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Long-distance runner Evie Parts sued the NCAA and Swarthmore College as well as members of its athletic department on the grounds they illegally removed her from the track team because she is a transgender athlete. Parts’ lawsuit said the NCAA’s ban on transgender athletes in women’s sports did not have legal grounds because it’s not a governmental organization and therefore …

Ridgemont High, give way to a suburban school near Fort Worth. That’s where the fast times will be this year. Cooper Lutkenhaus, an incoming junior at Northwest High School in Justin, Texas, was so impressive in setting an age-group world record at the U.S. Track & Field Championships on Sunday that a respected distance running coach and author declared it …

BOSTON (AP) — Houston Astros reliever Héctor Neris used a balk to advance a runner to third on Saturday, then had an exchange with Red Sox third base coach Kyle Hudson that led to a dustup between the teams. Neris surrendered Trevor Story’s two-out RBI double in the seventh inning of Houston’s 7-3 loss. The right-hander then balked, moving Story …

BOSTON (AP) — Houston Astros reliever Héctor Neris used a balk to advance a runner to third on Saturday, then had an exchange with Red Sox third base coach Kyle Hudson that led to a dustup between the teams. Neris surrendered Trevor Story’s two-out RBI double in the seventh inning of Houston’s 7-3 loss. The right-hander then balked, moving Story …

Tempers flared between the Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox on Saturday due to an all too familiar subject: sign stealing. This time, though, it was the Astros who took exception when relief pitcher Hector Neris thought Red Sox shortstop Trevor Story was tipping pitches as he led off from second base. Neris intentionally balked Story to third base as …

For months, candidates in the race to become California’s next governor had waited for a pivotal question to be settled: Will former Vice President Kamala Harris run or not? With Harris’ announcement this week that she’s out, a new question arose: Who’s the front-runner now? Because of Harris’ star power, the answer is far from simple. For months, other candidates …

Police in India have arrested a man in connection with the death of Fauja Singh, the world’s oldest marathon runner, in a hit-and-run case. According to the police, the accused, Amritpal Singh Dhillon was driving a speeding SUV when he struck the 114-year-old British-Indian runner. Singh sustained critical injuries and died shortly after being taken to hospital. The incident took …

Fauja Singh, the man believed to be the world’s oldest marathon runner, died Monday in Punjab, India, after being hit by a car. He was 114. Singh was reportedly involved in a hit-and-run Monday while crossing a road near his “native village near Jalandhar,” per the Associated Press. He sustained severe head trauma and was taken to a local hospital, …

The runner Fauja Singh, believed to be the oldest person to complete a marathon, has died in a road accident in India aged 114. The athlete, who lived in Ilford in east London, was hit by a car and suffered fatal injuries while trying to cross a road in his birth village of Beas Pind, near Jalandhar in Punjab, on …

Saurabh Duggal BBC Punjabi Pardeep Sharma/BBC BBC Punjabi met Singh in June at his ancestral home in Beas Pind village in Punjab state Fauja Singh, a British-Indian man believed to be the world’s oldest marathon runner, has died after being hit by a car in India at the age of 114. Police say Singh was crossing a road in the …