The Rumor Mill Learns Some New Tricks

The tip form's topic menu graduated from message-board categories to actual insider beats: Hot seat, Tampering, Draft intentions, Front-office dysfunction, and Contract-year motives join the classics. Each one comes with its own editorial rules — tampering posts always hedge (an accusation is not a report), and hot-seat chatter never names a team, because you can all read a standings page and Schefter isn't doing the triangulation for you.

Quality-of-life, since you asked (loudly, anonymously): your codename is revealed the moment you file your first tip instead of whenever your first rumor prints. A 60-second undo pulls back a fat-thumbed tip with a full slot refund. And the form can now whisper back on any rumor from the last two weeks — pick the storyline, add your intel, and Schefter threads it.