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Politico reports: A Venezuelan Little League baseball team will not be allowed to participate in a championship tournament because the team was denied travel visas to the U.S. Little League International said on Friday the Cacique Mara Little League team from Maracaibo, Venezuela will not participate in the Senior League Baseball World Series in South Carolina this year, despite qualifying …

The Detroit Free Press reports: Wenceel Pérez considered the scenario for a moment before he answered the question. After all, it seemed unlikely that a Major League Baseball player should be concerned about being detained by authorities, or possibly even arrested, if he weren’t able to quickly prove his residency status in the United States. “No, I don’t worry,” the …

Politico Europe reports: World football governing body FIFA has boosted its ties with U.S. President Donald Trump by opening an office in New York’s Trump Tower. The move comes a year ahead of the men’s World Cup — which is being hosted across North America — and a year after FIFA opened an office in Miami. FIFA boss Gianni Infantino …

NBC News reports: The Supreme Court on Thursday waded into the legal fight over state laws that ban transgender athletes from competing in girls and women’s school and college sports, taking up cases from West Virginia and Idaho. The court will hear cases involving two transgender students, Becky Pepper-Jackson and Lindsay Hecox, who challenged state bans in West Virginia and …

Awful Announcing reports: FIFA has opted not to distribute the anti-racism and anti-discrimination materials it produced and developed in the months leading up to the Club World Cup in the United States. The decision raises immediate questions about whether FIFA will decide to utilize this type of messaging during the World Cup hosted in the United States next summer. Recently, …

Axios reports: Major League Baseball has removed the word “diversity” from its MLB Careers home page in reaction to President Trump’s executive order ending “equal opportunity” for people of color and women in recruiting. MLB’s retreat makes it the latest entity to pull back on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices amid threats of legal action from the Trump administration. …

ESPN reports: “Big” George Foreman, one of the most influential and recognizable boxers of all time, died Friday, his family announced on his social media account. He was 76. Foreman, who captured an Olympic gold medal in 1968, was a two-time heavyweight champion and Hall of Fame boxer. He’s perhaps best known for the historic Rumble in the Jungle bout …

ABC News reports: The former co-offensive coordinator for the University of Michigan’s football team has been charged with hacking into thousands of athlete and alumni accounts and downloading private data, including “intimate” photos, over an eight-year span, according to federal investigators. Matthew Weiss, 42, who was also the team’s quarterbacks coach, allegedly gained unauthorized access to a student-athlete database of …

The Daily Beast reports: Kendrick Lamar got more than a third of the country to watch him hate Drake. The rapper’s halftime show—which featured the likes of SZA, Serena Williams, and a victory-lap rendition of the Grammy-winning “Not Like Us”—saw 133.5 million viewers tune in, making it the most-watched halftime show in history. Fox’s broadcast of Super Bowl LVI also …

The Daily Mail reports: Brett Peabody, a college football head coach, has been accused of sending a shocking social media message to a journalist. Aaron Rupar, an independent journalist who previously worked for Vox News, claimed that the head coach of the Long Beach City Vikings sent him a ‘threatening’ direct message online. Rupar, a liberal, anti-Trump reporter, took to …

The Athletic reports: Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence was carted off the field in the second quarter of Sunday’s matchup against the Houston Texans after linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair delivered a late, hard hit while Lawrence was sliding. The Jaguars later ruled Lawrence out of the game with a concussion. After the hit, Jaguars tight end Evan Engram ran to Al-Shaair …

ESPN reports: Charlotte Hornets star guard LaMelo Ball said Sunday night he didn’t mean to offend anyone with a comment the NBA said was “offensive and derogatory” while levying a $100,000 fine on him. After Saturday’s 115-114 win in Milwaukee, sideline reporter Shannon Spake asked Ball about the team’s defensive strategy against Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo on the game’s final …

Orlando’s Fox affiliate reports: While the Florida Gators lost to the Georgia Bulldogs, 20-34, on Saturday down on the field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, there appears to have been another situation happening up in the stands. A viral video posted to X shortly before 7 p.m. appears to show a fight between police officers and a pair of fans. …

USA Today reports: Ever wanted to smell a little bit like mayonnaise? Will Levis and Hellmann’s have you covered. The Tennessee Titans’ second-year quarterback and the condiment brand announced a new fragrance partnership with a video posted to social media on Tuesday. “Will Levis No. 8: Parfum de Mayonnaise” retails for $8 per 30 mL bottle. Within 90 minutes of …

NBC News reports: Algerian Imane Khelif won welterweight gold on Friday, dispatching China’s Yang Liu and overcoming more than a week of opponents wrongly questioning her gender. Khelif won in a unanimous decision as a large Algerian crowd at Roland-Garros Stadium cheered her on with chants of “allez Imane” and “1, 2, 3 Algérie!” Despite those false allegations from the …

The Daily Beast reports: The world is extending its deepest sympathies to an Olympic hopeful whose dreams were dashed on Saturday. Or, maybe, its congratulations. You know that thing that happens all the time, where your penis is just so big it prevents you from winning a medal at the Olympics? I know, right? Same. And that’s what happened to …

Yahoo Sports reports: Willie Mays, the iconic Hall of Fame center fielder who is known as the greatest all-around baseball player, died Tuesday, the San Francisco Giants announced. He was 93 years old. Mays, nicknamed “The Say Hey Kid,” had a professional baseball career that spanned four decades, beginning with the Negro Leagues in the late 1940s and ending with …

ESPN reports: Criminal charges have been dropped against world No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler after the Jefferson County Attorney’s Office in Louisville, Kentucky, said it would not pursue the case that stemmed from a traffic incident outside the PGA Championship earlier this month. Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connell asked for the charges to be dismissed with prejudice — meaning they …

ESPN reports: The parents of professional golfer Grayson Murray on Sunday said the two-time PGA Tour winner died by suicide Saturday morning. “We have spent the last 24 hours trying to come to terms with the fact that our son is gone,” Eric and Terry Murray said in a statement. “It’s surreal that we not only have to admit it …

USA Today reports: World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler was booked into a Louisville jail Friday morning after being detained by police near the entrance of Valhalla Golf Club, the site of this week’s 2024 PGA Championship. Scheffler, 27, was booked shortly before 7:30 a.m., according to online records published by the Louisville Metropolitan Department of Corrections. He is being …