In 2015, Robyn Lawley was the first plus-sized model to grace the pages of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Since that original spread, which Lawley shot when she was pregnant, the Australian model has appeared in the magazine three additional times. At the magazine's 60th Anniversary launch party last week, Lawley praised the brand for its inclusivity and helping her feel good in her own skin. "They don't care about stretch marks, they don't care about cellulite," she told Page Six of the brand. "And that's really encompassing to me and really helps me love my body for what it is."

The Arena Group, publisher of Sports Illustrated, has fired the magazine's CEO not long after it was revealed Sports Illustrated had published articles written by fake authors with AI-generated headshots and biographies. The Arena Group's board announced on Monday that CEO Ross Levinsohn had his employment terminated, with Manoj Bhargava named as interim chief executive. The board said it followed a meeting on actions to "improve the operational efficiency and revenue of the company". The release did not mention the AI scandal from November, which was spurred by an investigative report published by the science and technology news publication Futurism. Among fake profiles uncovered by Futurism was that of purported author "Sora Tanaka" which claims she is a product reviewer. The page said: "Sora has always been a fitness guru, and loves to try different foods and drinks.

Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. The parent company of Sports Illustrated is denying accusations that the popular magazine had published articles attributed to fake author profiles using fabricated bios and AI-generated photos after a report accused the outlet of doing so, including allegations that some of the content was also AI-generated. A report from Futurism published Monday featured several screenshots from the Sports Illustrated website that appeared to show the fabricated author profiles with profile pictures that also appeared to link back to a website that sells AI-generated headshots. "There's a lot," one source told the outlet of the fake authors.

Now that Sports Illustrated's three owners, Meredith Corp., Authentic Brands Group, and TheMaven, have completed the callous layoff of half of Sports Illustrated's newsroom and finalized a deal that gives control of the publication to TheMaven, a wannabe tech company helmed by notorious scumbags Ross Levinsohn and James Heckman, the future of Sports Illustrated is coming into focus.

A basketball fan of my close acquaintance woke up Wednesday morning and, upon learning the outcome of the first games of the NBA season, announced that "The Warriors suck." Can we answer this question? To put it more precisely, how much information is supplied by that first-game-of-season blowout? Speaking Bayesianly, who much should we adjust our expectation that the Splashies will dominate this year? This is an interesting question in its own right but also is an example of something I've been thinking about regarding base-rate fallacy and the rate of integration of information over time, and it relates to some of our favorite topics such as odds for presidential vote, Brexit, Leicester City, etc.