THE BROADWAY BRIEF | February 19, 2026

Tuesday's newsletter wasn’t clean.

We went 0–2, and Michigan State / UCLA finishing at 141 on a 139.5 ticket is the kind of loss that sits with you for about 20 minutes… and then you move on. The read was right. The possession script was right. The late-game variance wasn’t. That’s the difference between a sharp loss and a bad one.

We don’t spiral.
We diagnose.
We refine.
We deploy again.

The soccer parlay was never a flagship play. It was a controlled test allocation while I continue tightening the Euro trend framework.

Since then?
Two standalone soccer trend drops on X.
Two wins. That’s signal development in real time.

Soccer is in calibration mode. Basketball remains the core engine. And when soccer fully stabilizes, it becomes a serious expansion arm of this operation.

Stay locked on X. That’s where live reps are happening.

Now, let’s get into tonight.