Current and former World Cup soccer players have penned an open letter to FIFA, urging the sports governing body to address the heat stress that is expected to be felt by competitors during this summer’s games in North America and to take action to tackle the global climate crisis. The 2026 World Cup will take place in three separate countries — Canada, the United States…
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The internet unleashed its fury on Indiana Fever shooting guard Caitlin Clark over the weekend after she walked on stage Saturday night with country music star Morgan Wallen as he greeted a packed arena in Clark’s backyard: Indiana.
At issue for Clark are Wallen’s personal history and his choices. In 2020, Wallen ran afoul of Covid lockdown restrictions. The same year, he got kicked out of Kid Rock’s Big Ass Honky Tonk Rock N’ Roll Steakhouse in Nashville and was arrested for public intoxication and disorderly conduct. In 2024, he was arrested again — this time for throwing a chair off the balcony of another Nashville honky-tonk, a six-story bar. The piece of furniture crashed to the street below, narrowly missing two police officers. He entered a “conditional plea” and was sentenced to seven days at a DUI education center.
The biggest reason why Clark should have stayed home Saturday night is a 2021 video in which Wallen can be heard shouting the N-word.
This behavior alone probably should have been enough to make Clark — the WNBA’s most marketable star — think twice about appearing with Wallen. But the biggest reason Clark should have stayed home Saturday night is a 2021 video posted by TMZ in which Wallen can be heard shouting the N-word and other obscenities. As journalist Sarah Spain wrote on social media over the weekend about Clark, “If Morgan Wallen using the N word wasn’t enough for you to stop supporting him — (forget all the other terrible s*** he’s done!) — I don’t know what to tell ya.”
A week after TMZ published its video, and after his record
When asked for comment about the $1,000 price tag to watch the U.S. take on Paraguay in the opening match of the World Cup next month at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium, President Donald Trump, who loves to gloat about his wealth, said, “I would certainly like to be there, but I wouldn’t pay it either, to be honest with you.” There are probably lots of people who agree with Trump on that point – if only grudgingly. On its face, paying $1,000 to watch the 14th-ranked U.S squad take on a Paraguay team that’s ranked 40th, may seem absurd. But is it any more absurd than, say, paying $1,000 to watch the NBA’s lowly Sacramento Kings take on Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors for a regular season game?
Trump has jumped into the debate over how much the experience should cost for those planning to attend one or more of the 104 matches.
As the big tournament approaches, Trump has jumped into the debate over how much the experience should cost for those planning to attend one or more of the 104 matches being held across North America. From jacked-up train fares that have been announced in the New York/New Jersey area to outrageous ticket prices on the primary and secondary markets, there have been some predictions that we may have reached the breaking point when it comes to consumers and live entertainment.
But FIFA President Gianni Infantino rationalized World Cup ticket prices that are as high as $32,970 for the July 19 final at MetLife Stadium by asserting that those prices are in line with the marketplace for similarly high-profile events
The LIV Golf tournament is scheduled to tee off its U.S. tour Thursday at Trump National Golf Club in Virginia, a week after the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia — whose oil- and blood-soaked Public Investment Fund created LIV five years ago — announced it would pull out. The Saudis created LIV as a rival to the PGA Tour and reportedly burned at least $5 billion on it, but now they are leaving LIV to fend without their help.
Where better to prop up what remains of the tournament than a Trump-owned property in a suburb of our nation’s capital? In other words, the tournament will be played virtually in the lap of the Saudis’ biggest apologist after U.S. intelligence implicated Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Where better to prop up what remains of the tournament than a Trump-owned property in a suburb of our nation’s capital?
The kingdom has fomented a yearslong war against Yemen that has killed or contributed to the deaths of more than 250,000 people while creating arguably the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Saudi Arabia is also the birthplace of 15 of the 19 men who carried out the 9/11 attack. Despite that indisputable fact, when Americans who lost loved ones in the attack criticized President Donald Trump for hosting a LIV tournament on one of his properties four years ago, he said, “Well, nobody’s gotten to the bottom of 9/11, unfortunately, and they should have.”
Trump can’t shake his Saudi infatuation.
Indeed, The Washington Post reported the day Trump went to war with Iran that the Saudi crown prince helped convince Trump to
In February, Donald Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace” struck a $50 million agreement with the football-governing body FIFA, with grand promises to build a national stadium, sports academy, and over 50 “mini-pitches.” The initiative seeks to redirect global attention away from Gaza through so-called “peace agreements” that do not exist on the ground — mere labels placed over unremoved ruins.
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One of the first things President Donald Trump did after his second inauguration was invalidate an executive order from former President Joe Biden that prohibited discrimination against transgender people, especially those playing sports.
How did the major sports institutions react? They lined up behind Trump’s transphobia. In February 2025, the NCAA banned transgender athletes from women’s sports. Late last month, the Olympics followed suit.
Sports are not on the vanguard of social change, as we’re asked to believe every April 15 on Jackie Robison Day.
The disappointing responses from the NCAA and International Olympics Committee serve as yet more evidence that sports are not on the vanguard of social change, as we’re asked to believe every April 15 on Jackie Robison Day.
Historically, and much to our detriment, those who lead sports leagues and associations have been followers at best. The leaders of the NCAA and the IOC have showed us that.
But we in the media created a mythology that the games we love are the tip of the spear in social progress, and we’ve done that in large part by distorting Robinson’s arrival in Major League Baseball in 1947 after the league spent 80 years or so segregating itself for white men only. The MLB doesn’t deserve its reputation as a revolutionary social change agent in this country. To the contrary, much like leaders of the NCAA and the IOC have bended their knee this Trump era, it had a long, regrettable history of reactionary politics. Indeed, its embrace of segregation served as a model for other leagues that conformed to, and didn’t confront, a racially partitioned America.
Not long after the MLB’s first