what started as a game of cat and mouse with a scammer became a descent into crypto hell. bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @BW

Ultra-fast fashion giants Shein and Temu are locked in a high-stakes antitrust battle centered largely around a US law that is more than a century old. blawgo.com/AobzHKC

Fun to do my first ever TikTok video for @bloomberglaw on the intriguing development of influencers insurance! Content creators: beware of brands’ insurance requiments and the legal risks of marketing deals:) tiktok.com/t/ZT88o7We9/

Los Angeles has become the epicenter of US labor unrest. But why? Workers told me that a perfect storm of economic anxieties—AI, inflation, and the belief that employers aren't sharing post-pandemic wealth—has pushed them over the edge. My dispatch: news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-re…

We've got a great profile from @EvanOchsner of the Third Circuit judge who penned the decision shutting down the (first) $JNJ bankruptcy effort. The judge recently took senior status as a gift to his old buddy, Joe Biden. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law…