Speed Reads....

The '16 Rio Games face "major financial cutbacks as organisers bid to avoid going over budget" (PA, 10/6).

Nassau Events Center, the group renovating Nassau Coliseum and adding a mixed-use development, "plan to meet this week with minority and women-owned firms who want to win work" on the $261M project (NEWSDAY, 10/6).

Trail Blazers players and coaches for last night's home preseason game against the Kings wore black "UCC" T-shirts as "tributes to the victims of Thursday's mass shooting at Umpqua Community College" (OREGONLIVE.com, 10/5).

The Warriors in their home preseason opener drew a sellout crowd of 18,223 at SAP Center. Hours before the game against the Raptors, fans were "lined up outside" the arena "in anticipation of free Stephen Curry bobbleheads" (BAY AREA NEWS GROUP, 10/6).