Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), the U.S. representative for New York's 14th congressional district, just said one of the most asinine things you'll ever hear from a politician. She, as the vast majority of Democrats have, came out in support of "trans rights" and men in women's sports. That shouldn't shock anyone, but her reasoning behind that support is so absurdly ridiculous and nonsensical, it'll inevitably cause your hand to hit your face.

While speaking at More Perfect University, a progressive campus program launched in April 2026 by the advocacy media nonprofit More Perfect Union to combat Turning Point USA, AOC, sitting next to Maine Senate candidate Troy Jackson, received a question from a male student who identifies as a female.

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"I am a transgender student at the University of Southern Maine," the student started. The student articulated feeling "abandoned" by the Democrat party and claimed that liberals seem to believe that trans-identifying people our a "losing issue" and "it's not worth defending us." The student then asked for AOC's thoughts.

"They're wrong," AOC said.

After a 30-second word salad, AOC stated, "What's so important for everyone to understand is that the moment you try to compromise the rights of a trans person in America, you compromise the rights of everyone citizen in America."

Goodness gracious. Let's breakdown how insane that statement is:

AOC is essentially saying if you are against men's "rights" to compete in women's sports and invade women's spaces, you're against the rights of every American citizen. If you're against men stealing women's trophies and opportunities, if you're against men injuring women on the court, field, and any field of play, if you're against full-intact males changing in the same locker room as women...you're against the rights of all Americans. Insanity.

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I could go further on what she may consider "trans rights" and how that affects boys and girls medically with gender reassignment surgery and other atrocities, but I'll stick mostly to the sports lane in this piece.

By the way, that statement from AOC received a massive, auditorium-wide applause.

After AOC went on a lengthy diatribe about The Right's fixation on the trans issue and how many conservatives just don't understand the gender conversation happening in our country, she claimed:

"Our basic rights shouldn't have to matter. [Rights] don't matter who you are, what you do. You have those rights guaranteed by being an American citizen. Point blank. Period."

Again, thunderous applause for another nonsensical, false statement.

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No, Ms. Representative. It is not a "right" for males to compete in women's sports and use women's restrooms/locker rooms because they simply identify as the opposite sex.

In America, we have the right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." The United States of America was founded on the principle that individual rights do not come from government. Those rights come from God. Government exists to protect those rights.

This woman couldn't point to one place in the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, or the Declaration of Independence that proves her claim that males have the right to compete in women's sports or use women's restrooms. Our Founding Fathers would've laughed AOC out of the room if she argued for this in their presence.

"On a deeper level, I want us all to understand what they (Republicans) are doing," AOC continued. "The billions of dollars and the enormous amount of energy that The Right is putting and focusing on trans Americans, when you actually zoom out, trans Americans are about 1% of the population, perhaps less than 1%."

AOC was then corrected by the trans-identifying student, who raised three fingers to represent that they believe trans-identifying Americans represent 3% of the population.

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AOC, citing that surveys of Republicans, after seeing political ads focused on transgenderism, start to believe trans-identifying people make up 40% of the population, which is another asinine claim, then said this:

"When they (The Right) want to focus on trans girls in sports, it's not just about trans girls in sports. It's about girls, all girls."

AOC then claimed The Right's agenda is "attacking Title IX."

"Title IX is the federal protection for all gender equality and all women to be protected," AOC claimed.

No, it's not. Why? You're using deceptive language in order to manipulate the conversation and the American people, AOC.

Title IX should strictly protect biological sex (male & female) as originally understood in 1972. AOC uses the term "gender" because that has become an all-encompassing term for anyone who identifies as a woman. What the Left has tried to do, especially under former President Biden, was to change the language of Title IX to include gender identity and sexual orientation, which would have opened the floodgates for men in women's sports.

This is pure gaslighting. Politicians like AOC are the ones actually "attacking Title IX". Republicans are the ones protecting it.

After laughably trying to equate the Cornell 7 case, where a group of male students have been accused of drugging and raping a female student, to "attacks" on trans women (men) through Title IX by Trump and the Republicans, AOC made another definitive statement about women's sports.

"Understand, when they attack trans girls in sports, they're also attacking all women's ability to stand up against their abusers, their rapists, and their assaulters on campuses across America."

Just think about how anti-woman this whole stance is.

Rape, abuse, and assault of women are terrible things. They should be dealt with harshly and condemned. Comparing the administration's fight to protect women and women's spaces from males to rape, is utterly disgusting and actually devalues those atrocities and crimes against actual women.

AOC is simply using false equivalencies to paint Trump, Republicans, conservatives, and even many of the registered Democrats and independents who rallied for Sophie Cunningham across the country this WNBA season, as evil.

Banning males from women's sports is not the same, or even in the same universe, as rape.

Here's where AOC made her most absurd, nonsensical, brain-dead claim of the night in regards to men in women's sports.

"I support the rights of trans women because I'm a girls girl."

Read that again.

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AOC just literally said she supports the rights of males identifying as females to compete in women's sports because I'm a female who genuinely supports, uplifts, and advocates for other women.

I just lost brain cells typing that out.

As one X user said, "This is like saying, 'I agree that 2+2=5 because I'm a mathy mathematician'."

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To think that this woman could be the Democrat nominee for president in 2028 shows just how far our education system, political system, and country has fallen.

AOC ended her lengthy response by stating, "What we're not going to do is shred our Constitution, kill Title IX, and defund all of our healthcare, just to attack 3% of the U.S. population."

I'd invite AOC to try to say this nonsense to the girls' cross-country team and their parents of Camas High School, and other girls who have had to compete against a boy this season. I would love to see her try to tell the brave girls who walked off the course in protest that their act was an "attack" on the transgender community that is on par with the rape and assault of women.

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Washington’s upcoming vote on Initiative 638, is a November ballot measure that seeks to restrict K-12 public school athletic categories strictly by biological sex at birth. Let's pray these girls' sports and spaces are protected.

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Shame on you, AOC.

On the same day that the University of Texas athletic department announced a brand new artificial intelligence lab on its campus called the 'Bevo Lab', some fans are wondering if Steve Sarkisian is using AI to call plays on offense.

The situation in Austin around what's taking place within the football program has been interesting, to say the least.

Whether it's the offensive scheme that comes from head coach Steve Sarkisian or the underwhelming play from quarterback Arch Manning, this has all led to frustration from Texas fans after consecutive losses to unranked teams.

On Friday, the school announced that is has created a state-of-the-art facility on campus that brings artificial intelligence to the forefront of decision making and daily activities that consume the life of an athletic staff.

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A brand new 25,000-square-foot AI lab will now be the home to some of the more innovative decisions that coaches are making to better help serve their teams at Texas.

So, did Steve Sarkisian use AI like a game of Madden to call fourth down play?

Now, with the help of Google, the school has started producing different mechanisms to help with this new era of college athletics, which includes how to deal with revenue-sharing and roster building.

But, when it comes to calling plays for the Longhorns football team, the new venture into artificial intelligence seems to have caused a stir on Friday morning thanks to a report from the Austin-American Statesman.

"In the fourth quarter of last week's game against Florida at Royal-Memorial Stadium, the Longhorns put the new initiative to use," the report said. "Down 20-17 and facing a fourth-and-2, Texas needed a spark. So, coach Steve Sarkisian and his staff turned to their new artificial intelligence data analytics platform, Bevo Lab.

"While the Longhorns ultimately failed to convert after quarterback Arch Manning lost three yards on the play, Del Conte said the moment was a pivotal embrace of the new tech."

Well, it didn’t take long for Texas fans to scramble across social media thinking that Steve Sarkisian fired up the AI platform and asked which play to run like the head coach was playing a game of EA Sports College Football 2026.

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As you would expect, fans were all over the place with their comments, wondering what else could go wrong this season after a very long three-week stretch of contemplating what it would mean if Texas did not make the CFP this year with Arch Manning and a very expensive roster.

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You can rest easy though, Longhorns.

Athletic Director Chris Del Conte must have heard about the ruckus this morning amid their grand announcement regarding AI, because it took only around an hour for him to clarify what the report was trying to insinuate.

"Texas AD Chris Del Conte clarified a published article which said that the decision to go for it on 4th and 2 against Florida last week was based on Bevo Lab analysis," Del Conte told Bobby Burton.

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"To the contrary, Del Conte said he gave it as an example of what it could suggest, not of what it actually did."

Longhorn fans are on the brink of losing it, apparently

Sure, Steve Sarkisian and his football staff are receiving help from AI when it comes to putting together daily activities, just like the rest of us that live in the corporate world.

But no, I don't imagine the Longhorns head coach is telling Arch Manning what to run on fourth down based off what prompt the Texas staff was inserting into AI chat along the sidelines with a critical game on the line.

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I know things are tense in Austin right now, but everyone needs to take a very deep breath before the Longhorns face Ole Miss on Saturday night.

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AI play-calling might be the least of their worries if Arch Manning and this Texas offense cannot put it together against the Rebels.

Longtime ESPN host Michael Wilbon unleashed an expletive-laced rant against The New York Times on Wednesday, blasting the paper over its treatment of sports writers.

While appearing on "The Dan Le Batard Show," host Dan Le Batard pointed out that The New York Times was the only major publication that did not allow its sports writers to appear on Wilbon's ESPN show "Pardon the Interruption." 

Wilbon, who began his career in print journalism and spent decades at The Washington Post before joining ESPN full-time in 2010, accused the Times of abandoning the sports writing industry.

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"They bailed," Wilbon said. "They were the first to bail. F--- The New York Times. I work for a better section anyway. You think I wouldn’t take a section with Tom Boswell and Dave Kindred and Tony Kornheiser and Sally Jenkins and David Remnick and David Aldridge and J.A. Adande — and I’m skipping a whole generation of people — Barry Lorge, the greatest tennis writer of all time? Half those people went to television.

"F--- The New York Times, which bailed on our profession. It bailed. It took the sports section away. Gutless motherf------!"

Fox News Digital reached out to The New York Times for comment. ESPN declined to comment.

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Wilbon was likely referring to The New York Times announcing in 2023 that it would be closing its internal sports department and instead focus on covering teams and games through The Athletic, which it acquired one year earlier.

Though there were no layoffs from the acquisition, the sports department at the Times had grown smaller and smaller in the years prior to the purchase. The desk eventually lost its stand-alone section in the daily print edition, and local teams were no longer guaranteed an assigned beat reporter.

New York Times staffers have since petitioned to have The Athletic staffers join their union.

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"The Times bought a separate company; they then disbanded their own sports desk and now uses that company as their sports department," New York Times senior editor Jim Luttrell told Fox News Digital in May. 

"They’re doing the same work that all the other journalists here do that the sports journalists did here before. There is no reason they shouldn’t be in the union."

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The NBA is just a few days old and we've already seen two teams blow 20-point leads. That happens more often than you'd probably imagine, and this year I'm making a point to live bet on the team that is losing big. Last night the 76ers looked awful, but they came back in the second half of the game and covered the short spread. I'm sure it will happen somewhere today as well. There are a ton of great games to choose from, but I've got my eye on the Hawks and Hornets game.

The Atlanta Hawks are one of the teams that have a bit of excitement behind them coming into this year. They revamped their roster quite a bit over the past few years, but now it seems like they have decided to build their team around Jalen Johnson. It also helps that they have two really good defenders - Nickeil Alexander-Walker and Dyson Daniels. The team moved on from Trae Young last year, who was a facilitator and scorer for them, but also a parking cone on defense, and it never seemed like the team worked with him.

This team is now a little more athletic and younger, but still grounded with a couple of key veterans like CJ McCollum. In their opening game against the Magic, I was most impressed with their shot selection. As a team, they shot 50% from the field and 40% from deep. You really can't expect that to happen consistently, but they did create the good shots. Defensively, they really weren't impressive. They still gave up 125 points to the Magic, which is a lot for an Orlando team that isn't known for being offensively efficient.

The Charlotte Hornets remain one of those teams that I really can't understand. They have been terrible for years, and the one time they sniffed success, they decided it was time to trade away their (arguably) best player. They sent LaMelo Ball over to the Timberwolves, but that's probably because they have Coby White, and they seem to want to invest in Kon Knueppel. Unfortunately for them, Knueppel is out with an injury right now, so the team is missing a major player.

In their first game, they unveiled their new-look roster and beat the Brooklyn Nets on the road. This team is comprised of multiple role players, but right now, their biggest semblance of a star is Brandon Miller. No offense to Miller, but if he is responsible for leading the team for multiple games, you're probably asking for trouble. I do think the Hornets are going to be hovering around the play-in positioning for the postseason, but I really don't think they've improved from last year.

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I really don't enjoy taking favorites on the road in the NBA. Role players don't play as well on the road as they do at home, but in this one, I'm willing to make an exception. The Hawks are the better team, have a better offense, and I think they should win this one. They do play at home tomorrow, against a tougher opponent, so this could be a trap spot, but I'm going to take them on the moneyline at -135. I do think they know how to win, and I think the Hornets are trying to figure things out.

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It feels like just yesterday that I was betting on Paul Skenes to light up the Mets and keep them from scoring on Opening Day of the baseball season. I was dead wrong about that one because Skenes didn’t even last two innings in the game. Since then, it has been a pretty strong baseball season overall, but I’ve struggled a bit in the postseason. Game 1 of the World Series is tonight, and I’m looking forward to getting a win in this one.

The Tampa Bay Rays have been better at home than on the road this season, but in the playoffs they’ve gone 3-1. They were the best team in the American League and beat the Yankees, a divisional foe, in three games in the American League Division Series. It was a bit harder for them in the American League Championship Series as the Guardians took the Rays to six games. Ultimately, the Rays stopped the Cleveland offense, and that made the difference for the club in the series.

Tonight, they are sending out Nick Martinez to the hill. For the season, Martinez was 15-6 with a 3.10 ERA and a 1.09 WHIP. He only has 109 strikeouts for the season; he isn’t really a power pitcher. He finds ways to get guys out, and that’s really what matters. In the postseason, he has allowed three earned runs over nine innings with just six strikeouts and three walks. He did not face the Brewers at all this season, but they are hitting .246 against him over 122 at-bats.

The Milwaukee Brewers were the best team in baseball this season, and they’ve looked like the best team in baseball in the postseason. The Brewers went 103-59 this season and were almost 30 games above .500 in Milwaukee. In the postseason, they’ve looked absolutely dominant, getting rid of the Padres in just four games. If you watched the Padres-Brewers series, you might have said the Padres could’ve won it. You’d be right. There were some odd games, but the Brewers never said die. That was the same result in the Dodgers series. Every time the Brewers went down, they came back and ultimately won the game.

It won’t be an easy night with Martinez on the mound, but they have their own elite starter going. Jacob Misiorowski takes the ball and brings a great campaign with him. He went 16-5 with a 1.80 ERA and a 0.80 WHIP. He is a power pitcher and could throw one at 110 mph with all the adrenaline that will be going in this game. I only somewhat joke about that. He was elite in Milwaukee this season, posting a 1.52 ERA. In the postseason, he has looked a bit shaky. He has made two starts, gone 8.1 innings, and allowed three earned runs. He has allowed nine hits and four walks as well, which gives me a bit of concern. He faced the Rays earlier in the year and allowed two earned runs on four hits over six innings while striking out seven hitters.

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The Rays are a team that struggles against power pitching. Something feels different about the Brewers this season, like they are destined to win this year. I actually think Martinez starting is a terrible look for the Rays. It feels a bit like they will lose to Misiorowski, and they know it. I'm going to take the Brewers on the run line at +129. Pitching advantage, home field, and this lineup has the edge in this one and I don't think it will be close.

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Well, this might be the most insane piece of "advice" you'll ever hear directed at a Major League Baseball team.

The Los Angeles Dodgers failed to reach the World Series for the third consecutive season, getting swept by the unrelenting Milwaukee Brewers superteam. For most Dodgers fans, it was disappointing, sure, but the success of the previous two years, the big postseason moments from superstar players, and the parades through Los Angeles dampened the blow relative to other seasons.

But local sports media have spent the past week searching for the explanation for LA's "failure." The actual reason the Dodgers lost, that the postseason in baseball is little more than a coin flip and small sample sizes flatten out any talent advantage, is boring and uninteresting. For example, in game four, the Brewers' expected batting average was .237, while LA's was .296. Milwaukee scored six runs, though the Dodgers scored just four – which is how we get to this week's article from Bill Plaschke at the Los Angeles Times.

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His postmortem of the Dodgers' season places much of the blame on, uh, Shohei Ohtani.

There's a kernel of truth to it; Ohtani was clearly limited by several injuries down the stretch, with a lengthy slump accompanying an increase in chase rate and swing and miss. There's no way to tell how those injuries happened. Yes, Ohtani had returned to pitching full time in 2026, but LA's famously careful with Ohtani on the mound, and there's no indication that it was directly responsible for him getting hurt.

But the whole team struggled offensively in October, with a .195/.267/.323 batting line and a remarkable .116 batting average with runners in scoring position. Going 5-43 with runners in scoring position isn't going to cut it, and it's a far bigger problem than just one player.

The big debate though, that Plaschke references, is whether Ohtani should continue pitching, being a two-way player, in 2027 and beyond. Ohtani and the team have already said he intends to do both next year, but Plashcke believes he knows better.

"...He's changing. His body is changing. His skills are changing. He's 32, with 13 seasons of professional baseball burdening his lumbering 6-foot-4 frame, and part of his game is slowly disintegrating under the weight."

"Lumbering" is an odd way to describe a player who stole 50 bases two seasons ago, but don't worry, it gets worse.

"The problem is his pitching," Plaschke continues, saying that it's "distracting him" and "exhausting him" and that "enough is enough."

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That's debatable, sure, but again, there's logic to it. Ohtani is such a valuable hitter that there's a case to be made for him to focus exclusively on being a DH. But what he says next has well, no logic or reason behind it whatsoever.

"They need to pull him off the pitching mound permanently. And if he insists on continuing this detrimental charade, they need to seriously consider trading him."

Alright, well now we've officially left the world of rationality and gone into some sort of bizarre performance art trolling act. Or something. Hopefully.

Trading Shohei Ohtani is somewhere beyond insane. Even if he hurt his arm and required surgery to miss nine months and permanently put pitching behind him, trading him would be insane. Even if he only pitches 50-70 innings a year, that's immensely valuable combined with his hitting prowess. For context, top end relievers are making $20+ million a season to throw 60-70 innings. Ohtani's offense is worth $50-60 million a year, and even in limited usage, his pitching is worth at least the additional $20 million if not much more. With the upside of even greater value.

Then there's the fact that with Ohtani pitching in 2025, the Dodgers won the World Series. Including game three, when Ohtani hit two homers to help get the game to extra innings. Then there was game four of the 2025 NLCS, when he had arguably the single greatest performance in baseball history. Going six shutout innings with 10 strikeouts and hitting three home runs, including one that literally left Dodger Stadium.

But that's the baseball side of it.

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Ohtani is such a transcendent star that he's worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year to Los Angeles in advertising, marketing, and promotions. His contract, even at a heavily deferred $70 million per season, is one of the biggest bargains in the sport. The extra revenue he brings in has allowed the Dodgers to go from being a top three or four spending team to being number one. The rush from the other 29 teams to acquire him would be quite literally hilarious, because trading Ohtani would be an act of financial suicide for LA and a massive windfall for a new team.

Plashcke is frequently not a serious person, but this is enough to warrant serious questioning of his ability to continue writing about baseball for a "legitimate" newspaper. The LA Times should ask him to focus on his one true love; left-wing politics. Clearly, his attempt to try to do both is hurting both himself, and the paper, and should lead to some very serious conversations between the two sides.

Savita Punia's crucial penalty-stroke save against China helped India win the 2026 Asian Games gold medal, ending a drought that dated back to 1982.

The Pittsburgh Steelers are canceling events left in right in France even as plans for Sunday's regular-season game against the New Orleans Saints remains on track.

The Steelers arrived in the country on Friday morning after a Thursday evening flight from Western Pennsylvania.

The plan was for the team to go from the airport to a practice, but that never happened. Practice was instead canceled.

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And, no, it wasn't because of the civil unrest that has been in the news for a couple of weeks. It was that darn French wind.

"We had two plans coming in," Steelers coach Mike McCarthy told reporters on Friday. "Just really wanted to activate the players after the long flight, just based off the communication with the weather, and just in reality of the timing too.

"We had to make the decision before we landed just to put it together. So, but frankly, driving by it, I wish we would have stopped. But this is part of our plan, so we thought it'd be definitely activating."

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Winds in the area were reported at a steady 20 mph so one might understand the team's decision not to trek over to practice. And no civil unrest has been reported in the area regardless of that being a problem in past days. It's a problem McCarthy says is on his mind.

"Oh, definitely," he said. "It's my responsibility to always be aware of anything that surrounds our football team, so definitely in tune. I think the NFL, the local government and everybody involved have done an excellent job communicating.

"We're very confident in our experience here is going to be very positive."

The Steelers on Thursday canceled their Fan House event for fans in Paris because of the events of past days.

The team released a statement to OutKick about that cancellation.

"We are honored to play in the first-ever regular season NFL game in France.

"The NFL, as they do for every game, including international games, is working closely with local authorities and partners on all operational and security matters. As stated by the NFL, there have been no disruptions or impacts at League sites.

"As a precautionary measure, the Steelers designated bar that had been planned in Bastille – an area that has experienced recent disruptions – will not proceed.

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"We continue to look forward to the game versus the Saints this Sunday at the Stade de France."

The Saints have so far experienced no operational setbacks that have been reported. And the Steelers hope they can also get on track and on schedule after Friday.

"We just arrived, so we're right on schedule so far," McCarthy said with a laugh.

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India batting coach Sitanshu Kotak has urged fans to be patient with Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, saying the growing 'must play' calls are not good for the teenager's development.

Indianapolis Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson Sr. was charged with possession of marijuana this week after an encounter with law enforcement in Indiana earlier this month, court records revealed.

Richardson, who was drafted by the Colts with the fourth overall pick in the 2023 NFL draft, is facing a criminal misdemeanor charge of possession following a traffic stop in Carmel, Indiana, on Oct. 12, court records show.

Richardson was pulled over by officers with the Carmel Police Department after the black 2023 Dodge Charger he was driving had a license plate that did not match its expired registration, according to FOX59, which first reported the news.

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Court records obtained by the outlet cited law enforcement’s statement that officers immediately detected the "odor of marijuana" when approaching the vehicle.

Richardson, who reportedly complied with officers, allegedly admitted to police when asked that he did smoke marijuana inside the car to avoid smoking in front of his children and that there was a small amount of the substance in the vehicle at the time of the stop.

A spokesperson for the department confirmed to OutKick that Richardson was issued a summons to appear in court for possession of marijuana as a result of a traffic stop.

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According to FOX59, Richardson was briefly placed in cuffs as an officer searched his vehicle where a small Mason jar containing a substance believed to be marijuana and an opened bag of THC-infused gummies was found. He was issued a citation.

Online records obtained by OutKick confirmed the charge. Richardson’s initial court date for Dec. 9 was canceled and a bench trail was set for early next year.

The Colts said in a statement, "We are aware of the situation involving Anthony Richardson and are currently gathering additional information. We will have no further comment at this time."

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The charge follows a difficult week for Richardson that began with the firing of general manager Chris Ballard.

"He believed in me enough to have me here, and I'm forever grateful for that," Richardson told reporters Wednesday.

"I'm trying to do my part and not make him feel like he made the wrong decision. So I'm just trying to keep getting better every week and am waiting on my opportunity."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

The best-of-seven series kicks off with Game 1 on Friday, Oct. 23.

President Trump made his feelings known about LeBron James' antics during the national anthem, and James has now responded.

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Indianapolis Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson has been charged with having marijuana in his possession by police in Carmel, Indiana.

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Hallucinations are no laughing matter. Well, sometimes they can be.

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Pour la première fois dans l'histoire du continent, un pays d'Afrique organise un évènement olympique. Le Sénégal accueille du 31 octobre au 13 novembre les Jeux olympiques de la jeunesse (JOJ). Mais cette compétition constitue-t-elle véritablement une étape majeure pour le sport en Afrique ?

A southern Michigan school district has voted to restrict participation in girls' sports to biological females, approving a new policy in a 4-2 school board vote amid the ongoing national debate over transgender athletes competing in women's and girls' athletics.

"The Board of Education approved a new policy with a vote of 4 yes and 2 no with one board member absent," Andrew Shaw, superintendent of Monroe Public Schools, told Fox News Digital in an email Wednesday.

"As the superintendent it is my role to implement the policies established by the Board of Education," he added. "The policy that was approved is for Monroe Public Schools only and does not impact any visiting school."

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The policy, titled "Girl's Athletic Participation and Facilities Use," addresses participation in girls' athletics and access to facilities. A copy of the proposed policy obtained by Fox News Digital states that participation in girls' athletics at Monroe Public Schools would be restricted to biological females, with eligibility tied to documentation on a student's birth certificate.

The policy reads, "Participation in girl's athletics at Monroe Public Schools shall be restricted to biological females as documented on the birth certificate at the time of birth. Access to and use of girl's athletic facilities (locker rooms) shall follow the same restriction."

The decision comes as school districts across the country continue to grapple with questions surrounding transgender student participation in girls' sports and access to sex-separated facilities.

The new policy announcement also comes after Briley Lechner, a varsity volleyball player at Monroe High School in Monroe, Michigan, and her father, Sean, filed a federal lawsuit on Oct. 9, announced by the Thomas More Law Center, raising Title IX and constitutional claims against Monroe Public Schools, the Michigan High School Athletic Association and school officials over the alleged incident.

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Briley Lechner said she filed a lawsuit after she unknowingly shared a locker room with a transgender athlete.

"What's very scary is that the day that this happened, I had no clue that there was a boy on the other team," Lechner told Fox News Digital in an interview on Oct. 15.

The lawsuit from the Thomas More Law Center "alleges that school officials knowingly concealed from the Monroe High School girls' volleyball team and their parents that the September 9, 2025, match with Ann Arbor's Skyline High School would involve a biological male (transgender female)," according to the legal group.

In a statement, Briley Lechner told Fox News Digital, "Our family loves and respect everyone, regardless of our differences. This has always been about my privacy, my safety, and fair play. Nothing more, nothing less."

She added, "Every female athlete deserves to have her rights respected and protected. Boys do NOT belong in girls’ locker rooms or girls’ sports. Every girl deserves to feel safe, respected, and protected, both in the locker room and on the court. We should NEVER have to fight for that."

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Sean Lechner, her father, told Fox News Digital, "The new policy may be watered down, but it's an incremental victory for my daughter and every female athlete. It's shameful it took nearly a year to get here but we still have work to do. Who's to say they can't change it again? Regardless of how some try to twist the narrative, this has ALWAYS been about my daughter's privacy, safety, and fair play. Nothing more, nothing less!"

He continued, "Since our lawsuit was announced, my daughter and I have received even more harassing and threatening messages. But at the heart of everything I'm doing is something simple — being a father, being a parent, and loving my daughter enough to stand beside her when she needs me most." 

He added, "To all parents....put aside your differences, bring faith, common sense, and respect back into our homes. Our children are God's most precious gifts. Love them. Cherish them. Protect them. One day, your daughter may look you in the eyes and ask, 'Why didn't you stand up for me when I needed you?' I never want my daughter to ask me that question. I want her to know her father stood beside her and never backed down. No amount of hate or threats will silence us. I will never stop standing up for my daughter."

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Fox News Digital reached out to the Thomas More Law Center for comment.

Hours after President Donald Trump ripped his national anthem golf swing antics, LeBron James appeared to double down by working on his golf hip turns during Thursday's night's anthem before the Philadelphia 76ers faced the Cleveland Cavaliers.

In what was a clear shot back at Trump, LeBron, who wouldn't dare disrespect the Chinese anthem, was seen standing normally during the national anthem before sending a signal back to Trump that sure looked like hip turns that golfers would use during warmups.

The Philadelphia Inquirer called hip turns "stretching." The golf world knows better.

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Earlier Thursday, Trump unleashed on the Chinese sympathizer.

"While listening to our National Anthem, LeBron James disrespects our Country! I said right from the beginning that he’s no good, a TOTAL DISGRACE," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "LeBron James should apologize to all of those Great American Warriors and Heroes who died for the American Flag, and all that our Country stands for!"

This is the video that had Trump, a noted golfer fanatic himself, fuming mad.

During a campaign stop Thursday night, Trump continued to hammer away. "What about LeBron James? Did you see that deal?" Trump asked voters in Iowa. "He's practicing his golf swing. I said, what the hell is that? I don't understand it."

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"Slow news day at the office," LeBron said after the game when asked about Trump's Truth Social post that clearly got his attention.

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Doce años después de que Peter Lim se hiciera con el control del Valencia, el empresario ha vendido el 42% de las acciones del club a Pitchwise Holdings, un consorcio de inversores integrado principalmente por capital estadounidense, según ha anunciado este viernes la entidad en un comunicado. La operación mantiente al magnate de Singapur como el accionista mayoritario del equipo, pero los nuevos socios, que se han comprometido a inyectar 100 millones de euros de nuevo capital que estarán “disponibles de forma inmediata para su inversión directa en el club”, entran con una “participación minoritaria significativa”.

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What an amazing night of football we got Thursday night, huh?

The Bears beat the Patriots in a thriller in Chicago, and we had two overtime games down in the college ranks. Appalachian State upset JMU, 34-31, in Boone, while East Carolina blew a double-digit lead in Memphis en route to a 41-34 loss.

Those are the nights we dream about during the dog days of summer, folks. When you're sitting through another insufferable WNBA game in July, just a reminder that you're GRINDING away for fall nights like we got on Thursday.

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They're the best, and they don't stick around for long. We get maybe a dozen of them a year if we're a lucky. Last night was one of them. I hope you all took advantage.

Now, you know one fanbase who did not take advantage of last night's glorious fall night of football? The so-called "fans" of the Memphis Tigers, who apparently forgot the fellas were scheduled to play on Thursday this week.

Take a look:

Gonna need better effort next time around

Goodness gracious. The "official" box score lists last night's attendance at over 27,000. Surely it filled in a bit after kickoff, but I don't see how they got to 27K. Seems ambitious to me.

It's a bad look. There's no way around it, and no reason to sugarcoat it. It's just a bad look for Memphis and its fans.

"But Zach, it was a Thursday night!"

So? What does that mean? Are the kids not allowed to go to Thursday night games? Is there a rule in Memphis that says fans and students can only attend Saturday games?

"But Zach, it was East Carolina!"

OK. And? The Tigers are a 5-2 team and still very much alive for a playoff spot. I know they lost last week to Tulane, which certainly dealt them a blow, but it's the G6. Anything can happen down there.

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You'd like to think a 5-2 Division I college football team would draw a bigger crowd than the local Moose Lodge for the Sunday brunch buffet.

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"Stop picking on us, Zach. There were a bunch of games last night. Surely we weren't the only no-shows!"

Actually ...

Different worlds, folks.

Choose your fighter(s).