Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! Be sure to park your train in a spot with a great view today—especially if you can find a great view of a game, because we're starting off this newsletter with higher prices for sports tickets. Then we'll talk about regulations on college sports coming out of Washington, D.C., discuss baseball's Hall of Famers with sketchy pasts, and close with a brief review of Happy Gilmore 2. Let's get to it!
Locker Room Links
- "NYC shooter intended to target the NFL offices; went to the wrong floor. Played high school football; had a note in his pocket about CTE."
- The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee banned transgender women from women's sports.
- Venus Williams joked(?) that she made her tennis comeback at 45 years old because she wants the health insurance. But if true, it really means playing was a better option than enrolling in Obamacare, as the Cato Institute's Michael Cannon points out.
- A Venezuelan baseball team of 13- to 16-year-olds got caught up in the travel ban.
- Unrelated, I can't believe a Little League suspension ended up in court.
- Someone is trying to use a 300-year-old law to recoup their sports betting losses in Washington, D.C.
- RIP Hulk Hogan: A nice remembrance here from a wrestling skeptic, and another one here from a fanatic.
- Elsewhere in Reason: This week's Reason Roundtable podcast also included some Hulk Hogan discussion.
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Good news!
NCAA Tournament expansion 'growing more unlikely,' per report https://t.co/pE78wmfX0F
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) July 25, 2025
