Sports
26 Charged With Rigging College and Chinese Basketball Games
NEW YORK, Jan. 15 (Reuters)—Pennsylvania federal prosecutors on Thursday announced charges against 26 people for allegedly rigging bets on college and Chinese professional basketball games, the latest case to accuse athletes…
Eyes on Gorsuch as SCOTUS weighs transgender student athlete bans
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in a pair of cases that ask whether state governments may prohibit transgender girls and women from playing on girls' and women's school sports teams. As I sat…
Brett Kavanaugh is rightly skeptical of a nationwide ruling on trans athletes
Becky Pepper-Jackson just wanted to be on the girls' middle school cross country team. Now, five years later, she's at the Supreme Court. In 2021, West Virginia enacted a law banning transgender girls from playing…
SCOTUS Title IX Case Is ‘Ground Zero of a Culture War’
A large crowd gathered outside of the Supreme Court on Tuesday for the Save Women’s Sports rally as Justices heard the opening arguments for two combined cases, from West Virginia and Idaho, that could set a constitutional …
Max Martin, CEO of the Enhanced Games, wants to make performance-enhancing drugs mainstream
Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! It's a great week to grate some cheese thanks to the new food pyramid. Today's edition is a really interesting conversation with Max Martin, CEO of Enhanced. His…
Protecting Girls Remains Good Politics
Keeping men out of women’s sports is smart policy and smart politics. Just look at what happened recently in Nevada. Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo recently rolled out the Protect Girls’ Sports initiative. As the name implies, he…
3 SCOTUS cases to watch
Greetings and welcome to the latest edition of the Injustice System newsletter. You’re reading Injustice System from Damon Root and Reason. Get more of Damon’s commentary on constitutional law and American history. After a…
6 ways sports and politics will collide in 2026
Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! Try something new in the new year, even if it seems remarkably silly at first glance. Commiserations to everyone else who failed to win any of their five fantasy football…
Trump’s tariffs are making sporting goods more expensive
Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! It's still not too late to break out your ugly Christmas sweaters and coordinate with your friends. Is Christmas ruined because of tariffs? Probably not, because the…
Chuck Chalberg: Minnesota naming | Power Line
John C. “Chuck” Chalberg, is retired professor of history at Normandale Community College in Bloomington, Minnesota and the author of Rickey and Robinson: The Preacher, the Player, and America’s Game as well as Emma Goldman:…
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