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Facebook Tweet Email Link NFL players will be allowed to use “smelling salts” during games after all. The NFLPA sent a memo to players on Wednesday saying that the ban that the league informed teams about on Tuesday only prohibits team employees from distributing smelling salts and any other ammonia inhalant during pregame activities, games and halftime on the sideline or locker rooms. “The NFL Players Association is aware of the memo issued by the league Tuesday regarding the use of smelling salts and ammonia capsules,” said the memo to players, which was obtained by The Associated Press. “We were…
Facebook Tweet Email Link The champions of this year’s US Open are set to enjoy the biggest payday in tennis history. Tournament organizers announced on Wednesday that the men’s and women’s singles champions will each earn $5 million at this year’s tournament, a 39% increase on the $3.6 million awarded in 2024. Overall, the tournament’s prize purse will top $90 million – the largest in tennis history and a 20% increase on last year, which stood at $75 million. There will also be sizeable increases in pay for those who progress to the latter stages of the competition, with singles…
Facebook Tweet Email Link New York AP — Jen Pawol was in her hotel room in Nashville, Tennessee, when she got the call she had awaited for a decade. She was going to make her major league debut this weekend, becoming the first female umpire in a century and a half of big league baseball. “I was overcome with emotion,” Pawol recalled Thursday, two days before she breaks a gender barrier when she works the bases during Miami’s doubleheader at Atlanta. “It was super emotional to finally be living that phone call that I’d been hoping for and working towards…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Arlington, Texas AP — IndyCar driver Pato O’Ward and series officials were shocked by a social media post from the Department of Homeland Security that touts plans for an immigration detention center in Indiana dubbed “Speedway Slammer,” and includes a car with the same number as the only Mexican driver in the series. “It caught a lot of people off guard. Definitely caught me off guard,” O’Ward said Wednesday. “I was just a little bit shocked at the coincidences of that and, you know, of what it means. … I don’t think it made a lot…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Yet another sex toy was thrown onto a WNBA court, this time in the closing seconds of the Atlanta Dream’s 86-65 win over the Chicago Sky. With just under six seconds remaining at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago on Thursday, play was momentarily stopped after a purple toy was thrown from the stands – the fourth in growing lists of recent copycat incidents. According to Front Office Sports reporter Colin Salao, a second sex toy was thrown on Thursday but only made it behind the Dream’s bench. Two men were questioned by security shortly after the…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Victoria Mboko didn’t even have a picture on the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) website before the Canadian Open in Montreal. Now, the 18-year-old has defeated four-time grand slam champion Naomi Osaka in the first WTA Tour final of her career. Mboko had to come from behind in the 2-6, 6-4, 6-1 victory to cap off a sensational run in her home country. She is just the third Canadian in the Open Era to win the tournament after Faye Urban in 1969 and Bianca Andreescu in 2019. “These past two weeks have been insane,” said Mboko, per…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Spanish soccer club Villarreal announced the signing of Thomas Partey on Thursday, weeks after the midfielder was charged in England with five counts of rape and one count of sexual assault. Partey was charged with two counts of rape of one woman, three counts of rape regarding a second woman, and one count of sexual assault of a third, the Metropolitan Police said last month. The alleged assaults are reported to have taken place between 2021 and 2022, according to police. The 32-year-old’s lawyer, Jenny Wiltshire, told CNN Sports that Partey “denies all the charges against…
Facebook Tweet Email Link A bizarre and decidedly crude string of incidents has eclipsed the action on the court in the WNBA this week and top figures in the league are calling out the disrespect they’re feeling as a result. What began as a seemingly isolated incident of a fan throwing a sex toy onto the court during a game on July 29 has spawned a series of copycat incidents, drawing outrage from players, coaches and commentators alike. The reported story behind how it all began has opened a strange window into the Gen Z meme culture, the desire to…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Former Green Bay Packers wide receiver and first-ever player union president, Billy Howton, has died, according to the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA). Howton, who was 95, passed away Monday in Houston “after a long and lucky life,” according to the Bradshaw-Carter funeral home obituary. The cause of death was not revealed. The Texan native was considered a pioneer of the NFLPA in its early days, representing the Packers in the organization’s first board meeting, according to the players’ union. He was later selected as the NFLPA’s first player president in 1958, where he had…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Atlanta — Detroit Lions safety Morice Norris posted on social media Saturday that he is “all good” after suffering a scary head injury during Friday night’s NFL preseason game against the Atlanta Falcons that led to the contest being suspended in the fourth quarter. “Amen, amen. I’m all good man. Don’t stress it. Appreciate all the check ins and love,” Norris wrote on his Instagram story. He also posted a 1 Thessalonians 5:18 bible verse. The 24-year-old was taken off the Mercedes-Benz Stadium field on a stretcher and lifted into an ambulance after a hit to…