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• Russia Hits Ukrainian Capital With Worst Bombing Strike Since Summer 2024
• Watching football is also watching everything else
• Why can't Democrats abandon their view that men who aren't women should be allowed to compete against real women in sports?
• Nebraska’s Stand with Women Act Opposed by Faith Leaders - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• I prided myself on being rational and easy-going. Then I started coaching competitive kids’ sports | Myke Bartlett
• 17-year-old Austin Metcalf was stabbed to death at a track meet. This is about human decency and the culture that has eroded it
• Professional sports leagues push gun control
• A transgender athlete took home first place in a varsity high jump competition at an Oregon high school meet
• The Limits of Delegation to the Private Sector - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• In 1947, Brooklyn Dodgers GM Rickey hired Jackie Robinson to be the first black major league player, but his was not a DEI hire
• Boston Marathon’s trans runner tramples women athletes — time to take a stand
• Lee Corso is retiring from ESPN’s College GameDay after nearly 40 years
• Conor McGregor and Tucker Carlson Walk Into a Bar - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• NFL scouting is broken. Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders is all the proof you need
• Federal judge rules that two fathers can't wear pink wristbands that say 'XX' to silently protest male inclusion in women's sports
• The most effective strategy isn’t conventional. It’s not how business works
• Trump in the Circle: Wrestling and the battle for American masculinity
• Trump celebrated the 2025 national football championship with the Ohio State Buckeyes on Monday
• After four years of being led by a president who remained asleep at the wheel, the U.S. is back to kicking butt and looking good doing it
• Karmelo Anthony, charged with murdering Austin Metcalf, had his bond drastically reduced and was granted house arrest
• This week, the University of Tennessee and its starting quarterback, Nico Iamaleava, staged a very public and very destructive contract negotiation
• Rory McIlroy’s first Masters win could only arrive one way: excruciatingly
• As a watcher of live sporting events, I prefer the miracle finish to the long slog that precedes it
• The Gym Group attempted to merge with PureGym in 2014 rather than to take PureGym over
• UFC 314 Features Massive Featherweight Title Bout, Stacked Lineup
• The Worst Trade of the Trump Era
• I don’t know why we gave John Oliver citizenship, but he still has a show
• Boys in girls’ sports is the stuff of insanity - Washington Examiner
• Auburn University men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl is taking on a new role as chairman of the board of directors for the U.S. Israel Education Association
• Center Shows Dangers Of Delegating Power To Private Entities
• Ted Cruz demands USA Fencing stop allowing men to compete in women’s fencing
• No-fun politicians target gambling — but not rotten-odds state lotteries
• Mark O'Mara: University of Florida banned Gator Chomp cheer because of alleged racist connotations
• Karmelo Anthony’s family has raised more than $279,000 off of the alleged murder of Austin Metcalf
• Adriana Brownlee: “As soon as you think of records, it gets dangerous”
• In the UK, two men will be competing for a women's pool title
• U.S. spent $60 billion at casinos last year and $12 billion on sports betting, says economist Jason Sorens. What bothers me is the hypocrisy of U.S. politicians
• Mansplaining John Oliver smugly weaponizes compassion —at the expense of women’s comfort and rights
• Maine’s Department of Corrections is slated to lose more than $1 million in federal funding over a trans-identifying man in a women’s prison
• Tariffs come for your jerseys, gym clothes, and sports team
• Fifa has used US soccer as a cash cow – and gives very little back | Leander Schaerlaeckens
• Washington Post, AP Articles Expose Pro-Transgender Athlete Bias of Legacy Media
• It’s One of the Most Impressive and Deserving Wins in Recent Sports History. It’s Also a Little Evil.
• The Grace of Wayne Gretzky
• ‘Trans’ inclusion = all-male finals, the hands-off hypocrite left and other commentary
• Two trans-identifying men faced off against each other in a women’s pool championship match over the weekend
• Russia's Ovechkin breaks Wayne Gretzky's NHL record with 895th goal
• Save our buildings — or The Bronx (and the rest of NY) will ‘burn’ again
• Noam Nedivi’s college apologizes for failing to protect him from Zavier Chimienti’s antisemitic abuse
• Transgender high school track athlete Lia Rose came in last place against boys before switching to compete against girls
• The Washington Post ran a glowing profile of a trans-identifying high school track athlete
• Seven Years Into Legal Sports Betting, We’re Seeing It for What It Is
• Women’s fencer Stephanie Turner took a stand against a male fencer competing against other females
• The race to be the most spiteful, antagonistic, and loathsome Democrat on Capitol Hill is fierce
• Auburn basketball coach Bruce Pearl draws attention to last American hostage believed to be alive in Hamas captivity
• Disc golf athlete Abigail Wilson walked off the course during a competition over concerns about a trans-identifying male player
• Girls are being forced to compete against boys who identify as girls
• Regulations Are Hurting Red Bull’s F1 Performance
• The reckless fantasy of austerity as a panacea is coming for European football | Aaron Timms
• The glory and grime of boxing
• USA Fencing Chair Damien Lehfeldt says transgender fencers deserve the right to compete with the gender they identify with
• Judge: Chael Sonnen defamed Arlene Delgado by saying she was a "stalker" on Flagrant podcast
• The American Parents Coalition will send parents a form urging Maine legislators to follow Trump’s women’s sports order
• Stephanie Turner, 31, was black-carded from a fencing tournament for refusing to compete against Redmond Sullivan, who is male and identifies as transgender
• The majority of Maine residents don't want transgenders in female sports
• Best of the Babylon Bee: JD Vance throws in Statue of Liberty to sweeten Greenland deal
• The US men’s national team aren’t just underachievers; they’re unlikeable | Beau Dure
• John Sterling on the phone call that changed his career — and Yankee history
• Cops called on dad for playing catch with 14-year-old son at park
• Daily Wire host Matt Walsh says California Democrats are 'predators' if they force girls to change in locker rooms with boys
• Free Agent: Is March Madness dead? Here's what you need to know
• Don't ban the 'tush push,' says Eagles fan who witnessed the play
• Yankees legend Suzyn Waldman on her most memorable broadcast moments: ‘I just kept talking’
• Why the PGA Tour/Saudi Arabia negotiations really failed
• Duke, Florida, Auburn, Houston to meet in Final Four for first time since 2008
• Bruce Pearl, a Jew who proudly calls Israel 'the ancestral homeland for the Jewish people,' will lead his team to the Final Four
• Gambling has a strong grip on American culture, and states have muscled into the sector after the Supreme Court struck down PASPA
• The shameful silencing of Rangers fans
• Many Democrats, NeverTrump Republicans, and NeverTrump independents are willing to believe bald-faced lies even when they don’t believe them
• America’s Sport Export - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Scotland must sell itself to the world
• California Secretary of Education Linda McMahon warns Gov. Gavin Newsom that schools that allow boys to play in girls’ sports could lose federal funding
• Wayne Gretzky was a Canadian hero. His pro-Trump rebrand is a betrayal
• The Rules and the Game – John G. Grove
• Down with the “positive male role model”
• Miranda Devine: Mike Waltz’s Signal-gate blunder is a hard lesson to be learned for Trump’s winning team
• Labor strife looms over MLB Opening Day
• Brett Gardner’s 14-year-old son Miller passed away peacefully in his sleep
• N.C. Court on Compensation for (Apparently Unauthorized) Forced Vaccination by School
• Mary Rooke: Democrats and their radical left-wing supporters continue to champion the erasure of female sports
• The Sweet Science Loses Another Great Champion - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• College wrestling champions rallied around President Trump during the 2024-25 NCAA championships in Philadelphia
• Trump praises George Foreman in social media post: 'He had, without question, the heaviest and biggest punch in the history of boxing'
• While Washington DC Burns, Trump Golfs
• George Foreman, two-time heavyweight boxing champion and Olympic gold medalist, dies at 76
• WWE star-turned-politician Glenn Jacobs challenges Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to a charity wrestling match
• A high school in Oregon allowed an 11th-grade boy who identifies as a girl to compete in a track meet
• So it’s victory for Kirsty Coventry in the IOC elections. Who says cards with a rigged deck isn’t an Olympic sport? | Marina Hyde
• Free College Athletes – Jodi Balsam
• This week’s Slate News Quiz challenges you to test your knowledge of the week’s news