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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation Thursday that will prohibit transgender women from competing in women’s collegiate athletics. The measure adds to a 2021 Texas law that requires public school teams through high school “to be designated by students’ sex assigned at birth.”  Senate Bill 15, called the “Save Women’s …

Lindsay Whalen has decided not to remain in an administrative role at Minnesota following her dismissal as women’s basketball coach. According to the release agreement between the university and Whalen, first reported Wednesday by the St. Paul Pioneer Press and obtained by The Associated Press, she received a $215,000 buyout …

Holding up the same No. 5 shirt once donned by Zinedine Zidane, Jude Bellingham completed his move to Real Madrid on Thursday after signing a six-year deal with Europe’s most successful club. Bellingham posed with his new shirt before Madrid’s packed trophy case after he passed a medical exam and …

Washington Nationals manager Dave Martinez was irate after the team’s loss to the Houston Astros on Wednesday night and came to the press conference with a visual aid. In the wild bottom of the ninth inning, Astros slugger Jose Abreu scored on catcher Keibert Ruiz’s error to give Houston the …

Houston Astros starting pitcher Lance McCullers Jr. won’t be returning anytime soon to the rotation after the team announced he will undergo forearm surgery that will keep him out until next season.  It’s been a lingering injury for McCullers all year. He hasn’t stepped on the mound in 2023 for …

New York Yankees super utility man Isiah Kiner-Falefa had one of the best Little League moments a player could dream of when he was standing on third base against the New York Mets on Wednesday night at Citi Field.  With lefty reliever Brooks Raley on the mound, Kiner-Falefa got his …

New York Mets right-hander Drew Smith was thrown out of Tuesday’s Subway Series game after multiple umpires conducted a foreign-substance check. Before taking the mound in the seventh inning, umpires checked Smith’s hand and ruled that he had a sticky substance on him, which prompted his ejection from the game …

Dion Stutts, a rising senior on the Memphis University School’s (MUS) football team and an Arkansas Razorbacks commit, died in an apparent ATV crash Tuesday, according to reports. He was 18. MUS athletics released a brief statement on social media Tuesday to confirm Stutts’ death.  Dion Stutts of MUS is …

Patrick Gasienica, who represented the U.S. in the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, died on Monday, USA Nordic Sport and U.S. Ski & Snowboard confirmed in a statement Tuesday. He was 24.  His cause of death was not immediately known. Patrick Gasienica jumps during men’s normal hill individual first round at …

New York Mets pitcher Drew Smith exited Tuesday night’s Subway Series matchup against the New York Yankees almost as quickly as he entered. Smith was set to start his relief appearance in the seventh inning when he got checked out by an umpire to see whether there was anything suspicious …