Good evening. ESPN’s direct-to-consumer app launched today, making all of the Worldwide Leader’s traditional TV products available on streaming for people who don’t pay for cable TV.

It costs $29.99/month, but will stay the same price when bundled with Disney+ and Hulu for a year before it jumps to $35.99—a move Disney is betting will reduce churn.

Features include:

• A TikTok-style vertical video feed, because everyone else is doing it so why not.
• “SC For You” (in beta), which uses the AI-generated voices of SportsCenter anchors to deliver a daily version of the show tailored to each user’s favorite teams, leagues, and sports.
• Enhanced connection between the mobile app and ESPN TV app, allowing for play-by-play updates, betting information, and fantasy alerts.

Another cable about cable: Fox today launched Fox One, a new streaming service that brings the company's news, sports, and entertainment programming under one roof, in a similar move that also targets America’s ~65 million cord-cutters and cord-nevers. Consumers can bundle Fox One with the new ESPN app for $39.99/month—just ask for a “combo #1” at the drive-thru window.

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Each of the following events happened on August 21. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom!

• A) Greenville, South Carolina, police investigate reports of creepy clowns hanging around a local apartment complex, trying to lure kids into the woods. The story gains worldwide attention, setting off a “killer clown panic” across the US.
• B) The Lincoln-Douglas debates, famous debates between Abraham Lincoln, Republican Party nominee for the US Senate, and incumbent Senator Stephen A. Douglas of the Democratic Party, begin. Their focus is the question of whether slavery should be extended to America's western territories.
• C) Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre by three Italian handymen. It’s not recovered until 1913, but the subsequent media sensation makes it one of the world's most famous paintings.
• D) Hawaii becomes the 50th US state.

Hint: If you start to debate the order, think first

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While calling today’s crossword “mini” may imply tininess, it’s a hole challenge. And as with all crosswords, the answers march in lox-step.

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B, C, D, A

• B) 1858: The Lincoln-Douglas debates, famous debates between Abraham Lincoln, Republican Party nominee for the US Senate, and incumbent Senator Stephen A. Douglas of the Democratic Party, begin. Their focus is the question of whether slavery should be extended to America's western territories.
• C) 1911: Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre by three Italian handymen. It’s not recovered until 1913, but the subsequent media sensation makes it one of the world's most famous paintings.
• D) 1959: Hawaii becomes the 50th US state.
• A) 2016: Greenville, South Carolina, police investigate reports of creepy clowns hanging around a local apartment complex, trying to lure kids into the woods. The story gains worldwide attention, setting off a “killer clown panic” across the US.