Consumers in sporting goods stores today are faced with seemingly countless choices of footwear. But are any of those innovations really helping you run longer or jump higher? And are those expensive sneakers any better?

Gretchen Carlson is both extraordinary—in her cultural visibility, in her multimillion-dollar career, in her personal accomplishments—and utterly ordinary. When she filed a lawsuit in July alleging sexual harassment during her tenure at Fox News, she became part of a disturbing statistic: at least 25% of American women say they have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace, according to a 2016 report from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She also faced an obstacle that blocks an untold lot of them: an arbitration clause in her employment contract.

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On Monday, before flying to Houston for a two-day N.F.L. owners meeting, the Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis took a little trip to Las Vegas. He was not there to gamble, but to celebrate. The previous week, the Nevada legislature held a short special session, called by Gov. Brian Sandoval, to pass a bill that would commit a stunning $750 million in tax dollars to a proposed $1.9 billion football stadium.

Wednesday’s presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump at UNLV lived up to its billing by drawing 71.6 million television viewers. Those numbers make the Thomas & Mack Center debate the third most-watched in the history of presidential debates, behind only the first between Trump and Clinton (84 million) and the only debate between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter in 1980 (80.6 million).

Outside the Four Queens casino in downtown Las Vegas, just past Elvis and a pregnant burlesque dancer, stood “Baby Donald” — a rotund man in a rubber Donald J. Trump mask, wearing a diaper and clutching a giant baby bottle. “Make my diaper great again,” his T-shirt read. Baby Donald was actually Cary Darling, a 50-year-old father of two working for tips to support his family. It could be risky. While most Trump supporters were friendly, one spat in his face and another harassed him and urged him to hang himself.

National media from throughout the country today are finishing up live coverage from the Thomas & Mack Center – that includes those from the News 3 network affiliate, NBC. Along with other anchors from the network, Savannah Guthrie from “The Today Show” made the trip from New York to Las Vegas to cover the third and final presidential debate.

As everyone knows, last night’s debate was on the campus of UNLV. US News and World Reports magazine last year ranked UNLV as the second-most diverse campus in the United States. More than half of its undergraduate students are part of a racial or ethnic minority.

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