(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE Philadelphia 4, NY. Yankees 0 NY Mets 3, Houston 1 St. Louis 3, Houston 0 Baltimore 2, Pittsburgh 0 Boston 5, Atlanta 4 Arizona 5, Chi White Sox 0 Final L.A. Dodgers 4 Oakland 2 Cincinnati 9, LA Angels 4 San Francisco 0, Texas 0
AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston 8, Minnesota 6 NY Yankees 12, Toronto 6 Kansas City 1, L.A. Angels 0 Cleveland 8, Seattle 4 Detroit 9, Tampa Bay 9
NATIONAL LEAGUE Washington 6, Miami 3 San Diego 7, Chi Cubs 0 Colorado 10, Milwaukee 3
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Milwaukee 119, Philadelphia 98 Phoenix 123, LA Lakers 113 Indiana 133, Dallas 111 Cleveland 114, Washington 105 Chicago 114, New Orleans 106 Atlanta 109, Orlando 92 Oklahoma City 123, Houston 110 Final Denver 119 Golden State 103 Final Utah 128 San Antonio 109 Charlotte 93, Portland 80 Sacramento 123, LA Clippers 107
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Tampa Bay 4, New Jersey 1 Pittsburgh 7, Philadelphia 6 Winnipeg 4 Arizona 3 (OT) Detroit 3, Chicago 2 (OT) Buffalo 3, Carolina 2 (SO) Columbus 4, NY Rangers 2 Nashville 4, Anaheim 2
TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Purdue 84, Michigan 76 Marquette 88, Xavier 64 St. John’s 80, Creighton 66
MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER Toronto FC 0 Cincinnati 0 (Tie) New York 0, Nashville 0 (Tie) Miami 1, LA Galaxy 1 (Tie)
(NEW YORK) — Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman announced Thursday that he will use an executive order to ban transgender athletes from competing in events aligning with their gender identity in county-run facilities.
The executive order states that sports leagues, organizations, teams and other entities in the Long Island, New York county must expressly designate teams based on an athlete’s sex assigned at birth, when applying for a “use and occupancy” permit at a Nassau County Parks property for a sporting competition or event on all levels.
Permits will not be given to any event or competition that allows transgender women or girls to compete in girls’ or women’s sporting events. The order allows transgender men and boys to play in competitions for men and boys.
This will go into effect immediately, according to Blakeman’s office.
The move goes against guidelines from local and national sports associations.
The New York State Public High School Athletic Association’s transgender policy states that it is “committed to providing all students with the opportunity to participate … in a manner consistent with their gender identity and the New York State Commissioner of Education’s Regulations.”
The National Collegiate Athletic Association transgender guidelines vary from sport to sport. Transgender student-athletes typically need to document sport-specific testosterone levels at the beginning of their season and a second documentation six months later, and then another documentation four weeks before championship selections.
The governing bodies of several national and international sports leagues, including the International Olympic Committee, require transgender women to meet certain hormone levels in order to play on sports teams with cisgender women.
There is no clear data on whether transgender women have an advantage physiologically, according to health experts.
One study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that the athletic advantages of the 46 trans women over their cisgender counterparts declined with feminizing therapy. However, this study also found theyhad a 9% faster mean run speed than cisgender women after a one-year period of testosterone suppression. A different study in the American Journal of Sports Medicine found that there is not yet any direct or consistent research suggesting transgender women have an athletic advantage at any stage of their transition.
Experts wrote in a recent JAMA Pediatrics editorial that preventing trans youth from participating in school sports could be bad for the mental and physical health of an already at-risk population because they lose out on the developmental benefits of sports participation.
Restrictions on hormone levels have impacted athletes with differences in sex development, including track star Caster Semenya, who was born intersex and has naturally high testosterone levels.
Blakeman, a Republican, said he believes the designation of separate athletic teams or sports based on sex assigned at birth “is necessary to maintain fairness for women’s athletic opportunities.”
“Women and Girls hard work, on-field achievements, and athletic futures deserve to be fostered, nurtured, and celebrated,” Blakeman stated in the executive order.
Local civil rights advocacy groups, including the New York Civil Liberties Union, argued the executive order is illegal.
“Requiring girls who are trans to compete on boys’ teams effectively bars them from sports altogether,” NYCLU said in a statement to ABC News. “Participating would mean being outed and being denied the same opportunities other girls enjoy: to challenge themselves, improve fitness, and be part of a team of their peers.”
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Indiana 129, Detroit 115 New York 110, Philadelphia 96 Toronto 121, Brooklyn 93 Orlando 116, Cleveland 109 Dallas 123, Phoenix 113 Oklahoma City 129, LA Clippers 107 Boston 129, Chicago 112 New Orleans 127, Houston 105 Denver 130, Washington 110 Charlotte 115, Utah 107 Sacramento 127, San Antonio 122 Golden State 128, LA Lakers 110
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Nashville 4, Los Angeles 1 Ottawa 4, Dallas 1 Pittsburgh 4, Montreal 1 Carolina 1, Florida 0 Detroit 2, Colorado 1 (OT) Washington 5, Tampa Bay 3 NY Rangers 5, New Jersey 1 St. Louis 4, NY Islanders 0 Calgary 3 Boston 2 (OT) Toronto 7, Vegas 3 Seattle 5, Vancouver 2
TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Washington St. 77, Arizona 74 Purdue 96, Rutgers 68
(NEW YORK) — DeShawn and Sharmane Joseph want to see more Indigenous athletes on the world stage.
The husband-wife duo are the founders of Indigenous HOOPS — which stands for “Honoring Our Original People in Sports” — a nationwide basketball program for Indigenous youth that started as a local league for their Tulalip Nation.
“It all started because a little girl wanted to play basketball,” Sharmane Joseph said about her and DeShawn Joseph’s eldest daughter, who wanted to play basketball as a child. She didn’t have a team to join until DeShawn Joseph started coaching one.
“She needed something for herself, to be able to have an outlet, to have something to look forward to,” Sharmane Joseph said.
In 2014, when the Josephs’ eldest daughter was a freshman in high school, the Tulalip community was impacted by a shooting at Marysville Pilchuck High School. Some tribal members were among those shot, along with teens in the community with whom their daughter was close.
“They grew up all together,” Sharmane Joseph said. “So, it really just opened our eyes to [see] that we were not doing enough [in the community]. Maybe we’re sitting idle.”
To support the youth of the community better, the Josephs began working intensely with their existing basketball program, Unity Basketball, which they had founded in 2010 — their daughter was part of the first Unity team — and eventually expanded it into a second program, Indigenous HOOPS, which was founded in 2021.
While their overall goal is to give Native kids opportunities to showcase their talents and athletic skills, Sharmane and DeShawn Joseph said they also want Indigenous HOOPS to support the mental health of Native youth.
“Early on in the pandemic, we realized that there was a big missing gap for tribal youth, the mental health rate had declined for tribal use, the suicide rate had [gone] up. So we wanted to create something that might be a beacon of hope to help the kids look forward to something,” DeShawn Joseph said.
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health, suicide was the second leading cause of death for Native Americans and Native Alaskans between the ages of 10-34 in 2019.
“Life is bigger than basketball, especially when it comes to mental health,” DeShawn Joseph said, adding, “Being a Native American adolescent on the reservation, with maybe not as many opportunities as some others, basketball served as an outlet for me.”
Sharmane Joseph said that along with supporting young people’s mental health and all the life skills their program teaches, Indigenous HOOPS also offers participants a sense of belonging.
“It gives me a made-family that I made and created myself,” she said. “It’s just more family than it is basketball.”
Sharmane — lovingly known as “Mama Shar” within the league — and DeShawn Joseph said they treat the players like their own children.
While their eldest daughter doesn’t play basketball anymore, the small team her father started coaching for her has since grown into a nationwide program that has led Native youth to attend college and sign on to collegiate teams.
“I feel like it brings all of our people together, just like a powwow,” DeShawn Joseph said. “But we’re there for our children to play the sports we all love.
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events:
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Boston 6, Edmonton 5 (OT) Columbus 7, Anaheim 4 Toronto 6, Arizona 3 Buffalo 3, Montreal 2 Philadelphia 3, Chicago 1
TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Marquette 105, DePaul 71 Duke 84, Miami 55 Penn St. 90, Illinois 89 Alabama 98, Florida 93 George Mason 71, Dayton 67 LSU 75, Kentucky 74 New Mexico 68, Colorado St. 66
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events:
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Los Angeles 5, Columbus 1 Washington 6, New Jersey 2 Florida 3, Ottawa 2 (OT) NY Rangers 3, Dallas 1 NY Islanders 5, Pittsburgh 4 (OT) Winnipeg 6, Minnesota 3 Colorado 3, Vancouver 1 Nashville 5, Vegas 3
TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Saint Mary’s (Cal.) 70, San Francisco 66 Creighton 85, UConn 66 Tennessee 72, Missouri 67 BYU 78, Baylor 71 Utah St. 68, San Diego St. 63 Texas Tech 82, TCU 81
(DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.) — After being delayed a day due to weather, a victor has been crowned at the Daytona 500.
William Byron crossed the finish line Monday at the Daytona International Speedway while under a caution flag to snatch the win, breaking Hendrick Motorsports’ losing streak at the iconic NASCAR event.
The win marked the 26-year-old’s first career “Great American Race” victory.
The race, the official opening of the NASCAR Cup Series season, had been scheduled to begin around 3 p.m. on Sunday but was called off hours before as the weather forecast showed no sign that the rain would let up, officials said.
The last time the Daytona 500 was postponed for a full day was in 2012 when heavy rain caused the delay. In 2020, drivers completed 20 laps before a rain delay was called and the race had to be finished the next day.
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events:
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Anaheim 4, Buffalo 3 Toronto 4, St. Louis 2 Boston 4 Dallas 3 (SO) Minnesota 10, Vancouver 7 Detroit 4 Seattle 3 (OT) Calgary 6, Winnipeg 3 Vegas 4, San Jose 0 Edmonton 6, Arizona 3 Carolina 6, Chicago 3 Ottawa 4, Tampa Bay 2
(DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.)– Steady rain and gusty winds in Florida prompted NASCAR to delay the start of the iconic Daytona 500 race until Monday, officials said.
The race at the Daytona International Speedway, the official opening of the NASCAR Cup Series season, had been scheduled to begin around 3 p.m. on Sunday but was called off hours before as the weather forecast showed no sign that the rain would let up, officials said.
The green-flag start to the stock car race was delayed until 4 p.m. Eastern Time Monday, the Presidents Day holiday, according to NASCAR.
A storm moving through Daytona is forecast to dump heavy rain on the area throughout the day Sunday and into Sunday night, according to the National Weather Service.
The rain is expected to let up on Monday with showers expected in the morning before drying out in time for the race.
NEWS: The #DAYTONA500 has been postponed to Monday at 4 p.m. ET due to inclement weather.
Monday’s racing schedule now calls for a doubleheader at the Daytona International Speedway because Saturday’s Xfinity Series race was also postponed to Monday at 11 a.m. ET due to the inclement weather.
The last time the Daytona 500 was postponed for a full day was in 2012 when heavy rain caused the delay. In 2020, drivers completed 20 laps before a rain delay was called and the race had to be finished the next day.
More than 140,000 spectators are scheduled to attend this year’s 66th annual race.
Team Penske driver Joey Logano secured the top starting spot in the Daytona 500 after edging out Michael McDowell in the qualifying race on Wednesday. Logano won the Daytona 500 in 2015.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. won last year’s Daytona 500 in a dramatic double overtime race, the longest running of the so-called Great American Race. The two overtimes pushed the 65th running of the event to a record 212 laps, or 530 miles.
Been a fun week here in Daytona so far (minus the rain) but looking forward to going racing tomorrow 🏁
“Been a fun week here in Daytona so far (minus the rain) but looking forward to going racing tomorrow,” Stenhouse said in a social media post on X Sunday after the rainout was announced.
(NEW YORK) — Cardinal Hayes High School’s football team is the definition of a ray of sunshine!
Once called one of the “worst teams,” the players overcame the odds to win the New York State Catholic High School State Championship in December 2023, becoming the first New York City team in history to do so.
The young players have had to contend with multiple challenges — from an outdoor home field that’s smaller than regulation size and an outdoor weight room caked in rust to an
Despite their hurdles, Cardinal Hayes’ head football coach CJ O’Neil told “Good Morning America” the students “battled” and made do with what they had.
Added Cardinal Hayes President Michael Carey: “We’re located in the poorest congressional district in the nation. Most of the students come from the surrounding area. One thing we’re guaranteed is we’re gonna get knocked down. The question is how we respond.”
To celebrate their achievements so far and to support the deserving students, “Good Morning America” teamed up with several partners to give the dedicated players a few surprises, including college offers for two students.
Riddell teamed up with “GMA” to surprise the football team with new equipment worth over $30,000.
Nike gifted new cleats for every team member of the team.
Bank of America is also supporting the football team with a generous gift of $50,000.
Last but not least, the New York Giants offered pre-season tickets to members of the Cardinal Hayes High School football team.
