Boston Red Sox pitcher Walker Buehler was back on the mound for Tuesday night’s game against the New York Mets, but his outing did not last long.
Buehler threw a pitch to Juan Soto in the top of the third inning that was called a ball despite the broadcast showing that it was in the strike zone low and inside. Mets infielder Francisco Lindor stole second base on the play.
The Red Sox right-hander was unhappy with the call and began to bark at home plate umpire Mike Estabrook. The broadcast caught exactly what Buehler was saying – hardly anything complimentary.
"It’s right down the f---ing middle," Buehler said. "It’s right down the f---ing middle. … F--- you."
That was enough to get Buehler tossed from the game. Red Sox manager Alex Cora was right behind him as he was tossed out as well. Cora let Estabrook have it and made contact with first base umpire Laz Diaz, who was trying to keep the peace.
"I’m not going to talk about what he did or didn’t do. I don’t think it’s my place," Buhler said after the game. "For me, it kind of spiraled a little bit and I said some things that he thought I shouldn’t have said and whatnot. At the end of the day, putting our team in a position like that is the only thing I really regret about that situation."
It was Buehler’s second ejection of his career. He was making his first start since being activated off of the injured list.
Diaz, the crew chief, said Buehler was tossed for stepping off the mound to argue the call.
"He can say stuff from the mound. But once he comes off the mound, he’s leaving his position to argue balls and strikes," Diaz said. "Once anybody leaves their position to argue balls and strikes, that’s an immediate ejection."
Cora said he was surprised by the ejection of Buehler. He hoped Estabrook would have tossed him only instead.
"You can throw me out and we can keep the pitcher in the game but I guess he had enough. I don’t know why. At that point, well I’ve got to go, too," Cora said. "I thought yesterday was a good day for us without me so I decided to do it again."
The Indianapolis 500 is the biggest single-day sporting event on the planet, and it's living up to that once again with the Greatest Spectacle in Racing's first full grandstand sellout in nearly a decade.
On Tuesday, IndyCar announced that all reserved seating tickets — meaning those in grandstands and suites — have been sold.
"As promised, the very best fans in sports have delivered in fitting fashion for the stars of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES, and every last reserved seat ticket has been sold," IndyCar and Indianapolis Motor Speedway president Doug Boles said in a statement. "Approximately 350,000 people will experience the ultimate spectacle that is the Indy 500 in person as everyone turns their focus to the Racing Capital of the World on Sunday."
The last time tickets sold out like this was for the 100th Running of the Indianapolis 500 in 2016.
If you're still hoping to snag a ticket, you can always check IMS Official Resale Marketplace, or you can pick up a ticket got Carb Day (Friday) or Legends Day (Saturday). There are also general admission tickets available for raceday.
IMS and IndyCar officials saw this one coming last week, and as such decided to lift the local blackout of the race, meaning fans in the Indianapolis area who didn't score a ticket can still watch the race.
The Indy 500 is always one of the most anticipated races, but there's a lot of buzz around the 109th Running because there are some wild storylines to be on the lookout for.
For instance, Team Penske's Josef Newgarden is looking to become the first driver to win three straight Indy 500s. However, he'll be starting from the 11th and final row of the grid alongside his teammate Will Power after both drivers' cars failed pre-qualifying inspection.
While that controversy, which involved the modification of the cars' attenuators, was happening, rookie Robert Shwartzman stormed through qualifying to take pole for Prema Racing in their Indy 500 debut.
It's going to be a good one, folks, so if you snagged a ticket, have yourself a time.
If not, be sure to watch the race Sunday at 12:30 pm ET on Fox with pre-race coverage starting at 10 am.
Natasha Howard’s first shot was blocked, and then she hit back-iron. Nia Coffey grabbed the rebound, and the Dream were able to waste the remainder of the clock.
Safe to say, fans were baffled by Clark not getting the final shot.
Indiana trailed, 44-42, at the half while Clark was on pace for a second triple-double in as many games this season. However, the Dream went on an 11-0 run, and it looked like all was over.
Trailing by 11 to start the fourth, Clark hit two deep 3-pointers and handed out a nifty behind-the-back assist to cut the deficit to four.
Indiana could not inch closer for several minutes but finally tied the game with just over a minute left. Aliyah Boston then went to the line with 21.7 seconds left and gave the Fever their first lead since they scored the first basket of the game.
However, Atlanta's Rhyne Howard hit two free throws, the game-tying and winning shots, with 9.7 seconds left.
Clark finished with 27 points and 11 assists. It was the 10th 20-point, 10-assist game for Clark in her young career, tying Courtney Vandersloot's WNBA record. Vandersloot has played in 430 games. Clark has played in just 42.
In two games, Clark is averaging 23.5 points and 10.5 assists.
Former Chicago Bears star linebacker Brian Urlacher made his stance known on the issue of transgender athletes in women's and girls' sports as the debate creates a divide in the state where he made his reputation – Illinois.
Urlacher shared his opinion on the issue during an interview on the "Global View" podcast on May 9 and questioned why it is even a debate in some circles.
"Why is it even a debate? A woman is a woman and a man is a man… you're born with what you're born with," Urlacher said.
Urlacher even referenced an ongoing controversy in Minnesota, where a transgender pitcher is currently dominating the girls' softball season. The trans athlete reportedly won 14 straight games heading into the playoffs and earned first-team All-State honors rocked the state in recent weeks.
"It's just different because we are men, there are certain things we do better than women, and it's just, number one, it's not fair, and if I had a daughter who had to be forced to play against a man I would not be okay with it and I would raise hell about it," Urlacher said.
"I just don't get it, it's a common sense thing, I just don't see how you can push this and make someone thing they're a different sex."
The Pro Football Hall of Famer praised President Donald Trump for signing the "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" executive order at the White House on Feb. 5.
Illinois has become a hotbed of controversy over the issue of trans athlete inclusion in recent days after a biological male competed in a seventh-grade track meet against biological females at the Naper Prairie Conference Meet.
The incident resulted in a Naperville 203 Community School District Board meeting descending into a heated debate over the issue on Monday.
Awake Illinois has filed a civil rights complaint against the district, with the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights alleging a violation of Title IX.
They called on federal funds to be withheld from the district, which it says receives between $8 million and $9 million in federal grants annually. The complaint is part of a broader effort by Awake Illinois, which previously filed similar Title IX complaints against other districts and the Illinois State Board of Education.
The Indiana Pacers and New York Knicks will play Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals on Wednesday night in Madison Square Garden, where they will add another chapter to their storied playoff history.
The Knicks and Pacers clashed in the playoffs six times from 1993-2000, with those series littered with heated moments between players and fans alike.
Below are some of the most iconic moments from the clashes between the bitter rivals over the years.
The Knicks were up to 2-0 over the Pacers in the first round of the NBA playoffs in 1993 when tempers flared in the third quarter. Knicks star guard John Starks, after scoring, was trash-talking towards Reggie Miller.
The trash-talk culminated with Starks headbutting Miller. Starks was promptly ejected from the game. The Pacers won that Game 3, but the Knicks won the ensuing Game 4 and the series.
However, the groundwork for the bitterness between the teams was laid with the headbutt.
In 1994, the two teams met again, this time in the Eastern Conference finals. The Knicks were looking to take a commanding 3-2 lead in Game 5 and were up 70-58 in the third quarter.
However, Miller dominated the fourth quarter, wheres he scored 25 of his 39 points. Throughout the fourth quarter, Miller was going back and forth with Knicks superfan Spike Lee.
Miller taunted Lee by making a now-infamous choke gesture. The Pacers won that Game 5 behind Millers’ strong performance but lost the next two games, and the Knicks won the series in seven games and went to the NBA Finals.
For the third straight year, the Pacers and Knicks faced off in the playoffs in 1995, this time in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
Miller, who had been at the heart of the rivalry, authored one of the most incredulous comebacks in NBA playoff history.
The Knicks were up 105-99 with16 seconds left in the fourth quarter of Game 1 when Miller turned the game on its head by scoring eight points in nine seconds.
The Pacers star drilled a 3-pointer with about 16 seconds left, then hit another 3-pointer after he stole the Knicks' inbound pass. After the Knicks missed a pair of free throws and a put-back attempt, Miller grabbed the rebound and was subsequently fouled.
Miller went to the free throw line, buried two free throws, and gave the Pacers a 107-105 lead.
The 1995 series, like the 1994 matchup, went the full seven games, but the Pacers prevailed this time and moved on to the Eastern Conference finals.
The two teams met in the 1998 Eastern Conference semifinals, but the Pacers were heavy favorites due to Knicks’ star Patrick Ewing’s wrist injury. The Pacers dispatched the Knicks in five games.
However, in the 1999 Eastern Conference finals, the two teams met again, and the Knicks were not as overmatched as they were the prior season.
The Knicks won the series in six games, with Johnson delivering one of the most iconic shots in franchise history in Game 3.
The Pacers held a 91-88 lead with six seconds left in the game when Johnson nailed a 3-pointer and was also fouled by Antonio Davis. Johnson hit the free throw to give the Knicks a 92-91 lead, and that score would hold as the Knicks snatched victory out of the jaws of defeat.
The Pacers and Knicks played again in the Eastern Conference finals in 2000, and the Pacers outlasted the Knicks in six games, getting revenge for 1999.
The next time the two teams met in the playoffs was 2013 in the Eastern Conference semifinals, with new stars involved to reignite the rivalry.
The Paul George-led Pacers took down the Carmelo Anthony-led Knicks in six games.
The two teams wouldn’t see each other in the playoffs again until last season in the Eastern Conference semifinals. The Pacers dispatched a Knicks team that was decimated by injury in Game 7 with a historic shooting performance.
The Pacers shot an astounding 67.1% from the field in that Game 7, good for an NBA playoff record, in their 130-109 victory.
The Pacers hold a 5-3 series record over the Knicks in the playoffs and hold a 26-22 playoff record against the Knicks.
After missing the postseason, the Bengals front office spent part of the offseason making sure quarterback Joe Burrow had plenty of weapons at his disposal. Around two months after re-signing Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins, the Bengals schedule was revealed.
Burrow said he was disappointed by his team's schedule.
The NFL released its full regular-season schedule for all 32 teams last Wednesday.
While the NFL's international slate features the league's first-ever regular-season game in Spain, the Bengals will not be traveling overseas in 2025 — much to Burrow's disapproval.
The two-time Pro Bowl quarterback said he wanted an opportunity to play on the international stage this upcoming season.
"To not have a stage like that is a little disappointing. I feel like I've consciously worked hard to try to grow the game internationally over the last 18 months or so," Burrow said. "Hopefully at some point in my career we can go over there."
The signal caller also highlighted one of the three scheduled Thanksgiving games. The Bengals will be in Baltimore that night for a game against the Ravens.
The contest will mark the fourth year in a row that the Bengals have competed in a nighttime road game against their AFC North divisional rival. "Playing in Baltimore for the fourth straight year in primetime isn’t ideal," Burrow added. "Maybe we can get one of those in Cincinnati. Please."
NFL owners have unanimously approved permission for players to participate in flag football for the 2028 Olympics.
The vote at the spring meetings in Minnesota on Tuesday authorized the league to negotiate safety provisions and scheduling logistics with the NFL Players Association, the sport’s international governing body and the relevant Olympic authorities before it becomes reality during the next Summer Games in Los Angeles.
Burrow expressed excitement about the possibility of competing in the Olympics: "That's an exciting opportunity. I'm not entirely sure how that would work out with training camp and all of our obligations here," Burrow said. "But that's something I would like to do for sure."
The Bengals went 9-8 last season. Cincinnati opens the 2025 season on the road against the Cleveland Browns on Sept. 7.
The NFL owners are expected to reengage in talks about the polarizing tush push on Wednesday at league meetings.
Last month, owners tabled the vote on a proposal to ban the play that became the Philadelphia Eagles' calling card over the past couple of seasons. As the vote nears, some prominent Philadelphia Eagles spoke out about the controversial short yardage play.
"But I can't control it. We can't control it. So, we don't even worry about it. Right now, we're just installing our schemes, whatever [offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo] is installing that day, that's what we're focused on because worrying about if they're going to ban the tush push or not ain't going to win us a championship."
.The Green Bay Packers submitted a proposal to ban the tush push.
"We'll see where that goes," Eagles coach Nick Sirianni said. "We're not waiting very long to figure it out. It's going to be public [Wednesday]. And you know how I feel about it."
At last month's league meetings, Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie described the tush push as "precision play" and credited quarterback Jalen Hurts for helping make the play routinely successful.
ESPN reported that the tush push was utilized in just 0.28% of total plays last season.
Caitlin Clark became the co-owner of yet another WNBA record, but her performance came in a losing effort.
The Atlanta Dream took down Clark's Indiana Fever, 91-90, in a thriller in Indianapolis Tuesday night, all while Clark rewrote the history books again.
Indiana trailed, 44-42, at the half, while Clark was on pace for a second triple-double in as many games this season. However, the Dream went on an 11-0 run, and it looked like all was over.
Trailing by 11 to start the fourth, Clark hit two deep 3-pointers and handed out a nifty behind-the-back assist to cut the deficit to four.
Indiana could not inch closer for several minutes but finally tied the game with just over a minute left. Aliyah Boston then went to the line with 21.7 seconds left and gave the Fever their first lead since they scored the first basket of the game. The foul against Boston was committed by Brittney Griner, who fouled out on the play.
Rhyne Howard of Atlanta, though, hit two free throws with 9.7 seconds left to take a one-point lead. Clark inbounded the ball but never touched it again. The Fever missed two shots to take the lead, and the Dream took home a thrilling victory.
Clark finished with 27 points and 11 assists. It's the 10th 20-point, 10-assist game for Clark in her young career, tying Courtney Vandersloot's WNBA record. Vandersloot has played in 430 games. Clark has played in just 42.
Clark also notched her 350th career assist Tuesday in her 42nd career game. It's the fastest a WNBA player has gotten to 350 assists. She also now has over 800 points, becoming the fourth fastest in the league to reach that milestone.
Griner finished the game with 21 points and eight rebounds.
It was the Fever's first game since the WNBA announced it was investigating reports of "hateful comments" directed toward Angel Reese Saturday during a game against Indiana. Clark's Fever defeated Reese's Sky, 93-58, and Clark was called for a flagrant foul against Reese, which resulted in Reese being held back from Clark.
In two games, Clark is averaging 23.5 points and 10.5 assists.
Brian Williams, who played for the Texas A&M football team for three seasons, died just hours after he completed a half-marathon, the family confirmed. The race took place in Irving, Texas.
The 24-year-old died on Sunday due to heat stroke complications, Brian's brother, Rawleigh Williams III, told the Dallas Morning News.
"B you are my heart," Rawleigh wrote in a social media post alongside photos of himself and his brother. "The BEST version of us in every single way B. I don’t think I can make it without you but I’m going to try for our parents and our sister. I love you brother."
Williams' mother, Kimberly, also paid tribute to her son.
"I cannot believe you are gone," she wrote on Instagram. "Our hearts hurt more than words can say. You were the best human we knew – the kindest, purest in heart, and most humble despite all you accomplished. You loved God and you loved us. Now, you are with him – total peace, total joy, – watching over us. We love you and we will see you again."
Williams earned an engineering degree from A&M in 2024. According to the Morning News, Williams was living in the Dallas-Fort Worth area prior to his death.
A 21-year-old has been charged with providing alcohol to the Pittsburgh Pirates fan who fell from the stands onto the field last month, according to multiple reports.
Kavan Markwood, a 20-year-old former college football player, was identified as the man who fell more than 20 feet onto the right field warning track.
According to reports, Ethan Kirkwood was charged with furnishing alcohol to a minor.
WTAE cited a criminal complaint that highlighted surveillance video that showed Kirkwood and Markwood with alcohol several times. The complaint said Kirkwood admitted buying Markwood alcohol.
Pittsburgh police did not immediately respond to an email from Fox News Digital.
Markwood lay on the dirt in right field after flipping multiple times through the air during the seventh inning of a Pirates’ game against the Chicago Cubs.
The 20-year-old broke his neck, clavicle and back in the fall, but Markwood says he is "all right" despite a long road to recovery.
"I can’t really sleep. I have a lot of back pain," he told TribLive.
Markwood described his injuries as "broken everything," which also included a swollen hand.
"I think when I get home, I’ll just put ice on it," he added.
After the accident, Markwood was rushed to Allegheny General Hospital’s trauma unit, where he was in critical condition at one point.
Pittsburgh Public Safety labeled what happened an accident, and fans sitting near Markwood said he had gotten excited about a Pirates’ rally during the game and proceeded to take his shirt off and pour beer on himself before the fall, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Markwood played for two Division II football programs, Walsh University and Wheeling University. He played at Wheeling in 2023, appearing in four games, according to the team’s site.
Fox News' Scott Thompson contributed to this report.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is facing a lawsuit for enabling trans athletes to compete in girls sports as the state faces an ongoing controversy involving a trans pitcher dominating the softball season.
The religious law firm Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the activist group Female Athletes United and three anonymous girls softball players in the state over the ongoing controversy.
"Minnesota is failing its female athletes. The state is putting the rights of males ahead of females, telling girls their hard work may never be enough to win and that they don’t deserve fairness and safety," Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Suzanne Beecher told Fox News Digital.
"By sacrificing protection for female athletes, Minnesota fails to offer girls equal treatment and opportunity, violating Title IX’s provisions. Our client, Female Athletes United, is right to stand up for its members by challenging the state’s discriminatory policy and advocate for true equality in sports."
The defendants are Ellison, the Minnesota State High School League Executive Director Erich Martens, Minnesota Department of Human Rights Commissioner Rebecca Lucero and Minnesota Commissioner of Education Willie Jett.
Ellison's office has released a statement responding to the lawsuit.
"In addition to getting exercise and the fun of competition, playing sports comes with so many benefits for young people. You build friendships that can last a lifetime, you learn how to work as part of a team, and you get to feel like you belong," Ellison said.
"I believe it is wrong to single out one group of students, who already face higher levels of bullying and harassment, and tell these kids they cannot be on the team because of who they are. I will continue to defend the rights of all students to play sports with their friends and peers."
Reports of the trans softball pitcher winning 14 straight games heading into the playoffs and earning first-team All-State honors rocked the state in recent weeks.
Former Vikings player Jack Brewer even spoke out about the controversy rocking his state's high school sports scene.
"In any sport — especially something like softball — people can get seriously hurt. A man hits the ball harder. A man throws the ball faster. So, the idea of allowing men to compete in women’s softball — especially now, when that sport has grown in visibility and opportunity — is insane," Brewer told Fox News Digital.
Meanwhile, Ellison is suing President Donald Trump and the Department of Justice to ensure transgender athletes can continue participating in girls sports in the state.
After Trump signed the "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" executive order, the Minnesota State High School League announced it would defy federal law by allowing transgender athletes to continue playing in women's sports.
Ellison then claimed at a press conference on April 22 that he received notice from the Department of Justice threatening legal action if the state did not follow the executive order, so the AG decided to sue first.
"I'm not going to sit around waiting for the Trump administration to sue Minnesota. Today, Minnesota is suing him and his administration because we will not participate in this shameful bullying," Ellison said. "We will not let a small group of vulnerable children who are only trying be healthy and live their lives be demonized."
The White House has responded to the lawsuit, condemning Ellison for taking legal action to enable trans inclusion.
"Why would a grown man sue the Trump administration to allow other biological males to participate in women’s sports? This is creepy and anti-woman," White House spokesperson Harrison Fields told Fox News Digital.
Minnesota's state legislature failed to pass the "Preserving Girls’ Sports Act" in early March, which would have stated that "only female students may participate in an elementary or secondary school level athletic team or sport that an educational institution has restricted to women and girls."
Olympic wrestling gold medalist Kyle Snyder pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of disorderly conduct after he was arrested in connection to a prostitution sting last week.
The decorated American wrestler initially faced a charge of engaging in prostitution after he was taken into custody this month in Columbus, Ohio. He was at a hotel at the time of the arrest.
He appeared at the hearing via video. Snyder said he has learned a lot about himself and that he "plans on making much better decisions."
"I learned about the impact these decisions have on not just my family but the community," he said.
Snyder became the youngest American wrestler to win Olympic gold at age 20 during the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, and he followed that up with a silver at the Tokyo Games.
He lost in the bronze medal match at the Paris Olympics. He was also a three-time NCAA champion at Ohio State.
He recently signed on with the Real American Freestyle wrestling league, which has pro wrestling icon Hulk Hogan as its commissioner and is slated to hold its first event on Aug. 30 in Cleveland.
Jalen Hurts said he did not visit the White House last month simply because he couldn't.
The Philadelphia Eagles quarterback, who won the Super Bowl LIX MVP in dethroning the Kansas City Chiefs, was absent from the team's celebration in Washington, D.C., last month, warranting much speculation.
Days before the event, Hurts was asked whether he planned on visiting, and was mum on the subject.
"Um," Hurts said before looking around. He never answered the question as the interviewer thanked him for his time.
Fox News then confirmed at the time that Hurts did not attend due to "scheduling conflicts," and he's sticking to that story.
"I wasn’t available. I don’t think that’s pertinent. Everyone who went, and was available. They seemed to enjoy themselves," he told reporters on Tuesday.
Hurts didn’t give a glowing review of the president’s decision to attend Super Bowl LIX, which saw Philadelphia defeat the Chiefs 40-22.
"He's welcome to do what he wants," Hurts said in February.
Meanwhile, running back Saquon Barkley was seen with President Donald Trump at his golf course in New Jersey the day before the visit. He rode back to Washington on Air Force One with the president.
Hurts, though, raised eyebrows again when he attended the Met Gala the following week.
Hurts was not the only Eagles player to skip their White House visit. Star wide receivers A.J. Brown and Devonta Smith were also among players not present.
When the Eagles won the Super Bowl back in 2018, the team decided not to attend the White House. Trump rescinded the invitation to host the Eagles after several players said they would not participate in the visit because of his previous criticisms of national anthem protests.
The Los Angeles Dodgers visited the White House several weeks before the Eagles did to commemorate their World Series title. Mookie Betts, who skipped a visit in 2019 with the Boston Red Sox, attended this year.
Fox News' Ryan Gaydos and Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.
Maine state representative Laurel Libby is allowed to vote for her constituents after three months of being censured, thanks to a 7-2 Supreme Court decision Tuesday.
After the state's Democrat majority voted to strip Libby of her voting rights in February for making a social media post that called out a biologically trans athlete who won a girls' pole vault competition, she fought a legal battle to overturn it all the way up to the Supreme Court. And it paid off with Tuesday's decision.
Libby called the battle a 'civil rights' case in an interview with Fox News Digital.
"I most certainly do believe this is a civil rights issue for Maine girls and girls across the country who are being sidelines by biological males," Libby said, later adding that the censure "was political retaliation from start to finish," over her vocal stance on trans athlete inclusion.
Libby believes the ruling is essential in order to protect Americans who want to speak out against allowing trans athletes in girls' and women's sports while the country is in a pivotal standoff over the issue.
"Thankfully the Supreme Court saw the merits and the high stakes with this case, and really what was on the line not just for just me, my constituents in Maine, but really the entire country if this was upheld… No one should ever be silenced for speaking up on behalf of our girls," Libby said.
"Now we have a ruling from the Supreme Court that says no one can be silenced for speaking the truth even if it's an unpopular truth. So I hope we will be seeing more folks speaking up on behalf of women and girls and their rights."
The main defendant in Libby's lawsuit, Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau, who passed the censure against Libby on Feb. 15, has vowed to restore Libby's voting rights to comply with the Supreme Court ruling.
"In accordance with the Supreme Court’s injunction pending appeal, Representative Libby’s ability to vote on the floor of the House has been restored until the current appeal process runs its course," Fecteau told Fox News Digital. "The Clerk of the House, whom the injunction is against, has already complied with this court ruling. We look forward to continuing with the important work Maine people expect of us."
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that requires states only allow females to compete, but multiple Democrat-run states, including Maine, have defied the order and continued to enable trans inclusion.
The U.S. Department of Justice and Attorney General Pam Bondi have even filed their own separate lawsuit against the state of Maine for continuing to defy the order.
Libby has been a central figure in the conservative pushback against Democrat policies that enable trans inclusion in girls' sports in Maine. In addition to her lawsuit against Fecteau, Libby has been repeatedly critical of Mills for her refusal to comply with Trump.
"Ryan Fecteau and Janet Mills have been ruling our state for the last six years with an iron fist regardless of the will of Maine people," Libby said. "This sends a message that they can not continue to operate outside of the constitution and ignore the will of Maine people any longer."
A survey by the American Parents Coalition found that out of about 600 registered Maine voters, 63% said that school sports participation should be based on biological sex, and 66% agreed it is "only fair to restrict women’s sports to biological women."
Many Maine residents have even entire school districts have stood up against Mills' policies alongside Libby. Maine's school districts RSU No. 24 and MSAD No. 70 have each passed their own localized resolutions to keep girls' spots for female students only. There have also been three large-scale protests against the current policies in the state's capital city Augusta since February.
And Libby has had the support of the federal government along the way.
Just days before the decision, the DOJ filed an amicus brief on Libby's behalf to the Supreme Court, and Bondi spoke out in support of the embattled lawmaker to Fox News Digital.
"I am so thankful for Attorney General Pam Bondi's response," Libby said.
However, Libby's legal battle is not done yet.
The Supreme Court decision has granted her back her right to vote on the state house floor, but she still does not have the right to speak. Libby's case will now go back to the First Circuit Court of Appeals for oral arguments on June 5, as she will look to regain her voting rights.
Additionally, Libby was not able to vote on several bills in the state legislature in the last three months during her censure. These included the state's bi-annual budget vote and a bill to codify the Maine Human Rights Act, which protects trans inclusion in girls' sports, into the state's constitution.
Libby said she believes the records should be reflected to include her vote on those bills as well, but does not yet know if she will be actively seeking to have those records changed legally yet.
The WNBA is investigating allegations that there were "hateful comments" directed at Angel Reese during the Chicago Sky's matchup against Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever.
The Saturday matchup was the 2025 debut for both organizations and the second season for both players, whose rivalry began during the 2023 college national championship.
Clark was hit with a flagrant foul against Reese, and Reese had to be held back from Clark by others.
The specifics of the alleged incident have yet to be revealed.
Sky head coach Tyler Marsh admitted he found out about the alleged speech "when everyone else did," but Reese praised the league for looking into the matter.
"Obviously, there's no place in this league for that," Reese said on Tuesday. "I think the WNBA, our team, our organization has done a great job supporting me. I've had communication from everyone, from so many people across this league... Going through this whole process, it could happen to me. It could happen to anyone. I think they've done a great job in supporting us in this."
"Obviously it’s tough. But I think I have a great support system. I’m loved by so many people and obviously, in the moment, it is hard to hear. But my support system is great. God has protected me in so many ways," she added. "I’ve gone through so many different things in the past couple of years in my life, but I think just having the support and this love, and being a part of an organization that really supports me and loves me, is something I just couldn’t imagine not being a part of."
"They understand that this is the priority. Obviously, there's no place for this. I think two days before they put out ‘No Hate No Speech’. Obviously, the women in this league, they know that, and they know there's no space in that. I believe every player in this league deserves to be treated with respect and want to come to work and just have fun and have a great environment to work at. I think they've done a great job putting that out, and obviously, they're going to respond as they need to."
"There's no place for that in our game," Clark told reporters, via the Indy Star. "There's no place for that in society. Certainly we want every person that comes into our arena, whether player, whether fan, to have a great experience.
"I appreciate the league doing that. The Fever organization has been at the forefront of that since, really, day one, what they're doing. Hopefully the investigation — we'll leave that up to them to find anything and take the proper action if so."
Clark's Fever went 3-1 against the Sky last season and routed Chicago, 93-58, on Saturday. The two teams face off three more times this season, with both of their next two at the United Center in Chicago.
Saturday afternoon's matchup between the Indiana Fever and Chicago Sky was the most-watched WNBA game ever on ESPN, and it lived up to expectations.
It was the season opener for both squads, and it was the first battle between Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese since last year.
And while both players have said publicly there is no rivalry or animosity between them, there were fireworks when Clark committed a flagrant foul on Reese, and Reese had to be held back.
Following the game, the WNBA launched an investigation into alleged hateful comments against Reese. She claimed last year that Clark, Indiana, and University of Iowa fans, had been racist toward her throughout the season.
Amid the investigation, a TikTok user posted a video that said that saying there is a "rivalry" between the two teams, and players, would be "innappropriate…in relation to the severity at hand."
"The situation at hand is that when Angel Reese walks into the Indiana Fever arena, she is no longer safe. She is not safe, because there are some Indiana Fever fans who are racist, who will treat her like she is not a human being, who will hurl slurs and threats her way, and that is not OK. That's not a thing that happens in sports - it is not OK," the user said.
"You all knew that was going to happen. You all knew that environment is unsafe for Angel."
Reese reposted the video onto her own account.
Clark spoke about the probe into the alleged comments, saying there is "no place" for such speech.
"There's no place for that in our game," Clark told reporters, via the Indy Star. "There's no place for that in society. Certainly we want every person that comes into our arena, whether player, whether fan, to have a great experience.
"I appreciate the league doing that. The Fever organization has been at the forefront of that since, really, day one, what they're doing. Hopefully the investigation — we'll leave that up to them to find anything and take the proper action if so."
The Fever routed the Sky, 93-58, improving to 4-1 against Chicago since Clark and Reese joined the WNBA. The two teams will play each other three more times this year, with each of the next two taking place in Chicago at the United Center.
In just a few days, fans attending the Indianapolis 500 will have the opportunity to watch Oscar Mayer’s six iconic Wienermobiles.
The vehicles will come together for the first-ever "Wienie 500" race. The event will help kick off the race week's annual Carb Day festivities. The race will kick off at 2 p.m ET on Friday.
Each Wienermobile will represent a different region — the New York Dog for the East, Slaw Dog for the Southeast, Chilli Dog for the South, Chi Dog for the Midwest, Seattle Dog for the Northwest and Sonoran Dog for the Southwest.
The Indianapolis 500 has been around since 1911 and has produced countless memories over the past 108 years.
PREMA Racing driver Robert Shwartzman became the first Indy 500 rookie to qualify for the pole since 1983. Shwartzman, who has dual nationality in Israel and Russia, initially raced under the Russian flag.
He currently competes under the Israeli flag, which makes the Tel Aviv native the first driver from Israel to make "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing."
The Indy 500 will be broadcast May 25 on FOX with pre-coverage starting at 10 a.m. ET. It will also be available to stream live on FOXSports.com and the FOX Sports app.
Before Jasper Troy received a contract for the WWE NXT brand, he had dreams of dominating in between the hashmarks instead of in between the ropes.
Troy, whose real name is Antoine Frazer, played college football at Northern Iowa before he decided to start his journey into a WWE ring. He told Fox News Digital that getting into the company was always dream for him, even back when he was picking up the sticks with his friends.
"For me, wrestling was always a dream. I know it’s so oversaid, but for me, I was really locked in every Monday, every Thursday. Sunday, I would watch the little preview pay-per-view channel just to get a glimpse of what the pay-per-view was going to be like," he said. "For me, it was begging for the newest ‘SmackDown vs. Raw’ (video game). Going to my friend’s house, and that’s what we would play all day and night."
Troy said football wasn’t fun anymore as he competed for the Panthers and finished his collegiate career.
Eventually, he said there came a point in which football wasn’t fun anymore. The sport he grew to love fell out of favor with him.
"Me and my brother, we would always talk about wrestling together," he said. "I was playing football, and I was lucky to be successful at playing football but, like (Tyra Mae Steele) said, it just got to a point where it wasn’t fun anymore.
"It stopped being about the things that made me love the sport, especially at a college level, a D1 level. There were so many more factors that, coming where I come from, I was exposed to at the time, but I don’t think I was mature enough to adapt to my surroundings as well as other guys on my team were."
He said there was a time when he had to make a decision about what came next, and his heart was set on pro wrestling. He said he had the support from his trainers, but they implored him to finish school first.
"When COVID hit I just had a chance to look away from football for like a year and really figure out what I wanted to do with my life," he told Fox News Digital. "I love football and I could keep chasing this dream and see how far I could really make it and I just kept seeing more wrestling on my TV during COVID.
"It was all perfect timing for me. As soon as I did my pro day, I had a tryout with the WWE, and after that, I just fell in love, and that was it. It was that fire I had when I was a kid. It was a whole new experience for me, and after that, I said, ‘I’m done with football. I’m a full-time WWE superstar.’"
Troy will now get to make an impact on the NXT roster and join the rising stars in the men’s division there.
Dave Portnoy will not let anyone say he is a Caitlin Clark fan simply because she is White.
In a recent edition of his podcast, ESPN analyst Ryan Clark name-dropped the Barstool Sports founder as someone on the "hate train" of Angel Reese following her spat with Clark over the weekend.
Clark said Portnoy, Keith Olbermann and Robert Griffin III have made Reese the "villain" and Clark "heroic."
Portnoy posted a video over six minutes long in which he said he "can't believe I'm ranting about this again," responding to Clark.
Portnoy made it a point to mention that he is "sure there are some Black people who hate Caitlin just because she's White. I'm sure there are White people who hate Angel just because she's Black."
But he is not one of those people, and he believed the Reese hate is warranted.
"Caitlin fans have every reason to hate Angel Reese. … Fever fans, Caitlin fans should hate Angel Reese. Angel Reese has been nothing but an instigator, agitator and jacka-- basically for the last couple years," Portnoy said in his video.
"Angel Reese has doubled down, tripled down, quadrupled down and has built her persona as Caitlin's rival. … It's one thing after another, after another. … The jealousy that Angel Reese has towards her and has consistently shown makes Caitlin fans hate her. … When you have one player that's constantly poking at you, constantly degrading you, yes, you're going to f---ing hate her."
"I'm sick of ESPN making it a race issue," he continued. "You have a superior basketball player who constantly has someone below taking shots at them, won't shut up and then plays the victim. … If [Angel] didn't have Caitlin, nobody would know who she is. If Caitlin didn't have Angel, it would be the same popularity for Caitlin."
Clark and Reese got into a mini-scuffle after Clark fouled Reese hard; it was ruled a flagrant. Clark later labeled the foul as a "good take foul," as she didn't want Reese to have a "free two points" underneath the basket. Reese later agreed despite her visible frustrations early on.
Clark and Reese have major history going back to the 2023 NCAA women’s basketball national championship. Both players downplayed the incident. Both have even said there's no rivalry between them and that it's been driven by the media.
Portnoy attended the contest and said Reese "deserved to get booed" after getting upset with Clark. He was also upset with the WNBA's investigation into alleged hate comments directed toward Reese.
"Listen, I was at the game. If there was somebody being racist or saying s---, obviously boot them, never let them back," Portnoy said. "I would be stunned beyond belief if that was the case. … The crowd at the Fever game? Little girls, families, ladies, nice crowd. Were we mad when Angel Reese attacked Cailtin Clark for no reason? Yeah. Did we boo her? Yeah. Is it sports? Yeah.
"For the WNBA and now the Indiana Fever to issue statements, ‘We’re investigating,’ unless something so preposterous happened that nobody in the stadium saw, there’s not an ounce of proof, there’s not a video of it, there’s [no] camera phone of it, unless something happened, which I know it didn’t. For them to acknowledge this and, again, kind of paint Indiana Fever fans, like, by just saying ‘We’re investigating the hate’ … even though it’s 100% false, by acknowledging, ‘We don’t condone hate,' and not seeing that this was an internet rumor founded of complete bulls---, you’re lending credence to this."
Clark told ESPN’s Holly Rowe after the third quarter that there had been "nothing malicious" behind the foul.
Fox News' Chantz Martin contributed to this report.
"Players have expressed to us a great desire for the honor of competing in the Olympics, and we're excited that our members will be able to represent their country on the highest international stage," NFLPA executive director Lloyd Howell said in a statement. "We look forward to working with the league, IFAF and Olympic authorities on the terms of their participation to ensure players who compete will do so with protections to their health, safety and job."
When he heard the news he'd be allowed to participate, Justin Jefferson said he was "at a loss for words."
"To think about the chance of playing in the Olympics and getting a gold medal, it’s a dream," he said.
The league has experimented with flag football, replacing its Pro Bowl with skill competitions, including a flag football game.
Last month, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said interest in competing in the Summer Olympics has been a hot topic in the league, adding a resolution on the issue may be forthcoming.
"Well, I’ve heard directly from a lot of players who want to participate and represent their country, whether it’s the United States or a country that they came from," Goodell said in April.
"I think that's something that we'll continue to discuss with, not just the union, but also the clubs. I think both of those are things that we'll probably resolve sometime in the next 60 days."
Several players have shown interest, including Patrick Mahomes, Tyreek Hill, Aaron Jones, and Kyle Juszczyk. Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts, who won the Super Bowl in February, was also recently tabbed the flag football ambassador for the Games.
