First woman to umpire regular-season MLB game
Jen Pawol will become the first woman to umpire in a regular-season Major League Baseball game
Chinese football club Shandong handed 2-year ban and a $890K loss after ACL Elite withdrawal
Chinese football club Shandong Taishan has received a 2-year ban from Asian club competition and will forfeit around $890K after withdrawing from the Asian Champions League Elite in February, just hours before key match against South Korea’s Ulsan HD
FIFA faces multibillion-pound claim following CJEU ruling, with transfer rules believed to have affected around 100,000 players
Following the European Court of Justice’s ruling last year that FIFA’s transfer regulations were unlawful, around 100,000 players are seeking multibillion-pound compensation in a class action
Penrith Panthers fined a hefty $50K and trainer banned
Penrith Panthers, an Australian professional rugby league football club, has been fined a hefty $50K, and the club’s trainer Corey Bocking has been banned for impeding a Gold Coast Titians conversion attempt
Sport England impels Ofcom to address abuse of female footballers
The chair of Sport England Chris Boardman has urged Ofcom to address the recent online abuse targeted at the England Women’s football team
World Athletics v Madhuri Kale
A decision has been issued by the Disciplinary and Appeals Tribunal in the case of World Athletics against Ms Madhuri Kale
Judge stays former Penn swimmers’ Title IX lawsuit
On Tuesday, federal judge William Young halted court proceedings on a lawsuit brought by three former University of Pennsylvania swimmers after the university allowed a transgender athlete to compete in the 2022 Women’s Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships
Former Australian Olympians of 1980 receive government apology
After 45 years, the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has apologised to the Australian athletes who competed at the controversial 1980 Moscow Olympics
Head carer of INEOS Grenadiers under investigation
David Rozman, head soigneur of INEOS Grenadiers, has left the Tour de France due to an investigation by the International Testing Agency regarding a previous relationship he had to convicted German doping doctor Mark Schmidt