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May 27, 2021

Gallup Survey: 2/3 Americans Favor Birth Gender for Sports

A majority of Americans believe that birth gender, rather than gender identity, should govern participation in competitive sports, according to a new Gallup survey with details published on UPI.com. While 61% of Americans favor allowing openly tra...

May 27, 2021

Robert Morris Cuts D1 Men’s & Women’s Hockey

Robert Morris University announced today it will no longer field NCAA Division I men’s and women’s ice hockey teams as part of a series of strategic initiatives intended to position the university to be amongst the most agile and professionally f...

May 26, 2021

Florida Basketball Players Leave HS for Pro League

High school sophomore twins, Matt and Ryan Bewley, have foregone their junior and senior seasons at West Oaks Academy in Florida to play for the newly-formed Overtime Elite professional league. The 6-foot-9 forwards are not only bypassing their fi...

May 26, 2021

New Alabama Transgender Bill May Affect Zero Youth Athletes

A bill that was signed into action last month by Alabama Governor Kay Ivey which bars transgender public school athletes from competing on teams based on the gender they identify with may affect as little as zero youth athletes in the state. That ...

May 26, 2021

Illini Athletic Administrators Reflect on Past Year

Randy Ballard is the associate director of athletics for the University of Illinois. Jeremy Busch is the assistant athletic director of sports medicine for the university and also serves as the head athletic trainer for the Illini football team. I...

May 26, 2021

UConn Sports Medicine Adds Foot & Ankle Program

With backgrounds in athletics and 25 years in private practice, married podiatrists Drs. Karla and Michael Scanlon joined the Foot and Ankle Program at UConn Health Orthopedics and Sports Medicine in February 2020, seeing patients in Storrs and Willi...

May 25, 2021

San Diego HS Football Team Sanctioned for Racist Social Media Posts

A San Diego Catholic high school football team has been sanctioned after players posted racially charged photos aimed at a mostly-Latino rival high school. According to a report from the San Diego Union-Tribune, the San Diego City Conference place...

May 24, 2021

Detroit Mercy WBB Head Coach Cleared after Internal Investigation

Last week, the University of Detroit Mercy athletic director Robert Vowels shared details into the school's internal investigation against women's basketball head coach AnnMarie Gilbert for allegations that her program disregarded COVID-19 protocol a...