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After years of being a mediocre swimmer on the men’s team, Thomas woke up one morning and identified as transgender, transitioned, joined the women’s team, and started breaking records against his female teammates and tournament competitors. Since robbing real women of opportunities wasn’t enough for him, he also disrespected his teammates by exposing his male genitalia to them in the locker room. And now, Riley Gaines, a former teammate of Thomas, is calling for changes to be made by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). “We were not forewarned beforehand that we would be sharing a locker room with Lia....

Speaker McCarthy and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) lead a roundtable decrying the inclusion of transgender athletes in women's and girls' sports.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State (10-0, 3-0 B1G) will host Iowa (12-0, 5-0 B1G) on Friday, Jan. 27, in the second BJC Dual of the year for head coach Cael Sanderson's squad. The Nittany Lions and Hawkeyes face off at 8:30 p.m. in another B1G Network national telecast in the Jordan Center. This is Iowa's first trip to Penn State since the 2017-18 season. Penn State is coming off a superb two-win weekend in State College. The Nittany Lions dominated Michigan 30-8 in the first BJC Dual of the season last Friday, winning eight of ten matches including three...

Tomorrow, in San Antonio, Texas, the NCAA will hold its annual convention. But they’re going to have some visitors at the big event that the organization’s leaders likely won’t be happy to see. The group Concerned Women for America, among the country’s biggest women’s policy organizations, will be holding a rally to greet the leaders of the NCAA as they arrive, but they won’t be bringing flowers or asking for autographs. They will be handing in a petition with thousands of signatures from women around the country demanding that the NCAA stop allowing men who “identify” as women to compete...

If Jim Harbaugh is indeed staying with Michigan football for 2023, per his statement on Thursday afternoon, he’ll apparently have to deal with a Level I violation of NCAA regulations. The Detroit Free Press has confirmed that Michigan is expected to receive an official notice of allegations from the NCAA soon, charging the program with four Level II violations — those deemed “more than a minimal but less than a substantial or extensive recruiting, competitive or other advantage” according to a description adopted in 2019 — and Harbaugh himself with a Level I violation — a “severe breach of conduct”...

Alabama quarterback Bryce Young and linebacker Will Anderson Jr. made headlines last week when they decided that they will play in the Crimson Tide's Sugar Bowl matchup against Kansas State. In doing so, the two projected top-five picks in this spring's NFL Draft bucked a recent trend in college football of draft prospects sitting out of non-playoff bowl games in increasing numbers. We now know why the two stars have decided to suit up for Alabama one final time. Anderson and Young told reporters on Monday that they're trying to set an example of leadership and accountability for their Alabama...

Labor Relations Board Says Student-Athletes Should Be Classified as Employees Andy Berg Dec 16, 2022 The National Labor Relations Board asserted this week that the NCAA is breaking the law by refusing to classify student athletes as employees. According to Politico, NLRB officials in Los Angeles determined that the NCAA, along with the Pac-12 and University of Southern California are joint employers of athletes. NLRB general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo said Thursday that the NCAA's refusal to classify student-athletes as employees is in violation of the their labor rights. “This kind of misclassification deprives these players of their statutory right to...

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...

No. 2 Ohio State at No. 13 Penn State | 12 p.m. | FOX No. 7 TCU at West Virginia | 12 p.m. | ESPN Notre Dame at No. 16 Syracuse | 12 p.m. ET | ABC Arkansas at Auburn | 12 p.m. | SEC Network Oklahoma at Iowa State | 12 p.m. | FS1 Boston College at UConn | 12 p.m. | CBSSN South Florida at Houston | 12 p.m. | ESPN2 Georgia Tech at Florida State | 12 p.m. | ACC Network Toledo at Eastern Michigan | 12 p.m. | ESPNU Miami (Ohio) at Akron | 12 p.m....

Week 8 All times Eastern. All schedules and networks subject to change. Saturday, Oct. 22 Iowa at No. 2 Ohio State | 12 p.m. | FOX UT Martin at No. 3 Tennessee | 12 p.m. | SEC Network No. 14 Syracuse at No. 5 Clemson | 12 p.m. | ABC No. 21 Cincinnati at SMU | 12 p.m. | ESPN Kansas at Baylor | 12 p.m. | ESPN2 UL Monroe at Army | 12 p.m. | CBSSN Indiana at Rutgers | 12 p.m. | Big Ten Network Houston at Navy | 12 p.m. | ESPNU Akron at Kent State |...

A pass interference call wiped out a crucial interception for the Crimson Tide in the loss at Tennessee. TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama has officially been penalized more than any other team in the country. After the Crimson Tide got called for a program-record 17 penalties Saturday against Tennessee, it's no surprise that penalties were a major theme of Nick Saban's Monday press conference. Whether it be pass interference, which wiped out a game-sealing interception for the second week in a row, or pre-snap infractions, or special teams penalties that negated big gains, Saban is frustrated with it all. Depending on...

All times Eastern. All schedules and networks subject to change. Week 7 Friday, Oct. 14 Princeton 35, Brown 19 SMU 40, Navy 34 UTSA 30, FIU 10 Saturday, Oct. 15 No. 10 Penn State at No. 5 Michigan | 12 p.m. | FOX Auburn at No. 9 Ole Miss | 12 p.m. | ESPN No. 19 Kansas at Oklahoma | 12 p.m. | ESPN2 Iowa State at No. 22 Texas | 12 p.m. | ABC Minnesota at No. 24 Illinois | 12 p.m. | Big Ten Network Colgate at Army | 12 p.m. | CBSSN Central Michigan at Akron |...

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Former Washington State coach Nick Rolovich is finally speaking out about his reasoning for not getting the COVID-19 vaccine in 2021 and the "ugly conversations" he says occurred with school administrators that led up to his firing. Rolovich, in his first public comments since his firing, told Allison Williams, the host of The Daily Wire's Breakaways, in an interview published on Friday that "lack of answers, lack of dialogue" about the effects of the vaccine, as well as his beliefs as a Catholic, led him to not comply with Gov. Jay Inslee's mandate for Washington state employees. Washington State fired...

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Should you go for the tie (and Overtime) or the win? LSU did not play well most of the game and on the last play went for the tie (and OT) instead of the win. LSU FSU final 0:01 secondWhich is best?

LEE COUNTY, Ala. – Auburn QB TJ Finley was arrested Thursday, according to the Auburn Police Department. Finley, 20, was booked into the Lee County jail on a charge of attempting to elude officers. He has since been released. WSFA Further details about the arrest remain unclear. The Auburn Athletics Department confirmed they “are aware of the situation” but declined to comment further. The news comes just two weeks after Finley became the first college football player to sign a name, image and likeness deal with Amazon. This is a breaking news update.

Will “Lia” Thomas, the biological male who swam on the University of Pennsylvania’s women’s swim team this past school year, has lost his bid to become the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year.Each eligible school could submit the names of up to two female student-athletes for consideration before the selection committee chose 10 athletes from each division to determine the top 30 honorees. The NCAA selected Columbia University fencer Sylvie Binder to advance to the next round as the Ivy League conference winner.Thomas made headlines for crushing his competition in NCAA women’s swimming, sparking widespread outrage. After years of being...

University of Michigan football head coach Jim Harbaugh is facing calls for his termination after he went public with his pro-life views. Harbaugh is a devout Catholic and said that “I believe in having the courage to let the unborn be born.” The response has been overwhelming and furious, but it is unlikely that Harbaugh (who just signed signed a 5-year, $36.7 million contract) will be canned. It is an interesting comparison to the successful campaign recently to force a NFL coach to withdraw his comments about Jan. 6th. Yet, if critics had their way, both coaches would be fired...