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Atlanta high school football coach gets cuffs slapped on after punching player

“Thou shalt not assault players” is one of the most stringently enforced coaching commandments there is. You’d think that legendary Buckeyes coach Woody Hayes getting yeeted up out of Columbus would serve as a warning for all future generations to abide by. And yet, on Sunday, this video of a Benjam...

Cooper Flagg was playing in the wrong summer league

Victor Wembanyama’s NBA summer league debut was a mixed bag that had quick-take artists calling him Raef “LaFrench” after a 3-for-14 shooting performance. Nevermind that he rejected several shots and affected a slew of others. On Sunday night, Wembanyama had to respond to the best player in a summer...

Republican-sponsored anti-LGBTQ bills attacking transgender youth participation in sports reaches new low

Republicans en masse across the country haven’t made it clear what they truly stand for outside of hating others and tolerating racism and all forms of bigotry. They’re more afraid and concerned of Black peaceful protestors and children properly identifying their sexuality than insurrectionists, mas...

World Cup 2022: Morocco knocks off Portugal

The next 50 years of Title IX will focus on the female trans athlete

Society once felt a way about new facilities and amenities for female athletes. Those same feelings are here again with trans athletes....

USWNT shows their support for transgender youth in Texas, following governor’s letter

The United States Women’s National Team was in Texas last night, which could not have come at a better time after news went viral from the state’s governor’s office....

All this fun and you get paid, too!

I’ll level with you. I didn’t really think that much of John Madden as an analyst, at least for most of my experience listening to him. That doesn’t mean I didn’t think his personality or presence didn’t warrant his standing at the top of the broadcasting game. They very much did. And perhaps I’m ju...

So much for that NCAA Election Day off for student athletes

In September 2020, the NCAA announced that it would make Election Day a mandatory day off for student athletes, with no competitions or practices allowed to take place on the first Tuesday of November. This ruling came out just a few weeks prior to a presidential election that saw widespread attempt...

Viral photo depicting entire ‘AAU team’-turned-pro is fake news, but here’s the real story behind the squad in it

Ever heard the one about the entire AAU team that made it to the NBA? Of course you haven’t, because this isn’t the beginning of some corny joke....

Hate ain’t so easy: Anti-trans sports bills are dying in some unlikely places

The hate stops here. Or at least it should....

College athletes: NCAA must act swiftly against states passing transgender discrimination laws

College athletes are challenging the NCAA to stand up for the rights of transgender athletes....

Arizona to host massive soccer tournament because stupidity

This story warrants direct honesty. Adults in this country are really stupid....

Youth Sports Need a Wake-Up Call

Youth sports have transformed in front of our very eyes. ...

Suspected Olympiakos Fans Invade Stadium, Leave Four Bayern Munich Fans Bloody During U-19 Match

Before Bayern Munich and Olympiakos faced off in the Champions League on Tuesday, mayhem broke out during a match between the clubs’ respective U-19 sides in Athens. In the 84th minute of the UEFA Youth League match between the sides, a stadium invasion left four Bayern fans bloody and injured....

Kobe Bryant Finds Outlet For Passive Aggression In Youth Basketball Team

Kobe Bryant, when not sloppily cosplaying Michael Jordan, has been sharing occasional updates on his Mambas youth team. Two days ago, the retired Laker congratulated the girls after they beat an opponent by 88 points. Yesterday, he shared an image of a fourth-place trophy they received two years ago...

Pee-Wee Football Violence Prompts ESPN-On-ESPN Violence [Update]

Update (3:15 p.m. ET): SportsCenter deleted the tweet. Here’s a screenshot:...

CNN Wonders If Smartphones Are Why The Tennis Youth Can't Beat Roger Federer

An article over at CNN today formally advances a claim dropped casually by commentators, coaches, fans, and any crank with a taste for caricaturing a whole generation. Here goes: Smartphones are hampering tennis’s young players, which is why they can’t stop the Big Three in the men’s game, who enjo...

FIFA Puts An End To The Scourge Of Amazing, Impossible Goalkeeper Goals

Goalkeepers occasionally score goals. Some turn it into an art form; Brazil’s Rogério Ceni scored 131 times. Still, a game where a goalkeeper scores is rare. Even rarer still: a goalkeeper throwing the ball into the other team’s net for a goal....

Parents Brawl At 7-Year-Olds' Baseball Game

Just some extremely normal parents here, doing extremely normal parent things in the middle of a Saturday afternoon youth baseball game....

The Mastermind Behind The College Admissions Scandal Used To Be A Crazy Middle School Basketball Coach

The members of a middle school basketball team that represented a Jewish Community Center in Omaha, Nebraska, were not expecting the 2001 season to be an auspicious one. The previous season had produced mediocre results, and there was no reason to expect much of an improvement going forward. That al...