It is a truth universally acknowledged that Premier League football clubs fleece their paying customers.

We, the fans, are prisoners of the rapacious owners who have the laws of supply and demand horribly skewed in their favour.

Our only countervailing, and somewhat feeble, power is to envelop them with suspicion and rudeness.

Instead of grinching and whinging about our teams and the Premier League , we should celebrate them as a sporting joy.

The standard of play is often breath-taking and the games are competitive.

The influx of foreign players and managers has elevated the spectacle.

The TV rights provide a great deal of the money that generates the quality worth about 3 billion a year.

A lot of that goes to the players, now hugely rich compared to the era of Bobby Charlton and Bobby Moore .

But a lot of it has gone to build stadiums that are safer, larger and infinitely better.

A dozen Democrats were approached in Washington , D.C. , and asked to respond to recent comments by California Governor Gavin Newsom on trans-identifying males playing in female sports leagues.

Newsom called the situation “deeply unfair” to women.

Last week , Senate Democrats voted to block a Republican bill that would strip federal funding from schools that allow biological males to participate in female leagues.

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A slew of Democratic governors have recently turned to sports as a venue to hawk their agenda.

The move seems thirsty, but it’s also the smartest thing Democrats have done since their defeat in November .

Will the new media strategy actually make a difference and win over apolitical sports fans? Doubtful, especially if, like Walz , the sports-friendly Democrats peddling their agenda have already exposed themselves as uncharismatic blocks of wood.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has paused funding to schools within the University of Maine System (UMS) The pause impacts eight public colleges within UMS .

The pause is temporary in nature while the USDA investigates potential Title VI and Title IX violations.

President Trump warned Maine schools in February that he would cut funding if the state continued to allow trans-identifying males to compete on girls’ and women’s sports teams.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday that the Philadelphia Eagles will be at the White House to celebrate their Super Bowl victory.

She said the team "enthusiastically accepted" a White House invitation to the team.

President Donald Trump recently said the Eagles “deserve” to come to White House and said an invite would be extended.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom suggested he was moving toward the center on the matter of boys playing on girls’ sports teams.

Newsom is hardly known for moderation on LGBTQ matters.

He signed into law in 2022 allowing minors seeking experimental transgender medical treatment to seek such care in California , regardless of their home state's laws.

Nor was there any request for more time, no off the record plea to stay tuned for more actions by the governor. Which suggests that maybe Newsom , in typical politician fashion, is trying to say one thing rhetorically—and do an entirely different thing actually. Classic . But journalists shouldn’t let him get away with it. Until Newsom actually takes action—or even makes more specific comments about the matter—it’s absurd to paint him as defying leftists or his party. Katrina Trinko is the editor-in-chief of The Daily Signal . Original article link.

The Hang Up and Listen podcast is hosted by Alex Kirshner , Lindsay Gibbs , and Ben Lindbergh .

Hosts discuss the ACC Tournament and the storied college basketball rivalry between UNC , Duke , and NC State .

Sports writer Neil Paine joins the show to discuss the NHL trade deadline drama.

Paine breaks down the NASCAR Cup series debut of Katherine Legge .

Alaila Everett hit Brookville junior Kaelen Tucker over the head with her baton.

The impact of the blow was such that Tucker suffered a concussion and may have sustained a skull fracture.

Everett and her relay team were disqualified for interfering with another runner.

In the days since, amid a wave of backlash against her, Everett has claimed that she did not strike Tucker on purpose.

Representative Laurel Libby was censured by the Democrat controlled Maine legislature for speaking out against biological males participating in female sports.

All of Representative Libby ’s fellow Republicans voted against the censure resolution, and her constituents greatly supported her comments.

Libby : "I have been censured for exercising my First Amendment right on free speech".

Representative Libby wants Americans to understand, “The Democrats ’ agenda diminishes females and erases their voices.” Thankfully, the Trump administration said they will act and allow our female athletes to have a safe and level playing field. “This is not just about one team, one game, or one season . This is about the future of women’s sports," Libby said.