The estate of Negro League legend Josh Gibson is examining new licensing deals after Major League Baseball added once-banned Black players' stats to its official record, making Gibson an all-time leader in some categories.
Why it matters: For more than half a century, the images of former players of the Negro Leagues have been used and exploited, but now families can benefit from a newfound interest in those like Gibson, who changed the game.
Florida 12-year-old Bruhat Soma clinched the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee after becoming only the second person to win in a tiebreaker on Thursday.
The big picture: The Tampa Bay 7th-grader beat 6th-grader Faizan Zaki, 12, of Plano, Texas, in the spell-off to win the 96th edition of the bee in National Harbor, Maryland.
