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AELTC chair is thought to be in favour of proposals, while former British No 1 is understood to have expressed strong support for reformsThe All England Club has backed proposals for a reformed tennis calendar offering equal prize money all year round, Telegraph Sport understands. At the moment, there is a significant difference in the prize money handed out by the ATP and WTA Tours, so that the top 10 women earned around £40 million between them last year to their male equivalents’ £66 million. But at a meeting in Indian Wells on Saturday, new AELTC chair Debbie Jevans supported...

Anti-Semitism on Greek soil: Maccabi Tel Aviv fans who came to Piraeus to support their team in the match against Olympiakos in the Round of 16 of the Conference League encountered a man of Iraqi origin who, according to evidence, cheered for terrorist leader Yahya Sinwar, waved the PLO flag and attacked Israel. The handful of fans from Israel attacked him back and that man sent to the hospital .. Unfortunately, even tonight the Israeli fans encountered ugly and outrageous anti-Semitism when, according to records on social networks, the yellow fans encountered a local anti-Israeli person of Iraqi origin who...

Homeschooling is now a driving force behind one of the fastest-growing sports in America: Ninja Warrior.While American physical education programs demonstrably fail the nation’s K-12 students, Christian homeschoolers have found an alternative that’s proven far more effective. The result is that homeschooling is now a driving force behind one of the fastest-growing sports in America: Ninja Warrior.Since 2009, NBC has broadcast a U.S. version of the Japanese sports reality show “Sasuke” as “American Ninja Warrior.” The dynamic obstacles require a level of skilled athleticism far beyond the basic programming of K-12 gymnasiums. The courses’ difficulties have made both the triumphs...

(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider how strictly to interpret the landmark Title IX civil rights law's protections for gender equality in college sports in a lawsuit challenging Michigan State University's elimination of its women's swimming and diving team. The high court rejected the university's appeal of a lower-court ruling in favor of former members of the team who say MSU violated Title IX by not providing enough opportunities for women athletes to participate in sports. Lori Bullock, a lawyer for the student athletes suing MSU, said she was "pleased but not surprised" the Supreme Court...

This coming January, the NCAA will convene in Texas to decide the future of standardized testing requirements for student-athletes. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the NCAA and universities nationwide have taken steps to waive or modify admissions and eligibility criteria. With the pandemic coming to an end, it is yet to be determined which policies and requirements will be reimplemented by these institutions and which may be scrapped entirely. Division I and Division II college athletes are held to a specific set of academic eligibility requirements by the NCAA. These include a minimum GPA (2.3 for Division I...

Sports hall, restaurant, club: What can become of churches? In order for churches to be better attended, they sometimes need new functions. This poses challenges for dioceses Last year, more than 72,000 people left the Catholic Church. An indoor football pitch in Wettringen, a parish in North Rhine-Westphalia, measures nine by 18 metres. Nothing special really, yet it attracts attention. For where cheers echo from the vaulted ceiling today, not so long ago it was the prayers of believers.

Rafael Nadal is a truly great tennis player but the once great sporting nation of Australia has abandoned it's own proud history of sportsmanship to persecute Nadal's rival Djokovic for insisting on his rights to medical privacy and personal control of what substances are injected into his own body. I rate the chances pretty low of Cheif Commissioner Shane Patton doing anything to bring Novak's vicious criminal persecutors to justice. But I have started the formal process by demanding an investigation and one young police officer took the first step toward doing that. Patton should support her. And when and...

Fool's Ball Week 12 Your home for all things Fool's Ball! In Memoriam Danny Lee (BENDER2)

There is Western magic in the colors red, white and blue. Old Glory. The Union Jack. The tricolor. The Aussie and New Zealand flags. It reminds us of what we have forgotten. Teamwork. Manliness. Discipline. Freedom. The sporting team based down the road from me, the Western Bulldogs, has achieved great success this year by playing lots of players. Sharing the work. Showing trust. Isn't that what life used to be like in the West? Tonight (the game starts about eleven hours after this post) the Bulldogs take on Port Power to secure a spot in the top four. Go...

The Commissioner of "MLB" should be immediately fired by the the "MLB" team owners and the Major League Baseball Game should be immediately returned to Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta, & the great state of Georgia did nothing wrong in revising their state election laws. Fake Democrat Incompetent, Demented, POTUS, Joe Biden should be removed from office by the Democrat Party for calling the Georgia legislation, "Jim Crow" law. Biden should resign!!! Delta Air lines should fire its CEO for not standing by the great city of Atlanta, the Great State of Georgia. Hartsfield International Airport which is the "Home" airport and...

As a Chinese immigrant watching my first pro game, it was obvious to me that such pride and patriotism wasn't coerced by the state, but a genuine expression by free people.Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, recently decided the national anthem would not be played at Mavericks’ home games, citing his desire to listen to voices of “those who feel that the anthem doesn’t represent them.” But to me, a Chinese immigrant, Cuban’s decision did not feel inclusive, but ignorant of what the anthem does represent. I never went to a professional sports event when I was...

The most unusual Triple Crown horse racing season in history will finally continue Saturday, Sept. 5 (7:01 p.m. ET post time, NBC) with the 2020 Kentucky Derby. The first jewel was postponed from the first Saturday in May, which now makes it the second jewel. Tiz The Law, which cruised to victory at the Belmont Stakes on June 20 and followed that up with another big win at the Travers Stakes on Aug. 8, will be looking to keep his Triple Crown hopes alive and well ahead of the Preakness (Oct. 3), trading his home-state tracks in New York for...

Former pro golfer Paige Spirinac has slammed what she says is rampant “stuffiness” in the sport, claiming she's been shunned “because of her cleavage” and shamed as “a sl*t.” Spirinac, 26, emerged as a college golf star while at university in Arizona and San Diego, before briefly playing professionally on the women’s Cactus Tour in 2015-16. However, the budding blonde star decided to leave the professional ranks as her social media popularity soared, also featuring in magazines such as the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition. (snip)

Catalans Dragons' controversial signing Israel Folau can expect to face protests on his first visit to England. The 30-year-old dual-code international, who has not played since being sacked by Rugby Australia last May for making homophobic comments on social media, joined the French Super League club on Tuesday. The signing has caused a storm, with even Super League executive chairman Robert Elstone condemning the move, and Wigan responded by declaring their home game against the Catalans in March a 'Pride Day'. Former Wales international Gareth Thomas said he is "really upset" by Dragons' decision to sign the controversial player. Thomas,...

Researchers from New Zealand's University of Otago think dividing sports competitions into men's and women's isn't sufficient to deal with transgender individuals, and thus want a "more nuanced approach." As The College Fix reports, the study is titled, "Transwomen in elite sport: scientific and ethical considerations." BioEdge noted that the study stated, " ... it is important to both extend and celebrate diversity, while maintaining fairness for cis-women in sport. To be simultaneously inclusive and fair at the elite level the male/ female binary must be discarded in favour of a more nuanced approach. We conclude that the gender binary...

Breakdancing and three other sports took another step toward appearing at the Paris 2024 Olympics after the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday voted in favour of their inclusion. The Paris 2024 organizing committee in February proposed surfing, skateboarding and sport climbing as well as breakdancing for inclusion in the Games, and the IOC's executive board gave the initial green light in March.

Legendary Green Bay Packers quarterback Bart Starr died Sunday at the age of 85, according to the team. The Packers announced Starr, a catalyst of Vince Lombardi's powerhouse teams of the 1960s, died in Birmingham, Ala., citing his family. ....The Packers selected Starr out of the University of Alabama with the 200th pick in the 1956 draft. He led Green Bay to six division titles, five NFL championships and wins in the first two Super Bowls. Until Brett Favre came along, Starr was known as the best Packer ever. The team retired his No. 15 jersey in 1973, making him...

In the spring young men’s hearts turn to romance and old men’s hearts to baseball. As James Earl Jones intones in “Field of Dreams,” a great but flawed movie, “The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time.” During my first decade of WORLD editing I sometimes played at being a sportswriter, taking a different son each year to spring training. An article I wrote 25 years ago included interviews with two great...

West Indies fast bowler Shannon Gabriel has been banned for the first four one-day internationals against England. Gabriel, 30, accepted an International Cricket Council charge over comments he made to England captain Joe Root during the third Test in St Lucia. In reply, Root told Gabriel: "Don't use it as an insult. There's nothing wrong with being gay." It takes Gabriel's total demerit points to eight in a two-year period, resulting in a four-match ODI ban. West Indies host England in a five-match ODI series starting on 20 February in Barbados. Gabriel was due to be rested for the start...

The recent pardon of the late world heavy weight champion Jack Johnson by our president was a gracious act long overdue. A previous motion had passed the House but died in the Senate in 2008. Johnson’s racially motivated conviction for violating the Mann Act after he had married a white woman resulted in his beginning a year term in Leavenworth prison in 1920. It was not a salutary place; I buried one of its inmates who had done much more than a year there. Johnson skipped bail and spent several years in Europe via Canada. In Barcelona, much in need...