Driving the news: Osaka, a four-time major champion and No. 2-ranked player, pulled out of the French Open on Monday amid controversy over her decision to not attend press conferences at the tournament. She wrote in a statement that she experiences "huge waves of anxiety" before meeting with reporters and has "suffered long bouts of depression."
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Tuesday signed a bill into law that would bar female transgender students from women's sports.
Why it matters: Florida is the eighth state so far this year to block trans student athletes from playing on sports teams that match their gender identity, per ACLU data. A record number of bills targeting trans youth have been introduced by Republican lawmakers.
Naomi Osaka pulled out of the French Open on Monday amid controversy over her decision to not participate in press conferences at the tournament.
Catch up quick: Osaka announced last week that she would skip the media sessions, saying, "I've often felt that people have no regard for athletes mental health and this rings very true whenever I see a press conference or partake in one."
Fanatics, Galaxy Digital, and Gary Vaynerchuk have set up and invested in Candy Digital, a new company focused on sports-related non-fungible tokens (NFTs), with a debut deal with Major League Baseball.
Why it matters: NFTs saw an explosion in mainstream popularity in recent months thanks to a new twist on sports trading cards popularized by Dapper Labs' NBA Top Shots digital collectibles of basketball content.
Naomi Osaka, the world's No. 2 tennis star, announced Monday she was withdrawing from the French Open amid controversy over her decision to not participate in press conferences at the tournament.
The big picture: Osaka announced last week that she would skip the news conferences, saying, "I've often felt that people have no regard for athletes mental health and this rings very true whenever I see a press conference or partake in one." She was fined $15,000 by Roland Garros on Sunday for declining to participate in a mandatory news conference.
The South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) announced Monday that Brazil will host next month's Copa América soccer tournament after Argentina and Colombia were stripped of their hosting rights, AP reports.
Driving the news: Colombia was first dropped as a co-host amid ongoing protests. Argentina was then ruled out as new COVID-19 cases soared. After Brazil was named the new host Monday, some health experts criticized the decision, pointing to the country's response to the pandemic.
The big picture: The 23-year-old "already gives very few individual interviews and has reached a level of celebrity that she can probably maintain through social media, her sponsors and coverage of her matches," the New York Times reports.
