(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
AMERICAN LEAGUE PLAYOFFS Detroit Tigers 3, Houston Astros 1 Kansas City Royals 1, Baltimore Orioles 0
NATIONAL LEAGUE PLAYOFFS NY Mets 8, Milwaukee Brewers 4 San Diego Padres 4, Atlanta Braves 0
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE PRESEASON Vegas Golden Knights 6, Colorado Avalanche 1 Utah Hockey Club 3, San Jose Sharks 1 Detroit Red Wings 2, Pittsburgh Penguins 1 Boston Bruins 4, Philadelphia Flyers 1 NY Rangers 5, New Jersey Devils 4 Ottawa Senators 4, Montreal Canadiens 3 Columbus Blue Jackets 3, St. Louis Blues 1 Minnesota Wild 7, Chicago Blackhawks 2
WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PLAYOFFS Minnesota Lynx 77, Connecticut Sun 70 New York Liberty 88, Las Vegas Aces 84
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE
Baltimore Orioles 5, San Francisco Giants 3
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland Guardians 3, Minnesota Twins 2 Toronto Blue Jays 4, Texas Rangers 0 Seattle Mariners 3, N-Y Yankees 2 Tampa Bay Rays 2, Boston Red Sox 0 Houston Astros 3, L-A Angels 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Atlanta Braves 15, Cincinnati Reds 3 L-A Dodgers 20, Miami Marlins 4 Arizona Diamondbacks 5, Milwaukee Brewers 1 N-Y Mets 10, Philadelphia Phillies 6 Pittsburgh Pirates 3, St. Louis Cardinals 2 Chicago Cubs 7, Washington Nationals 6
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
N-Y Jets 24, New England Patriots 3
WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Atlanta Dream 78, New York Liberty 67 Connecticut Sun 87, Chicago Sky 54 Washington Mystics 92, Indiana Fever 91 Los Angeles Sparks 68, Minnesota Lynx 51 Las Vegas Aces 98, Dallas Wings 84 Seattle Storm 89, Phoenix Mercury 70
In this Sept. 19, 2023 file photo, a flag football game is shown at Wilson in Long Beach, Calif. (Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images)
(NEW YORK) — Pennsylvania officially recognized flag football as a sanctioned girls’ high school sport in an announcement made by Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, Inc. (PIAA), on Wednesday.
The girls’ flag football was made an official state-sanctioned high school sport after the sport met the requirement to have had at least 100 participating teams across the state, according to a press release.
The figure was achieved in April with the help of the Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers, which launched girls’ flag football leagues in 2022.
“This is not just an important day for the Eagles and Steelers, but for the sport of football and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” Eagles Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Lurie said in the release. “When we launched our Girls Flag Football League in 2022, we set an ambitious five-year goal to get the sport sanctioned in our state. Now, here we are three seasons later and two years ahead of schedule. The sport’s organic growth is a credit to the participants, administrators, coaches, officials, and parents who helped raise the profile of Girls Flag Football.”
He continued, “We thank the PIAA for their leadership in recognizing a sport that has the power to unlock new pathways and opportunities for girls of all ages in every community.”
The sport will be officially available for high school girls in the state starting in the 2025-26 school year.
Pennsylvania has now joined other states, including Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, New York, and Tennessee, in making girls’ flag football a state-sanctioned high school sport.
The decision will also unlock opportunities for the participants and school districts in allowing them to compete for a state championship and eventually create a pathway of talent for college sports and beyond.
Steelers President Art Rooney II, in a statement in the release, called the move a “groundbreaking moment for the future of girls’ flag football.”
“It has been great working with the Eagles to accomplish a successful ruling that will now give young girls the chance to compete at a state level,” the statement read. “We look forward to seeing how girls’ flag football continues to grow in Pennsylvania and worldwide.”
A growing interest in flag football, which is a non-tackling version of American football where players wear belts with flags on them, peaked this summer after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced in October 2023 that flag football would be included on the LA28 Olympic sports program.
Jordan Chiles of Team USA looks on with her Bronze Medal from the Women’s Apparatus floor final on day ten of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Bercy Arena on August 05, 2024 in Paris, France. (Naomi Baker/Getty Images)
(NEW YORK) — Olympian Jordan Chiles opened up this week in her first interview since being stripped of her bronze medal from the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The star gymnast, whose bronze medal in the women’s gymnastics floor exercise final was revoked in August, spoke on the subject at the 2024 Forbes Power Women’s Summit in New York City on Wednesday.
“The biggest thing that was taken from me was that it was the recognition of who I was,” said Chiles, pausing halfway through and becoming emotional. “Not just my sport, but the person I am.”
“To me, everything that has gone on, it’s not about the medal, it’s about my skin color, it’s about the fact that there were things that have led up to this position of being an athlete,” she said.
She added, “I felt like when I was back in 2018, where I did lose the love of this sport. I lost it again. I felt like I was really left in the dark.”
Chiles referenced a coach she said she had in 2018, who she claimed “emotionally and verbally abused” her, though she did not name them, and said losing her medal made her feel voiceless again.
“I wasn’t able to be heard,” she said.
She added, “I made history and I will always continue to make history, and something that I rightfully did, I followed the rules. My coach followed the rules. We did everything that was totally, completely right.”
Initially, Chiles finished fifth in the individual floor exercise final at the Paris Olympics, only to be moved up to the bronze medal spot after her coaches appealed the scoring of one of the elements in her routine. In moving from fifth to third, she leaped over two Romanian gymnasts — including Ana Barbosu, who had already begun celebrating bronze.
The International Gymnastics Federation has since awarded Barbosu third place, after the Court of Arbitration for Sport voided the appeal made by Chiles’ coach at the event, with CAS saying Chiles’ score was “raised after the conclusion of the one-minute deadline.” In stating the challenge came too late, the CAS reinstated Chiles’ incorrect 13.666 score.
CAS later said it would not hear Chiles’ appeal to keep her bronze medal from the Paris Olympics despite new evidence, according to USA Gymnastics.
Following the unsuccessful appeal, Chiles took to Instagram to share her feelings on losing the medal.
“I have no words. This decision feels unjust and comes as a significant blow, not just to me, but to everyone who has championed my journey,” she wrote in a statement at the time.
“To add to the heartbreak, the unprompted racially driven attacks on social media are wrong and extremely hurtful. I’ve poured my heart and soul into this sport and I am so proud to represent my culture and my country,” she continued.
Chiles took home one medal from the Olympics, helping Team USA secure gold in the women’s artistic team all-around event. She was also a part of the silver medal-winning team at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
