(WASHINGTON) — NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre told lawmakers he was recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease as he testified Tuesday before the House Ways and Means Committee investigating Mississippi’s misuse of welfare funds — a scandal that has tainted the Green Bay Packers legend after his retirement.
At a hearing titled, “Reforming Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): States’ Misuse of Welfare Funds Leaves Poor Families Behind,” the former quarterback said state officials “failed to protect federal TANF funds from fraud and abuse” and then attempted to blame him.
“When this started, I didn’t know what TANF was. Now I know TANF is one of the country’s most important welfare programs to help people in need,” Favre testified.
Favre, wearing a sportscoat, untucked dress shirt and blue jeans, told the committee he was recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
“I also lost an investment in a company that I believe was developing a breakthrough concussion drug I thought would help others, and I’m sure you’ll understand why it’s too late for me, because I recently been diagnosed with Parkinson’s,” Favre revealed.
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(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE San Francisco 2, Kansas City 0 St. Louis 2, Cleveland 1 San Diego 4, Chi White Sox 2
AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston 8, Minnesota 1 Boston 9, Minnesota 3 Detroit 4, Baltimore 3 Tampa Bay 4, Toronto 3 Texas 6, Seattle 5 LA Angels 9, Houston 8 NY Yankees 7, Oakland 4
NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh 2, Cincinnati 0 Atlanta 5, Miami 4 Chi Cubs 5, Washington 0 Milwaukee 10, Arizona 9 LA Dodgers 6, Colorado 5 NY Mets 2, Philadelphia 1
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE PRESEASON Calgary 6 Seattle 1 Florida 3, Nashville 2 Philadelphia 6, Washington 2 Utah 5, St. Louis 3 NY Rangers 3, Boston 2 Edmonton 3, Winnipeg 2 (OT) Florida 6, Nashville 2 NY Islanders 4, New Jersey 2 Ottawa 6, Toronto 5 (OT) Vegas 4, San Jose 2
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE Denver 26, Tampa Bay 7 Green Bay 30, Tennessee 14 Indianapolis 21, Chicago 16 Minnesota 34, Houston 7 NY Giants 21, Cleveland 15 Philadelphia 15, New Orleans 12 Pittsburgh 20, LA Chargers 10 Carolina 36, Las Vegas 22 Seattle 24, Miami 3 Baltimore 28, Dallas 25 Detroit 20, Arizona 13 LA Rams 27, San Francisco 24 Kansas City 22, Atlanta 17
WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PLAYOFFS Las Vegas 78, Seattle 67 (Las Vegas leads series 1-0)) New York 83, Atlanta 69 (NY leads series 1-0) Connecticut 93, Indiana 69 (Conn. leads series 1-0) Minnesota 102, Phoenix 95 (Min. leads series 1-0)
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE
Baltimore Orioles 5, San Francisco Giants 3
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland Guardians 3, Minnesota Twins 2 Toronto Blue Jays 4, Texas Rangers 0 Seattle Mariners 3, N-Y Yankees 2 Tampa Bay Rays 2, Boston Red Sox 0 Houston Astros 3, L-A Angels 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Atlanta Braves 15, Cincinnati Reds 3 L-A Dodgers 20, Miami Marlins 4 Arizona Diamondbacks 5, Milwaukee Brewers 1 N-Y Mets 10, Philadelphia Phillies 6 Pittsburgh Pirates 3, St. Louis Cardinals 2 Chicago Cubs 7, Washington Nationals 6
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
N-Y Jets 24, New England Patriots 3
WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Atlanta Dream 78, New York Liberty 67 Connecticut Sun 87, Chicago Sky 54 Washington Mystics 92, Indiana Fever 91 Los Angeles Sparks 68, Minnesota Lynx 51 Las Vegas Aces 98, Dallas Wings 84 Seattle Storm 89, Phoenix Mercury 70
In this Sept. 19, 2023 file photo, a flag football game is shown at Wilson in Long Beach, Calif. (Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images)
(NEW YORK) — Pennsylvania officially recognized flag football as a sanctioned girls’ high school sport in an announcement made by Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, Inc. (PIAA), on Wednesday.
The girls’ flag football was made an official state-sanctioned high school sport after the sport met the requirement to have had at least 100 participating teams across the state, according to a press release.
The figure was achieved in April with the help of the Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers, which launched girls’ flag football leagues in 2022.
“This is not just an important day for the Eagles and Steelers, but for the sport of football and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” Eagles Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Lurie said in the release. “When we launched our Girls Flag Football League in 2022, we set an ambitious five-year goal to get the sport sanctioned in our state. Now, here we are three seasons later and two years ahead of schedule. The sport’s organic growth is a credit to the participants, administrators, coaches, officials, and parents who helped raise the profile of Girls Flag Football.”
He continued, “We thank the PIAA for their leadership in recognizing a sport that has the power to unlock new pathways and opportunities for girls of all ages in every community.”
The sport will be officially available for high school girls in the state starting in the 2025-26 school year.
Pennsylvania has now joined other states, including Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, New York, and Tennessee, in making girls’ flag football a state-sanctioned high school sport.
The decision will also unlock opportunities for the participants and school districts in allowing them to compete for a state championship and eventually create a pathway of talent for college sports and beyond.
Steelers President Art Rooney II, in a statement in the release, called the move a “groundbreaking moment for the future of girls’ flag football.”
“It has been great working with the Eagles to accomplish a successful ruling that will now give young girls the chance to compete at a state level,” the statement read. “We look forward to seeing how girls’ flag football continues to grow in Pennsylvania and worldwide.”
A growing interest in flag football, which is a non-tackling version of American football where players wear belts with flags on them, peaked this summer after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced in October 2023 that flag football would be included on the LA28 Olympic sports program.
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE Oakland Athletics 5, Chicago Cubs 3 San Francisco Giants 5, Baltimore Orioles 3 San Diego Padres 4, Houston Astros 0
AMERICAN LEAGUE LA Angels 4, Chicago White Sox 3 Cleveland Guardians 5, Minnesota Twins 4 Boston Red Sox 2, Tampa Bay Rays 1 Detroit Tigers 4, Kansas City Royals 2 Texas Rangers 2, Toronto Blue Jays 0 NY Yankees 2, Seattle Mariners 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE Arizona Diamondbacks 9, Colorado Rockies 4 Atlanta Braves 7, Cincinnati Reds 1 LA Dodgers 8, Miami Marlins 4 NY Mets 10, Washington Nationals 0 Milwaukee Brewers 2, Philadelphia Phillies 1 St. Louis Cardinals 10, Pittsburgh Pirates 5
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE San Francisco Giants 10, Baltimore Orioles 0 Oakland Athletics 4, Chicago Cubs 3 Houston Astros 4, San Diego Padres 3
AMERICAN LEAGUE Minnesota Twins 4, Cleveland Guardians 1 Tampa Bay Rays 8, Boston Red Sox 3 Detroit Tigers 3, Kansas City Royals 1 Texas Rangers 13, Toronto Blue Jays 8 Chicago White Sox 0, LA Angels 5 NY Yankees 11, Seattle Mariners 2
NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati Reds 6, Atlanta Braves 5 Miami Marlins 11, LA Dodgers 9 NY Mets 10, Washington Nationals 1 Philadelphia Phillies 5, Milwaukee Brewers 1 St. Louis Cardinals 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 1 Colorado Rockies 8, Arizona Diamondbacks 2
WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Minnesota Lynx 78, Connecticut Sun 76 New York Liberty 87, Washington Mystics 71 Atlanta Dream 86, Chicago Sky 70 Las Vegas Aces 85, Seattle Storm 72 Phoenix Mercury 85, Los Angeles Sparks 81
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
NATIONAL LEAGUE New York Mets 2, Washington Nationals 1 Los Angeles Dodgers 9, Atlanta Braves 0 Milwaukee Brewers 6, Philadelphia Phillies 2 Colorado Rockies 3, Arizona Diamondbacks, 2
AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago White Sox 8, Los Angeles Angles 4 Cleveland Guardians 4, Minnesota Twins 3 Detroit Tigers 7, Kansas City Royals 6
INTERLEAGUE Chicago Cubs 9, Oakland Athletics 2
NATIONAL LEAGUE FOOTBALL Atlanta Falcons 22, Philadelphia Eagles 21
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE Minnesota 9, Cincinnati 2 Toronto 3, St. Louis 2 Pittsburgh 4, Kansas City 3
AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit 4, Baltimore 2 Cleveland 2, Tampa Bay 0 Chi White Sox 4, Oakland 3 NY Yankees 5, Boston 2 Seattle 7, Texas 0 Houston 6, LA Angels 4
NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia 2, NY Mets 1 Washington 4, Miami 3 Chi Cubs 6, Colorado 2 San Diego 4, San Francisco 3 Arizona 11, Milwaukee 10 LA Dodgers 9, Atlanta 2
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE Cleveland 18, Jacksonville 13 Green Bay 16, Indianapolis 10 LA Chargers 26, Carolina 3 Las Vegas 26, Baltimore 23 Minnesota 23, San Francisco 17 NY Jets 24, Tennessee 17 New Orleans 44, Dallas 19 Seattle 23, New England 20 (OT) Tampa Bay 20, Detroit 16 Washington 21, NY Giants 18 Arizona 41, LA Rams 10 Kansas City 26, Cincinnati 25 Pittsburgh 13, Denver 6 Houston 19, Chicago 13
WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Minnesota 88, New York 79 Indiana 110, Dallas 109 Atlanta 76, Washington 73 (OT) Las Vegas 84, Connecticut 71 Phoenix 93, Chicago 88 Seattle 90, Los Angeles 87
MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER Seattle 2, Sporting Kansas City 0
Jordan Chiles of Team USA looks on with her Bronze Medal from the Women’s Apparatus floor final on day ten of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Bercy Arena on August 05, 2024 in Paris, France. (Naomi Baker/Getty Images)
(NEW YORK) — Olympian Jordan Chiles opened up this week in her first interview since being stripped of her bronze medal from the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The star gymnast, whose bronze medal in the women’s gymnastics floor exercise final was revoked in August, spoke on the subject at the 2024 Forbes Power Women’s Summit in New York City on Wednesday.
“The biggest thing that was taken from me was that it was the recognition of who I was,” said Chiles, pausing halfway through and becoming emotional. “Not just my sport, but the person I am.”
“To me, everything that has gone on, it’s not about the medal, it’s about my skin color, it’s about the fact that there were things that have led up to this position of being an athlete,” she said.
She added, “I felt like when I was back in 2018, where I did lose the love of this sport. I lost it again. I felt like I was really left in the dark.”
Chiles referenced a coach she said she had in 2018, who she claimed “emotionally and verbally abused” her, though she did not name them, and said losing her medal made her feel voiceless again.
“I wasn’t able to be heard,” she said.
She added, “I made history and I will always continue to make history, and something that I rightfully did, I followed the rules. My coach followed the rules. We did everything that was totally, completely right.”
Initially, Chiles finished fifth in the individual floor exercise final at the Paris Olympics, only to be moved up to the bronze medal spot after her coaches appealed the scoring of one of the elements in her routine. In moving from fifth to third, she leaped over two Romanian gymnasts — including Ana Barbosu, who had already begun celebrating bronze.
The International Gymnastics Federation has since awarded Barbosu third place, after the Court of Arbitration for Sport voided the appeal made by Chiles’ coach at the event, with CAS saying Chiles’ score was “raised after the conclusion of the one-minute deadline.” In stating the challenge came too late, the CAS reinstated Chiles’ incorrect 13.666 score.
CAS later said it would not hear Chiles’ appeal to keep her bronze medal from the Paris Olympics despite new evidence, according to USA Gymnastics.
Following the unsuccessful appeal, Chiles took to Instagram to share her feelings on losing the medal.
“I have no words. This decision feels unjust and comes as a significant blow, not just to me, but to everyone who has championed my journey,” she wrote in a statement at the time.
“To add to the heartbreak, the unprompted racially driven attacks on social media are wrong and extremely hurtful. I’ve poured my heart and soul into this sport and I am so proud to represent my culture and my country,” she continued.
Chiles took home one medal from the Olympics, helping Team USA secure gold in the women’s artistic team all-around event. She was also a part of the silver medal-winning team at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
Wide Receiver Tyreek Hill #10 of the Miami Dolphins addresses the media during the post-game press conference after playing the Jacksonville Jaguars at Hard Rock Stadium on September 8, 2024, in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Don Juan Moore/Getty Images)
(MIAMI) — The NFL’s Miami Dolphins franchise spoke out Monday night about the traffic stop by police officers where wide receiver Tyreek Hill was removed from his vehicle, placed on the ground and handcuffed before Sunday’s season opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
In its statement, the organization said it was “saddened by the overly aggressive and violent conduct directed toward” Hill on Sunday, urging “swift and strong action against the officers” involved in the incident.
Hill was detained and handcuffed on the ground after being pulled over as he was driving up to Hard Rock Stadium on Sunday around 10:20 a.m. ET.
“It is both maddening and heartbreaking to watch the very people we trust to protect our community use such unnecessary force and hostility towards these players,” the Dolphins’ organization said.
The statement from the team follows the release of officer body camera footage of the incident by Miami-Dade Police on Monday night.
In the footage, which ABC News has reviewed, a motorcycle officer pulls over Hill and approaches the driver’s side window. Hill rolls down the window and tells the officer to stop knocking on the window.
Hill then asks for his ticket and tells the officer he’s going to be late before rolling the car window back up.
The officer then asks the wide receiver to roll the window down, and Hill cracks it open a little. The officer then tells Hill, “Get out of the car right now. We’re not playing this game.”
When Hill opens the door, the newly released footage shows the officer grabbing Hill’s hand and putting it behind Hill’s head. The officer then appears to drag Hill out of the car.
The videos then shows the officer putting Hill’s face down on the ground with two other officers assisting. One officer has his knee on Hill’s back until Hill is handcuffed, the videos show.
Approximately six minutes into the incident, body camera footage shows an assisting officer looking at Hill’s ID. He can be heard saying, “You know who that is, right?”
The first officer said he didn’t know and then was told Hill was one of the Dolphins’ star players.
In a statement from Hill’s attorney, Julius B. Collins, describing the incident, Collins said Hill “had his window rolled down and that officer then demanded Mr. Hill out of the vehicle even after Mr. Hill complied with that officer’s request to keep his window down.”
Collins said in his statement, “Hill rolled down his window each time he was requested to do so by the requesting officers.” He went on to call the officers’ actions “excessive” and said they were exploring all legal remedies.
“We believe that this matter was escalated due to overzealous officers attempting to impose their authority on Mr. Hill because they were not pleased with how fast he complied with their request and that Mr. Hill did not roll down his window far enough to their liking,” he added.
When asked about the incident after the game, Hill told reporters, “I wasn’t disrespectful… because my mom didn’t raise me that way, didn’t curse, none of that.”
South Florida Police Benevolent Association president Steadman Stahl released a statement Monday saying Hill’s refusal to cooperate with officers led to his detainment.
“He was briefly detained for officer safety, after driving in a manner in which he was putting himself and others in great risk of danger,” Stahl said. “Upon being stopped, Mr. Hill was not immediately cooperative with the officers on scene who, pursuant to policy and for their immediate safety, placed Mr. Hill in handcuffs.”
Miami-Dade Police Department director Stephanie V. Daniels said in a statement along with the body camera footage Monday that the “department is committed to conducting a thorough, objective investigation into this matter.”
“We will continue to update the public on the outcome of that process,” Daniels said.
Daniels also said one of the officers involved was placed on “administrative duty.”
