NFL star Tom Brady attempted to help out a fan this week who paid $518,628 for Brady’s “final touchdown pass” football March 12, hours before the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback announced his unretirement, instantly plummeting the ball’s value.
“We think everyone should play sports fairly,” a women’s sports group that is working to preserve biology-based eligibility told the New York Post on Saturday, and stressed the movement is not specifically aimed at Lia Thomas, the transgender male collegiate swimmer currently competing as a woman, but is actually “pro-women.”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement Sunday the U.S. is ready to “provide every possible assistance” to seven-time All-Star WNBA center Brittney Griner.
Joe Rogan offered strong words of support for former two-time UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez, who was arrested in February after attempting to shoot a man accused of molesting a child in his family, according to a report.
Former women’s soccer forward Carli Lloyd criticized the “culture” of the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) as the “worst she’s ever seen,” during a Wednesday podcast appearance on Hope Solo Speaks.
World Taekwondo condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “brutal attacks on innocent lives in Ukraine” on Sunday, and as a result will take back an honorary black belt given to the Russian leader in 2013, and also will no longer allow the display of Russian and Belarusian flags and the playing of their national anthems at future events.
Former New York Jets running back Zac Stacy has been arrested and sits in Orlando County jail after video allegedly showed him brutally assaulting the mother of his 5-month old baby Saturday.
Russian MMA fighter Akmal Khozhiev is charged with murder after he choked and stabbed to death a doctor during an argument over coronavirus vaccines in his home November 7, according to police.
The Loudoun County school board can not take any further action against Byron “Tanner” Cross, the Leesburg Elementary School gym teacher who was suspended in May for criticizing a newly adopted school district Policy 8040, which requires trans students to be addressed by their preferred pronouns, and gives students who believe they are the opposite sex access to school facilities, groups, and sports teams of their biological counterparts.
Pittsburgh Steelers rookie running back Najee Harris bit back at an ESPN announcer, who claimed Harris used to sleep on his dorm room floor while attending the University of Alabama after growing up homeless because “he’s just more comfortable, more used to that.”
After Washington Huskies coach Jimmy Lake intervened during an on-field scuffle that spilled onto the sidelines during a game against University of Oregon Ducks on Saturday, university officials are looking into the incident.
In a Halloween surprise, former Buffalo Bills Hall of Fame running back O.J. Simpson came to watch the Bills beat the Miami Dolphins on Sunday.
Undefeated California football team Inglewood High School was condemned by their own governing body for their 106-0 win over a local rival team on Friday, saying that “all athletic contests are to be conducted under the strictest code of good sportsmanship,” and “a score of 106-0 does not represent these ideals.”
An inter-gender MMA bout has left fans horrified after male fighter Piotr ‘Mua Boy’ Lisowski gave a vicious beatdown to female fighter Ula Siekacz at an event put on by MMA-VIP at a hotel in the Polish city of Czestochowa on October 29.
In a remarkable story coming out of the Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Egyptian table-tennis player Ibrahim Hamadtou competes without having arms. This year is the second time Hamadtou will compete in the Paralympic Games.
High school athletes in Los Angeles county will have a mandatory weekly coronavirus test, even those who are fully vaccinated, stated the county Department of Public Health in a revised policy, effective September 1.
The NFL released videos for their Top 100 Players of 2021, which included Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson as #18. Less of a celebration, Watson’s video had a somber tone compared to other player’s videos, and the narrator said at one point that Watson’s “future is uncertain.”
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) called on lawmakers to oppose funding requests made by the New Orleans Saints for the Caesars Superdome after the team announced they will not offer refunds to ticketholders that choose to not be vaccinated, or do not provide proof of a negative coronavirus test at the gate, calling the policy “completely unacceptable.”
MMA champ Kayla Harrison had words for a “disrespectful” male reporter just days before her Professional Fighters League (PFL) bout with Genah Fabian on Thursday night.
Advocacy groups are calling for the heads of two international handball governing federations to step down due to “blatant sexism” after the women’s Norwegian beach handball team was fined for wearing shorts instead of bikini bottoms at the European championships in July.
Los Angeles Dodgers ball girl #93 Marissa Rohan is being hailed by some as a “hero” after she assisted stadium security Sunday in taking down a fan who was running on the field.
Team U.S.A. wrestler Tamyra Mensah-Stock, who won the gold medal last week at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, will use her Olympic winnings to make her mom’s “dream come true” by buying her a food truck.
In America’s second-most-successful Olympics since the 1984 Los Angeles games, Team U.S.A. has won 39 gold medals, while China ended the 2020 Tokyo games with 38 gold medals.
U.S. wrestler Gable Steveson won the gold in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with a last-second, 2-point takedown just .4 seconds before the buzzer Friday.
The same day U.S.A. gymnast Simone Biles won a bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, saying it “means more than all of the golds,” New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Biles “brave” and “a role model” for her decision to drop out of the women’s team final to take care of her mental health.
After the U.S. women’s soccer team lost 1-0 to Canada on Monday at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, forward Megan Rapinoe told reporters, “Obviously we never want to lose to Canada. I don’t think I’ve ever lost to Canada. … this sucks. It sucks.”
When the U.S. women’s soccer team takes on Canada for the Tokyo 2020 semifinals on Monday, they will play against the first transgender Olympian in history.
Pop singer Pink offered to pay the fines for the Norwegian female beach handball team after they wore shorts in defiance of a league rule requiring the ladies to wear bikini bottoms during games.
Deandre Hopkins is not the only player who has publicly questioned the NFL’s policy on vaccines. With a handful of teams already in training camp and the rest to soon follow, the wave of backlash continued through the weekend against the NFL, following Thursday’s memo announcing that players will be held accountable for any outbreaks that occur among unvaccinated teammates.
Former Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence, who is expected to take the number one spot in the NFL draft, commented Sunday on the “Satan Shoes” released by rapper Lil Nas X. The shoe’s details include an inverted cross, a bronze pentagram, and a drop of human blood.
Browns wide receiver Ryan Switzer’s 9-month-old son, Christian, will be air lifted to a Boston hospital Thursday where specialists can look for answers to “major bleeding” the infant has experienced recently.
In the week since the first woman filed a sexual lawsuit against Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson, 23 additional women have come forward with accusations and 14 lawsuits have been filed, including an alleged incident that occurred as recently as March 2021.
Ohio State forward E.J. Liddell shared offensive comments, including racial slurs and threats of violence, posted to his Instagram account after the Buckeye’s 75-72 loss to Oral Roberts on Friday in the first major upset of the NCAA Tournament.
Two more massage therapists have come forward with allegations against Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson, making now three women who claim he acted inappropriately during his massage.
Virginia Tech men’s basketball coach Mike Young took a cheap shot at the Christian denomination group Jehovah’s Witnesses on Tuesday during a press call leading up to Friday’s game with the University of Florida.
Legendary boxer “Marvelous” Marvin Hagler’s wife Kay said Tuesday he did not die from a coronavirus vaccine, calling reports “nonsense.”
Boxing legend Marvelous Marvin Hagler was “in an ICU fighting the effects of the vaccine,” before his death Saturday at the age of 66, according to friend and former rival Tommy Hearns.
As the NBA announces it’s plans to investigate allegations made Thursday by G-league player and NBA veteran Jeremy Lin that he was called an anti-Asian slur “on the court,” Lin has not publicly named the player or the alleged game where the incident happened.
A man who tied a knife to the leg of his rooster for an illegal cockfight was killed after the bird panicked and stabbed him in the groin, police in Lothunur village in Telangana state, India, said Sunday.
A congressional bill called the Amateur Athletes Protection and Compensation Act of 2021, introduced by Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) on Wednesday, creates a wide range of changes for college athletes from the current NCAA guidelines.
