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16-05-2025
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Ex-Vikings player rips Minnesota AG as state sues Trump to keep trans athletes in girls sports
Print Close By Jackson Thompson Published May 16, 2025 Former Minnesota Vikings and University of Minnesota football player Jack Brewer shared a grievance with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. The AG is waging a legal battle against President Donald Trump and the Department of Justice to ensure transgender athletes can continue participating in girls sports in the state. The state's ongoing defiance of Trump's executive order to keep girls sports female has resulted in a controversy involving a transgender pitcher who has dominated a girls softball season. "Clearly, Keith Ellison, the attorney general of Minnesota, has never played any major sports," Brewer told Fox News Digital. "It's like he's never stepped foot in a real locker room, especially not one where the sport demanded true athleticism, grit and toughness. It's embarrassing to watch a Black man stand before the nation and promote boys competing against girls." CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON The White House has responded to the lawsuit, condemning Ellison for taking legal action to enable trans inclusion. "Why would a grown man sue the Trump administration to allow other biological males to participate in women's sports? This is creepy and anti-woman," White House spokesperson Harrison Fields told Fox News Digital. Brewer played four seasons for the Golden Gophers from 1998-2001, then started his NFL career with the Vikings in 2002. He also raised his children in the state. HOW TRANSGENDERISM IN SPORTS SHIFTED THE 2024 ELECTION AND IGNITED A NATIONAL COUNTERCULTURE "The state has veered so far off course that it's doing the exact opposite of what it once stood for. It used to be a national leader on Title IX and women's rights. Now, it's destroying women's sports, degrading women and promoting situations where men are physically dominating women," Brewer said. "It's heartbreaking for any former Gopher, any former Viking, any professional athlete who's lived in that great city. It's embarrassing. It's shocking. And, to be honest, it's just devastating." Reports of a trans softball pitcher winning 14 straight games heading into the playoffs and earning first-team All-State honors rocked the state in recent weeks. For Brewer, it is a difficult situation to witness as a Minnesota resident and former pro athlete. "In any sport — especially something like softball — people can get seriously hurt. A man hits the ball harder. A man throws the ball faster. So, the idea of allowing men to compete in women's softball — especially now, when that sport has grown in visibility and opportunity — is insane," Brewer said. "Women's softball is one of the fastest-growing sports in America. If every high school varsity baseball player decided to go play Division I women's softball, there would be no women left on the field. Anyone who supports that agenda is either ignorant or pushing politics over people. "And that's exactly what Keith Ellison is doing. They don't care about the girls. They care about fundraising and staying in power, and they're doing it at the expense of young athletes all across America. "President Trump understands exactly what's happening. He said it best. If you put a bunch of MLB players on a women's softball team, they'd win the championship." Ellison made the announcement of the lawsuit at a press conference after months of the state defying Trump's "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" executive order . Ellison claimed he received notice from the Department of Justice threatening legal action if the state did not follow the executive order. "I'm not going to sit around waiting for the Trump administration to sue Minnesota. Today, Minnesota is suing him and his administration because we will not participate in this shameful bullying," Ellison said. "We will not let a small group of vulnerable children who are only trying be healthy and live their lives be demonized." CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Ellison's lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, argues the Trump administration does not have the authority to set states' athletic gender eligibility policies through an executive order. Minnesota is the first state to sue the Department of Justice over threats of funding cuts for allowing trans athletes to play in girls sports and the second state to sue the Trump administration over the issue. Maine filed a lawsuit against Trump after the Department of Agriculture cut funding to the state April 2, and a federal judge has already ruled the USDA must release the funding to Maine. After Trump's executive order, the Minnesota State High School League announced it would defy federal law by allowing transgender athletes to continue playing in women's sports. Ellison's office said "based on the plain language of the statute, educational institutions and the Minnesota State High School League would violate the MHRA by prohibiting transgender athletes from participating in extracurricular activities consistent with their gender identity." Minnesota's state legislature failed to pass the Preserving Girls' Sports Act in early March, which would have stated that "only female students may participate in an elementary or secondary school level athletic team or sport that an educational institution has restricted to women and girls." A New York Times/Ipsos survey found the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, don't think transgender athletes should be permitted to compete in women's sports. Of the 2,128 people who participated, 79% said biological males who identify as women should not be allowed to participate in women's sports. Of the 1,025 people who identified as Democrats or leaning Democratic, 67% said transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete with women. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X , and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter . Print Close URL
Fox News
07-05-2025
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Ex-NFL player speaks out against college athlete revenue sharing with landmark Supreme Court ruling pending
The age of athlete compensation in college sports could get a lot more complicated with a pending Supreme Court decision. A settlement in the case of House v. NCAA would allow all Division I schools to share revenue directly with student athletes if it receives final approval this month. The current system of NIL compensation, in effect since summer 2021, has faced its share of scrutiny. But universities paying athletes directly would all but erase the "amateurism" that historically defined American college sports. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON Former NFL and college football player Jack Brewer is heavily opposed to the concept. "We need to get back to student-athletes," Brewer told Fox News Digital. "If a person wants the freedom to make as much money as they want and can leverage the sport to do that, they should absolutely be able to — and they can, in our professional leagues. But there's no place for an unlimited amount of money to be paid to people in college sports. They should be student-athletes, which is what they signed up to be." FLORIDA'S WALTER CLAYTON JR. RECALLS FINAL AGAINST HOUSTON Brewer argued that revenue sharing would worsen a problem created by NIL since its 2021 legalization — declining graduation rates. "You'll continue to see students who are no longer focused on school because their incentive for going to college is no longer to get an education, but to make money," Brewer said. "It's not right for universities to exploit this loophole, recruiting student-athletes who no longer have to focus on being students." CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP President Donald Trump was considering an executive order to regulate name, image and likeness in college sports after meeting with the legendary Alabama Crimson Tide coach, the Wall Street Journal reported last week Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X , and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter .
Yahoo
12-02-2025
- Politics
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Ex-NY Giants player is helping deported migrants in Guatemala, blames Biden for the problem
EXCLUSIVE: Retired New York Giants safety Jack Brewer and his global ministry are on the ground in Guatemala City this week, helping officials receive migrant families deported from the U.S., providing food, support and prayer as they essentially start life anew. Brewer and his Jack Brewer Foundation have years of experience working in impoverished areas of the world like Haiti, Malawi and Central America, which Brewer said has allowed him to work closer than most and interact with the returning families. While it is President Donald Trump and border czar Tom Homan enforcing U.S. law and deporting illegal immigrants, Brewer said it is clear former President Joe Biden's "broken" policies are truly to blame for the heartache and hardship. "Three years ago, I started to follow the fatherlessness crisis that is happening right here in Guatemala, where a lot of men were leaving their households and coming to Joe Biden's open borders – and just seeing it literally devastate families." Charity Leaders Slam Biden Admin Response To Us Planes Shot In Haiti Amid Chaos Brewer said Guatemala was losing much of its workforce and that a lot of those poor families trying to get to the U.S. actually did not know a "legal" immigration route existed, and they instead took the cartels and others at their word and paid thousands of dollars to be trafficked north. Read On The Fox News App "They've been told by coyotes and different people that you can just come [to the U.S.], and if you come here, if you bring your child, they'll just let you in," Brewer said. "And so, you know, there's a huge education gap there on the ground." Brewer also met with Raul Berrios from CONAMIGUA – the National Council for Attention to Migrants of Guatemala – as well as Sergio Samuel Vela-Lopez, head of the Guatemala Penitentiary Department. Berrios, Lopez and others are trying to create an effective system for welcoming the migrants and processing those who are innocent families versus those who may have criminal records or other issues requiring government attention, according to Brewer. Former Nfl Safety Jack Brewer Torches Ca's Costly Reparations Push Many families returning to the capital city live hundreds of miles into the countryside and have no established way of getting there. Some buses, however, have been hired to take migrants closer to home, and Brewer visited one of them and spoke to its driver. "It's really a unique perspective, I think, and just some of the things that we've witnessed since we've been here," he said, adding stories ranged from familial hardships to reports that more than a dozen people have been burnt alive by Mexican cartels for failing to pay for passage. "It's just pretty tough to see and witness and watch." When a U.S. military plane arrived carrying migrants, Brewer was on the tarmac. Hegseth, Homan Tour Border "We were able to provide them with food and, most importantly, with Bibles, and we preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ." Brewer said the Guatemalan Migration Authority is focusing its efforts on children ages 8 and under. Many of these children have been "lied to," Brewer said. "They're told it's their life's mission to migrate to the U.S. illegally," he said, recounting stories told by some returning migrants of children on the backs of cartel coyotes and others drowning in rivers. Then-Vice President Kamala Harris made her own trip to Guatemala City in March 2024, seeking to understand the "root causes" of illegal migration. "When you look at the root causes, we're also looking at issues of corruption. Again, we're looking at the issue of climate resiliency and then the concern about a lack of economic opportunity," Harris said in 2021. Brewer rejected that Harris' work made any difference, saying she and her then-boss's policies "empowered human traffickers" and that half of Guatemala still lives in extreme poverty with little education. He said the former leadership at the State Department "misguided resources" through USAID, a practice that Trump is now aggressively cutting back on. "We need to first put our resources into addressing the issues that are fueling a multibillion-dollar human trafficking industry. Walls, deportations and enforcement are a must, but educating indigenous populations on the truths of coyotes will deliver a devastating blow to the modern human slave trade," Brewer said. "Guatemala is not enforcing their migration issue in the country. Haitians and Venezuelans are warned of the dangers of migrating, but there is no enforcement at the time." "There needs to be arrest and enforcement, but they require resources. Guatemala prisons are already overcrowded, and they don't have immigration beds available for enforcement," added Brewer, who said he also visited those prisons and saw conditions for article source: Ex-NY Giants player is helping deported migrants in Guatemala, blames Biden for the problem
