📰🏟️ Amazing race
Plus: CFB eliminates spring transfers…
Good evening. Ready for the top five sports stories of the day? Let’s roll.
—Peter, Kyle, Sam
1) CFB ditches spring transfer portal window
On Wednesday, the NCAA announced the elimination of the spring transfer portal window for football, leaving players just one remaining window to transfer at the conclusion of football season. Officials have yet to determine the specific dates and length of the new solo winter transfer window, with the NCAA reportedly targeting a period of ​​Jan. 2–Jan. 11 (starting right after the CFP semifinals have concluded).
How the new rule will impact CFB
2) Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone delivers historic 400m win
Earlier today, the American track star ran a blistering 47.78 seconds in the women’s 400-meter—the second-fastest time in history—to win gold at the World Athletics Championships, narrowly edging out reigning Olympic champion Marileidy Paulino. The race marked McLaughlin-Levrone’s 19th straight victory in the 400-meter—hurdles and flat—dating back to 2023.
3) Dodgers legend Clayton Kershaw to hang up his spikes
The 3x Cy Young Award winner and 2014 NL MVP announced that he will retire at the end of this season, after spending 18 years with the LA Dodgers. Kershaw’s career includes a long list of accolades: his 222 victories are second only to Don Sutton in Dodgers history, he’s the 20th pitcher ever to reach 3,000 strikeouts, and his career 2.54 ERA is the lowest of any MLB starter in the live ball era (since 1920; minimum 100 starts).
4) Commanders win final approval for $3.8B stadium in DC
The Washington Commanders are officially returning to the District of Columbia following an 11-2 vote by the DC council on Wednesday that gave second and final approval for a new $3.8 billion stadium project. The development will include a covered, 65,000-person stadium to be built on the old RFK Stadium site, along with a massive mixed-use development project in the surrounding neighborhoods. The Commanders are currently targeting a 2030 debut for their new stadium.
5) Pablo Torre drops new report implicating Clippers and Kawhi
The investigative sports journalist and Pablo Torre Finds Out host dropped more evidence today that links LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer to Aspiration, a fraudulent tree-planting company that reportedly paid Clippers star Kawhi Leonard $28 million for "no-show jobs" in an alleged attempt to circumvent the NBA salary cap. (Read our previous in-depth coverage here.) In his new report, Torre claims Ballmer or the Clippers invested a total of $118 million in Aspiration despite the company obviously being in dire straits, and that many of their payments came shortly before Kawhi was set to receive money from Aspiration.
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