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By MEAD GRUVER and AMY BETH HANSON, Associated Press A judge on Monday rejected a request to block a San Jose State women’s volleyball team member from playing in a conference tournament on grounds that she is transgender. Monday’s ruling by U.S. Magistrate Judge S. Kato Crews in Denver will allow the player, who has played all season, to continue competing in the Mountain West Conference women’s championship scheduled for later this week in Las Vegas. The ruling comes after a lawsuit was filed by nine current players who are suing the Mountain West Conference to challenge the league’s policies for allowing transgender players to participate. The players argued that letting her compete was a safety risk and unfair. While some media have reported those and other details, neither San Jose State nor the forfeiting teams have confirmed the school has a trans women’s volleyball player. The Associated Press is withholding the player’s name because she has not publicly commented on her gender identity. School officials also have declined an interview request with the player. Judge Crews referred to the athlete as an “alleged transgender” player in his ruling and noted that no defendant disputed that San Jose State rosters a transgender woman volleyball player. He said the players who filed the complaint could have sought relief much earlier, noting that the individual universities had acknowledged that not playing their games against San Jose State this season would result in a forfeit in league standings. He also said injunctions are meant to preserve the status quo. The conference policy regarding forfeiting for refusing to play against a team with a transgender player had been in effect since 2022 and the San Jose State player has been on the roster since 2022 – making that the status quo. The player competed at the college level three previous seasons, including two for San Jose State, drawing little attention. This season’s awareness of her identity led to an uproar among some players, pundits, parents and politicians in a political campaign year. The tournament starts Wednesday and continues Friday and Saturday. San Jose State is seeded second. The judge’s order maintains the seedings and pairings for the tournament. Several teams refused to play against San Jose State during the season, earning losses in the official standings. Boise State and Wyoming each had two forfeits while Utah State and Nevada both had one. Southern Utah, a member of the Western Athletic Conference, was first to cancel against San Jose State this year. Nevada’s players stated they “refuse to participate in any match that advances injustice against female athletes,” without providing further details. Crews served as a magistrate judge in Colorado’s U.S. District Court for more than five years before President Joe Biden appointed him to serve as a federal judge in January of this year. Gruver reported from Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Hanson from Helena, Montana.

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The last man to face, and beat, Rafael Nadal in professional tennis, 80th-ranked Botic van de Zandschulp, converted his 10th match point Friday to finally close out a 6-4, 6-7 (12), 6-3 victory over Daniel Altmaier and help the Netherlands reach its first Davis Cup final by sweeping Germany. Tallon Griekspoor, who is ranked 40th, sealed the 2-0 win for the Dutch in the best-of-three-match semifinal by hitting 25 aces and coming back to defeat Jan-Lennard Struff 6-7 (4), 7-5, 6-4. When it ended, appropriately, on an ace, Griekspoor shut his eyes, dropped to his knees and spread his arms wide. "We have been talking about this for two, three years," Griekspoor said. "We believed in ourselves so much. We always felt like this was possible. To do it now feels unbelievable." The other semifinal is Saturday, with No. 1-ranked Jannik Sinner and defending champion Italy taking on Australia in Malaga, Spain. The championship will be decided Sunday. "We don't have that top-five player. We don't that top-10 player. We don't have that top-15 player," Dutch captain Paul Harhuuis said. "But it's a team effort. So proud of these guys." In Friday's opener, van de Zandschulp was up a set and just a point away from leading 5-2 in the second when Altmaier began playing more aggressively and interacting more with the German fans, yelling and throwing uppercuts or raising his arms after key points. In the tiebreaker, Altmaier managed to save five match points before converting his own fourth set point to extend the contest. But van de Zandschulp, who upset four-time Grand Slam champion Carlos Alcaraz at the U.S. Open, quickly moved out front in the final set, even if he eventually needed five more match points in the last game before serving it out. "At some point, I didn't know what to do any more on the match points," van de Zandschulp said. "I had the toughest match of my life on Tuesday [against Nadal] so everything that comes next is maybe a little bit easier." Amazing scenes with the @KNLTB fans 🧡😍#DavisCup pic.twitter.com/TZr4gXA56n — @DavisCup In the quarterfinals, van de Zandschulp outplayed Nadal for a 6-4, 6-4 result that marked the end of the 22-time Grand Slam champion's career because the Netherlands went on to eliminate Spain 2-1. Sinner leads Italy back to Davis Cup semifinals and a rematch against Australia An emotional Rafael Nadal retires at the Davis Cup after he loses and Spain is eliminated The 38-year-old Nadal announced last month the Davis Cup would be his final event before retiring. Presumably because people purchased tickets ahead of time with plans to watch Nadal compete in the semifinals, there were hundreds of unoccupied blue or gray seats surrounding the indoor hard court at the Palacio de Deportes Jose Maria Martina Carpena in southern Spain on Friday. Now truly a neutral site, the place was not nearly as loud and rowdy as on Tuesday, although there were shouts of "Vamos, Rafa!" that drew laughter while van de Zandschulp played the 88th-ranked Altmaier. It took Griekspoor more than 75 minutes and nearly two full sets to figure out how to break No. 43 Struff and then did it twice in a row to lead 6-5 in the second set, and then go up 1-0 in the third. That was plenty, because Griekspoor saved the only two break points he faced. The Netherlands hadn't been to the semifinals since 2001. The Germans, whose best current player, two-time major finalist Alexander Zverev, is not on the team in Malaga, have won three Davis Cups, but not since 1993, when 1991 Wimbledon champion Michael Stich led them to the title. WATCH | Canada eliminated in Malaga with Shapovalov loss to German opponent : Shapovalov falls to Struff as Germany eliminates Canada in the Davis Cup quarterfinals 2 days ago Duration 2:27 After Montreal's Gabriel Diallo lost to Daniel Altmaier in the opening rubber of the Davis Cup Final quarterfinals in Malaga, Spain, Jan-Lennard Struff beat Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., 4-6, 7-5, 7-6(5) to eliminate Canada.

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His 21-day practice window on IR opened Wednesday. --Field Level MediaPennsylvanian and New York Police authorities have updated the public following the arrest of the primary suspect in the murder case of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who was allegedly gunned down in cold blood outside a Manhattan hotel on Wednesday. The update comes after Luigi Mangione’s alleged motive was exposed in a manifesto shared with the media. The 26-year-old suspect was arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona on Monday after an employee, who was told by a customer that Mangione fit the description of the suspected killer, contacted police. He has not been charged with murder, though Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro said during a press conference charges would “come soon”. “The suspect was just arraigned here in the courthouse and presumably in New York will file charges very, very soon,” Shapiro said. “That process will continue to play out and justice will be delivered in this case.” Shapiro said some of the attention the case has garnered online has led to “deeply disturbing” celebrations of the killer. The Pennsylvania governor said Thompson, who was shot dead on a New York City sidewalk, left behind a wife and children. “We do not kill people in cold blood to resolve policy differences or express a viewpoint,” he said. “I understand people have real frustration with our health care system, and I have worked to address that throughout my career, but I have no tolerance, nor should anyone, for one man using an illegal ghost gun to murder someone because he thinks his opinion matters most in a civil society. “We are all less safe when ideologues engage in vigilante justice in some dark corners. This killer is being hailed as a hero. Hear me on this. He is no hero. “The real hero in this story is the person who called 911 at McDonald's this morning. The real heroes every day in our society are the women and men who put on uniforms like these and go out in our communities to keep us safe.” NYPD Deputy Commissioner Kaz Daughtry thanked the detectives for working “tirelessly around the clock” to bring in the suspect, adding some of them had not been home since Tuesday. Altoona Police deputy commissioner Derek Swope described the arrest as “peaceful” after an officer quickly recognised the suspect within seconds of contact. “He had asked the suspect if he had been in New York City recently, and that really invoked a physical reaction from the suspect,” Swope said. “He became visibly nervous, kind of shaking at that question, and he didn't really answer it directly. “So that that statement alone really, really said a lot. And he, the suspect, didn't have to say a lot after that question to show that, you know, he was very nervous at that point.” Officer Tyler Frye, who had only been in the job for six months, described the arrest of Mangione as "cooperative". "I can't say I was expecting it, by any means, but it feels good to get a guy like that off the street, especially starting my career this way," he said. Hailing from Towson, Maryland, sources told the New York Post Mangione may have despised the healthcare industry over its treatment of a sick family member. A three-page handwritten manifesto listing his personal grievances against the healthcare industry, including the profits made and the pursuit of alleged crooked motives, was found in his possession. According to the New York Post, police sources revealed the chilling phrase contained in Mangione’s manifesto: “These parasites had it coming.” “I do apologise for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done,” another quote from the manifesto read. The manifesto also said the alleged killer was a lone wolf and “self funded”. Additionally, Mangione was described by law enforcement sources as an anti-capitalist and sympathetic to the climate change movement, as well as railing against Big Oil in his online writings. The New York Post reported the bullets found at the crime scene, where Thompson was fatally shot, appeared to have the words “deny”, “depose” and “defend” written in permanent marker. The words echo the title of a book written about major insurance companies prioritising profits over policyholder’s needs. Mangione’s manifesto also mirrored the quotes posted on his Goodreads account belonging to infamous domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski, who was known as the “Unabomber” for almost two decades having planted bombs against people advancing modern technology which posed a threat to the natural environment. “Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness,’’ one Kaczynski quote liked by Mangione read The quote continues: “Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.” In a press conference on Monday (local time) New York City police commissioner Jessica Tisch said the handwritten document spoke to both his “motivation and mindset”, with Tisch adding New York detectives were travelling to Pennsylvania to interview Mangione. Chief of detectives Joseph Kenny said police were “not done here”, as law enforcement were continuing to scrub his social media profiles, online fingerprint, while also carrying out ballistic tests of the "ghost gun" found in Mangione's possession. "The gun appears to be a ghost gun, it may have been made on a 3D printer , the capability of firing a 9mm round, obviously that will come out in our ballistic testing," the chief of detectives said.