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Brian Williams, who played for the Texas A&M football team for three seasons, died just hours after he completed a half-marathon, the family confirmed. The race took place in Irving, Texas.The 24-year-old died on Sunday due to heat stroke complications, Brian’s brother, Rawleigh Williams III, told the Dallas Morning News.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM (Maria Lysaker-Imagn Images)Tributes poured in after friends and family learned of the loss of their loved one.CORONER REVEALS JEFF SPERBECK, JOHN ELWAY’S FORMER AGENT, CAUSE OF DEATH FOLLOWING GOLF CART FALL”B you are my heart,” Rawleigh wrote in a social media post alongside photos of himself and his brother. “The BEST version of us in every single way B. I don’t think I can make it without you but I’m going to try for our parents and our sister. I love you brother.” Kyle Field in College Station, Texas (Bob Levey/Getty Images)Williams’ mother, Kimberly, also paid tribute to her son.”I cannot believe you are gone,” she wrote on Instagram. “Our hearts hurt more than words can say. You were the best human we knew – the kindest, purest in heart, and most humble despite all you accomplished. You loved God and you loved us. Now, you are with him – total peace, total joy, – watching over us. We love you and we will see you again.”CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPWilliams earned an engineering degree from A&M in 2024. According to the Morning News, Williams was living in the Dallas-Fort Worth area prior to his death.Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.

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A 21-year-old has been charged with providing alcohol to the Pittsburgh Pirates fan who fell from the stands onto the field last month, according to multiple reports.Kavan Markwood, a 20-year-old former college football player, was identified as the man who fell more than 20 feet onto the right field warning track.According to reports, Ethan Kirkwood was charged with furnishing alcohol to a minor.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM An opening day crowd watches a game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the New York Yankees at PNC Park in Pittsburgh April 4, 2025.  (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)WTAE cited a criminal complaint that highlighted surveillance video that showed Kirkwood and Markwood with alcohol several times. The complaint said Kirkwood admitted buying Markwood alcohol.Pittsburgh police did not immediately respond to an email from Fox News Digital.Markwood lay on the dirt in right field after flipping multiple times through the air during the seventh inning of a Pirates’ game against the Chicago Cubs.The 20-year-old broke his neck, clavicle and back in the fall, but Markwood says he is “all right” despite a long road to recovery.  A fan lies on the warning track in right field of PNC Park after falling out of the stands during the seventh inning of a game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs in Pittsburgh April 30, 2025.  (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)BASEBALL FANS NEEDLE METS’ PETE ALONSO OVER CELEBRATION FOR MAKING OUT ON ROUTINE PLAY”I can’t really sleep. I have a lot of back pain,” he told TribLive. Markwood described his injuries as “broken everything,” which also included a swollen hand. “I think when I get home, I’ll just put ice on it,” he added. After the accident, Markwood was rushed to Allegheny General Hospital’s trauma unit, where he was in critical condition at one point.Pittsburgh Public Safety labeled what happened an accident, and fans sitting near Markwood said he had gotten excited about a Pirates’ rally during the game and proceeded to take his shirt off and pour beer on himself before the fall, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. The Pittsburgh Pirates host the Philadelphia Phillies during the fourth inning at PNC Park in Pittsburgh July 21, 2024. (Charles LeClaire/USA Today Sports)CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPMarkwood played for two Division II football programs, Walsh University and Wheeling University. He played at Wheeling in 2023, appearing in four games, according to the team’s site. Fox News’ Scott Thompson contributed to this report.Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.

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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is facing a lawsuit for enabling trans athletes to compete in girls sports as the state faces an ongoing controversy involving a trans pitcher dominating the softball season. The religious law firm Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the activist group Female Athletes United and three anonymous girls softball players in the state over the ongoing controversy. “Minnesota is failing its female athletes. The state is putting the rights of males ahead of females, telling girls their hard work may never be enough to win and that they don’t deserve fairness and safety,” Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Suzanne Beecher told Fox News Digital. “By sacrificing protection for female athletes, Minnesota fails to offer girls equal treatment and opportunity, violating Title IX’s provisions. Our client, Female Athletes United, is right to stand up for its members by challenging the state’s discriminatory policy and advocate for true equality in sports.”CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison arrives to speak on stage during the third day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on Aug. 21, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois.  (Getty Images)The defendants are Ellison, the Minnesota State High School League Executive Director Erich Martens, Minnesota Department of Human Rights Commissioner Rebecca Lucero and Minnesota Commissioner of Education Willie Jett.Ellison’s office has released a statement responding to the lawsuit.”In addition to getting exercise and the fun of competition, playing sports comes with so many benefits for young people. You build friendships that can last a lifetime, you learn how to work as part of a team, and you get to feel like you belong,” Ellison said. “I believe it is wrong to single out one group of students, who already face higher levels of bullying and harassment, and tell these kids they cannot be on the team because of who they are. I will continue to defend the rights of all students to play sports with their friends and peers.”Reports of the trans softball pitcher winning 14 straight games heading into the playoffs and earning first-team All-State honors rocked the state in recent weeks. HOW TRANSGENDERISM IN SPORTS SHIFTED THE 2024 ELECTION AND IGNITED A NATIONAL COUNTERCULTUREFormer Vikings player Jack Brewer even spoke out about the controversy rocking his state’s high school sports scene. “In any sport — especially something like softball — people can get seriously hurt. A man hits the ball harder. A man throws the ball faster. So, the idea of allowing men to compete in women’s softball — especially now, when that sport has grown in visibility and opportunity — is insane,” Brewer told Fox News Digital. Meanwhile, Ellison is suing President Donald Trump and the Department of Justice to ensure transgender athletes can continue participating in girls sports in the state.After Trump signed the “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order, the Minnesota State High School League announced it would defy federal law by allowing transgender athletes to continue playing in women’s sports.Ellison then claimed at a press conference on April 22 that he received notice from the Department of Justice threatening legal action if the state did not follow the executive order, so the AG decided to sue first. “I’m not going to sit around waiting for the Trump administration to sue Minnesota. Today, Minnesota is suing him and his administration because we will not participate in this shameful bullying,” Ellison said. “We will not let a small group of vulnerable children who are only trying be healthy and live their lives be demonized.”CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPThe White House has responded to the lawsuit, condemning Ellison for taking legal action to enable trans inclusion. “Why would a grown man sue the Trump administration to allow other biological males to participate in women’s sports? This is creepy and anti-woman,” White House spokesperson Harrison Fields told Fox News Digital. Minnesota’s state legislature failed to pass the “Preserving Girls’ Sports Act” in early March, which would have stated that “only female students may participate in an elementary or secondary school level athletic team or sport that an educational institution has restricted to women and girls.”Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.

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Olympic wrestling gold medalist Kyle Snyder pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of disorderly conduct after he was arrested in connection to a prostitution sting last week.The decorated American wrestler initially faced a charge of engaging in prostitution after he was taken into custody this month in Columbus, Ohio. He was at a hotel at the time of the arrest.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Kyle Snyder (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix/File)The 29-year-old was ordered to pay a $250 fine. Snyder said he has already completed a one-day program for people accused of solicitation.EX-WORLD CHAMPION CYCLIST FACES PRISON TIME AFTER PLEADING GUILTY TO LESSER CHARGE IN DEATH OF OLYMPIAN WIFEHe appeared at the hearing via video. Snyder said he has learned a lot about himself and that he “plans on making much better decisions.” Kyle Snyder (Kyle Robertson/Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)”I learned about the impact these decisions have on not just my family but the community,” he said.Snyder became the youngest American wrestler to win Olympic gold at age 20 during the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, and he followed that up with a silver at the Tokyo Games.  Kyle Snyder (Matthew O’Haren-USA TODAY Sports)He lost in the bronze medal match at the Paris Olympics. He was also a three-time NCAA champion at Ohio State.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPHe recently signed on with the Real American Freestyle wrestling league, which has pro wrestling icon Hulk Hogan as its commissioner and is slated to hold its first event on Aug. 30 in Cleveland.The Associated Press contributed to this report.Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.This video can not be playedAndy CryerBBC Sport senior journalist21 May 2025, 00:23 BST952 CommentsPep Guardiola has threatened to quit as manager of Manchester City if the club does not reduce the size of his squad this summer, saying leaving so many players out is “impossible for my soul”.A number of Man City’s senior players were not included in the matchday squad for Tuesday’s 3-1 win against Bournemouth and Guardiola says he is unhappy at leaving so many players out.Abdukodir Khusanov, Savinho, James McAtee, Claudio Echeverri and Rico Lewis all missed out on Tuesday’s 20-man matchday squad as City moved to third in the Premier League and within a point of Champions League qualification.But, despite this showing the depth Guardiola has at his disposal, the Spaniard wants to work with a smaller squad next season.He said: “I said to the club I don’t want that [a bigger squad]. I don’t want to leave five or six players in the freezer. I don’t want that. I will quit. Make a shorter squad, I will stay.”It’s impossible for my soul to [tell] my players in the tribune [stands] that they cannot play.”Guardiola says it is difficult to continually leave players out of City’s matchday squad. “Maybe [for] three, four months we couldn’t select 11 players, we didn’t have defenders, it was so difficult. After, people came back, but next season it cannot be like that,” the 54-year-old added.”As a manager I cannot train 24 players and every time I select I have to have four, five, six stay in Manchester at home because they cannot play. This is not going to happen. I said to the club, I don’t want that.”City spent more than £200m on four players in January, with Khusanov, Omar Marmoush, Nico Gonzalez and Vitor Reis arriving at the Etihad Stadium while Echeverri, a 2024 signing from River Plate, also joined following a loan spell back at the Argentine club. Kevin de Bruyne is the only player confirmed to be leaving City this summer, while the future of midfielder Jack Grealish, who last started a Premier League match on 2 April, is also in doubt. When asked if it meant more exits were inevitable, Guardiola – who signed a deal keeping him at the club until 2027 – said: “It is a question for the club. I don’t want to have 24, 25, 26 players when everyone is fit. If I have injuries, unlucky, we have some players for the academy and we do it.”Guardiola said a big squad is unsustainable and that it is important for “the soul of the team” that his players “create another connection with each other that this season we lost it a bit”. All Premier League clubs can name a 25-man squad, but this is not an exhaustive list of all players eligible to play. A team can also include under-21 players who are eligible over and above the 25-man squad limit.Manchester City’s website lists 28 first-team squad members, plus four players who are on loan elsewhere.Guardiola has explained in the past why he prefers to manage a smaller squad, going into the 2023-24 season with 20 senior players.In comparison, Chelsea’s official website lists 31 players in their squad list, with 21 other players out on loan, Brighton and Tottenham list 29 players, while Wolves name 30 players on their squad list.Clubs with smaller squads than Manchester City this season include Arsenal with just 24 players and champions Liverpool , Aston Villa, Everton and Nottingham Forest with 25 squad players.Related topicsPremier LeagueManchester CityFootball

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Jalen Hurts said he did not visit the White House last month simply because he couldn’t.The Philadelphia Eagles quarterback, who won the Super Bowl LIX MVP in dethroning the Kansas City Chiefs, was absent from the team’s celebration in Washington, D.C., last month, warranting much speculation.Days before the event, Hurts was asked whether he planned on visiting, and was mum on the subject.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts scrambles for extra yardage during the first half of Super Bowl 57 against the Chiefs on Feb. 12, 2023. (IMAGN)”Um,” Hurts said before looking around. He never answered the question as the interviewer thanked him for his time. Fox News then confirmed at the time that Hurts did not attend due to “scheduling conflicts,” and he’s sticking to that story.”I wasn’t available. I don’t think that’s pertinent. Everyone who went, and was available. They seemed to enjoy themselves,” he told reporters on Tuesday.Hurts didn’t give a glowing review of the president’s decision to attend Super Bowl LIX, which saw Philadelphia defeat the Chiefs 40-22.”He’s welcome to do what he wants,” Hurts said in February.  President Donald Trump and Ivanka Trump react during the playing of the national anthem in Super Bowl LIX between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs at Ceasars Superdome.  (Mark J. Rebilas/Imagn Images)NFL OWNERS UNANIMOUSLY APPROVE PLAYERS’ PARTICIPATION IN FLAG FOOTBALL AT 2028 OLYMPICSMeanwhile, running back Saquon Barkley was seen with President Donald Trump at his golf course in New Jersey the day before the visit. He rode back to Washington on Air Force One with the president.Hurts, though, raised eyebrows again when he attended the Met Gala the following week.Hurts was not the only Eagles player to skip their White House visit. Star wide receivers A.J. Brown and Devonta Smith were also among players not present.When the Eagles won the Super Bowl back in 2018, the team decided not to attend the White House. Trump rescinded the invitation to host the Eagles after several players said they would not participate in the visit because of his previous criticisms of national anthem protests. Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts (1) celebrates after defeating the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX at Caesars Superdome.  (Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images)CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPThe Los Angeles Dodgers visited the White House several weeks before the Eagles did to commemorate their World Series title. Mookie Betts, who skipped a visit in 2019 with the Boston Red Sox, attended this year.Fox News’ Ryan Gaydos and Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report. Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.