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Federal judge rules NCAA can allow men on women’s teams, Riley Gaines plans appeal

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the NCAA that had challenged its policy of allowing men who identify as women to play on women’s sports teams.

U.S. District Judge Tiffany Johnson, a 2024 Biden appointee, ruled that the collegiate sports organization is not beholden to Title IX because it is not a recipient of direct federal financial assistance, Fox News reported.

The two-year-old lawsuit, Gaines v. NCAA, had challenged the organization and the University of Georgia for allegedly violating Title IX’s provisions for equal opportunity in sports by allowing males to compete in the women’s category. The judge found that the NCAA maintained separate funding streams from participating universities.

“What this ruling means is basically the NCAA can put as many men on a women’s sporting team as they want,” said Riley Gaines, the lead plaintiff, on a video post on X on Tuesday. “We are going to appeal.”

Gaines said she feels that while the dismissal will ultimately help lead the case to the Supreme Court and ultimate victory, “this doesn’t come without a toll; it’s mentally draining, emotionally draining.”

According to the lawsuit, the NCAA authorized “naked men possessing full male genitalia to disrobe in front of non- consenting college women and creating situations in which unwilling female college athletes unwittingly or reluctantly expose their naked or partially clad bodies to males.”

The Independent Council on Women’s Sports, or ICONS, is funding this lawsuit. Gaines is a former All-American swimmer at the University of Kentucky and current advocate for women’s sports. More than a dozen additional female plaintiffs are all current or former collegiate athletes.

“We believe the district judge erred and that the Court of Appeals will find that the NCAA, which is the controlling body of college sports for more than 1,100 member schools, almost all of which are federally funded, is subject to Title IX,” said ICONS Co-Founder Kim Jones, a former NCAA All-American tennis player, in a news release.

“We will not give up our fight for women and girls’ rights in sports,” Jones said.

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Senate passes Protect College Sports Act with decisive vote

The Senate has passed the Protect College Sports Act, establishing national rules for college athletics, which includes standards for Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) deals, athlete compensation, recruiting, eligibility, transferring and more.

The bill, led by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., was passed by a vote of 77-22 on Monday night.

President Donald Trump has urged lawmakers to pass the bill, saying “we have to get that done” prior to Congress’ summer recess.

“I’m urging the House and the Senate to come together, bipartisan if possible and it looks like they have done, to send the bill to my desk and I will sign it,” he said the night he hosted members of Team USA from the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, who performed well earlier this year. “I think we have no choice. We have to get that done. If we don’t, we’re very foolish. Nobody knows what will happen. We’re in Never-Never Land. We’re not going to let that be happening. We’re not going to let that happen to these great people and others.”

The bill finally got pushed to the next phase earlier this month, giving the Senate the opportunity to advance the bipartisan bill. Now, the bill will go to the House of Representatives, and Trump may see it on his desk to sign into law if it goes through there.

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Trump Junks Biden’s Title IX Rules, Now Defines Sex by Biology

The Department of Education said Monday it will formally remove the Biden administration’s Title IX regulations and restore rules issued during President Donald Trump’s first term.

The change takes effect Tuesday. Under the final rule issued Monday, the Education Department’s anti-discrimination policy will recognize sex as male or female at birth. It formally removes Biden-era regulations that extended protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity to students and employees at federally funded schools.

The 2024 rules also forced schools to use transgender students’ pronouns and changed how schools handle harassment complaints. A federal court struck down the rules in January 2025.

The Education Department then told schools it would enforce the 2020 rules. Monday’s action puts that change into the published federal regulations; schools have already been operating under the earlier rules.

The department said the last lawsuits over the Biden rules were dismissed in August, clearing the way for it to formally remove them. Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the move would make the written regulations match the court rulings and the rules her department has been enforcing since Trump returned to office:

Today’s rulemaking clears the Biden Administration’s illegal rewrite of Title IX from the Code of Federal Regulations and restores the commonsense language promulgated in the first Trump Administration, which we have been enforcing since the first days of the Administration. Thanks to today’s action, the published Title IX regulations faithfully reflects court orders and Congressional intent—reducing confusion for parents, students, and educational institutions. We will continue to relentlessly champion equal opportunity for all Americans and hold accountable any school or college that violates the rights, privacy, or athletic opportunities of our women and girls.

The rule follows a 2025 executive order from Trump directing federal agencies to recognize only male and female as sexes and apply that definition when enforcing laws against sex discrimination.

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Humanoid Robot Floors Influencer in History-Making MMA Fight

A humanoid robot sent an influencer sprawling in a history-making MMA bout, offering a striking demonstration of how rapidly machines are acquiring the strength, balance, and agility once thought to provide a measure of job security for human workers.

Content creator Frankie LaPenna, 29, faced the 6-foot-tall “Rekbot” in a Sept. 18 bout staged by robotics startup REK and billed as the first human-versus-robot MMA fight.

The widely seen video showed the two trading blows before the Terminator-like machine landed a powerful kick that knocked LaPenna across the ring.

The robot was remotely controlled by a human rather than acting autonomously.

Perhaps more remarkable than the punches and kicks was Rekbot’s ability to recover.

When knocked down or struck off balance, the humanoid could rapidly spring back to its feet, displaying the kind of dynamic balance, coordination, and physical resilience that until recently remained one of robotics’ biggest obstacles.

“We just made history with the first Human VS Terminator robot fight,” REK wrote after the event, saying LaPenna “gave it his all.” The company later teased that Rekbot “wasn’t even the final boss.”

According to a post on X by Rek, Lapenna “kept going and defeated” Rekbot.

The spectacle comes as the debate over automation is expanding beyond artificial intelligence’s potential impact on programmers, writers, accountants, and other white-collar professions.

Generative artificial intelligence itself still has major limitations when physical execution is required, but increasingly sophisticated robotics could give AI something it previously lacked: a capable body.

That transition is already moving from the laboratory to the factory floor. Boston Dynamics says its production-ready Atlas humanoid is designed specifically for industrial work and is being deployed in 2026.

This week, the company opened a facility at Hyundai’s Georgia auto plant where Atlas robots are being trained on real manufacturing tasks, including handling and sequencing automotive parts for assembly.

The implications could eventually extend to jobs once considered comparatively resistant to automation because they demand strength, mobility, endurance, and dexterity.

The World Economic Forum said in its 2025 jobs report that robots and autonomous systems were expected to be the largest net technological job displacer through 2030, with an estimated net reduction of 5 million jobs.

Employers surveyed also expected the importance of “manual dexterity, endurance and precision” to decline as robotics and other technologies automate more physical tasks.

That does not mean humanoids are presently capable of replacing tradespeople broadly, as current systems remain expensive and limited compared with humans operating in unpredictable environments.

But the Rekbot demonstration illustrates how quickly one long-standing technical barrier is eroding.

Machines are no longer merely lifting objects in repetitive motions from fixed positions on assembly lines.

They are increasingly capable of balancing, recovering from falls, and executing complicated whole-body movements as well as making instant decisions in new environments.

The fight was staged as entertainment to promote REK’s virtual-reality robot game.

But the impressive visuals of a machine taking a hit, hitting the floor, and immediately springing back up may prove more consequential than who won the bout, as it shows AI is advancing into cognitive work at the same time that increasingly agile robots are advancing into the physical world.

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Radical Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger Quietly REVERSES Rules Put in Place by Her Predecessor Banning Biological Males in Girls’ Sports

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger is quietly undoing all of the rules created by her Republican predecessor Glen Youngkin, regarding biological males competing in girls’ sports.

Virginia voters were warned that this would happen. Spanberger ran as a sort of middle-of-the-road candidate, but the minute she got into office, she revealed herself to be a creature of the far left.

This is a metaphor for the entire Democrat Party. The instant they regain any sort of power, they will pick up right where they left off in the fall of 2024.

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger is quietly undoing all of the rules created by her Republican predecessor Glen Youngkin, regarding biological males competing in girls’ sports.

Virginia voters were warned that this would happen. Spanberger ran as a sort of middle-of-the-road candidate, but the minute she got into office, she revealed herself to be a creature of the far left.

This is a metaphor for the entire Democrat Party. The instant they regain any sort of power, they will pick up right where they left off in the fall of 2024.

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Spanberger sparks outrage after sneakily ending Youngkin-era women’s sports protections

Critics, including parents of athletes, expressed outrage Friday after Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s administration quietly shut down a rulemaking process that would have required school sports to be divided by sex.

The move to end protections for scholastic sports based on sex is the latest development in the debate over whether biological males who identify as transgender should compete in girls’ sports.

“My jaw dropped when I saw the news,” former Del. Kim Taylor, R-Petersburg, told Fox News Digital on Friday. “As a mom of a daughter, I’m furious that protecting the privacy, safety, and opportunities of Virginia’s girls has somehow become controversial.”

“Governor Spanberger had a chance to stand up for women and girls, and instead she turned her back. Our daughters should never be asked to sacrifice their privacy or a fair playing field for someone else’s political agenda.”

Taylor focused on maternal and children’s issues during her time in Richmond and was the target of an assassination threat during her unsuccessful re-election bid last year.

Del. Wren Williams, R-Stuart, called the move “classic Spanberger.”

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NASA teams up with NFL for Inspiration Tour with flyovers scheduled for football games

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Football League (NFL) have announced a collaboration featuring aircraft flyovers and astronaut appearances at select games.

“The agency will soon bring America’s strengths in space exploration and aeronautics innovation to the football field,” NASA said in a press release on Thursday, announcing its new Inspiration Tour.

So far, NASA participation is scheduled for the following games:

  • Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Atlanta Falcons in Pittsburgh on September 13th
  • Baltimore Ravens vs. New Orleans Saints in Baltimore on September 20th
  • Philadelphia Eagles vs. Los Angeles Rams in Philadelphia on October 4th
  • New York Jets vs. Cleveland Browns in East Rutherford, New Jersey on October 11th

More football game dates could be added, according to NASA.

The administration said that some of the games will experience flyovers showcasing NASA’s aircraft fleet, used for high-speed testing, high-altitude research, astronaut training and more.

“Regularly flying the aircraft maintains the health of the fleet and publicly demonstrates new technologies that may be applied to future commercial air travel,” NASA stated.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will lead the tour across the country in order to “connect the agency with the people, technologies, and organizations that drive American leadership in space.”

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SoCal: Orange County Woman Shocked as FBI Agents Arrest Her For Stealing More Than $400,000 From High School Football Team in Pre-Dawn Raid

The FBI on Thursday morning arrested an Orange County, California, woman for stealing more than $400,000 from a high school football team.

56-year-old Julie Hanway Molina was the treasurer of an Orange County nonprofit and allegedly used more than $400,000 in stolen funds to pay off her mortgage and credit card debt.

Video posted to social media by the California Post shows FBI agents and local law enforcement surrounding Molina’s $1.4 million Aliso Viejo home early Thursday morning and taking her into custody.

The California Post reported that Julie Hanway Molina was stunned as federal agents used a bullhorn and demanded she “come out with your hands up.”

Molina walked out of her front door and looked shocked as federal agents handcuffed her.

Federal prosecutors alleged in the indictment that the scheme to defraud Aliso Niguel High School’s Wolverine Football Club began in 2023 and went through 2025.

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Portland Women’s Sports Bar Boots Patrons over ‘Pro-Women’ Shirts

A group of patrons was ejected from The Sports Bra, a Portland bar that shows only women’s sports, on Sunday for wearing XX-XY Athletics apparel, according to video the group posted online.

Five patrons were removed from the Northeast Portland establishment after a server said other customers had complained about the shirts, according to footage that passed 6 million views on X. Amy Sousa, one of the women in the group, posted the clip.

A server told the group to leave, citing complaints from other customers.

“There are people that are in here that are uncomfortable with those shirts, and so I’m asking y’all to leave,” the server said in the video. “If I have to call authorities to get y’all removed, I will, but I don’t want to do that.”

One patron pushed back. “There is nothing wrong with these shirts! What is wrong with these shirts?” the patron said. The server replied that she had already fielded complaints.

The bar defended the ejection in an Instagram post Monday. It said the group entered wearing “apparel with messages advocating for the exclusion of trans women from sports” and was given the choice to cover the messaging or leave. “To be clear: trans girls are girls, and trans women are women,” the bar said.

XX-XY Athletics is a sportswear brand founded by former gymnast Jennifer Sey that says sports should be separated on the basis of biological sex. The name references the chromosomes of women and men.

Hours earlier, the same group was removed from the Portland Thorns’ NWSL match against the Washington Spirit at Providence Park. A Thorns spokesperson told OutKick the fans were removed for “distributing unapproved materials,” a claim Sousa disputes.

“We did not distribute any materials,” Sousa said. “They are lying about us.”

The confrontation follows a similar incident last month, when the WNBA and the Atlanta Dream admitted security was wrong to make a mother and daughter cover XX-XY shirts worn in support of Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham, whose ESPN comments opposing “biological men” in women’s sports touched off the debate.

The video drew a split reaction online.

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49ers’ Dre Greenlaw Asks if Antarctica is a ‘Lie’ During Team’s Australia Trip

Trips to far-away lands can expand one’s horizons – literally and figuratively. The 49ers’ trip to Australia seems to have expanded linebacker Dre Greenlaw’s mind in an unexpected way.

On Tuesday morning, reporters asked Greenlaw whether he had any questions for Australians. His answer did not disappoint.

“Do you have any questions you’d want to ask Australians?” asked ESPN’s Nick Wagoner.

“I mean, how far are we from Antarctica? That’s what I got. We’re right on top of it, huh? Does it snow probably pretty bad here? So, Antarctica, is it a lie?”

Reporters confirmed the continent’s existence, but that didn’t seem to satisfy Greenlaw.

“Y’all been there before?” he asked.

After receiving this challenge, the reporter said he had never been to Antarctica, which sent Greenlaw right into his well-prepared trap.

“Never been there. So how do you know if it’s cold or not?”

Of course, the reporters could have asked Greenlaw why a player with such curiosities and a high bar for proof had not invested any of the $7.5 million he signed for this year in making the trip to the mysterious continent to see it for himself.

After Tuesday’s exchange, perhaps he will.

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Stadium Erupts as Florida Brings Back Chant That Was Banned for Years Due to Imaginary ‘Racist’ History

Sanity returned to the University of Florida Saturday when the Gators took on the Florida Atlantic Owls at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Florida.

During the neo-Marxist cultural revolution that was the summer of 2020, everything deemed “racist” had to be purged, regardless of context or logic dictating otherwise. ESPN reported that this included the popular “gator bait” chant, in which fans would extend their arms in front of them and clap their hands together like an alligator seizing its prey.

What exactly does that have to do with race? The university’s president that year, Kent Fuchs, announced racial undertones were a concern because artwork from the late 1800s and early 1900s showed alligator hunters using black babies as bait.

However, Fox News’ Outkick Sports reported that Fuchs had admitted UF’s chant had nothing to do with any of those depictions.

“While I know of no evidence of racism associated with our ‘Gator Bait’ cheer at UF sporting events, there is horrific historic racist imagery associated with the phrase,” he said.

Fox sports writer Zach Dean observed, “Translation: ‘This isn’t racist, but we’re bending the knee to the mob because that’s what everyone is doing right now.’”

So, the president was weak-willed and he caved.

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