Is yesterday’s Secure Stakes still sitting unread on your reading list? Have no fear! Here is a recap of the latest issue with my two AI bot friends. They summarize my article pretty well and don’t object to this week’s topic which tackles, in part, AI.

And just a reminder, there won’t be a news round up this week, but I will see you back here on Monday for another edition of Secure Stakes.

If you didn’t have time to read my newsletter edition yesterday, or just prefer to have something insightful to listen to while you do your grocery shopping on mow the lawn, here is the next episode of the Secure Stakes podcast.

This week I take a look at governance in football and how it is impacting security. I propose a Commissioner of Football— someone to manage governance and infrastructure from high school through the pro ranks so security doesn’t get lost in the mad dash for profits.

Here is the speed read version:

* 🏈 Football’s boundaries between pro, college, and high school are eroding as NIL money, transfers, gambling, and more change the system.

* 👩‍🎓 College football athletes function as semi-professionals, but governance structures have not adapted to protect them.

* 🛡️ Pro teams invest in security, while colleges lag behind — leaving players more exposed.

* 🧭 A single Commissioner of Football could oversee all levels, set standards, and safeguard integrity.

* 🎲 Without unified oversight, risks from gambling, commercialization, and weak security will grow.

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Six months into Secure Stakes is a great time to pause and reflect. I am thankful for the readers and the people who engage with me on this topic. I’ve written a lot and learned even more so I figured it made sense to try and take a broader view of my writing and package it up a bit. I noticed some broader buckets of threats that I wrote about and I think together they make an interesting and useful framework to understand threats at the intersection of sports, gambling, and homeland security.

You can always read my Monday post but if you would rather listen to my AI bot friends discuss my post, you can do that here. (I am thankful for them too, even if they still can’t pronounce my last name right.)

And I’m definitely looking forward to the next six months.

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If you’d rather listen to my content while mowing your lawn or running errands than read it, then this is for you. You can download my two AI bot friends summarizing in great detail this week’s Secure Stakes. They still have trouble pronouncing my name, but they get almost everything else right.

You can listen to the podcast via Substack or also through Apple Podcasts or Pocket Casts.

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If your reading list piled up over the long weekend and you want a shortcut, here is the podcast version of my latest newsletter. It’s a 15 minute listen about the policy parallels between how the Online Safety Act is being implemented in the UK and issues coming up with sports gambling in the UK.

Hopefully you enjoy my AI bot friends discussing my latest article as much as I do.

If your reading list is a little bit too long and you’d rather listen to a summary of my piece, join my two AI bot friends to hear them discuss my latest article. They still have trouble pronouncing my last name (it’s Ween, not Wine) but that aside they summarize things pretty well.

Feel free to leave me feedback. If there is interest I might even go back into my archive and do some summaries of previous articles.

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I know you don’t always want to read something. Or sometimes there just isn’t the time to read, but you do have time to listen to something while commuting, or mowing the lawn or going for a walk. So I am trying something new and using some new Google AI tech to make a podcast out of my weekly essays.

This week our two AI hosts talk about the Secure Stakes, where I reflect on my time at the DEF CON hacker conference, its Access Everywhere theme, and how it applies to sports and gambling.

And I know, the AI doesn’t quite pronounce everything right— my last name is pronounced Ween, not Wine, for one— but I think it’s pretty good. Enjoy and feel free to leave feedback if you like it or if you don’t.