YORBA LINDA, Calif. — A California postseason track meet on Saturday opened with a “Save Girls’ Sports” rally outside the gates and ended in familiar fashion, as one athlete again separated from the field in the jumping events, highlighting growing concerns over competitive fairness in girls’ sports.

Saturday’s CIF Southern Section Division 3 preliminaries in Yorba Linda drew attention before competition began, with demonstrators protesting California’s policy allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls’ sports.

Inside, the focus turned to the jumping events, where biological male AB Hernandez, a senior from Jurupa Valley, competed against women and finished first across all three competitions with dominant performances.

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Hernandez, a trans multi-sport athlete (previously involved in girls’ volleyball), won the Long Jump Division 3 Prelim and Triple Jump Division 3 Prelim by wide margins and tied for first in the High Jump Division 3 Prelim with Reese Hogan, an athlete with past ties to Hernandez.

The long jump result separated the field. Hernandez posted 20 feet, 4 1/4 inches. The next closest finishers reached 19 feet, 1 1/2 inches and 18 feet, 7 inches.

More than a foot separated first from second.

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The triple jump underscored the disparity. Hernandez recorded 42 feet, 4 inches. The runners-up finished at 39 feet, 7 1/2 inches and 37 feet, 8 inches.

The growing attention around the issue was evident in the stands at Yorba Linda High School, which hosted the prelims.

One grandparent in attendance, there to support Moorpark High School, pointed to how familiar the situation has become.

“It happened last year and I thought it’d be done, but it’s California,” the grandparent said with a shrug.

Another parent, a father from Yucca Valley, voiced a general agreement with the concerns around trans athletes.

“I think they should have their own division. I just don’t like bullying one kid,” he said.

The high jump brought past competitor Reese Hogan back into the fold.

Hernandez and Hogan both cleared 5 feet, 2 inches, finishing tied for first.

Hogan previously drew attention after stepping onto the first-place podium spot following an event Hernandez had won, a move championed by pro women’s sports advocates as a statement about who should hold that position.

On Saturday, the two athletes met again at the top of the standings, and the result was a tie.

Outside the venue, the earlier rally led by former NCAA athlete Sophia Lorey focused on fairness and competitive balance in girls’ sports.

In an individual sport, removed from any team dynamic, the results board made the fairness debate hard to ignore.

Hernandez’s marks told the story: a long jump of 20 feet, 4 1/4 inches, a triple jump of 42 feet, 4 inches, and a high jump tie at 5 feet, 2 inches.

Hernandez competed under rules California has allowed for more than a decade. Those rules remain at the center of a growing conflict between state officials and federal leaders over Title IX and women’s sports. That battle has now moved into the courts, with the Department of Justice suing California over its transgender athlete policies.

In response, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office distanced the governor from the lawsuit, emphasizing he was not personally named while defending the state’s existing law.

Saturday’s prelims in Yorba Linda added more data to the growing push to keep biological males out of girls’ events.

The protest set the tone early, and by day’s end the argument had moved off the sidewalk and onto the results board, where the outcome carried real consequences.

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A Canadian junior hockey team’s pockets are thousands of dollars lighter after one of the team’s scouts got into trouble during an interview at the league’s draft.

The problem? Telling a reporter she was good-looking.

…Okay, let’s go through this one.

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The Vancouver Giants play in the Western Hockey League, one of the three leagues — along with the Ontario Hockey League and the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League — that make up the Canadian Hockey League, the top tier of junior hockey in North America.

The WHL held its annual draft this week, and that’s why 85-year-old scout Terry Bonner hopped on the league’s draft stream to discuss their latest pick.

However, he wanted to talk about the woman working the desk.

“Well, thank you very much,” Bonner said. “You’re a good-looking girl.”

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All right, I understand that it’s 2026 and this is no bueno, even though that’s about as benign as a comment like that gets. The anchor was there to do a job and was being as professional as can be, and that wasn’t necessarily reciprocated.

But…

We need to give old guys a longer leash on stuff like this. I mean, that was kind of borderline to begin with, and then when you realize it came from an 85-year-old, we should just move on.

I’m not saying he was in the right, I’m saying let’s not waste energy getting mad at an old guy for doing an old guy thing.

I think a quick, “Hey, Terry, pal, you can’t tell women they’re good-looking anymore… yeah, bud, I know it’s a compliment, but that’s how it is now,” would’ve sufficed.

Nope.

Cue the fine and the groveling league apology.

“Accountability is a cornerstone value of our League – that includes both players and staff.  In this instance, regardless of intent, the remarks are not reflective of the organization’s standards of respect and inclusion,” WHL Commissioner Dan Near said in a statement after announcing the Giants had been fined $5,000 for conduct detrimental to the league.

Whoa. That’s a little heavy-handed, no?

Well, lessons learned, I suppose.

Make sure your elderly scout knows modern social norms before appearing on a livestream… also explain to him what a livestream is.

An Alabama woman was sentenced to life in prison Friday after authorities said she hired a hitman to kill her child’s father in a custody dispute.

Jaclyn Skuce, 43, of Madison, was convicted of capital murder after hiring a man to kill the child’s father in order to prevent him from gaining custody or further visitation, the Morgan County District Attorney’s Office said.

The Hartselle Police Department was dispatched on July 24, 2020, to a residence for a welfare check after Anthony Larry Sheppard failed to appear in court for a scheduled custody hearing. His attorney had asked officers to check on him, investigators said.

Upon arrival, police discovered Sheppard’s storm door shattered and the main door ajar.

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Officers later found Sheppard dead with multiple gunshot wounds.

Investigators determined that Skuce hired Logan Delp to kill Sheppard in order to prevent him from gaining custody or further visitation with his child.

Prosecutors said Skuce used social media to hire the hitman, who lived in Hartselle, according to the Hartselle Enquirer. She allegedly offered to pay $30,000.

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“There are never any winners in a case like this,” Chief Assistant District Attorney Garrick Vickery said following the verdict. “This jury was incredibly thorough and took their time to make sure they made the right decision, both for Mr. Sheppard and for the defendant.”

Vickery added, “We are glad that they convicted her for the choice she made to take Mr. Sheppard away from his family.”

Skuce was found guilty of three counts of capital murder: murder for hire, murder of a witness, and murder committed by shooting into an occupied dwelling.

Four other defendants have been charged with capital murder in connection with Sheppard’s death.

Delp was convicted of capital murder in October 2025, the DA’s office said. Another defendant has pleaded guilty, and two others are awaiting trial.

Skuce will be imprisoned without the possibility of parole in the Alabama Department of Corrections.