Game time is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. ET, and it will be televised on ABC. The Irish are looking to build on last year’s run to the College Football Playoff semifinals. Notre Dame is 33-5 the last three seasons under Brian Kelly, and Wisconsin transfer quarterback Jack Coan will be the focus in the opener. The Irish have a strong supporting cast that features SN first-team All-American all-purpose back Kyren Williams....

Line: Kentucky -11, Total: 136 (current Elite Eight spreads and totals) Early line movement on this game may have given bettors the slight feel of football season. The Linemakers on Sporting News were told by The Wynn’s John Avello late Thursday night that UK would be favored over ND by 9.5, but by Friday morning, the spread was -11 across Las Vegas. Each of these schools are coming off its first cover of the NCAA Tournament and are a combined 4-2 to the UNDER thus far....

Robinson will campaign from Tuesday until election day on Feb 10. If elected, his term will begin April 1. MORE: 20 impact players who will return in 2016 | 16 questions for 2016 “This spring, all of our practices are in the morning, so we practice from six in the morning until 10 a.m., and the rest of the day is free, and I have one class a day, no class on Fridays,” Robinson said, via The Observer student newspaper....

The grand slam winner bumped into actor Gerard Butler after his big win. Butler, as you’ll remember, was the star of the movie “300,” where he played Leonidas, the king of Sparta. In one of the blockbuster film’s most memorable moments, Butler yells “This is Sparta!” before taking out a messenger. MORE: Celebrities at the U.S. Open | Djokovic reflects on incredible season Leave it to Djoker to recreate the intense scene....

Bosnians see pathos as well as madness in the situation. As if the republic’s Muslim-led multiethnic government didn’t have enough trouble with the Serbs pounding Sarajevo, it now faces explosive new tensions with the powerful Croats. The Muslims are the most numerous group in Bosnia, but the weakest militarily: they barely control five towns in the republic. Serb and Croat forces tied to their respective governments in Belgrade and Zagreb have carved up the rest of the territory between them....

Here in Boston, Green originally was supposed to be the kind of new-wave, hybrid forward that has been gaining popularity in the league. He would be a bench-bolstering supersub akin to Lamar Odom, on a Celtics bunch grasping to its Paul Pierce-Ray Allen-Kevin Garnett contender status. By Monday, it was clear that the last shred of hope for Green’s stardom was gone. In three-plus seasons with the Celtics (he sat out 2011-12 because of heart surgery), Green occasionally tantalized with his talent, but mostly let down his strongest backers....

The rationale looks commendable. Publishers want to do their bit for Black History Month. But the results are disastrous. Black authors find themselves competing with other black authors as at no other time during the year. A lot of good books get lost in the flood, particularly the work of up-and-coming writers, who are always first to see their work published in February. Mainstream publishers, who used to argue that books by blacks or about blacks don’t sell, now defend the habit of corralling black books in February by saying that it’s the only time they can get bookstores, particularly the chains, to devote display space to these titles....

The South Pole team knew there’d be no physical link to the outside world between February and October, and they all went through rigorous testing to reduce the chance of medical surprises during their isolation. But this June, a 47-year-old woman at the base discovered a lump in one of her breasts. It might be a benign cyst, in which case treatment could be put off until the end of the season....

The statistic, while still far from the August 2019 total of 55,000, is a sore point for President Joe Biden’s pro-immigration allies, who hoped he would reverse former President Donald Trump’s strict approach. Biden campaigned on ending “prolonged” detention and use of private prisons for immigration detention, which still house the majority of detainees in ICE custody. “We’re at this really strange moment with him,” said Silky Shah, executive director of Detention Watch Network....

Michigan plays the second home night game in school history, and if it's anything like the first one against Notre Dame -- a thrilling 35-31 win for the Wolverines -- then Saturday should add another memorable chapter in this September classic. The stakes are familiar. It's an early-season tone-setter between programs that rank Nos. 1-2 in the FBS in all-time winning percentage. The last four games have been decided by a touchdown or less....

We really saw the worst of it, because the nurses never saw any of the victories. If the Army took a hill, we saw what was left over. I remember one boy who was brought in missing two legs and an arm, and his eyes were bandaged. A general came in later and pinned a Purple Heart on the boy’s hospital gown, and the horror of it all was so amazing that it just took my breath away....

Luckily Gattuso persevered and he went on to enjoy a wonderfully successful career playing alongside Pirlo, for both Italy and AC Milan. Milan -1 17/20 v Benevento He was the perfect foil for the playmaker, a snarling beast of a midfielder whose primary purpose was to break up opposition attacks, reclaiming possession in order to get the ball back to Pirlo as promptly as possible. However, when it was recently put to Gattuso that Pirlo’s artistry would have been impossible without his industry, the former midfielder countered: “Don’t talk nonsense!...

The question came from Atlanta Falcons secondary coach Marquand Manuel and created a backlash that led to both Manuel and Falcons head coach Dan Quinn issuing public apologies. MORE: NFL New League Year resolutions | Dak Prescott’s apology is just hot air While Quinn expressed his disappointment and Manuel said he takes “full responsibility for the inappropriate question,” Schneiderman wrote in a letter to Robert Gulliver, the NFL’s head of human resources, that he was “deeply troubled” by the incident....

“You know, it’s a sad thing to have to say about a predecessor. But Rudy Giuliani has just come unhinged in every sense,” de Blasio said during an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. The current New York City mayor further said of Giuliani: “He attached himself to Donald Trump, but then went even farther and decided to be one of the most extreme voices in the Trump world. And his regard for the law, he left way back on the road....

Roughly 23,000 people originally scheduled to receive their first vaccine doses later this week will no longer be able to do so, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio confirmed during a Wednesday press conference. Their appointments are postponed until the city acquires the necessary resources from the state, in addition to the federal partners handling the immunization rollout. “We’ve had to tell 23,000 New Yorkers who had an appointment this week that they will not be able to get that appointment for lack of supply,” the mayor said....

Q: Please tell me the NCAA is doomed with this (O’Bannon) trial. — Kurt F., Santa Clara, California Hayes: Doomed is a bit strong. I prefer to use the term “reorganized.” The NCAA will lose on the likeness case (guaranteed), but the issue over shared television revenue will be much harder to win — both in this trial and through appeal (which you better believe is coming, no matter who wins on that one)....

Ireland shocked Italy 1-0 courtesy of a late Robbie Brady goal and have set their sights set on another upset when they take on the hosts in Lyon. “The players are feeling we can bring the confidence from the other evening into the game and we believe we can win tomorrow,” O’Neill said at a news conference. “We want to go out blazing tomorrow. We want to stay in Euro 2016 and we feel we can do it....

But nothing over the course of the 15 months of his presidential campaign—not his announcement in Springfield, Ill., his landmark victory in Iowa or his shock defeat in New Hampshire—nothing came close to the emotions on display at the back of a sports arena in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Tuesday. In a narrow concrete space enclosed by tall black drapes set up for a press conference, Obama sounded both angered and saddened by the Rev....

Maybe. It has certainly gotten a lot of young men to look at Sen. Barack Obama’s most infamous supporter. (Or is she? In an interview with NEWSWEEK, Ettinger declined to say who she’s really planning to vote for.) In the newest video Ettinger has traded her red hot pants for superhero tights. There’s also a new song, again sung by vocalist Leah Kauffman, who rhymes wonky with funky. Watch as Super Obama Girl, blasted by the senator’s ray of hope, does battle with the “forces of darkness,” which apparently include both Chuck Norris and Bill Clinton....