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⚾️ The Polar Bear returns: Pete Alonso and the Mets have that retains the slugging first baseman in New York.

🏈 NFL in Melbourne: The Rams will host the through the 2026 season, and their opponent — whereas not confirmed — will probably be the Eagles.

🏀 One other 50-piece: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander , making him the ninth participant in NBA historical past to attain 50+ factors 3 times in a seven-game span.

⚽️ NWSL settlement: The NWSL has to a “Restitution Fund” that may “compensate present or former gamers” who’ve suffered from abuse whereas enjoying within the league.

🏀 The NBA is stealing the NFL’s highlight

The NFL got here for Christmas Day. Now the NBA has come for Tremendous Bowl Week with one of many buzziest commerce deadlines in years.

Gamers on the transfer: The insanity started this weekend with the Luka Dončić and De’Aaron Fox trades. Exercise picked again up in an enormous manner on Wednesday, and extra chaos is predicted earlier than right now’s 3pm ET deadline.

Jimmy Butler to Golden State: The Warmth in a four-team commerce that lands Andrew Wiggins in Miami. Butler additionally signed a two-year, $121 million extension, guaranteeing him over $424 million in profession earnings.

Brandon Ingram to Toronto: The Pelicans in trade for Bruce Brown Jr., Kelly Olynyk, a first-round decide and a second-round decide. Ingram, 27, hasn’t performed since Dec. 7 (ankle) however hopes to return this month.

Lakers add an enormous man: The Purple and Gold are sending rookie Dalton Knecht, Cam Reddish and picks to the Hornets , a lob menace that ought to pair properly with Dončić (if he can keep wholesome).

Elsewhere: The Bucks and Wizards , the Bulls amid commerce curiosity, Kevin Durant’s title retains .

Dwell updates:

🏳️‍⚧️ Trump indicators order banning trans athletes

President Donald Trump signed an government order on Wednesday from competing in feminine sports activities, and the .

Particulars: The “No Males in Ladies’s Sports activities Govt Order,” which was signed on Nationwide Women & Ladies in Sports activities Day, says that faculties permitting trans athletes to compete in feminine sports activities might be in violation of Title IX, the 1972 regulation prohibiting sex-based discrimination in publicly-funded faculties.

In different phrases, the Trump administration interprets Title IX as saying that trans women enjoying ladies’s sports activities constitutes intercourse discrimination towards cisgender females.

That is a departure from the Biden administration, which interpreted the regulation as saying that discrimination primarily based on gender id can be a violation.

From Yahoo Sports activities’ Jason Owens:

Wednesday’s order targets entities that obtain federal funding and empowers federal companies, together with the Justice and Schooling departments, to implement the Trump administration’s interpretation of Title IX.

Beneath the Obama administration, LGBTQ college students acquired protections underneath Title IX. Trump rescinded these protections in his first time period, and the Division of Schooling reinstated them underneath President Joe Biden.

Per AP, the brand new government order empowers the Division of Schooling to penalize faculties that permit transgender athletes to compete and places people who achieve this susceptible to dropping federal funding.

The place it stands: have legal guidelines or insurance policies banning trans participation in sports activities, the Home , and Wednesday’s order was President Trump’s fourth since taking workplace that instantly targets transgender individuals. That features one proclaiming the federal government will solely acknowledge two sexes, and so they “are usually not changeable.”

🏈 Tremendous Bowl LIX: Pregame studying

Dan Wetzel:

For almost 20 years, the Patriots dominated the NFL like no different franchise ever. It is not a shock that some staff would come alongside to problem that run of greatness. It’s that it occurred instantly.

Jay Busbee:

The 2024 NFC champion Eagles have the NFL’s finest protection, and it is not exhausting to see why: On the coronary heart of it’s the 2021 Georgia* protection, the most effective in faculty soccer historical past. By no means in soccer has “getting the band again collectively” been a extra acceptable, or efficient, roster-building philosophy.

Jeff Eisenberg:

The final time the Superdome hosted a Tremendous Bowl, the lights went out in the course of the third quarter, inflicting a 34-minute delay. That is the story of the way it occurred

Charles Robinson:

Tremendous Bowl tickets won’t ever be low cost, however this week they’re definitely cheaper.

*Prep to professionals: Georgia has 6 gamers throughout the Eagles and Chiefs rosters. That trails solely Oklahoma (7), which is the on the Tremendous Bowl for the third consecutive 12 months.

🏉 In photographs: Six Nations

The 131st version of the Six Nations Championship , as Eire, England, France, Wales, Scotland and Italy started their annual five-match round-robin rugby match for the de facto title of finest in Europe.

The inaugural match again in 1883 was often called the Dwelling Nations Championship and featured the 4 nations of the UK (England, Eire, Scotland, Wales). It turned the 5 Nations in 1910 (France), and Six Nations in 2000 (Italy).

Two-time defending champion Eire hopes to turn out to be the primary staff in historical past to win three consecutive outright titles. The very best-ranked nation within the subject, and behind South Africa, obtained off to a profitable begin with a 27-22 comeback victory over England.

Spherical 2 of 5 is that this weekend. If you wish to extra totally acquaint your self, take a look at “” on Netflix — a docuseries from the identical staff behind F1’s “Drive to Survive.” The second season, which follows final 12 months’s match, premiered final week.

✍️ Further factors

🏀 Oh no, not once more: On Tuesday, the Pistons misplaced to the Hawks on a Trae Younger buzzer-beater. On Wednesday, they misplaced to the Cavaliers on a .

⚾️ Caribbean Collection: The 67th Caribbean Collection Closing , as Mexico’s Charros de Jalisco will tackle the Dominican Republic’s Leones del Escogido on Friday evening in Mexicali for the title.

🏈 The 18th sport debate: The NFL has wished so as to add an 18th sport to the common season just about because it added a seventeenth sport in 2021, and commissioner Roger Goodell continued pushing that narrative earlier this week. The NFLPA? Not a lot. “Nobody needs to play an 18th sport. Nobody,” NFLPA government director Lloyd Howell .

🍿 “Completely happy Gilmore 2” cameos: Netflix launched a on the filming of “Completely happy Gilmore 2,” which comes out later this 12 months and options cameos from the likes of Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas, Will Zalatoris and plenty of others.

⚾️ MLB All-Harm Workforce: Generally an important offseason “additions” are gamers followers are already acquainted with — .

📺 Watchlist: Busy day on the hyperlinks

Three golf tournaments start right now in Arizona, Florida and Saudi Arabia.

PGA: Phoenix Open (9:15am, ESPN+; 4pm, Golf) … “The Folks’s Open” tees off at TPC Scottsdale. Let the annual social gathering start.

LPGA: Founders Cup (11am, Golf) … Bradenton Nation Membership hosts the primary full-field occasion of the LPGA season.

LIV: Riyadh (10:15am, FS2) … The fourth season of the breakaway tour begins within the Saudi capital, .

Extra to look at:

🏀 NBA: Mavericks at Celtics (7:30pm, TNT); Warriors at Lakers (10pm, TNT) … Anthony Davis (belly pressure) is questionable to make his Mavs debut on this Finals rematch.

🏀 NCAAM: No. 18 Maryland at Ohio State (7pm, FS1) … The Terps are ranked for the primary time in two years.

🏀 NCAAW: No. 5 UConn at No. 19 Tennessee* (6:30pm, ESPN); Stanford at No. 3 Notre Dame (8:30pm, ESPN)

🏒 Ladies’s Hockey: USA vs. Canada (6pm, NHL) … The Scotiabank Centre in Halifax hosts Recreation 4 of the Rivalry Collection.

⚽️ EFL Cup: Liverpool vs. Tottenham (3pm, Paramount+) … Spurs have a 1-0 lead getting into the second leg of the League Cup semifinal. Winner faces Newcastle.

*Historic rivalry: The Huskies (11 titles) and Woman Vols (8) have mixed for almost half of all ladies’s nationwide championships (42).

🏈 Tremendous Bowl trivia

The Chiefs and Eagles will go head-to-head on Sunday simply two years after assembly in Tremendous Bowl LVII, marking the second-shortest span ever between Tremendous Bowl rematches.

Query: Who’re the one two groups to fulfill in back-to-back Tremendous Bowls?

Trace: Nineteen Nineties.

Reply on the backside.

Trivia reply: Cowboys and Payments (Tremendous Bowl XXVII in 1993 and Tremendous Bowl XXVIII in 1994)

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