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Quarterback Diana Flores has won world titles and MVPs on the flag football field. She’s starred in Super Bowl commercials to promote her sport, too. This, though, confirmed just how far-reaching women’s flag football has become — Kansas City Chiefs standout Patrick Mahomes once referred to her by name and mentioned her being a QB. Game simply respects game, especially one on the rise. Flores, the signal caller for the reigning world champion Mexico squad, is doing all she can these days to build up the sport ahead of flag football making its Olympic debut at the 2028 Los Angeles Games. It’s quickly catching on, too, with the NCAA recently adding flag football to its Emerging Sports for Women program. Nebraska announced it would be the first power conference school to add flag football as a varsity women’s sport, with competition beginning in the spring of 2028. The 28-year-old Flores is an open book on the subject. She just authored “Flag Football For Dummies,” which breaks down everything from the rules of the game to her involvement (she started at 8 against much older players) to what it takes to be elite (“leadership is the backbone of a successful quarterback,” she wrote). “I just want to grow awareness of the sport, the importance of the sport for boys and girls, and how it can change lives, help open those doors and opportunities,” Flores said in an interview as she prepares to cover the Super Bowl on Feb. 8 for TUDN, a Spanish-language sports network. “(The book) challenged me in ways I’ve never experienced before. It’s just a huge opportunity for me to pour all the love and passion I have for the game to others.” The stats reflect the growth of an NFL-backed sport: There were 267,000 girls aged 6 to 17 in the U.S. that participated in organized flag football in 2024, according to USA Football. It’s an increase of 39% since 2020. Flores is one of the most decorated players to take the flag-football field, guiding Team Mexico to back-to-back World Games gold medals and winning the MVP in 2022. She was recently honored as the 2025 Game Changer Award recipient by the Women’s Sports Foundation. Her commercial during the 2023 Super Bowl, titled “Run with it,” was a popular hit. It starts out with reporter Erin Andrews talking to Flores, in uniform, and suddenly reaching for her attached flags. Flores looked surprised and juked to avoid the maneuver before bolting out of the stadium. Flores runs through parking lots, down sidewalks, over rooftops and through a hotel, with NFL players such as Sauce Gardner, Jalen Ramsey, Cam Heyward, Aidan Hutchinson and Davante Adams in pursuit. Tennis great and women’s sports advocate Billie Jean King played a role in throwing a key block with a car door. It was all part of promoting the game, with the end of the commercial featuring USA Football quarterback Vanita Krouch running alongside Flores in the street. Both were offensive coordinators of the 2023 Pro Bowl game. So, how many times has Flores seen that commercial? “I don’t even have the count,” Flores said with a laugh. “That’s been one of the most amazing moments of my life. It was the first time flag football was showcased in a big platform like that.” Flores patterns her QB style after an array of players, ranging from Peyton Manning to Lamar Jackson to Joe Burrow and Mahomes. And it was meeting Mahomes a little while back that opened her eyes to her sport’s soaring popularity. “I was doing an interview with (Mahomes) and introducing myself and before I even finished my sentence he was like, ‘Oh, yeah, Diana, you play flag football and you’re a quarterback, too,’” Flores recounted. “I didn’t expect that to happen.” ___ AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl Source

PARIS (AP) — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s political future hangs in the balance at an appeals trial in Paris which may damage her party’s ambitions of radically changing France’s direction through anti-immigration and nationalist policies. Le Pen started answering the judges’ questions Tuesday as she seeks to overturn a March ruling that found her guilty of misusing European Parliament funds in the hiring of aides from 2004 to 2016. She was given a five-year ban from holding elected office, two years of house arrest with an electronic bracelet and a further two-year suspended sentence. Here’s why the appeals trial could significantly impact France’s political landscape: France’s 2027 presidential race is at stake If she’s able to run, Le Pen, 57, is expected to be among the top contenders in the 2027 presidential election, possibly the front-runner, according to opinion polls. She finished runner-up to Emmanuel Macron in 2017 and 2022, making her one of the most experienced senior politicians in the country. For the past 15 years, Le Pen has been trying to bring the far right into France’s political mainstream, striving to remove the stigma of racism and antisemitism that has clung to the party. Since 2024, her National Rally party has become the largest single political group in France’s powerful lower house of parliament, even though it fell short of an outright majority. If Le Pen is ruled ineligible, she has already designated her 30-year-old protégé, Jordan Bardella, as her successor in the presidential bid. The fraud case involved money for hiring party aides The National Rally and 11 of its officials, including Le Pen, are accused of having used money intended for European Union parliamentary aides instead to pay staff who worked for the party between 2004 and 2016, in violation of the 27-nation bloc’s regulations. Some EU money was used to pay for Le Pen’s bodyguard, as well as her personal assistant. Another aide worked as a graphic designer. Le Pen’s sister, Yann, also was paid as an EU parliamentary aide when she was in charge of organizing the party’s big events. Others worked as aides to party officials they had no employment contract with. “That was how it was. It may have been reprehensible, questionable — the system was not ideal, I am aware of that — but all of those people were actually working,” Le Pen said Tuesday. The legal proceedings stem from a 2015 alert raised to French authorities about possible fraud by Martin Schulz, then-president of the European Parliament. Le Pen acknowledges possible unintentional mistakes Since the appeals trial opened last week, Le Pen’s defense appeared focused on arguing the party may have made unintentional mistakes. “We did not feel we had committed any offense,” Le Pen told the court. She said European Parliament officials did not at the time tell her party that the way it was hiring people was potentially against any rules. Faced with several emails mentioning details of internal meetings about hiring aides, Le Pen said staffing choices were aboveboard and justified by the multiple tasks required of the party. She also acknowledged some of the aides were “shared” by several elected officials for organization purposes — no matter what their contracts stated. “We pooled a certain number of aides — though not all of them. I note that over this entire 10-year period, the European Parliament never advised us nor reproached us for having aides who were obviously working with several MEPs,” Le Pen said Tuesday. Regarding her bodyguard, “again, the European Parliament was aware he was a security officer,” she said. March ruling says Le Pen part of ‘fraudulent system’ A Paris court ruled in March that Le Pen was at the heart of “a fraudulent system” that her party used to siphon off EU Parliament funds worth 2.9 million euros ($3.4 million). The ruling described the embezzlement as “a democratic bypass” unfair to competitors. The court noted “the seriousness of the…