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28 minutes ago
- San Francisco Chronicle
Pacers All-Star Pascal Siakam is selected as pace car driver for Sunday's Brickyard 400
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Brickyard 400 fans will get their own glimpse into a Pacers and racers weekend Sunday. Brickyard 400 organizers said Tuesday that Indiana Pacers All-Star Pascal Siakam has been selected as the pace-car driver for this weekend's race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The announcement comes almost exactly two months after the Pacers played the New York Knicks in an Eastern Conference final game on the same day as the Indianapolis 500. The events took place just a short drive apart. It was just the fourth time a Pacers and racers doubleheader had taken place in Indy. Now, though, Siakam will get a chance to experience the other part, this time leading the Cup cars to the green flag in a 2025 Chevrolet Blazer EV SS. The race will take place on the historic 2.5-mile oval for the second straight year after it had been run on the track's road course. 'Basketball and motorsports — Pacers and racers — go hand in hand in Indianapolis,' IndyCar and speedway President Doug Boles said in a statement. 'Following the Pacers' electrifying postseason run, it's only fitting to have Pascal join us to pace the field as NASCAR's biggest stars compete to win the In-Season Challenge and add their name to the history books with a win at the Brickyard.' ___
New York Times
29 minutes ago
- New York Times
U.S. Olympic officials change policy, ban transgender women from women's competitions
The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee quietly changed its policies on Monday to comply with President Donald Trump's February executive order preventing transgender athletes from competing in girls' and women's sports unless assigned female at birth. In an update to its Athlete Safety Policy, the USOPC added a paragraph saying that it will 'continue to collaborate with various stakeholders with oversight responsibilities, e.g., IOC (International Olympic Committee), IPC (International Paralympic Committee), NGBs (National Governing Bodies), to ensure that women have a fair and safe competition environment consistent with Executive Order 14201.' Advertisement In a letter from the USOPC to its stakeholders obtained by The Athletic on Tuesday, USOPC CEO Sarah Hirshland and USOPC President Gene Sykes said that all national governing bodies 'are required to update their applicable policies in alignment.' 'The USOPC has engaged in a series of respectful and constructive conversations with federal officials,' Hirshland and Sykes wrote in the letter. 'As a federally chartered organization, we have an obligation to comply with federal expectations.' The new policy is a reversal for the USOPC. In April, Hirshland told The Guardian that the USOPC did not plan to decide eligibility criteria for transgender athletes ahead of the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and that the responsibility fell to individual governing bodies instead. 'It wouldn't be appropriate,' Hirshland said in The Guardian. 'It's not our role to take on that position.' In the past, international governing bodies have taken a variety of approaches to trans athlete eligibility. Many sports have specific requirements around when athletes must have transitioned and for how long, and certain testosterone level requirements in order to compete. Advocates against the participation of trans athletes in women's and girls' sports say that those athletes have an unfair biological advantage, while LGBTQ+ advocates say efforts like those by the Trump Administration are part of a larger push to curtail transgender rights and can be hateful. Studies of trans athletes' athletic abilities — of which there are few — find mixed results, depending on an athlete's stage and age of transition. The USOPC is the latest group to comply with orders by the Trump Administration targeting transgender athletes — a major part of Trump's campaign for president in 2024 and the Republican platform. On July 1, the University of Pennsylvania banned transgender athletes and revoked records belonging to Lia Thomas, a transgender swimmer, after the Department of Education launched an investigation into the university. The federal government had threatened to cut federal funding or send the case to the Justice Department before Penn complied. In February, one day after Trump's executive order, the NCAA updated its policies to exclude transgender women from participating in women's sports. The order called on rescinding federal funds from programs that 'deprive women and girls of fair athletic opportunities.' Since then, the Department of Education has targeted other bodies, including the state of California, saying that allowing transgender women and girls to compete violates Title IX, the federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sex in education. Advertisement Many of the Trump Administration's orders around transgender athletes have faced legal challenges, as have state-specific bans on transgender athletes. The U.S. Supreme Court plans to hear two cases challenging bans at the state level in its upcoming term, which begins in October. (Top photo of the Olympics logo at the 2024 Paris Games: Grace Hollars / USA Today Sports via Imagn Images)
Yahoo
36 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Which Bills game appeared on list of most memorable in NFL since 2000?
The Buffalo Bills have created many positive memories for fans over recent years. But if we're setting the benchmark all the way back to the year 2000? We have a mixed bag and that was brought up recently by CBS Sports. Advertisement CBS Sports ranked the top-25 moments in NFL history over the last 25 seasons dating back to 2000. Unfortunately, the "Music City Miracle" just makes it into that time frame as it occurred in 2000. For what it's worth, current Bills safety Damar Hamlin's return to football earned an honorable mention mention... but we'll save you the stress of explaining that Wild Card matchup against the Tennessee Titans back in 2000. The breakdown the Bills and Titans, which slotted in at No. 8 overall on the ranking, can be found below: The Bills are no strangers to big-game heartbreak, as we mentioned earlier. Their 1999 season was spoiled in January 2000, when the Tennessee Titans used a long lateral pass from Frank Wycheck to Kevin Dyson on the game's final kickoff to pull off a stunning 75-yard walk-off return touchdown. The only thing that mars the miracle in hindsight is the fact the Titans had another stunner coming. This article originally appeared on Bills Wire: Which Bills game appeared on list of most memorable in NFL since 2000?
