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The jockey who won the Kentucky Derby has been fined and suspended for using the riding crop too much during the race.

Jockey Junior Alvarado struck Sovereignty, the three-year-old colt that won the crown, eight times during the race, officials say.

Regulations say a rider may strike a horse a maximum of six times with a crop.

Alvarado was fined $62,000 (£46,600) and suspended for two upcoming racing days at Churchill Downs by the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority.

The election of a new pope is always a time of excitement, anxiety, and anticipation. People ask a million questions. Is he conservative or liberal? Is he pro- or anti-migrants? What are his opinions on global warming? The Latin Mass? Capitalism? Gay marriage? Women’s ordination?

But the election of Chicago native Pope Leo XIV on Thursday raised a question that has never before been asked about a pope: Which baseball team does he support?

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to protect opportunities for women and girls to compete in safe and fair sports, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1.  Policy and Purpose.  In recent years, many educational institutions and athletic associations have allowed men to compete in women’s sports.  This is demeaning, unfair, and dangerous to women and girls, and denies women and girls the equal opportunity to participate and excel in competitive sports...

North Carolina football coach Bill Belichick defended girlfriend Jordon Hudson for interjecting during a CBS interviewer’s questions about their relationship and said she was “simply doing her job.”

All 11 Westhill High School lacrosse players suspected of being involved in hazing a teammate in Syracuse, New York, have turned themselves in, Onondaga County First Chief Assistant District Attorney Joseph Coolican said Wednesday.

The non-juvenile students will be arraigned, while the juveniles will go “straight to family court,” Coolican said. They face misdemeanor charges of unlawful imprisonment, District Attorney William Fitzpatrick said.

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts and some other teammates won’t be visiting the White House on Monday for a celebration of the team’s Super Bowl victory, according to multiple reports, years after a feud between the Eagles and President Donald Trump resulted in most of the team declining to attend an event for their 2018 Super Bowl victory.

When quarterback prospect Shedeur Sanders fell out of the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft, there were some who couldn’t believe he hadn't been picked by an organization, although it wasn’t considered a total shock. 

But with Friday night seeing three more quarterbacks not named Sanders come off the draft board, the reaction was pure shock. 

Just past the infamous Heartbreak Hill, a family full of avid marathoners remarked that there’s nothing like running Boston.

“It’s the hardest, but it’s the best,” said Bonnie Perchard, whose husband...

If there’s one thing the American people have made overwhelmingly clear, it’s this: boys should not compete in girls’ sports. The public knows it. Science proves it. And the Constitution—guided by the Supreme Court—leans that way too.



But don’t tell that to the governors or education bureaucrats of Illinois or Maine. They’re too busy virtue signaling from the cliffs of reality, hoping that federal courts will bail them out when the lawsuits come.

A private plane carrying six people crashed in an open field in upstate New York on Saturday, killing all on board, authorities say.

Among those on board were celebrated former Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) football player Karenna Groff, her parents and her brother, according to a family statement.

The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said the family had been travelling for a holiday celebration when the crash happened.