(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL WORLD SEIRES
Texas 3, Arizona 1 (Texas leads series 2-1)
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Boston 126, Washington 107
Brooklyn 133, Charlotte 121
Chicago 112, Indiana 105
Portland 99, Toronto 91
Atlanta 127, Minnesota 113
Golden State 130, New Orleans 102
Dallas 125, Memphis 110
Final Oklahoma City, 124 Detroit 112
Milwaukee 122 Miami 114
Denver 110, Utah 102
LA Lakers 106, Orlando 103
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Carolina 3, Philadelphia 2
Seattle 4, Tampa Bay 3 (OT)
Boston 3, Florida 2 (OT)
Anaheim 4, Pittsburgh 3
NY Rangers 3, Winnipeg 2 (OT)
Detroit 4, NY Islanders 3 (OT)
Dallas 5, Columbus 3
Arizona 8, Chicago 1
Vegas 3, Montreal 2
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Detroit 26, Las Vegas 14
MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER
Orlando City 1, Nashville 0
Seattle 2, FC Dallas 0
(NEW YORK) — FIFA announced Monday that it is banning Luis Rubiales, the former Spanish soccer federation president, from national and international soccer activities for three years, after the organization found he violated an article of FIFA’s disciplinary code.
The development comes two months after Rubiales’ behavior at the Women’s World Cup final in Australia.
Following Spain’s final 1-0 win against England on Aug. 20, Rubiales kissed Spanish player Jennifer Hermoso on the lips without her consent during the team’s trophy ceremony.
The incident was captured on video and in photos. Afterward, Rubiales claimed the kiss was consensual.
However, Hermoso pushed back against Rubiales’ claim, saying in a statement, “I want to clarify that, as seen in the footage, I never consented to the kiss he gave me, and of course, I never intended to lift the president in the air. I do not tolerate that my word is distrusted, and even less so, the invention of words I never said.”
“We ask the RFEF [the Spanish soccer federation] to implement the necessary protocols and to ensure the rights of our players and adopt exemplary measures. It is essential that our national team is represented by figures that project its values of equality and respect in all areas,” Hermoso added.
On Aug. 26, FIFA said it would suspend Rubiales, who had been RFEF president since 2018, for 90 days while they investigated the incident.
“FIFA reiterates its absolute commitment to respect the integrity of all persons and therefore condemns with the utmost vigour any behaviour to the contrary,” the international soccer governing body said in a statement at the time.
FIFA has not published the results of their investigation but said Rubiales had been notified of the decision and that he had 10 days to request a “motivated decision” if he chose to do so and that the decision remains open to a potential appeal at this time.
The soccer governing body repeated its earlier “commitment to respecting and protecting the integrity of all people” and said it was committed to “ensuring that the basic rules of decent conduct are upheld.”
The kissing incident sparked outrage and controvery throughout Spain, around the globe and in the soccer world. Afterward, several of Spain’s coaching staff within the RFEF, including RFEF Vice President Rafael del Amo, resigned in protest of Rubiales’ misconduct.
The resigning staff said in a statement then that they expressed their “firm and resounding condemnation of the conduct shown by the RFEF president.”
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Denver 128, Oklahoma City 95
Atlanta 127, Milwaukee 110
Golden State 106, Houston 95
Philadelphia 126, Portland 98
LA Clippers 123, San Antonio 83
Final OT Sacramento 132, LA Lakers 127 (OT)
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Buffalo 4, Colorado 0
New Jersey 4, Minnesota 3
Washington 3, San Jose 1
Edmonton 5, Calgary 2
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Carolina 15, Houston 13
Dallas 43, LA Rams 20
Jacksonville 20, Pittsburgh 10
Miami 31, New England 17
Minnesota 24, Green Bay 10
NY Jets 13 N-Y Giants 10 (OT)
New Orleans 38, Indianapolis 27
Philadelphia 38, Washington 31
Tennessee 28, Atlanta 23
Seattle 24, Cleveland 20
Baltimore 31, Arizona 24
Cincinnati 31, San Francisco 17
Final Denver 24 Kansas City 9
LA Chargers 30, Chicago 13
MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER
Houston 2, Real Salt Lake 1
Cincinnati 3, New York 0
Sporting Kansas City 4, St Louis City 1
(NEW YORK) — Here’s the scores from Thursday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
LA Lakers 100, Phoenix 95
Milwaukee 118, Philadelphia 117
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Tampa Bay 6, San Jose 0
Winnipeg 4, Detroit 1
Pittsburgh 4, Colorado 0
Montreal 4, Columbus 3 (OT)
Carolina 3, Seattle 2 (OT)
Anaheim 4, Boston 3 (OT)
Philadelphia 6, Minnesota 2
NY Islanders 3, Ottawa 2
Toronto 4, Dallas 1
St. Louis 3, Calgary 0
NY Rangers 3, Edmonton 0
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
LA Clippers 123, Portland 111
Indiana 143, Washington 120
Orlando 116, Houston 86
Charlotte 116, Atlanta 110
Boston 108, New York 104
Toronto 97, Minnesota 94
Miami 103, Detroit 102
Cleveland 114, Brooklyn 113
Oklahoma City 124, Chicago 104
New Orleans 111, Memphis 104
Sacramento 130, Utah 114
Dallas 126, San Antonio 119
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Washington 6, New Jersey 4
MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER
New York 5, Charlotte FC 2
Sporting Kansas City 0, San Jose 0 (Sporting Kansas City advances 4-2 on penalty kicks)
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
NATIONAL LEAGUE PLAYOFFS
Arizona 4, Philadelphia 2 (Arizona wins series 4-3)
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Denver 119, LA Lakers 107
Phoenix 108, Golden State 104
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Los Angeles 6 Arizona 3
Vegas 3, Philadelphia 2
Toronto 4, Washington 1
Buffalo 6, Ottawa 4
Tampa Bay 3, Carolina 0
New Jersey 5, Montreal 2
Dallas 4, Pittsburgh 1
Final Florida 3 San Jose 1
Colorado 7, NY Islanders 4
Seattle 5 Detroit 4 (OT)
Anaheim 3, Columbus 2 (OT)
Winnipeg 4, St. Louis 2
Boston 3, Chicago 0
Minnesota 7, Edmonton 4
Vancouver 3, Nashville 2
NY Rangers 3, Calgary 1
(NEW YORK) — Mary Lou Retton is back home after a health scare that required a nearly two-week stay in the intensive care unit.
McKenna Lane Kelley, one of Retton’s four daughters, shared on Instagram Monday that her mom is home and “in recovery mode.”
“We still have a long road of recovery ahead of us, but baby steps,” Kelley wrote. “We are overwhelmed with the love and support from everyone. Grateful doesn’t scrape the surface of the posture of our hearts.”
Retton, 55, had been hospitalized in the ICU for nearly two weeks and was initially not able to breathe on her own, according to a fundraising page created for Retton, who is not insured, according to her family.
As recently as last week, another of Retton’s daughters, Shayla Kelley Schrepfer, shared on Instagram that her mom had suffered a “scary setback” after making steady progress earlier in the week.
Retton’s daughters have not shared exact details of their mom’s diagnosis beyond saying previously that she was battling a “very rare” form of pneumonia.
Pneumonia is an infection that causes the air sacs of the lungs to fill with fluid, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Retton became a sports icon when she won Olympic individual all-around gold at the 1984 Games. She also earned silver as a member of the U.S. women’s gymnastics team in the all-around and as an individual on vault. She earned bronze medals in the uneven bars and floor exercise to claim five medals total in Los Angeles.
She has remained an iconic American sports hero in the decades since and was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1997.
In 2018, Retton competed on season 27 of ABC’s dancing competition show Dancing with the Stars.
(NEW YORK) — A collegiate gymnast has announced her retirement from the sport, alleging she was a victim of “verbal and emotional abuse.”
Kara Eaker, a junior at the University of Utah, shared on Instagram that she is withdrawing from the school, as well as retiring from the team and gymnastics overall.
“For two years, while training with the Utah Gymnastics team, I was a victim of verbal and emotional abuse,” Eaker wrote in her lengthy Instagram post. “As a result, my physical, mental and emotional health has rapidly declined. I had been seeing a university athletics psychologist for a year and a half and I’m now seeing a new provider twice a week because of suicidal and self-harm ideation and being unable to care for myself properly. I have recently been diagnosed with severe anxiety and depression, anxiety induced insomnia, and I suffer from panic attacks, PTSD and night terrors.”
Eaker, 20, went onto describe the alleged environment on the university’s gymnastics team as “unhealthy, unsafe and toxic,” and said she had “reached a turning point and I’m speaking out for all of the women who can’t because they are mentally debilitated and paralyzed by fear.”
“I, too, find myself frozen in moments when fear takes over. But i can no longer stand by while perpetrators are still allowed in sports and are causing young girls and women to suffer,” Eaker wrote.
Eaker ended her post by writing: “I am here to support you because I care about everyone. You are not alone.”
A native of Missouri, Eaker was a member of Utah’s third-place NCAA championship gymnastics teams in 2022 and 2023 and was a two-time All-American on the beam during her time at the University of Utah, according to her biography on the gymnastic team’s website.
Outside of her collegiate gymnastics career, Eaker was also an alternate for the 2020 U.S. Olympic women’s gymnastics team and a two-time world champion with Team USA, among other highlights, according to her bio.
The University of Utah did not immediately reply to ABC News’ request for comment on Eaker’s claims.
Eaker did not name a coach in her Instagram post, but wrote that the alleged abuse “often happened in individual coach-athlete meetings.”
“I would be isolated in an office with an overpowering coach, door closed, sitting quietly, hardly able to speak because of condescending, sarcastic and manipulative tactics,” she wrote.
Tom Farden has been the sole head coach of Utah’s women’s gymnastics program since 2020.
Earlier this year, the university hired a legal firm to investigate reports that Farden verbally and emotionally abused athletes. The university last month released a report of the investigation’s findings, stating in part that “while Farden’s actions caused some student-athletes to feel ‘increased fear of failure’ and pressure to retain athletics scholarships, he did not engage in ‘any severe, pervasive or egregious’ acts of emotional, verbal or physical abuse or harassment as defined by the SafeSport Code and NCAA regulations.”
The report also found that Farden “more likely than not threw a stopwatch and a cellular telephone in frustration in the presence of student-athletes. These individual acts were not repeated or severe and therefore did not violate SafeSport Code for Physical Acts of Emotional Misconduct which requires repeated or severe physically aggressive behaviors.”
At the time of the report’s release, Farden responded by saying, in part, “I care deeply about the health, safety and well-being of every student whom I am entrusted to coach, to mentor and to support as head coach of the Utah gymnastics program. With that privilege comes great responsibility, and I take very seriously the concerns that were expressed about my behavior and my coaching methods. It has been painful to learn of the negative impacts that my words and actions have created.”
He added, “I take to heart every lesson I have learned through this process, and I am fully committed to improving our student–athlete experience.”
Eaker referred to the investigation in her Instagram post, saying it is “incomplete at best, and I disagree with their findings. I don’t believe it has credibility, because the report omits crucial evidence and information and the few descriptions used are inaccurate.”
As of Monday morning, Farden had not publicly responded to Eaker’s Instagram post.
Christine Brennan, a sports columnist for USA Today, described Eaker’s decision to go public with her allegations a “watershed moment” in the sport of gymnastics, which has faced other recent abuse allegations .
“If we’ve learned anything, it’s that we should be listening to every single athlete, when someone like Kara speaks, as she has, and has the courage and the confidence and the fortitude to come forward in this manner and bare her soul and say that she’s retiring from the sport she loves because it is so broken,” Brennan told ABC News. “This is truly another watershed moment in gymnastics, and it seems to me that University of Utah, with that investigation, has not met the moment.”
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(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
AMERICAN LEAGUE PLAYOFFS
Texas 9, Houston 2
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Detroit 6, Calgary 2
Boston 3, Anaheim 1
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Atlanta 16, Tampa Bay 13
Baltimore 38 Detroit 6
Chicago 30, Las Vegas 12
Cleveland 39, Indianapolis 38
NY Giants 14, Washington 7
New England 29, Buffalo 25
Pittsburgh 24, LA Rams 17
Seattle 20, Arizona 10
Denver 19, Green Bay 17
Kansas City 31, LA Chargers 17
Philadelphia 31, Miami 17
