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Facebook Tweet Email Link Washington — President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order to establish a White House task force to coordinate the federal government’s preparations for the 2028 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, using the occasion to rail against transgender athletes’ participation in women’s sports. The task force is a mirror image of a similar group overseeing the federal preparations for next year’s World Cup in the United States. The group is meant to centralize all the various planning operations that will need to work in sync to make a massive event like the Olympics go…
Facebook Tweet Email Link The NFL and ESPN announced a deal Tuesday that will see the league’s NFL Network and other media assets headed to the cable television giant in exchange for a 10% equity stake in the Disney-owned company. The non-binding agreement will give ownership and control of the NFL Network to ESPN, while ESPN will also license additional NFL games, NFL RedZone and NFL Films programming from the league. The two sides will also merge their fantasy football operations. “Today’s announcement paves the way for the world’s leading sports media brand and America’s most popular sport to deliver…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Just over a week ago, before the start of the Canadian Open, it was announced Naomi Osaka split with tennis coach Patrick Mouratoglou, ending their 10-month partnership. Now, the four-time grand slam champion is making a run on the hard courts in the weeks leading up to the US Open. Someone rooting for her success: Mouratoglou. “She’s doing well for the moment in Montreal. Let’s hope she’s going to go all the way,” Mouratoglou said in an interview with CNN Sports on Tuesday. “I think her level of tennis is here. “Physically, she is ready, and…
Facebook Tweet Email Link A former Miami Heat security officer has been charged with allegedly stealing and selling millions of dollars worth of team memorabilia, federal officials announced Tuesday. Marcos Thomas Perez worked with the NBA team for five years from 2016 to 2021 and later with the league from 2022 to 2025. During his time with Miami, Perez was a part of the security detail team on game days at the now-named Kaseya Center, home of the Heat, a news release from the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Florida states. Perez accessed a secured equipment room…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Sprint star Kenny Bednarek told CNN Sports that he has cleared the air with Noah Lyles after a heated conclusion to their 200-meter race at the USA Track and Field Championships. Lyles finished just ahead of Bednarek in Sunday’s event, looking over at his rival as he took the lead and surged across the finish line. Bednarek, apparently irked by the sideways glance, responded by pushing Lyles in the back. The pair then came together and exchanged words before eventually shaking hands, though Bednarek later told reporters that he thought Lyles’ behavior was “unsportsmanlike” and disrespectful.…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Another international soccer superstar has arrived in the United States to play in Major League Soccer. South Korean forward Son Heung-min officially signed with Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) on a permanent transfer on Wednesday. Son was welcomed by chants from the club’s passionate fanbase as he walked onto the stage for his unveiling. “What can I say? Dream come true, what a city?” Son said at his introductory news conference at BMO Stadium in LA. “I’m here to win and I will perform. I will definitely show you something exciting. Do we call it football…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Baseball umpire Jen Pawol will make history this week as the first woman to work as an umpire in a Major League Baseball regular season game, crossing a historic gender barrier. Pawol has worked MLB games during spring training but her work on Saturday, when she will be in the crew for a doubleheader between the Atlanta Braves and Miami Marlins at Truist Park, will be her first time in the big leagues. The doubleheader required a fifth umpire to be added to the crew, according to a report on MLB.com. She is one of 17…
Facebook Tweet Email Link A sex toy was thrown onto the court during an WNBA game between the Los Angeles Sparks and the Indiana Fever on Tuesday, the third such incident which has impacted the league over the past week. In the second quarter at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, a green toy was thrown in the direction of Fever guard Sophie Cunningham. The 28-year-old had previously asked people to stop throwing such objects earlier this week on social media but appeared to be struck on the leg by the toy during Tuesday’s game. “this did NOT age well,” she…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Montreal, Canada AP — Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina has spoken out about the deluge of hateful abuse she received online from frustrated gamblers after losing a match in Canada, including messages wishing her death and celebrating Russia killing her compatriots. Following her straight-sets loss to Naomi Osaka in the quarterfinals of the National Bank Open on Tuesday night, Svitolina posted screenshots of the messages on Instagram. The abuse was directed at her, while other racial slurs also targeted her husband, the French tennis player Gaël Monfils, who is Black. One abuser hoped that Russia “kills…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Arriving in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, triple jumper Jonathan Edwards made an unlikely purchase in duty free. He decided to pick up a pair of sunglasses – not for sunning himself on the city’s ample and attractive coastline, but because he wanted them for the upcoming world championships, the biggest event on the track and field calendar that year. Edwards was terrified, and the glasses, he reasoned, would mask that fear from his other competitors. “I thought I could easily not win,” recalls Edwards, who entered the 1995 world championships in the form of his…