Latest Fact-Checks In Sports

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stated on January 25, 2023 a tweet
“Female student-athletes in Florida need to provide their schools with detailed information about their periods.”
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By Samantha Putterman • February 3, 2023
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on September 14, 2022 an ad
Val Demings "voted to allow transgender youth sports and teaching radical gender identity without parental consent."
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October 5, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 14, 2022 a Facebook post
“Wladimir Klitschko has auctioned off his 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games gold medal to raise money for the children of Ukraine.”
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By Bill McCarthy • March 16, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 24, 2021 a Facebook post
“Washington public school forces unvaccinated teens to wear ankle monitors” as a condition of playing team sports.
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August 25, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 20, 2021 a Facebook post
"Japan has banned all (Black Lives Matter) apparel from the Olympics. No one can kneel or raise fists during the anthems either."
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By Andy Nguyen • June 28, 2021
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Instagram posts
stated on May 3, 2021 an Instagram post
“After California taxes, Trey Lance's $34.1M rookie deal becomes just $16M."
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By Shasha Hupka • May 13, 2021
Doug Jones
Doug Jones
stated on October 1, 2020 an ad
Says Tommy Tuberville "quit on his players" all four times that he was a college football coach.
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October 6, 2020
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Viral image
stated on June 19, 2020 a viral image
NFL player “stood alone" while his whole team stayed in the locker room during the national anthem, “a real American patriot!”
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July 1, 2020
Vicky Hartzler
Vicky Hartzler
stated on February 1, 2019 a claim on Facebook and Twitter
Says the University of Missouri "has been cleared of involvement" in academic fraud involving student athletes.
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By Laura Murgatroyd • March 16, 2019
Larry Fedora
Larry Fedora
stated on July 18, 2018 an interview
"I don’t think it’s been proven that the game of football causes CTE."
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By Paul Specht • July 26, 2018
James Lankford
James Lankford
stated on September 25, 2017 a press conference
"The First Amendment’s the First Amendment. It goes start to finish. We can’t say to one football coach you’re fired if you kneel in silent prayer at the end of the game, but to a player, if you kneel in protest to a game, you’re celebrated."
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By Manuela Tobias • October 2, 2017
Drew Brees
Drew Brees
stated on June 12, 2016 as quoted in an interview with Kirk Bohls of the Austin American-Statesman
"Do you know what the second sport with the most concussions is? Women’s soccer… And the third most dangerous sport? Cheerleading."
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By W. Gardner Selby • July 15, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 7, 2016 a speech in Concord, N.C.
"NASCAR endorsed Trump"
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By Will Doran • March 7, 2016
Hugh Hewitt
Hugh Hewitt
stated on September 13, 2015 a panel discussion on CNN's "State of the Union"
Says history suggests sports will "quickly subsume a lot of the attention span of the country" in the presidential primary.  
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By Jon Greenberg • September 16, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 13, 2015 a tweet
"You can be an NFL player with murder charges and not be suspended."
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By Katie Sanders • May 18, 2015
Tyrone Brooks
Tyrone Brooks
stated on January 20, 2015 a statement
State lawmakers are spending taxpayer money for parking that billionaire Arthur Blank could build while paying some state employees so little they are on food stamps.  
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By Nancy Badertscher • March 23, 2015
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X posts
stated on February 2, 2015 Twitter posts
"Scott Walker to cut $300 million from universities, spend $500 million on a pro basketball stadium."
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February 6, 2015
Jim Moran
Jim Moran
stated on November 22, 2014 a Facebook post.
Graduation rates of players at major football colleges "are still twenty points below their male campus peers and worsened in the past three years."
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By Nancy Madsen • December 30, 2014
Bryant Gumbel
Bryant Gumbel
stated on July 21, 2014 an episode of HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
"A golf course closes somewhere in America every 48 hours."
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By W. Gardner Selby • December 5, 2014
Mark Emmert
Mark Emmert
stated on August 10, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"
"More (student-athletes) graduate than the students who aren't student-athletes."
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By Lauren Carroll • August 10, 2014
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